细胞自噬与机体免疫机制及抗微生物感染的关系

细胞自噬作为细胞的一种生理机制,一方面为细胞提供再生资源,一方面也可以作为防御机制抵抗微生物的感染和寄生。本文对它与先天性免疫、适应性免疫的关系做了综述,并探讨了自噬与微生物感染的关系。本文为我们理解细胞自噬在机体抗感染机制中的作用提供了帮助,也为我们研究感染性疾病治疗药物开启新的视野。     

清除或劫持:细胞自噬与病毒感染

细胞自噬是广泛存在于真核生物中的生命现象,在进化上高度保守。作为一种防御和应激调控机制,自噬在维持细胞内稳态中发挥重要作用。近年来多项研究发现自噬能够参与机体免疫应答,产生抗病毒效应;而某些病毒则进化出一些策略劫持自噬来利于自身的增殖。通过干预自噬途径寻找药物新靶点和治疗策略逐渐成为抗病毒治疗的重要方向。本文概述了细胞自噬与病毒感染之间关系,以期为抗病毒研究提供参考。     

细胞自噬与病毒感染关系的研究进展

细胞自噬是一种存在于真核细胞内的溶酶体依赖性降解途径,是细胞的一种先天免疫机制。该机制可帮助细胞对破损细胞器进行降解,并将降解后的生物大分子等营养物质重新提供给细胞进行物质的重新利用。病毒侵入宿主细胞后细胞启动自噬系统进行自我吞噬并以此来保护机体将病毒对机体的损害降到最低。但研究发现部分病毒在侵染宿主细胞后也可利用细胞的自噬机制来加速自身在胞内的复制。由此可见病毒与细胞自噬间的相互作用是一个复杂且多向化的过程。为对自噬与病毒感染之间的关系进行更进一步的探究,本综述从自噬的发生机制、自噬的检测方法、自噬与病毒感染的关系、病毒感染与抗肿瘤作用等方面进行了阐述。     

细胞自噬在冠状病毒感染中的作用

细胞自噬是一种保守的广泛存在于真核细胞内的溶酶体依赖性分解代谢途径,其通过形成双层膜结构的自噬体降解蛋白质和细胞器,参与物质循环和稳态维持。同时,自噬也能作为机体免疫防御的一部分发挥抗病毒的作用,或是被病毒利用以促进其自身增殖。冠状病毒是一种有囊膜的单股正链RNA病毒,能够诱导双层膜囊泡形成转录复合物,进一步指导病毒基因组的合成。研究表明多个冠状病毒成员能够诱导自噬发生,自噬参与了病毒增殖的多个环节。本文拟对细胞自噬的概况及作用、自噬在病毒感染特别是冠状病毒感染中的作用进行综述,以期为揭示冠状病毒的致病机理提供参考,并为开发冠状病毒的治疗方案提供新思路。     

病毒感染中细胞自噬研究进展

细胞自噬是一种依赖于溶酶体的细胞内降解途径,用于细胞维持内环境的稳态.自噬广泛存在于真核细胞的生理、病理过程中.研究发现自噬与病毒之间的相互作用是一个复杂且多向化的过程,一方面自噬能够参与机体免疫应答、发挥抗病毒效应;另一方面,细胞的自噬机制也可被病毒操纵,以利于其自身复制.本文对近年来细胞自噬与病毒感染的相互作用进展,尤其是病毒如何调控自噬以促进其复制和致病的机制加以综述.     

