Regulatory T cells (Tregs) subdue immune responses. Central to Treg activation are changes in lipid metabolism that support their survival and function. Fatty acid binding proteins (FABPs) are a ...family of lipid chaperones required to facilitate uptake and intracellular lipid trafficking. One family member, FABP5, is expressed in T cells, but its function remains unclear. We show that in Tregs, genetic or pharmacologic inhibition of FABP5 function causes mitochondrial changes underscored by decreased OXPHOS, impaired lipid metabolism, and loss of cristae structure. FABP5 inhibition in Tregs triggers mtDNA release and consequent cGAS-STING-dependent type I IFN signaling, which induces heightened production of the regulatory cytokine IL-10 and promotes Treg suppressive activity. We find evidence of this pathway, along with correlative mitochondrial changes in tumor infiltrating Tregs, which may underlie enhanced immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment. Together, our data reveal that FABP5 is a gatekeeper of mitochondrial integrity that modulates Treg function.
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•FABP5 inhibition in Tregs alters mitochondria and enhances suppression•Disrupting FABP5 in Tregs results in mtDNA release and type I IFN signaling•cGAS/-STING-dependent type I IFN signals promote Treg IL-10 production•Tumor Tregs exhibit mitochondrial alterations and a type I IFN gene signature
Field et al. show that fatty acid binding protein 5 (FABP5) maintains mitochondrial integrity in regulatory T cells (Tregs). FABP5 inhibition results in mtDNA release, which triggers expression of IL-10 and promotes Treg suppressive capacity. These findings may have implications for therapeutically targeting Tregs in autoimmunity and cancer.
How cells adapt metabolism to meet demands is an active area of interest across biology. Among a broad range of functions, the polyamine spermidine is needed to hypusinate the translation factor ...eukaryotic initiation factor 5A (eIF5A). We show here that hypusinated eIF5A (eIF5AH) promotes the efficient expression of a subset of mitochondrial proteins involved in the TCA cycle and oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). Several of these proteins have mitochondrial targeting sequences (MTSs) that in part confer an increased dependency on eIF5AH. In macrophages, metabolic switching between OXPHOS and glycolysis supports divergent functional fates stimulated by activation signals. In these cells, hypusination of eIF5A appears to be dynamically regulated after activation. Using in vivo and in vitro models, we show that acute inhibition of this pathway blunts OXPHOS-dependent alternative activation, while leaving aerobic glycolysis-dependent classical activation intact. These results might have implications for therapeutically controlling macrophage activation by targeting the polyamine-eIF5A-hypusine axis.
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•The polyamine synthesis pathway and hypusinated eIF5A modulate mitochondrial OXPHOS•Hypusinated eIF5A maintains TCA cycle and ETC integrity in macrophages•Some mitochondrial enzymes depend on eIF5AH for efficient expression•Inhibition of hypusinated eIF5A blunts macrophage alternative activation
Puleston et al. show that polyamine biosynthesis modulates mitochondrial metabolism through eIF5A hypusination (eIF5AH). They find that inhibiting the polyamine-eIF5A-hypusine pathway blocks OXPHOS-dependent macrophage alternative activation, while leaving aerobic glycolysis-dependent macrophage classical activation intact. These results might have implications for therapeutically controlling macrophage activation by targeting the polyamine-eIF5A-hypusine axis.
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Foamy macrophages, which have prominent lipid droplets (LDs), are found in a variety of disease states. Toll-like receptor agonists drive triacylglycerol (TG)-rich LD development in ...macrophages. Here we explore the basis and significance of this process. Our findings indicate that LD development is the result of metabolic commitment to TG synthesis on a background of decreased fatty acid oxidation. TG synthesis is essential for optimal inflammatory macrophage activation as its inhibition, which prevents LD development, has marked effects on the production of inflammatory mediators, including IL-1β, IL-6 and PGE2, and on phagocytic capacity. The failure of inflammatory macrophages to make PGE2 when TG-synthesis is inhibited is critical for this phenotype, as addition of exogenous PGE2 is able to reverse the anti-inflammatory effects of TG synthesis inhibition. These findings place LDs in a position of central importance in inflammatory macrophage activation.
