Amino acid metabolism in immune cells: essential regulators of the effector functions, and promising opportunities to enhance cancer immunotherapy.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Army Medical University. Competing interestsThe authors have declared no potential conflicts of interest in this review. Competing interests The authors have declared no potential conflicts of interest in this review."

"Funding This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2022YFA1105300 to Bin Wang), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Nos. 81872027, 91959111, and 81822032 to Bin Wang; 82002585 to Tao Wang, 81902931 to Junyu Xiang), Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (Nos. CSTC2019JCYJJQX0027 to Bin Wang; CSTC2020JCYJ-MSXMX0171 to Tao Wang), Funding from the JinFeng laboratory to Bin Wang, and Funding from the Army Medical University (Nos. 2019CXLCA001, 2018XLC2023, and 2019XQY19 to Bin Wang; Nos. 2019CXLCC005 and 2018XLC3059 to Tao Wang)."