鱼类细胞自噬与炎症反应

细胞自噬和炎症反应是先天性免疫的重要组成部分。细胞自噬是通过溶酶体降解自身组分以维持细胞稳态的一种高度保守的代谢过程，在降解受损的细胞器、抵抗病原感染、调节炎症反应等方面具有举足轻重的地位。在过去的几十年里，对酵母和哺乳动物自噬的研究显著增加了人们对自噬及其与人类疾病关系的理解：调节自噬水平可用于预防或治疗神经退行性疾病、炎症性疾病、肿瘤以及各种病原微生物感染。炎症反应是一个高度复杂的生物过程，是机体在受到紫外线、病原体感染、氧化应激以及机械性损伤等刺激下的一种自然防御反应。鱼类作为低等的脊椎动物，其获得性免疫功能较为低下，先天性免疫是其抵御病原体感染的主要防线。相较于高等动物，鱼类细胞自噬研究虽起步较晚，但近些年围绕病原感染引起的自噬现象及机制、自噬相关基因的表达调控等方面已取得较多进展。作为先天免疫的重要组成部分，自噬参与多种鱼类病原感染，而鱼类疾病通常伴随炎症反应的发生。基于此，本文对于鱼类病原感染引起的细胞自噬、炎症反应以及二者之间相关性研究进行系统阐述，以期深入理解鱼类细胞自噬的发生机制及其与炎症反应的相关关系，为全面解析鱼类的免疫机制提供指导，为制定鱼类疾病防控策略提供依据...     

细菌与自噬的抗争——死亡或重生

自噬是一种高度保守的细胞内成分的降解过程,不仅维持细胞的代谢稳定,还与机体对抗各种病原菌感染有着密切关系。自噬能协助机体清除病原体,但有些细菌进化出多种策略干扰自噬信号通路或抑制自噬体与溶酶体融合形成自噬溶酶体来逃避自噬的降解,甚至利用自噬来促进其生长增殖。文中从自噬的分子机制出发,讨论多种致病菌与宿主细胞自噬关系的最新进展,以及自噬与病原菌感染的作用和意义,以期为病原菌感染导致的自噬研究提供参考。     

细胞自噬与病毒感染

自噬是广泛存在于真核细胞内的一种溶酶体依赖性降解途径,在维持细胞存活、更新、物质再利用和内环境稳定中起着重要作用。目前已经发现大量新的自噬相关基因,同时发现自噬在病毒感染过程中发挥着重要的抗病毒作用:自噬可以将胞质中的病毒转运到溶酶体中,降解病毒;也可以将病毒核酸转运至胞内感受器上激活天然免疫;还可以将病毒抗原递呈给MHCⅡ类分子激活适应性免疫。自噬参与胞内微生物感染具有双重作用。一方面,自噬能够降解入侵的微生物,即以异源吞噬(xenophagy)的方式清除胞内的病原体;另一方面,有些微生物能够通过某些机制逃避自噬而利于自身存活。本文就细胞自噬及其与不同病毒感染关系的最新研究进展进行综述。     

细胞自噬在脓毒症的作用及机制

脓毒症是由感染、手术、创伤等引起的全身炎症反应综合征,死亡率高。但它的发病机制尚未完全阐明,目前认为与过度免疫反应、线粒体功能障碍、细胞凋亡等多因素有关。自噬作为机体的一种自我保护机制,在免疫激活中发挥重要作用,促进抗原提呈,积极清除细胞内病原体,通过多种方式调节免疫应答。随着对脓毒症的深入研究,发现自噬对脓毒症的发生发展过程中有重要影响,有望为未来脓毒症的治疗提供新思路。故本文将对自噬和脓毒症发病进程的关系进行总结。     

自噬在小RNA病毒感染中的作用

自噬是真核细胞所特有的一种高度保守的经溶酶体途径降解细胞内错误折叠或多余蛋白质、受损细胞器、胞内病原体的细胞代谢过程。小RNA病毒脱壳感染细胞时,快速激活自噬途径,诱导形成大量双层膜结构的自噬体。自噬能激活细胞表面的模式识别受体以及干扰素途径,增强组织相容性复合物对病毒抗原的提呈作用,发挥抑制小RNA病毒感染的天然免疫功能;此外,自噬体为小RNA病毒提供复制相关蛋白质和非细胞裂解性释放途径,促进感染细胞的胞内、胞外出现更多成熟的小RNA病毒粒子。该文对细胞自噬与小RNA病毒感染的研究概况与进展作一综述,为进一步开展解析不同小RNA病毒感染与自噬发生的时间、空间等的关系及阐明自噬作用于小RNA病毒感染的分子机制等研究提供参考。     

