NaturePub Date : 2025-06-18DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09190-w
Hao Huang, Nora R. Balzer, Lea Seep, Iva Splichalova, Nelli Blank-Stein, Maria Francesca Viola, Eliana Franco Taveras, Kerim Acil, Diana Fink, Franzisca Petrovic, Nikola Makdissi, Seyhmus Bayar, Katharina Mauel, Carolin Radwaniak, Jelena Zurkovic, Amir H. Kayvanjoo, Klaus Wunderling, Malin Jessen, Mohamed H. Yaghmour, Lukas Kenner, Thomas Ulas, Stephan Grein, Joachim L. Schultze, Charlotte L. Scott, Martin Guilliams, Zhaoyuan Liu, Florent Ginhoux, Marc D. Beyer, Christoph Thiele, Felix Meissner, Jan Hasenauer, Dagmar Wachten, Elvira Mass
{"title":"Kupffer cell programming by maternal obesity triggers fatty liver disease","authors":"Hao Huang, Nora R. Balzer, Lea Seep, Iva Splichalova, Nelli Blank-Stein, Maria Francesca Viola, Eliana Franco Taveras, Kerim Acil, Diana Fink, Franzisca Petrovic, Nikola Makdissi, Seyhmus Bayar, Katharina Mauel, Carolin Radwaniak, Jelena Zurkovic, Amir H. Kayvanjoo, Klaus Wunderling, Malin Jessen, Mohamed H. Yaghmour, Lukas Kenner, Thomas Ulas, Stephan Grein, Joachim L. Schultze, Charlotte L. Scott, Martin Guilliams, Zhaoyuan Liu, Florent Ginhoux, Marc D. Beyer, Christoph Thiele, Felix Meissner, Jan Hasenauer, Dagmar Wachten, Elvira Mass","doi":"10.1038/s41586-025-09190-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09190-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Kupffer cells (KCs) are tissue-resident macrophages that colonize the liver early during embryogenesis<sup>1</sup>. Upon liver colonization, KCs rapidly acquire a tissue-specific transcriptional signature, mature alongside the developing liver and adapt to its functions<sup>1,2,3</sup>. Throughout development and adulthood, KCs perform distinct core functions that are essential for liver and organismal homeostasis, including supporting fetal erythropoiesis, postnatal erythrocyte recycling and liver metabolism<sup>4</sup>. However, whether perturbations of macrophage core functions during development contribute to or cause disease at postnatal stages is poorly understood. Here, we utilize a mouse model of maternal obesity to perturb KC functions during gestation. We show that offspring exposed to maternal obesity develop fatty liver disease, driven by aberrant developmental programming of KCs that persists into adulthood. Programmed KCs promote lipid uptake by hepatocytes through apolipoprotein secretion. KC depletion in neonate mice born to obese mothers, followed by replenishment with naive monocytes, rescues fatty liver disease. Furthermore, genetic ablation of the gene encoding hypoxia-inducible factor-α (HIF1α) in macrophages during gestation prevents the metabolic programming of KCs from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis, thereby averting the development of fatty liver disease. These results establish developmental perturbation of KC functions as a causal factor in fatty liver disease in adulthood and position fetal-derived macrophages as critical intergenerational messengers within the concept of developmental origins of health and diseases<sup>5</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144319463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2025-06-18DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09166-w
Yan Li, Hua Zhang, Cong Sun, Xiao-Dong Dong, Chu Xie, Yuan-Tao Liu, Ruo-Bin Lin, Xiang-Wei Kong, Zhu-Long Hu, Xiao-Yan Ma, Dan-Ling Dai, Qian-Ying Zhu, Yu-Chun Li, Ying Li, Shang-Xin Liu, Li Yuan, Peng-Hui Zhou, Song Gao, Ya-Ping Tang, Jin-Ying Yang, Ping Han, Andrew T. McGuire, Bo Zhao, Jin-Xin Bei, Erle Robertson, Yi-Xin Zeng, Qian Zhong, Mu-Sheng Zeng
{"title":"R9AP is a common receptor for EBV infection in epithelial cells and B cells","authors":"Yan Li, Hua Zhang, Cong Sun, Xiao-Dong Dong, Chu Xie, Yuan-Tao Liu, Ruo-Bin Lin, Xiang-Wei Kong, Zhu-Long Hu, Xiao-Yan Ma, Dan-Ling Dai, Qian-Ying Zhu, Yu-Chun Li, Ying Li, Shang-Xin Liu, Li Yuan, Peng-Hui Zhou, Song Gao, Ya-Ping Tang, Jin-Ying Yang, Ping Han, Andrew T. McGuire, Bo Zhao, Jin-Xin Bei, Erle Robertson, Yi-Xin Zeng, Qian Zhong, Mu-Sheng Zeng","doi":"10.1038/s41586-025-09166-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09166-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) persistently infects more than 90% of the human population, causing infectious mononucleosis<sup>1</sup>, susceptibility to autoimmune diseases<sup>2</sup> and multiple malignancies of epithelial or B cell-origin<sup>3</sup>. EBV infects epithelial cells and B cells through interaction between viral glycoproteins and different host receptors<sup>4</sup>, but it has remained unknown whether a common receptor mediates infection of its two major host cell targets. Here, we establish R9AP as a crucial EBV receptor for entry into epithelial and B cells. R9AP silencing or knockout, R9AP-derived peptide and R9AP monoclonal antibody each significantly inhibit, whereas R9AP overexpression promotes, EBV uptake into both cell types. R9AP binds directly to the EBV glycoprotein gH/gL complex to initiate gH/gL–gB-mediated membrane fusion. Notably, the interaction of R9AP with gH/gL is inhibited by the highly competitive gH/gL-neutralizing antibody AMMO1, which blocks EBV epithelial and B cell entry. Moreover, R9AP mediates viral and cellular membrane fusion in cooperation with EBV gp42–human leukocyte antigen class II or gH/gL–EPHA2 complexes in B cells or epithelial cells, respectively. We propose R9AP as the crucial common receptor of B cells and epithelial cells and a potential prophylactic and vaccine target for EBV.</p>","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"147 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144319550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2025-06-18DOI: 10.1038/d41586-025-01876-5
{"title":"Carbon-fibre composites can be broken down into reusable components","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41586-025-01876-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01876-5","url":null,"abstract":"The chemical building blocks from material used to make mountain bikes can be recovered using acetic acid.","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144319581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2025-06-18DOI: 10.1038/d41586-025-01891-6
{"title":"For the future","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41586-025-01891-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01891-6","url":null,"abstract":"Messages from history.","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144311706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}