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Distinct control of T cell proliferation and effector function by partitioning of intracellular sulfur from cysteine

GSE314724 Mus musculus Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing 6 samples Submitted 2026/05/15 Platform GPL30172
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Delineating how acquired nutrients are partitioned into different intracellular pathways, and how these various fates support distinct functions in T cells is limited. We show that CD8+ T cells acquire cysteine to serve both as a substrate for glutathione (GSH) production, which modulates effector functions, and to cede its sulfur for NFS1-dependent FeS-cluster synthesis, which supports proliferation. NFS1 deletion in activated CD8+ T cells promotes exhaustion and dampens anti-cancer immunity, while blocking cysteine flux into GSH, or enforcing FeS metabolism, enhance tumor control. This role for disrupted FeS metabolism in T cell exhaustion is echoed in data from human HCC. Elucidating how different intracellular pathways use cysteine enables targeted control of cysteine flux to retain beneficial effects of cysteine while abolishing those that restrain function. We illustrate this concept for one metabolite, cysteine, but it is likely to apply to other metabolites relevant for immune cell function
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Sulfur partitioning from cysteine controls T cell proliferation and effector function
Kelly B, Cha M, Gremelspacher T et al. · Cell 2026 · PMID 41923640 · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2026.03.012
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