Obesity alters pathology and treatment response in inflammatory disease

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Decades of work have elucidated cytokine signalling and transcriptional pathways that control T cell differentiation and have led the way to targeted biologic therapies that are effective in a range of autoimmune, allergic and inflammatory diseases. Recent evidence indicates that obesity and metabolic disease can also influence the immune system1-7, although the mechanisms and effects on immunotherapy outcomes remain largely unknown. Here, using two models of atopic dermatitis, we show that lean and obese mice mount markedly different immune responses. Obesity converted the classical type 2 T helper (TH2)-predominant disease associated with atopic dermatitis to a more severe disease with prominent TH17 inflammation. We also observed divergent responses to biologic therapies targeting TH2 cytokines, which robustly protected lean mice but exacerbated disease in obese mice. Single-cell RNA sequencing coupled with genome-wide binding analyses revealed decreased activity of nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) in TH2 cells from obese mice relative to lean mice. Conditional ablation of PPARγ in T cells revealed that PPARγ is required to focus the in vivo TH response towards a TH2-predominant state and prevent aberrant non-TH2 inflammation. Treatment of obese mice with a small-molecule PPARγ agonist limited development of TH17 pathology and unlocked therapeutic responsiveness to targeted anti-TH2 biologic therapies. These studies reveal the effects of obesity on immunological disease and suggest a precision medicine approach to target the immune dysregulation caused by obesity.

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CommentIn: Nat Rev Immunol. 2022 May;22(5):274-275. - PMID 35393549

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

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2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:604

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Nature - 604(2022), 7905 vom: 02. Apr., Seite 337-342

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bapat, Sagar P [VerfasserIn]
Whitty, Caroline [VerfasserIn]
Mowery, Cody T [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Yuqiong [VerfasserIn]
Yoo, Arum [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Zewen [VerfasserIn]
Peters, Michael C [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Ling-Juan [VerfasserIn]
Vogel, Ian [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Carmen [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Vinh Q [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zhongmei [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Christina [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Wandi S [VerfasserIn]
Hastie, Annette T [VerfasserIn]
He, Helen [VerfasserIn]
Ren, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Qiu, Wenli [VerfasserIn]
Gayer, Sarah G [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Chang [VerfasserIn]
Choi, Eun Jung [VerfasserIn]
Fassett, Marlys [VerfasserIn]
Cohen, Jarish N [VerfasserIn]
Sturgill, Jamie L [VerfasserIn]
Crotty Alexander, Laura E [VerfasserIn]
Suh, Jae Myoung [VerfasserIn]
Liddle, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
Atkins, Annette R [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Ruth T [VerfasserIn]
Downes, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Sihao [VerfasserIn]
Nikolajczyk, Barbara S [VerfasserIn]
Lee, In-Kyu [VerfasserIn]
Guttman-Yassky, Emma [VerfasserIn]
Ansel, K Mark [VerfasserIn]
Woodruff, Prescott G [VerfasserIn]
Fahy, John V [VerfasserIn]
Sheppard, Dean [VerfasserIn]
Gallo, Richard L [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Chun Jimmie [VerfasserIn]
Evans, Ronald M [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Ye [VerfasserIn]
Marson, Alexander [VerfasserIn]

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Cytokines
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PPAR gamma

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Date Completed 15.04.2022

Date Revised 06.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Nat Rev Immunol. 2022 May;22(5):274-275. - PMID 35393549

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41586-022-04536-0

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NLM338850503