ATM at the crossroads of reactive oxygen species and autophagy

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generally small, short-lived and highly reactive molecules, initially thought to be a pathological role in the cell. A growing amount of evidence in recent years argues for ROS functioning as a signaling intermediate to facilitate cellular adaptation in response to pathophysiological stress through the regulation of autophagy. Autophagy is an essential cellular process that plays a crucial role in recycling cellular components and damaged organelles to eliminate sources of ROS in response to various stress conditions. A large number of studies have shown that DNA damage response (DDR) transducer ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) protein can also be activated by ROS, and its downstream signaling pathway is involved in autophagy regulation. This review aims at providing novel insight into the regulatory mechanism of ATM activated by ROS and its molecular basis for inducing autophagy, and revealing a new function that ATM can not only maintain genome homeostasis in the nucleus, but also as a ROS sensor trigger autophagy to maintain cellular homeostasis in the cytoplasm.     

Long-term live imaging reveals cytosolic immune responses of host hepatocytes against Plasmodium infection and parasite escape mechanisms

Plasmodium parasites are transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes to the mammalian host and actively infect hepatocytes after passive transport in the bloodstream to the liver. In their target host hepatocyte, parasites reside within a parasitophorous vacuole (PV). In the present study it was shown that the parasitophorous vacuole membrane (PVM) can be targeted by autophagy marker proteins LC3, ubiquitin, and SQSTM1/p62 as well as by lysosomes in a process resembling selective autophagy. The dynamics of autophagy marker proteins in individual Plasmodium berghei-infected hepatocytes were followed by live imaging throughout the entire development of the parasite in the liver. Although the host cell very efficiently recognized the invading parasite in its vacuole, the majority of parasites survived this initial attack. Successful parasite development correlated with the gradual loss of all analyzed autophagy marker proteins and associated lysosomes from the PVM. However, other autophagic events like nonselective canonical autophagy in the host cell continued. This was indicated as LC3, although not labeling the PVM anymore, still localized to autophagosomes in the infected host cell. It appears that growing parasites even benefit from this form of nonselective host cell autophagy as an additional source of nutrients, as in host cells deficient for autophagy, parasite growth was retarded and could partly be rescued by the supply of additional amino acid in the medium. Importantly, mouse infections with P. berghei sporozoites confirmed LC3 dynamics, the positive effect of autophagy activation on parasite growth, and negative effects upon autophagy inhibition.     

IFNG-mediated immune responses enhance autophagy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in patients with active tuberculosis

Protective immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) requires IFNG. Besides, IFNG-mediated induction of autophagy suppresses survival of virulent Mtb in macrophage cell lines. We investigated the contribution of autophagy to the defense against Mtb antigen (Mtb-Ag) in cells from tuberculosis patients and healthy donors (HD). Patients were classified as high responders (HR) if their T cells produced significant IFNG against Mtb-Ag; and low responders (LR) when patients showed weak or no T cell responses to Mtb-Ag. The highest autophagy levels were detected in HD cells whereas the lowest quantities were observed in LR patients. Interestingly, upon Mtb-Ag stimulation, we detected a positive correlation between IFNG and MAP1LC3B-II/LC3-II levels. Actually, blockage of Mtb-Ag-induced IFNG markedly reduced autophagy in HR patients whereas addition of limited amounts of IFNG significantly increased autophagy in LR patients. Therefore, autophagy collaborates with human immune responses against Mtb in close association with specific IFNG secreted against the pathogen.     

