Single cell analysis of kynurenine and System L amino acid transport in T cells

Kynurenine is an immunomodulatory aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) ligand. Here the authors show, using a new flow cytometry based method, that kynurenine needs to be transported across the plasma membrane of activated T cells by the transporter protein SLC7A5 to activate the AHR.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Linda V. Sinclair, Damien Neyens, George Ramsay, Peter M. Taylor, Doreen A. Cantrell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04366-7