The adoption of Warburg metabolism is critical for the activation of macrophages in response to lipopolysaccharide. Macrophages stimulated with lipopolysaccharide increase their expression of ...nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT), a key enzyme in NAD
salvage, and loss of NAMPT activity alters their inflammatory potential. However, the events that lead to the cells' becoming dependent on NAD
salvage remain poorly defined. We found that depletion of NAD
and increased expression of NAMPT occurred rapidly after inflammatory activation and coincided with DNA damage caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS produced by complex III of the mitochondrial electron-transport chain were required for macrophage activation. DNA damage was associated with activation of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, which led to consumption of NAD
. In this setting, increased NAMPT expression allowed the maintenance of NAD
pools sufficient for glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity and Warburg metabolism. Our findings provide an integrated explanation for the dependence of inflammatory macrophages on the NAD
salvage pathway.
Epigenetics plays a fundamental role in cellular development and differentiation; epigenetic mechanisms, such as DNA methylation, are involved in gene regulation and the exquisite nuance of ...expression changes seen in the journey from pluripotency to final differentiation. Thus, DNA methylation as a marker of cell identify has the potential to reveal new insights into cell biology. We mined publicly available DNA methylation data with a machine-learning approach to identify differentially methylated loci between different white blood cell types. We then interrogated the DNA methylation and mRNA expression of candidate loci in CD4+, CD8+, CD14+, CD19+ and CD56+ fractions from 12 additional, independent healthy individuals (6 male, 6 female). 'Classic' immune cell markers such as CD8 and CD19 showed expected methylation/expression associations fitting with established dogma that hypermethylation is associated with the repression of gene expression. We also observed large differential methylation at loci which are not established immune cell markers; some of these loci showed inverse correlations between methylation and mRNA expression (such as PARK2, DCP2). Furthermore, we validated these observations further in publicly available DNA methylation and RNA sequencing datasets. Our results highlight the value of mining publicly available data, the utility of DNA methylation as a discriminatory marker and the potential value of DNA methylation to provide additional insights into cell biology and developmental processes.
Macrophage metabolism: a wound‐healing perspective Caputa, George; Flachsmann, Lea J; Cameron, Alanna M
Immunology and cell biology,
March 2019, 2019-03-00, 20190301, Letnik:
97, Številka:
3
Journal Article
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Macrophages are a critical component of the innate immune response, and compose the first response to perturbations in tissue homeostasis. Their unique ability to dynamically integrate diverse ...stimuli underlies their important role in the healing response from first insult to re‐establishment of tissue homeostasis. While the roles of macrophages in tissue repair have been well‐described in vitro and in vivo, the influence of cellular metabolism on macrophage function during tissue repair remains an unexplored area of immunometabolism. In this review, we will explore the unique metabolic requirements of inflammatory and anti‐inflammatory macrophages and the potential contribution of macrophage metabolism to each phase of wound healing.
Macrophages are a critical component of the innate immune response, and compose the first response to perturbations in tissue homeostasis. Here, we will explore the unique metabolic requirements of inflammatory and anti‐inflammatory macrophages and the potential contribution of macrophage metabolism to each phase of wound healing.
Antigenic stimulation promotes T cell metabolic reprogramming to meet increased biosynthetic, bioenergetic, and signaling demands. We show that the one-carbon (1C) metabolism enzyme ...methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase 2 (MTHFD2) regulates de novo purine synthesis and signaling in activated T cells to promote proliferation and inflammatory cytokine production. In pathogenic T helper-17 (Th17) cells, MTHFD2 prevented aberrant upregulation of the transcription factor FoxP3 along with inappropriate gain of suppressive capacity. MTHFD2 deficiency also promoted regulatory T (Treg) cell differentiation. Mechanistically, MTHFD2 inhibition led to depletion of purine pools, accumulation of purine biosynthetic intermediates, and decreased nutrient sensor mTORC1 signaling. MTHFD2 was also critical to regulate DNA and histone methylation in Th17 cells. Importantly, MTHFD2 deficiency reduced disease severity in multiple in vivo inflammatory disease models. MTHFD2 is thus a metabolic checkpoint to integrate purine metabolism with pathogenic effector cell signaling and is a potential therapeutic target within 1C metabolism pathways.
