Neurotrophic factor Neuritin modulates T cell electrical and metabolic state for the balance of tolerance and immunity

Abstract The adaptive T cell response is accompanied by continuous rewiring of the T cell’s electric and metabolic state. Ion channels and nutrient transporters integrate bioelectric and biochemical signals from the environment, setting cellular electric and metabolic states. Divergent electric and metabolic states contribute to T cell immunity or tolerance. Here, we report that neuritin (Nrn1) contributes to tolerance development by modulating regulatory and effector T cell function. Nrn1 expression in regulatory T cells promotes its expansion and suppression function, while expression in the T effector cell dampens its inflammatory response. Nrn1 deficiency causes dysregulation of ion channel and nutrient transporter expression in Treg and effector T cells, resulting in divergent metabolic outcomes and impacting autoimmune disease progression and recovery. These findings identify a novel immune function of the neurotrophic factor Nrn1 in regulating the T cell metabolic state in a cell context-dependent manner and modulating the outcome of an immune response..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 06. Feb. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yu, Hong [VerfasserIn]
Nishio, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Barbi, Joseph [VerfasserIn]
Mitchell-Flack, Marisa [VerfasserIn]
Vignali, Paolo D. A. [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Lebid, Andriana [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Kwang-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Higgins, Makenzie [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Ching-Tai [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xuehong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zhiguang [VerfasserIn]
Blosser, Lee [VerfasserIn]
Tam, Ada [VerfasserIn]
Drake, Charles G. [VerfasserIn]
Pardoll, Drew M. [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2024.01.31.578284

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XBI04237782X