title: pDCs Take a Deep Breath to Fight Viruses.
abstract: Conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) and plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) serve non-overlapping functions in immune responses. In this issue of Immunity, Pearce and colleagues (2016) report that pDCs use different metabolic pathways from cDCs to support their specialized function.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 7, 30625 Hannover, Germany. Electronic address: luciana.berod@twincore.de.
authors.forename: Luciana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Berod
authors.affiliation: Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 7, 30625 Hannover, Germany. Electronic address: sparwasser.tim@mh-hannover.de.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sparwasser
mesh_terms: D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity; D014780:Viruses