Oxidative phosphorylation is a key ontogenetic feature of monocyte immunometabolism promoting myeloid differentiation after birth
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ABSTRACT: Neonates primarily rely on innate immunity, yet their inflammatory
responses to microbes, particularly those of monocytes, are usually restricted
compared to adults. This is controversially interpreted as immaturity increasing
the risk of sepsis or essential programming allowing immune adaptation after
birth. Which changes the cellular immunometabolism undergoes after birth and its role in these concepts are poorly defined.
Here, we applied transcriptomic, metabolic, and immunological
approaches and found that monocytes exhibit an
inverse ontogenetic balance of immunometabolism. Our data show that glycolysis in
monocytes increases within the first year of life and fuels their inflammatory
responsiveness. In contrast, oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) is high in
neonatal monocytes supporting myeloid differentiation but declines only gradually
during the first five years of life. Treatment of neonatal monocytes with
lipopolysaccharide induces an adult-like immunometabolic phenotype. Ketogenic
diet restricts glycolysis in adult monocytes, but cannot reactivate OXPHOS and
revive a neonatal-like immunometabolic phenotype, suggesting that neonatal
metabolism is hardwired and cannot be restored by simple dietary changes. Transcriptional
network and population-wide human variation analyses identified E2F1, MYB, STAT1 and FLI1 as important regulators of age-dependent cell functions and related energy demands in human monocytes.
Collectively, our findings show that restricted glycolysis and increased OXPHOS are a physiological programming in neonatal monocytes. Premature switching to an adult-like metabolism could untimely enhance inflammatory responses and disrupt important myeloid differentiation, whereas microbial challenges accumulating during childhood seem to induce an essential gradual metabolic switch.
PROVIDER: EGAS00001007555 | EGA |
REPOSITORIES: EGA
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