Cell Reports (Sep 2024)

Disruption of glucose homeostasis by bacterial infection orchestrates host innate immunity through NAD+/NADH balance

  • Jingjing Tang,
  • Xiao Wang,
  • Shukun Chen,
  • Tianyuan Chang,
  • Yanchao Gu,
  • Fuhua Zhang,
  • Jing Hou,
  • Yi Luo,
  • Mengyuan Li,
  • Jianan Huang,
  • Mohua Liu,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Yao Wang,
  • Xihui Shen,
  • Lei Xu

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 43, no. 9
p. 114648

Abstract

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Summary: Metabolic reprogramming is crucial for activating innate immunity in macrophages, and the accumulation of immunometabolites is essential for effective defense against infection. The NAD+/NADH (ratio of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and its reduced counterpart) redox couple serves as a critical node that integrates metabolic pathways and signaling events, but how this metabolite couple engages macrophage activation remains unclear. Here, we show that the NAD+/NADH ratio serves as a molecular signal that regulates proinflammatory responses and type I interferon (IFN) responses divergently. Salmonella Typhimurium infection leads to a decreased NAD+/NADH ratio by inducing the accumulation of NADH. Further investigation shows that an increased NAD+/NADH ratio correlates with attenuated proinflammatory responses and enhanced type I IFN responses. Conversely, a decreased NAD+/NADH ratio is linked to intensified proinflammatory responses and restrained type I IFN responses. These results show that the NAD+/NADH ratio is an essential cell-intrinsic factor that orchestrates innate immunity, which enhances our understanding of how metabolites fine-tune innate immunity.

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