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SUBMITTER: Mondanelli G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7534075 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mondanelli Giada G Orecchini Elena E Volpi Claudia C Panfili Eleonora E Belladonna Maria Laura ML Pallotta Maria Teresa MT Moretti Simone S Galarini Roberta R Esposito Susanna S Orabona Ciriana C
International journal of tryptophan research : IJTR 20200929
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is characterized by anomalous functioning of the immuno regulatory, tryptophan-catabolic enzyme indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase 1 (IDO1). In T1D, the levels of kynurenine-the first byproduct of tryptophan degradation via IDO1-are significantly lower than in nondiabetic controls, such that defective immune regulation by IDO1 has been recognized as potentially contributing to autoimmunity in T1D. Because tryptophan catabolism-and the production of immune regulatory catabolites-al ...[more]