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•MTHFD2 is critical for activated CD4 T cells to maintain de novo purine synthesis•Insufficient MTHFD2 promotes Treg cell-like phenotypes and metabolism in Th17 cells•Inhibition of MTHFD2 suppresses mTORC1 signaling and alters histone methylation•MTHFD2 can be targeted to protect against inflammation and autoimmunity in vivo
Nucleotide synthesis is required to support rapid T cell proliferation. Sugiura et al. show that de novo purine metabolism signals direct T cell differentiation and function and identify MTHFD2 as a metabolic checkpoint and therapeutic target for inflammatory diseases.
Highlights • Metabolic intermediates play critical roles as acetyl donors for acetylation and as co-factors for deacetylase enzymes. • The metabolic state of innate immune cells alters substrate ...availability and enzyme activity to regulate protein acetylation. • Acetylation regulates cellular metabolism by transcriptional mechanisms and direct modulation of metabolic proteins. • The metabolism-acetylation axis is critical in determining both macrophage and dendritic cell differentiation and function.
Metabolic engagement is intrinsic to immune cell function. Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) has been shown to modulate macrophage activation, yet how PGE2 might affect metabolism is unclear. Here, we show ...that PGE2 caused mitochondrial membrane potential (Δψm) to dissipate in interleukin-4-activated (M(IL-4)) macrophages. Effects on Δψm were a consequence of PGE2-initiated transcriptional regulation of genes, particularly Got1, in the malate-aspartate shuttle (MAS). Reduced Δψm caused alterations in the expression of 126 voltage-regulated genes (VRGs), including those encoding resistin-like molecule α (RELMα), a key marker of M(IL-4) cells, and genes that regulate the cell cycle. The transcription factor ETS variant 1 (ETV1) played a role in the regulation of 38% of the VRGs. These results reveal ETV1 as a Δψm-sensitive transcription factor and Δψm as a mediator of mitochondrial-directed nuclear gene expression.
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•Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) dissipates Δψm in resting and IL-4-stimulated macrophages•PGE2-induced changes in malate-aspartate shuttle activity regulate Δψm•Δψm controls the expression of a set of genes, including Retnla, in macrophages•Δψm-dependent signaling from mitochondria to the nucleus is mediated in part by ETV1
Metabolism regulates macrophage activation. Sanin et al. demonstrate that in IL-4-activated macrophages, PGE2 induces changes in the expression of malate-aspartate shuttle genes, which in turn leads to changes in mitochondrial membrane potential and triggers alterations in chromatin accessibility and ETV1-dependent changes in expression of a gene set that includes Retnla.
Little is known about the effects of high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity on resident colonic lamina propria (LP) macrophages (LPMs) function and metabolism. Here, we report that obesity and diabetes ...resulted in increased macrophage infiltration in the colon. These macrophages exhibited the residency phenotype CX3CR1hiMHCIIhi and were CD4-TIM4-. During HFD, resident colonic LPM exhibited a lipid metabolism gene expression signature that overlapped that used to define lipid-associated macrophages (LAMs). Via single-cell RNA sequencing, we identified a sub-cluster of macrophages, increased in HFD, that were responsible for the LAM signature. Compared to other macrophages in the colon, these cells were characterized by elevated glycolysis, phagocytosis, and efferocytosis signatures. CX3CR1hiMHCIIhi colonic resident LPMs had fewer lipid droplets (LDs) and decreased triacylglycerol (TG) content compared to equivalent cells in lean mice and exhibited increased phagocytic capacity, suggesting that HFD induces adaptive responses in LPMs to limit bacterial translocation.
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•CX3CR1hiMHCIIhiCD4−TIM4- LPMs are increased in obesity•CX3CR1hiMHCIIhi LPMs have decreased neutral lipids accumulation and TG content•Lipid-associated macrophages (LAMs) are increased in obese lamina propria•LPMs from obese mice display increased phagocytosis and efferocytosis
Immune response; Endocrinology; Metabolomics
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