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IMMUNITY
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 225-236Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2012.10.020
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- National Institute of Health [F30ES019815, T32-HL76139, 5P01HL071643, R01-AI076456, NS047599, R01-AI057753, R01-AI040310, RR025355, HL35440, AR050250, AR054796, AI092490, HL108795]
- Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
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It is widely appreciated that T cells increase glycolytic flux during activation, but the role of mitochondrial flux is unclear. Here, we have shown that mitochondrial metabolism in the absence of glucose metabolism is sufficient to support interleukin-2 (IL-2) induction. Furthermore, we used mice with reduced mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mROS) production in T cells (T-Uqcrfs(-/-) mice) to show that mitochondria are required for T cell activation to produce mROS for activation of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) and subsequent IL-2 induction. These mice could not induce antigen-specific expansion of T cells in vivo, but Uqcrfs1(-/-) T cells retained the ability to proliferate in vivo under lymphopenic conditions. This suggests that Uqcrfs1(-/-) T cells were not lacking bioenergetically but rather lacked specific ROS-dependent signaling events needed for antigen-specific expansion. Thus, mitochondrial metabolism is a critical component of T cell activation through the production of complex III ROS.
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