Diacylglycerol kinases: at the hub of cell signalling

I Mérida, A Avila-Flores, E Merino - Biochemical Journal, 2008 - portlandpress.com
DGKs (diacylglycerol kinases) are members of a unique and conserved family of
intracellular lipid kinases that phosphorylate DAG (diacylglycerol), catalysing its conversion …

Diacylglycerol kinases: why so many of them?

F Sakane, S Imai, M Kai, S Yasuda, H Kanoh - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2007 - Elsevier
Diacylglycerol (DAG) kinase (DGK) modulates the balance between the two signaling lipids,
DAG and phosphatidic acid (PA), by phosphorylating DAG to yield PA. To date, ten …

Multifactorial T-cell hypofunction that is reversible can limit the efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor–transduced human T cells in solid tumors

EK Moon, LC Wang, DV Dolfi, CB Wilson… - Clinical cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Purpose: Immunotherapy using vaccines or adoptively transferred tumor-infiltrating
lymphocytes (TIL) is limited by T-cell functional inactivation within the solid tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional mechanisms underlying lymphocyte tolerance

F Macián, F Garcı́a-Cózar, SH Im, HF Horton, MC Byrne… - Cell, 2002 - cell.com
In lymphocytes, integration of Ca 2+ and other signaling pathways results in productive
activation, while unopposed Ca 2+ signaling leads to tolerance or anergy. We show that the …

T cell anergy is reversed by active Ras and is regulated by diacylglycerol kinase-α

Y Zha, R Marks, AW Ho, AC Peterson… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
T cell anergy has been correlated with defective signaling by the GTPase Ras, but causal
and mechanistic data linking defective Ras activity with T cell anergy are lacking. Here we …

Regulation and functions of diacylglycerol kinases

YV Shulga, MK Topham, RM Epand - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
Diacylglycerol (DAG) is an important lipid that is both an intermediate in lipid biosynthetic
pathways and can act as a signaling lipid. The majority of signaling DAG is generated by …

Localized diacylglycerol drives the polarization of the microtubule-organizing center in T cells

EJ Quann, E Merino, T Furuta, M Huse - Nature immunology, 2009 - nature.com
The reorientation of the T cell microtubule-organizing center (MTOC) toward the antigen-
presenting cell enables the directional secretion of cytokines and lytic factors. By single-cell …

Spatial and temporal dynamics of T cell receptor signaling with a photoactivatable agonist

M Huse, LO Klein, AT Girvin, JM Faraj, QJ Li, MS Kuhns… - Immunity, 2007 - cell.com
The precise timing of signals downstream of the T cell receptor (TCR) is poorly understood.
To address this problem, we prepared major histocompatibility complexes containing an …

DGKα/ζ inhibition lowers the TCR affinity threshold and potentiates antitumor immunity

R Kureshi, E Bello, CTS Kureshi, MJ Walsh… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Diacylglycerol kinases (DGKs) attenuate diacylglycerol (DAG) signaling by converting DAG
to phosphatidic acid, thereby suppressing pathways downstream of T cell receptor signaling …

CDP-diacylglycerol synthases (CDS): gateway to phosphatidylinositol and cardiolipin synthesis

NJ Blunsom, S Cockcroft - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cytidine diphosphate diacylglycerol (CDP-DAG) is a key intermediate in the synthesis of
phosphatidylinositol (PI) and cardiolipin (CL). Both PI and CL have highly specialized roles …