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JCI Insight ; 4(18)2019 09 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31479429

RESUMO

Chagas disease is a lifelong pathology resulting from Trypanosoma cruzi infection. It represents one of the most frequent causes of heart failure and sudden death in Latin America. Herein, we provide evidence that aerobic glycolytic pathway activation in monocytes drives nitric oxide (NO) production, triggering tyrosine nitration (TN) on CD8+ T cells and dysfunction in patients with chronic Chagas disease. Monocytes from patients exhibited a higher frequency of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α and increased expression of its target genes/proteins. Nonclassical monocytes are expanded in patients' peripheral blood and represent an important source of NO. Monocytes entail CD8+ T cell surface nitration because both the frequency of nonclassical monocytes and that of NO-producing monocytes positively correlated with the percentage of TN+ lymphocytes. Inhibition of glycolysis in in vitro-infected peripheral blood mononuclear cells decreased the inflammatory properties of monocytes/macrophages, diminishing the frequency of IL-1ß- and NO-producing cells. In agreement, glycolysis inhibition reduced the percentage of TN+CD8+ T cells, improving their functionality. Altogether, these results clearly show that glycolysis governs oxidative stress on monocytes and modulates monocyte-T cell interplay in human chronic Chagas disease. Understanding the pathological immune mechanisms that sustain an inflammatory environment in human pathology is key to designing improved therapies.


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Linfócitos T CD8-Positivos/imunologia , Comunicação Celular/imunologia , Doença de Chagas/imunologia , Glicólise/imunologia , Monócitos/metabolismo , Trypanosoma cruzi/imunologia , Adulto , Animais , Linfócitos T CD8-Positivos/efeitos dos fármacos , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Comunicação Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Doença de Chagas/sangue , Doença de Chagas/tratamento farmacológico , Chlorocebus aethiops , Técnicas de Cocultura , Feminino , Glicólise/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Ativação Linfocitária/efeitos dos fármacos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Monócitos/efeitos dos fármacos , Monócitos/imunologia , Óxido Nítrico/metabolismo , Estresse Oxidativo/efeitos dos fármacos , Estresse Oxidativo/imunologia , Cultura Primária de Células , Proteínas de Protozoários/imunologia , Tirosina/metabolismo , Células Vero , Adulto Jovem
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Front Immunol ; 7: 626, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28066435

RESUMO

Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species are important microbicidal agents and are also involved in lymphocyte unresponsiveness during experimental infections. Many of the biological effects attributed to nitric oxide are mediated by peroxynitrites, which induce the nitration of immune cells, among others. Our group has demonstrated that nitric oxide is involved in the suppressive activity of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in Trypanosoma cruzi-infected mice, with a higher number of CD8+ T cells suffering surface-nitration compared to uninfected controls. Studying the functional and phenotypic features of peripheral CD8+ T cells from chagasic patients and human cells experimentally infected with T. cruzi, we found that different regulatory mechanisms impaired the effector functions of T cytotoxic population from seropositive patients. Peripheral leukocytes from chagasic patients showed increased nitric oxide production concomitant with increased tyrosine nitration of CD8+ T cells. Additionally, this cytotoxic population exhibited increased apoptotic rate, loss of the TCRζ-chain, and lower levels of CD107a, a marker of degranulation. Strikingly, IL-6 stimulation of in vitro-infected peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from healthy donors, blunted T. cruzi-induced nitration of CD3+CD8+ cells, and increased their survival. Furthermore, the treatment of these cultures with an IL-6 neutralizing antibody increased the percentage of T. cruzi-induced CD8+ T cell nitration and raised the release of nitric oxide. The results suggest that the under-responsiveness of cytotoxic T cell population observed in the setting of long-term constant activation of the immune system could be reverted by the pleiotropic actions of IL-6, since this cytokine improves its survival and effector functions.

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