Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine-Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB), Faculty of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Front Immunol. 2023 Aug 22;14:1211068. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1211068. eCollection 2023.
In recent years, the central role of cell bioenergetics in regulating immune cell function and fate has been recognized, giving rise to the interest in immunometabolism, an area of research focused on the interaction between metabolic regulation and immune function. Thus, early metabolic changes associated with the polarization of macrophages into pro-inflammatory or pro-resolving cells under different stimuli have been characterized. Tumor-associated macrophages are among the most abundant cells in the tumor microenvironment; however, it exists an unmet need to study the effect of chemotherapeutics on macrophage immunometabolism. Here, we use a systems biology approach that integrates transcriptomics and metabolomics to unveil the immunometabolic effects of trabectedin (TRB) and lurbinectedin (LUR), two DNA-binding agents with proven antitumor activity. Our results show that TRB and LUR activate human macrophages toward a pro-inflammatory phenotype by inducing a specific metabolic rewiring program that includes ROS production, changes in the mitochondrial inner membrane potential, increased pentose phosphate pathway, lactate release, tricarboxylic acids (TCA) cycle, serine and methylglyoxal pathways in human macrophages. Glutamine, aspartate, histidine, and proline intracellular levels are also decreased, whereas oxygen consumption is reduced. The observed immunometabolic changes explain additional antitumor activities of these compounds and open new avenues to design therapeutic interventions that specifically target the immunometabolic landscape in the treatment of cancer.
近年来,细胞生物能量学在调节免疫细胞功能和命运中的核心作用得到了认可,这引发了人们对代谢免疫的兴趣,这是一个专注于代谢调控与免疫功能相互作用的研究领域。因此,人们已经研究了与不同刺激下巨噬细胞向促炎或抗炎细胞极化相关的早期代谢变化。肿瘤相关巨噬细胞是肿瘤微环境中最丰富的细胞之一;然而,研究化疗药物对巨噬细胞代谢免疫的影响仍然存在未满足的需求。在这里,我们使用整合了转录组学和代谢组学的系统生物学方法,揭示了 trabectedin(TRB)和 lurbinectedin(LUR)这两种具有抗肿瘤活性的 DNA 结合剂的免疫代谢效应。我们的研究结果表明,TRB 和 LUR 通过诱导特定的代谢重编程程序,使人类巨噬细胞向促炎表型激活,该程序包括 ROS 产生、线粒体内膜电位变化、戊糖磷酸途径增加、乳酸释放、三羧酸(TCA)循环、丝氨酸和甲基乙二醛途径。谷氨酰胺、天冬氨酸、组氨酸和脯氨酸的细胞内水平也降低,而耗氧量减少。观察到的代谢免疫变化解释了这些化合物的额外抗肿瘤活性,并为设计专门针对癌症治疗中免疫代谢景观的治疗干预措施开辟了新途径。
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