Molecular Biomedicine
Lactate metabolism and protein lactylation in inflammatory and tumor microenvironments
Abstract Lactate and lactate-mediated protein lactylation are no longer viewed merely as accompanying phenomena of enhanced glycolysis, hypoxic responses, or tissue acidification. They are now recognized as an important regulatory axis that links local metabolic stress to chromatin regulation and altered protein function. With the rapid development of research on histone and non-histone lactylation, lactate-related signals have been implicated in inflammatory injury and repair, fibrotic remodeling, tumor immune esc …