HIF-1a-mediated mitochondrial-glycolytic reprogramming controls the transition of precursor to terminally exhausted T cells
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)
摘要
Functional exhaustion of T cells in cancer and persistent infections is characterized by the upregulation of inhibitory receptors, the progressive decline in cytokine secretion and impaired cytolytic activity. Terminally exhausted T cells are steadily replenished by a precursor population (Tpex) with phenotypic features of memory T cells and a stem-like capacity to self-renew. However, the metabolic principles of Tpex maintenance and the regulatory circuits that control the exhaustion of their progeny remain incompletely understood. Using a combination of gene-deficient mice, single-cell transcriptomics and metabolomic analyses, we here show that mitochondrial insufficiency is a cell-intrinsic trigger that initiates the T cell exhaustion program. At the molecular level, we found that diminished mitochondrial respiration and metabolic remodeling cause oxidative stress, which inhibits the proteasomal degradation of hypoxia inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF-1α) in Tpex cells. HIF-1α mediates the transcriptional-glycolytic reprogramming of Tpex cells as an initial step towards terminal differentiation and functional exhaustion. Finally, we show that enhancing respiration by limiting the glycolytic activity of CAR T cells is a feasible metabolic intervention strategy to preserve the stemness of Tpex cells during chronic viral infection and cancer immunotherapy.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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cells,mitochondrial-glycolytic
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