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Glycolysis – a key player in the inflammatory response
Author(s) -
SotoHeredero Gonzalo,
Gómez de las Heras Manuel M.,
GabandéRodríguez Enrique,
Oller Jorge,
Mittelbrunn María
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the febs journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.981
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1742-4658
pISSN - 1742-464X
DOI - 10.1111/febs.15327
Subject(s) - inflammation , glycolysis , immune system , microbiology and biotechnology , regulator , biology , microglia , anaerobic glycolysis , immunology , metabolism , biochemistry , gene
The inflammatory response involves the activation of several cell types to fight insults caused by a plethora of agents, and to maintain the tissue homoeostasis. On the one hand, cells involved in the pro‐inflammatory response, such as inflammatory M1 macrophages, Th1 and Th17 lymphocytes or activated microglia, must rapidly provide energy to fuel inflammation, which is essentially accomplished by glycolysis and high lactate production. On the other hand, regulatory T cells or M2 macrophages, which are involved in immune regulation and resolution of inflammation, preferentially use fatty acid oxidation through the TCA cycle as a main source for energy production. Here, we discuss the impact of glycolytic metabolism at the different steps of the inflammatory response. Finally, we review a wide variety of molecular mechanisms which could explain the relationship between glycolytic metabolites and the pro‐inflammatory phenotype, including signalling events, epigenetic remodelling, post‐transcriptional regulation and post‐translational modifications. Inflammatory processes are a common feature of many age‐associated diseases, such as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disorders. The finding that immunometabolism could be a master regulator of inflammation broadens the avenue for treating inflammation‐related pathologies through the manipulation of the vascular and immune cell metabolism.