Entries by Lydia Lynch

Distinct metabolic programs established in the thymus control effector functions of γδ T cell subsets in tumor microenvironments

Lopes, N., McIntyre, C., Martin, S., Raverdeau, M., Sumaria, N., Kohlgruber, A.C., Fiala, G.J., Agudelo, L.Z., Dyck, L., Kane, H., Douglas, A., Cunningham, S., Prendeville, H., Loftus, R., Carmody, C., Pierre, P., Kellis, M., Brenner, M.B., Argüello, R.J., Silva-Santos, B., Pennington, D.J. and Lynch, L., 2021. Distinct metabolic programs established in the thymus control effector […]

Distinct metabolic programs established in the thymus control effector functions of γδ T cell subsets in tumor microenvironments

Metabolic programming controls immune cell lineages and functions, but little is known about γδ T cell metabolism. Here, we found that γδ T cell subsets making either interferon-γ (IFN-γ) or interleukin (IL)-17 have intrinsically distinct metabolic requirements. Whereas IFN-γ+ γδ T cells were almost exclusively dependent on glycolysis, IL-17+ γδ T cells strongly engaged oxidative […]

Distinct iNKT Cell Populations Use IFNγ or ER Stress-Induced IL-10 to Control Adipose Tissue Homeostasis

Adipose tissue invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells are phenotypically different from other iNKT cells because they produce IL-10 and control metabolic homeostasis. Why that is the case is unclear. Here, using single-cell RNA sequencing, we found several adipose iNKT clusters, which we grouped into two functional populations based on NK1.1 expression. NK1.1 NEG cells almost exclusively […]

Single cell RNA-Seq

The Lynch Lab is now utilizing in-house single cell RNA-Seq analysis to drive and inform a number of different exciting projects, including identifying global changes in the immune system associated with obesity and weight loss, providing insights into innate T cell biology and innate T cell cellular metabolism, investigating the phenotype and functions of the […]