IL-15 reprogramming compensates for NK cell mitochondrial dysfunction in HIV-1 infection

Dynamic regulation of cellular metabolism is important for maintaining homeostasis and can directly influence immune cell function and differentiation, including NK cell responses. Persistent HIV-1 infection leads to a state of chronic immune activation, NK cell subset redistribution, and progressive NK cell dysregulation. In this study, we examined the metabolic processes that characterize NK cell subsets in HIV-1 infection, including adaptive NK cell subpopulations expressing the activating receptor NKG2C, which expand during chronic infection. These adaptive NK cells exhibit an enhanced metabolic profile in HIV-1- individuals infected with human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). However, the bioenergetic advantage of adaptive CD57+NKG2C+ NK cells is diminished during chronic HIV-1 infection, where NK cells uniformly display reduced oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). Defective OXPHOS was accompanied by increased mitochondrial depolarization, structural alterations, and increased DRP-1 levels promoting fission, suggesting that mitochondrial defects are restricting the metabolic plasticity of NK cell subsets in HIV-1 infection. The metabolic requirement for the NK cell response to receptor stimulation was alleviated upon IL-15 pretreatment, which enhanced mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) activity. IL-15 priming enhanced NK cell functionality to anti-CD16 stimulation in HIV-1 infection, representing an effective strategy for pharmacologically boosting NK cell responses.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

JCI insight - 9(2024), 4 vom: 16. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Moreno-Cubero, Elia [VerfasserIn]
Alrubayyi, Aljawharah [VerfasserIn]
Balint, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Ogbe, Ane [VerfasserIn]
Gill, Upkar S [VerfasserIn]
Matthews, Rebecca [VerfasserIn]
Kinloch, Sabine [VerfasserIn]
Burns, Fiona [VerfasserIn]
Rowland-Jones, Sarah L [VerfasserIn]
Borrow, Persephone [VerfasserIn]
Schurich, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Dustin, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Peppa, Dimitra [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AIDS/HIV
Immunology
Interleukin-15
Journal Article
Mitochondria
NK cells

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Date Completed 23.02.2024

Date Revised 13.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1172/jci.insight.173099

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368757528