Sirtuin1 Targeting Reverses Innate and Adaptive Immune Tolerance in Septic Mice

Resistance and tolerance to infection are two universal fitness and survival strategies used by inflammation and immunity in organisms and cells to guard homeostasis. During sepsis, however, both strategies fail, and animal and human victims often die from combined innate and adaptive immune suppres...

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Main Authors: Ayana N. Martin, Martha Alexander-Miller, Barbara K. Yoza, Vidula Vachharajani, Charles E. McCall
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Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Immunology Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2402593
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author Ayana N. Martin
Martha Alexander-Miller
Barbara K. Yoza
Vidula Vachharajani
Charles E. McCall
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Barbara K. Yoza
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description Resistance and tolerance to infection are two universal fitness and survival strategies used by inflammation and immunity in organisms and cells to guard homeostasis. During sepsis, however, both strategies fail, and animal and human victims often die from combined innate and adaptive immune suppression with persistent bacterial and viral infections. NAD+-sensing nuclear sirtuin1 (SIRT1) epigenetically guards immune and metabolic homeostasis during sepsis. Pharmacologically inhibiting SIRT1 deacetylase activity in septic mice reverses monocyte immune tolerance, clears infection, rebalances glycolysis and glucose oxidation, resolves organ dysfunction, and prevents most septic deaths. Whether SIRT1 inhibition during sepsis treatment concomitantly reverses innate and T cell antigen-specific immune tolerance is unknown. Here, we show that treating septic mice with a SIRT1 selective inhibitor concordantly reverses immune tolerance splenic dendritic and antigen-specific tolerance of splenic CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. SIRT1 inhibition also increases the ratio of IL12 p40+ and TNFα proinflammatory/immune to IL10 and TGFβ anti-inflammatory/immune cytokines and decreases the ratio of CD4+ TReg repressor to CD4+ activator T cells. These findings support the unifying concept that nuclear NAD+ sensor SIRT1 broadly coordinates innate and adaptive immune reprogramming during sepsis and is a druggable immunometabolic enhancement target.
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spelling doaj-art-7cab411e22c44c0d81a75d1a5d29bdfe2025-02-03T01:07:00ZengWileyJournal of Immunology Research2314-88612314-71562018-01-01201810.1155/2018/24025932402593Sirtuin1 Targeting Reverses Innate and Adaptive Immune Tolerance in Septic MiceAyana N. Martin0Martha Alexander-Miller1Barbara K. Yoza2Vidula Vachharajani3Charles E. McCall4Department of Molecular Medicine & Translational Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USADepartment of Microbiology & Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USADepartment of Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USADepartment of Molecular Medicine & Translational Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USADepartment of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USAResistance and tolerance to infection are two universal fitness and survival strategies used by inflammation and immunity in organisms and cells to guard homeostasis. During sepsis, however, both strategies fail, and animal and human victims often die from combined innate and adaptive immune suppression with persistent bacterial and viral infections. NAD+-sensing nuclear sirtuin1 (SIRT1) epigenetically guards immune and metabolic homeostasis during sepsis. Pharmacologically inhibiting SIRT1 deacetylase activity in septic mice reverses monocyte immune tolerance, clears infection, rebalances glycolysis and glucose oxidation, resolves organ dysfunction, and prevents most septic deaths. Whether SIRT1 inhibition during sepsis treatment concomitantly reverses innate and T cell antigen-specific immune tolerance is unknown. Here, we show that treating septic mice with a SIRT1 selective inhibitor concordantly reverses immune tolerance splenic dendritic and antigen-specific tolerance of splenic CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. SIRT1 inhibition also increases the ratio of IL12 p40+ and TNFα proinflammatory/immune to IL10 and TGFβ anti-inflammatory/immune cytokines and decreases the ratio of CD4+ TReg repressor to CD4+ activator T cells. These findings support the unifying concept that nuclear NAD+ sensor SIRT1 broadly coordinates innate and adaptive immune reprogramming during sepsis and is a druggable immunometabolic enhancement target.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2402593
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Sirtuin1 Targeting Reverses Innate and Adaptive Immune Tolerance in Septic Mice
Journal of Immunology Research
title Sirtuin1 Targeting Reverses Innate and Adaptive Immune Tolerance in Septic Mice
title_full Sirtuin1 Targeting Reverses Innate and Adaptive Immune Tolerance in Septic Mice
title_fullStr Sirtuin1 Targeting Reverses Innate and Adaptive Immune Tolerance in Septic Mice
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title_short Sirtuin1 Targeting Reverses Innate and Adaptive Immune Tolerance in Septic Mice
title_sort sirtuin1 targeting reverses innate and adaptive immune tolerance in septic mice
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