Title
Metformin enhances anti-mycobacterial responses by educating CD8+ T-cell immunometabolic circuits
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy And Critical Care Medicine
Publication Date
2020-10-16
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses | Immunology and Infectious Disease
Abstract
Patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) have a lower risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, progression from infection to tuberculosis (TB) disease, TB morality and TB recurrence, when being treated with metformin. However, a detailed mechanistic understanding of these protective effects is lacking. Here, we use mass cytometry to show that metformin treatment expands a population of memory-like antigen-inexperienced CD8(+)CXCR3(+) T cells in naive mice, and in healthy individuals and patients with T2D. Metformin-educated CD8(+) T cells have increased (i) mitochondrial mass, oxidative phosphorylation, and fatty acid oxidation; (ii) survival capacity; and (iii) anti-mycobacterial properties. CD8(+) T cells from Cxcr3(-/-) mice do not exhibit this metformin-mediated metabolic programming. In BCG-vaccinated mice and guinea pigs, metformin enhances immunogenicity and protective efficacy against M. tuberculosis challenge. Collectively, these results demonstrate an important function of CD8(+) T cells in metformin-derived host metabolic-fitness towards M. tuberculosis infection.
Keywords
CD8-positive T cells, Immunological memory, Tuberculosis, Type 2 diabetes
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DOI of Published Version
10.1038/s41467-020-19095-z
Source
Böhme J, Martinez N, Li S, Lee A, Marzuki M, Tizazu AM, Ackart D, Frenkel JH, Todd A, Lachmandas E, Lum J, Shihui F, Ng TP, Lee B, Larbi A, Netea MG, Basaraba R, van Crevel R, Newell E, Kornfeld H, Singhal A. Metformin enhances anti-mycobacterial responses by educating CD8+ T-cell immunometabolic circuits. Nat Commun. 2020 Oct 16;11(1):5225. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19095-z. PMID: 33067434; PMCID: PMC7567856. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Nature communications
Related Resources
PubMed ID
33067434
Repository Citation
Bohme J, Martinez N, Kornfeld H, Singhal A. (2020). Metformin enhances anti-mycobacterial responses by educating CD8+ T-cell immunometabolic circuits. Open Access Publications by UMMS Authors. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19095-z. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/4431
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Comments
Full author list omitted for brevity. For the full list of authors, see article.