Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Adipocyte-derived lactate is a signalling metabolite that potentiates adipose macrophage inflammation via targeting PHD2

  • Tianshi Feng,
  • Xuemei Zhao,
  • Ping Gu,
  • Wah Yang,
  • Cunchuan Wang,
  • Qingyu Guo,
  • Qiaoyun Long,
  • Qing Liu,
  • Ying Cheng,
  • Jin Li,
  • Cynthia Kwan Yui Cheung,
  • Donghai Wu,
  • Xinyu Kong,
  • Yong Xu,
  • Dewei Ye,
  • Shuang Hua,
  • Kerry Loomes,
  • Aimin Xu,
  • Xiaoyan Hui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32871-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Adipocyte tissue macrophages (ATM) are recruited and activated in obesity. The authors show that adipocytes release lactate as a signal of inflammation and that this metabolite can enhance obesity associated inflammation through stimulation of ATM by direct binding with PHD2.