1. Targeting p53 and histone methyltransferases restores exhausted CD8+ T cells in HCV infection
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Gabriele Missale, Valeria Barili, Amalia Penna, Carolina Boni, Manuela Ferracin, Giovanna Forleo, Greta Acerbi, Giuseppe Pedrazzi, Alessandra Orlandini, Marzia Rossi, Simone Ottonello, Chiara Romualdi, Massimo Levrero, Marco Massari, Francesca Guerrieri, Cristina Mori, Alessandra Zecca, Anita Filippi, Barbara Montanini, Elisa Negri, Paola Fisicaro, Andrea Vecchi, Marco Pesci, Carlo Ferrari, Bodescot, Myriam, Host and viral factors in acute hepatitis C - HEPACUTE - - EC:FP7:HEALTH2010-11-01 - 2014-04-30 - 260844 - VALID, Department of Medicine and Surgery [Parme, Italie], Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR), Unit of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology [Parme, Italie], Laboratory of Viral Immunopathology [Parme, Italie], Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Parma [Parme, Italie]-Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Parma [Parme, Italie], Biomolecular, Genomic and Biocomputational Sciences Unit [Parme, Italie], Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability [Parme, Italie], Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR)-Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR), Biopharmanet-Tec [Parme, Italie], Department of Biology [Padoue, Italie], Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine [Bologne, Italie] (DIMES), University of Bologna/Università di Bologna, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon (UNICANCER/CRCL), Centre Léon Bérard [Lyon]-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unit of Neuroscience [Parme, Italie], Robust Statistics Academy [Parme, Italie] (Ro.S.A.), Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR)-Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR)-Robust Statistics Academy [Parme, Italie] (Ro.S.A.), Unit of Infectious Diseases [Reggio d'Émilie, Italie], IRCCS-Azienda Ospedaliera S. Maria Nuova [Reggio d'Émilie, Italie], Service d'Hépatologie et de Gastroentérologie [Lyon], Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Center for Life Nano Science [Rome, Italie], Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia [Rome, Italie] (IIT), This work also benefited from support by the Biotechnology Interuniversity Consortium (CIB) and the bioinformatics expertize framework available within the COMP-HUB Initiative, funded by the ‘Departments of Excellence’ program of the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR, 2018–2022). This work was supported by the European Commission grant HepAcute (FP7-HEALTH-2010), by a grant from Regione Emilia-Romagna, Italy (Programma di Ricerca Regione-Università 2010–2012, PRUa1RI-2012-006 to C.F., by a FIRB grant (RBAP10TPXK to C.F.) from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR to C.F.), by a grant from 'Agence Nationale pour la Recherche sur le SIDA et les hepatites virales' (ANRS) to M.L. (n. ECTZ66014) and by a grant from the Agence National de la Recherche (ANR@TRACTION) to M.L., European Project: 260844,EC:FP7:HEALTH,FP7-HEALTH-2010-single-stage,HEPACUTE(2010), Barili V., Fisicaro P., Montanini B., Acerbi G., Filippi A., Forleo G., Romualdi C., Ferracin M., Guerrieri F., Pedrazzi G., Boni C., Rossi M., Vecchi A., Penna A., Zecca A., Mori C., Orlandini A., Negri E., Pesci M., Massari M., Missale G., Levrero M., Ottonello S., Ferrari C., University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie]-University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], University of Padova [Padoue, Italie], University of Bologna, Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie]-University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie]-Robust Statistics Academy [Parme, Italie] (Ro.S.A.)
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0301 basic medicine ,Transcription, Genetic ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins ,CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes ,Lymphocyte Activation ,medicine.disease_cause ,Epigenesis, Genetic ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cytotoxic T cell ,Gene Regulatory Networks ,lcsh:Science ,[SDV.MP.VIR] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology ,Principal Component Analysis ,Multidisciplinary ,Molecular medicine ,Infection, Molecular medicine, Immunological surveillance ,Middle Aged ,Hepatitis C ,Mitochondria ,3. Good health ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Histone methyltransferase ,Acute Disease ,[SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology ,Histone Methyltransferases ,Infection ,Signal Transduction ,Adult ,Adolescent ,T cell ,Hepatitis C virus ,Science ,[SDV.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cellular Biology ,Biology ,Antiviral Agents ,Article ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Downregulation and upregulation ,medicine ,Humans ,[SDV.BC] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cellular Biology ,Aged ,Gene Expression Profiling ,Immunological surveillance ,General Chemistry ,Chronic infection ,Glucose ,030104 developmental biology ,T cell differentiation ,Chronic Disease ,Cancer research ,lcsh:Q ,Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 ,CD8 - Abstract
Hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) represents a unique model to characterize, from early to late stages of infection, the T cell differentiation process leading to exhaustion of human CD8+ T cells. Here we show that in early HCV infection, exhaustion-committed virus-specific CD8+ T cells display a marked upregulation of transcription associated with impaired glycolytic and mitochondrial functions, that are linked to enhanced ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and p53 signaling. After evolution to chronic infection, exhaustion of HCV-specific T cell responses is instead characterized by a broad gene downregulation associated with a wide metabolic and anti-viral function impairment, which can be rescued by histone methyltransferase inhibitors. These results have implications not only for treatment of HCV-positive patients not responding to last-generation antivirals, but also for other chronic pathologies associated with T cell dysfunction, including cancer., Here, the authors report that exhausted HCV-specific CD8+ T cells are marked by upregulation of p53 signaling already detectable in an early phase of chronic HCV infection and by a later development of a repressive chromatin state, and show that chemical targeting of these pathways improves CD8+ T cell metabolism and antiviral function.
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- 2020
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