International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Targeting PKM2 Enhances the Anti-Tumor Function of CD8+ T Cells Through Metabolic Reprogramming
The efficacy of adoptive cell transfer (ACT) therapy in solid tumors is often limited by the functional exhaustion and insufficient persistence of infused CD8+ T cells within the tumor microenvironment. Through the integrated analysis of single-cell transcriptomic data, this study identified enolase 1 (ENO1), a key rate-limiting enzyme in glycolysis, as a core gene highly correlated with the superior anti-tumor phenotype of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). However, in vitro functional validation demonstrated …