BACKGROUND: Increased glucose uptake and utilization via aerobic glycolysis are among the most prominent hallmarks of tumor cell metabolism. Accumulating evidence suggests that similar metabolic changes are also triggered in many virus-infected cells. Viral propagation, like highly proliferative tumor cells, increases the demand for energy and macromolecular synthesis, leading to high bioenergetic and biosynthetic requirements. Although significant progress has been made in understanding the metabolic changes induced by viruses, the interaction between host cell metabolism and arenavirus infection remains unclear. Our study sheds light on these processes during lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) infection, a model representative of the Arenaviridae family. METHODS: The impact of LCMV on glucose metabolism in MRC-5 cells was studied using reverse transcription-quantitative PCR and biochemical assays. A focus-forming assay and western blot analysis were used to determine the effects of glucose deficiency and glycolysis inhibition on the production of infectious LCMV particles. RESULTS: Despite changes in the expression of glucose transporters and glycolytic enzymes, LCMV infection did not result in increased glucose uptake or lactate excretion. Accordingly, depriving LCMV-infected cells of extracellular glucose or inhibiting lactate production had no impact on viral propagation. However, treatment with the commonly used glycolytic inhibitor 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) profoundly reduced the production of infectious LCMV particles. This effect of 2-DG was further shown to be the result of suppressed N-linked glycosylation of the viral glycoprotein. CONCLUSIONS: Although our results showed that the LCMV life cycle is not dependent on glucose supply or utilization, they did confirm the importance of N-glycosylation of LCMV GP-C. 2-DG potently reduces LCMV propagation not by disrupting glycolytic flux but by inhibiting N-linked protein glycosylation. These findings highlight the potential for developing new, targeted antiviral therapies that could be relevant to a wider range of arenaviruses.
Patients with the neurological disorder HSAN-I suffer frequent infections, attributed to a lack of pain sensation and failure to seek care for minor injuries. Whether protective CD8+ T cells are affected in HSAN-I patients remains unknown. Here, we report that HSAN-I-associated mutations in serine palmitoyltransferase subunit SPTLC2 dampened human T cell responses. Antigen stimulation and inflammation induced SPTLC2 expression, and murine T-cell-specific ablation of Sptlc2 impaired antiviral-T-cell expansion and effector function. Sptlc2 deficiency reduced sphingolipid biosynthetic flux and led to prolonged activation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1), endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, and CD8+ T cell death. Protective CD8+ T cell responses in HSAN-I patient PBMCs and Sptlc2-deficient mice were restored by supplementing with sphingolipids and pharmacologically inhibiting ER stress-induced cell death. Therefore, SPTLC2 underpins protective immunity by translating extracellular stimuli into intracellular anabolic signals and antagonizes ER stress to promote T cell metabolic fitness.
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- CD8-pozitivní T-lymfocyty imunologie MeSH
- cytokiny biosyntéza MeSH
- dědičné senzorické a autonomní neuropatie genetika MeSH
- kultivované buňky MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- lymfocytární choriomeningitida imunologie virologie MeSH
- mechanistické cílové místo rapamycinového komplexu 1 metabolismus MeSH
- myši inbrední C57BL MeSH
- myši MeSH
- proliferace buněk MeSH
- serin-C-palmitoyltransferasa genetika MeSH
- sfingolipidy biosyntéza MeSH
- signální transdukce imunologie MeSH
- stres endoplazmatického retikula genetika imunologie MeSH
- virus lymfocytární choriomeningitidy imunologie MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
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- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- myši MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
- Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural MeSH
Nervová sústava je najkomplikovanejšou sústavou nášho organizmu a každé jej poškodenie zanecháva celoživotné následky. Rovnako ako je v neustálom vývoji veda a výskum, vyvíjajú sa aj vírusy. Ich vlastnosti a mechanizmy sa menia a prispôsobujú prostrediu, v ktorom sa nachádzajú. Z toho dôvodu je nevyhnutné študovať molekulárne vlastnosti vírusov, spôsoby, akými sa vyhýbajú imunitnej odpovedi a možnosti terapie a profylaxie. Cieľom nášho článku je podať komplexný prehľad o dvoch neuropatogénnych vírusoch rozšírených takmer po celom svete, víruse besnoty a víruse lymfocytovej choriomeningitídy a ich patogenéze, liečbe a profylaxii.
The nervous system is the most complicated system of our body and any damage leads to lifelong consequences. As well as the tireless development of science and research, evolve viruses too. Their properties and mechanisms of change adapt to the environment, in which they are located. Therefore, it is necessary to study the molecular properties of the viruses, the way they avoid the immune response, and the therapy and prophylaxis. The aim of this work is to give a comprehensive picture of two neuropathogenic viruses extended almost all over the world, rabies virus and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, including their pathogenesis, treatment and prophylaxis.
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- lidé MeSH
- lymfocytární choriomeningitida * diagnóza etiologie prevence a kontrola terapie MeSH
- rabies * diagnóza etiologie prevence a kontrola terapie MeSH
- vakcína proti vzteklině dějiny farmakologie imunologie terapeutické užití MeSH
- virus lymfocytární choriomeningitidy klasifikace patogenita růst a vývoj MeSH
- virus rabies patogenita růst a vývoj MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- přehledy MeSH
