Journal
MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF MEDICINE
Volume 75, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2020.100864
Keywords
Anemia; Hepcidin; Infection; Inflammation; Macrophage; Nutritional immunity
Funding
- Christian Doppler Society
- Tyrolean Research Fund TWF [GZ-65028]
- Austrian Research Fund FWF [I-3321, P-33062]
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Iron is an essential micronutrient for virtually all living cells. In infectious diseases, both invading pathogens and mammalian cells including those of the immune system require iron to sustain their function, metabolism and proliferation. On the one hand, microbial iron uptake is linked to the virulence of most human pathogens. On the other hand, the sequestration of iron from bacteria and other microorganisms is an efficient strategy of host defense in line with the principles of 'nutritional immunity'. In an acute infection, host-driven iron withdrawal inhibits the growth of pathogens. Chronic immune activation due to persistent infection, autoimmune disease or malignancy however, sequesters iron not only from infectious agents, autoreactive lymphocytes and neoplastic cells but also from erythroid progenitors. This is one of the key mechanisms which collectively result in the anemia of chronic inflammation. In this review, we highlight the most important interconnections between iron metabolism and immunity, focusing on host defense against relevant infections and on the clinical consequences of anemia of inflammation.
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