Hyperglycemic Memory of Innate Immune Cells Promotes In Vitro Proinflammatory Responses of Human Monocytes and Murine Macrophages

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It has been well established that the presence of diabetes is accompanied by a chronic inflammatory state promoting various diabetes-associated complications. One potential driver of this enhanced inflammatory state in patients with diabetes is hyperglycemia. Even after blood glucose control is achieved, diabetes-associated complications persist, suggesting the presence of a "hyperglycemic memory." Innate immune cells, critically involved in various complications associated with diabetes, can build nonspecific, immunological memory (trained immunity) via epigenetic regulation. We examine the potential involvement of hyperglycemia-induced trained immunity in promoting inflammation. Our results show that hyperglycemia induces a trained phenotype in vivo in mice and in vitro in human monocytes, representative by an increased TNF-α secretion after ex vivo stimulation with LPS. These effects were largely mediated by epigenetic changes controlled by the mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) family because treatment with the MLL inhibitor menin-MLL during the process of trained immunity acquisition repressed the proinflammatory phenotype. Collectively, our results identify a novel link between hyperglycemia and inflammation in innate immune cells that might explain the increased proinflammatory state during diabetes potentially contributing to the development of various diabetes-associated complications.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:206

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Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 206(2021), 4 vom: 15. Feb., Seite 807-813

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Thiem, Kathrin [VerfasserIn]
Keating, Samuel T [VerfasserIn]
Netea, Mihai G [VerfasserIn]
Riksen, Niels P [VerfasserIn]
Tack, Cees J [VerfasserIn]
van Diepen, Janna [VerfasserIn]
Stienstra, Rinke [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 19.07.2021

Date Revised 19.07.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.4049/jimmunol.1901348

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NLM319950824