Qing Li,Rodrigo de Oliveira Formiga,Virginie Puchois,Laura Creusot,Ahmad Haidar Ahmad,Salomé Amouyal,Márcio Augusto Campos-Ribeiro,Yining Zhao,Danielle M M Harris,Frederic Lasserre,Sandrine Ellero-Simatos,Hervé Guillou,Zhan Huang,Loic Brot,Yuhang Hu,Loic Chollet,Camille Danne,Cyril Scandola,Tatiana Ledent,Guillaume Chevreux,Rafael J Argüello,Marcelo De Carvalho Bittencourt,Jessica Bettinger,Maud D'Aveni-Piney,David Moulin,Stefan Schreiber,Konrad Aden,Nathalie Rolhion,Marie-Laure Michel,Timothy Wai,Harry Sokol
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Microbial metabolite indole-3-propionic acid drives mitochondrial respiration in CD4+ T cells to confer protection against intestinal inflammation.
The gut microbiota and its metabolites critically regulate immune cell phenotype, function and energy metabolism. We screened a collection of gut microbiota-related metabolites to identify modulators of mitochondrial metabolism in T cells. Here we show that indole-3-propionic acid (IPA) stimulates mitochondrial respiration of CD4+ T cells by increasing fatty acid oxidation (FAO) and amino acid oxidation (AAO), while inhibiting glycolytic capacity. IPA also impacts CD4+ T cell behaviour by inhibiting their differentiation to type 1 and type 17 helper T cell phenotypes. Mechanistically, the metabolic and immune effects of IPA are mediated by peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-β/δ. The administration of IPA rescues mitochondria respiration in mice with gut bacteria depletion or colitis by enhancing FAO and AAO in colonic CD4+ T cells. Adoptive transfer experiments show that IPA acts on CD4+ T cells to exert its protective effect against inflammation. Collectively, our study reveals that the anti-inflammatory effects of IPA are mediated by metabolic reprogramming of CD4+ T cells toward the enhancement of mitochondrial respiration.
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