Qian Zhang, Shengduo Liu, Chen-Song Zhang, Qirou Wu, Xinyuan Yu, Ruyuan Zhou, Fansen Meng, Ailian Wang, Fei Zhang, Shasha Chen, Xiaojian Wang, Lei Li, Jun Huang, Yao-Wei Huang, Jian Zou, Jun Qin, Tingbo Liang, Xin-Hua Feng, Sheng-Cai Lin, Pinglong Xu
Nutrient sensing and damage sensing are two fundamental processes in living organisms. While hyperglycemia is frequently linked to diabetes-related vulnerability to microbial infection, how body glucose levels affect innate immune responses to microbial invasion is not fully understood. Here, we surprisingly found that viral infection led to a rapid and dramatic decrease in blood glucose levels in rodents, leading to robust AMPK activation. AMPK, once activated, directly phosphorylates TBK1 at S511, which triggers IRF3 recruitment and the assembly of MAVS or STING signalosomes...
December 1, 2022: Molecular Cell