IFNG-mediated immune responses enhance autophagy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in patients with active tuberculosis

Protective immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) requires IFNG. Besides, IFNG-mediated induction of autophagy suppresses survival of virulent Mtb in macrophage cell lines. We investigated the contribution of autophagy to the defense against Mtb antigen (Mtb-Ag) in cells from tuberculosis patients and healthy donors (HD). Patients were classified as high responders (HR) if their T cells produced significant IFNG against Mtb-Ag; and low responders (LR) when patients showed weak or no T cell responses to Mtb-Ag. The highest autophagy levels were detected in HD cells whereas the lowest quantities were observed in LR patients. Interestingly, upon Mtb-Ag stimulation, we detected a positive correlation between IFNG and MAP1LC3B-II/LC3-II levels. Actually, blockage of Mtb-Ag-induced IFNG markedly reduced autophagy in HR patients whereas addition of limited amounts of IFNG significantly increased autophagy in LR patients. Therefore, autophagy collaborates with human immune responses against Mtb in close association with specific IFNG secreted against the pathogen.     

Radiation-induced autophagy: mechanisms and consequences

Autophagy is an evolutionary conserved, indispensable, lysosome-mediated degradation process, which helps in maintaining homeostasis during various cellular traumas. During stress, a context-dependent role of autophagy has been observed which drives the cell towards survival or death depending upon the type, time, and extent of the damage. The process of autophagy is stimulated during various cellular insults, e.g. oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum stress, imbalances in calcium homeostasis, and altered mitochondrial potential. Ionizing radiation causes ROS-dependent as well as ROS-independent damage in cells that involve macromolecular (mainly DNA) damage, as well as ER stress induction, both capable of inducing autophagy. This review summarizes the current understanding on the roles of oxidative stress, ER stress, DNA damage, altered mitochondrial potential, and calcium imbalance in radiation-induced autophagy as well as the merits and limitations of targeting autophagy as an approach for radioprotection and radiosensitization.     

NBR1-dependent selective autophagy is required for efficient cell-matrix adhesion site disassembly

Macroautophagy/autophagy has classically been recognized for its vital role in supporting cellular survival during various stresses. However, emerging work has demonstrated that selective autophagy has an impact on diverse cell biological processes by mediating the degradation of various cellular contents during normal cellular homeostasis. We recently established that selective autophagy supports cell migration by promoting the turnover of integrin-based cell-matrix adhesion sites, or focal adhesions (FAs). The autophagy cargo receptor NBR1 acts as a critical mediator of this pathway by promoting targeting of autophagosomes to FAs, leading to their disassembly via the sequestration of FA proteins. Our results demonstrate FAs as a new cellular target for selective autophagy.     

PERK-ing up autophagy during MYC-induced tumorigenesis

Stress in the tumor microenvironment in the form of hypoxia and low glucose/amino acid levels activates the evolutionarily conserved cellular adaptation program called the unfolded protein response (UPR) promoting cell survival in such conditions. Our recent studies showed that cell autonomous stress such as activation of the proto-oncogene MYC/c-Myc, can also trigger the UPR and induce endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-mediated autophagy. Amelioration of ER stress or autophagy enhances cancer cell death in vitro and attenuates tumor growth in vivo. Here we will discuss the role of the UPR and autophagy in MYC-induced transformation. Our findings demonstrate that the EIF2AK3/PERK-EIF2S1/eIF2α-ATF4 arm of the UPR promotes tumorigenesis by activating autophagy and enhancing tumor formation. Therefore, the UPR is an attractive target in MYC-driven cancers.     

Autophagy and inflammation: A special review issue

Macroautophagy/autophagy is a fundamental intracellular homeostatic process that is of interest both for its basic biology and for its effect on human physiology in a wide spectrum of conditions and diseases. Autophagy was first appreciated primarily as a metabolic and cytoplasmic quality control process, but in the past decade its role in immunity has been steadily growing. The connections between these aspects beckon explorations of the network and connections that exist between metabolism, quality control, and inflammation and immunity processes, which are so key to many human diseases including neurodegeneration, obesity and diabetes, chronic inflammatory conditions, cancer, infection, and aging. The purpose of this issue is to stimulate further the burgeoning studies of the intersections between autophagy and inflammation, and the inevitable overlaps with metabolic and quality control functions of autophagy.