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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 286, Issue 26, Pages 23591-23599Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.237123
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- National Institutes of Health [RO1DK082582]
- Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics Scholarship
- Rosalinde and Arthur Foundation
- American Diabetes Association [7-08-JF47]
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Activation of immune cells, including macrophages and CD8(+) T cells, contributes significantly to the advancement of obesity and its associated medical complications, such as atherosclerosis, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes. However, how the activation of these immune cells is regulated in vivo remains largely unexplored. Here we show that a group of immature myeloid cells with cell surface markers of Gr-1(+) CD11b(+) are highly enriched in peripheral tissues (i.e. liver and adipose tissues) during obesity. Down-regulation of these cells in obese animals significantly increases inflammation and impairs insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance, whereas elevation of these cells via adoptive transfer has the opposite effects. Mechanistically, we show that under obese conditions, the Gr-1(+) cells suppress proliferation and induce apoptosis of CD8(+) T cells and are capable of skewing differentiation of macrophages into insulin-sensitizing, alternatively activated M2 macrophages. Taken together, our study demonstrates that immature myeloid cells provide a checks-and-balances platform to counter proinflammatory immune cells in the liver and adipose tissue during obesity to prevent overt immune responses.
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