Immunometabolism and Pulmonary Infections : Implications for Protective Immune Responses and Host-Directed Therapies

The biology and clinical efficacy of immune cells from patients with infectious diseases or cancer are associated with metabolic programming. Host immune- and stromal-cell genetic and epigenetic signatures in response to the invading pathogen shape disease pathophysiology and disease outcomes. Directly linked to the immunometabolic axis is the role of the host microbiome, which is also discussed here in the context of productive immune responses to lung infections. We also present host-directed therapies (HDT) as a clinically viable strategy to refocus dysregulated immunometabolism in patients with infectious diseases, which requires validation in early phase clinical trials as adjuncts to conventional antimicrobial therapy. These efforts are expected to be continuously supported by newly generated basic and translational research data to gain a better understanding of disease pathology while devising new molecularly defined platforms and therapeutic options to improve the treatment of patients with pulmonary infections, particularly in relation to multidrug-resistant pathogens.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in microbiology - 10(2019) vom: 19., Seite 962

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rao, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Dodoo, Ernest [VerfasserIn]
Zumla, Alimuddin [VerfasserIn]
Maeurer, Markus [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Immunological memory
Immunometabolism
Inflammation
Journal Article
Lung infections
Protective immune responses
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 01.10.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fmicb.2019.00962

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM297520903