Zhihua Ren
Yueru Yu
Chaoxi Chen2†
Junliang Deng
Zhiwen Xu- 1Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
- 2College of Life Since and Technology, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, China
- 3College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Chengdu Agricultural College, Chengdu, China
Long noncoding RNA (LncRNA), a noncoding RNA over 200nt in length, can regulate glycolysis through metabolic pathways, glucose metabolizing enzymes, and epigenetic reprogramming. Upon viral infection, increased aerobic glycolysis providzes material and energy for viral replication. Mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein (MAVS) is the only protein-specified downstream of retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I) that bridges the gap between antiviral immunity and glycolysis. MAVS binding to RIG-I inhibits MAVS binding to Hexokinase (HK2), thereby impairing glycolysis, while excess lactate production inhibits MAVS and the downstream antiviral immune response, facilitating viral replication. LncRNAs can also regulate antiviral innate immunity by interacting with RIG-I and downstream signaling pathways and by regulating the expression of interferons and interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs). Altogether, we summarize the relationship between glycolysis, antiviral immunity, and lncRNAs and propose that lncRNAs interact with glycolysis and antiviral pathways, providing a new perspective for the future treatment against virus infection, including SARS-CoV-2.
Introduction
Aerobic glycolysis refers to the glycolytic reaction in cells even under aerobic conditions, generating large amounts of lactate. This effect initially occurs in tumor cells and is called the “Warburg” effect. Many studies have reported that aerobic glycolysis occurs in microglia (Cheng et al., 2021a; Wang et al., 2021a), NK cells, and monocytes under different pathological conditions (Cheng et al., 2016; Sheppard et al., 2021) and even virus-infected macrophages (Wu et al., 2021). It is found that the serum and neutrophils of SARS-CoV-2 patients contain high lactate content, which is caused by elevated glycolysis (McElvaney et al., 2020; Jia et al., 2021). As a vital link in glucose metabolism, glycolysis provides intermediates for the biosynthesis of macromolecules during energy production (Locasale and Cantley, 2011; Pearce et al., 2013). Viruses can utilize glycolysis’s energy and molecular precursors for their infection and replication (Passalacqua et al., 2019; Mansouri et al., 2020). In vitro and in vivo experiments during viral infections such as SARS-CoV-2 have found that increased aerobic glycolysis will cause inflammation and even lead to cytokine storms, resulting in increased viral replication (Thai et al., 2014; Zhu et al., 2021a). Recently, it has been shown that SARS-CoV-2 infection of human monocytes upregulates glycolytic genes, promoting virus replication and the expression of proinflammatory factors (Codo et al., 2020).
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are noncoding RNAs that are widespread in various eukaryotes and are more than 200 nucleotides (nt) in length (Marques and Ponting, 2009; Liu et al., 2018). LncRNAs not only regulate the glycolytic network but also regulate multiple regulatory points of antiviral innate immune pathways. The regulation of glycolysis by lncRNA is through the direct regulation of glycolytic rate-limiting enzymes and lactate or indirect regulation of glycolytic upstream genes and kinases. After many studies, it has been found that lncRNAs can regulate antiviral immunity in many kinds of virus infection. On the one hand, the host regulates antiviral innate immunity by targeting lncRNAs (Khatun et al., 2021). On the other hand, the virus suppresses the immune response by lncRNA (Carnero et al., 2016). Strikingly, in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from SARS-CoV-2 patients, the lncRNA regulatory network showed significant downregulation of interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) and IFN-I responses (Zheng et al., 2020).
Retinoic acid-inducible gene I-mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein (MAVS) is a major pathway of antiviral innate immunity. The binding of the SARS-CoV-2 N protein to the RIG-I DExD/H domain inhibits RLR-mediated interferon production (Chen et al., 2020). MAVS is a bridge between antiviral innate immunity and glycolysis in the RIG-I-like receptors (RLR) signaling pathway, and Hexokinase 2 (HK2)–MAVS and lactate–MAVS interactions play an important role in antiviral immune responses. During the viral infection, RIG-I-MAVS hijacks HK2-MAVS, thus impairing the normal glycolysis process. However, overexpression of lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA)-associated lactate can repress MAVS’s subsequent antiviral innate immunity (Zhang et al., 2019b).
Study has found that lncRNAs cluster in glycolysis, as revealed by bioinformatics analysis (Ju et al., 2021). Thus, long noncoding RNAs may also inhibit viral replication by disrupting HK2, voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC), and MAVS ternary complex to inhibit glycolysis in viral infection. By reviewing the pairwise relationship among glycolysis, antiviral innate immunity, and lncRNA, we propose that lncRNA may affect viral replication by regulating glycolytic flux. The above insight additionally supplies a hypothesis that lncRNAs participate in the interaction of SARS-CoV-2 associated antiviral innate immunity and glycolysis regulation.
Glycolysis
Glycolytic metabolic enzymes and glucose transporters (GLUTs) regulate glycolysis. Fourteen isoforms of GLUTs transport glucose across the cell membrane to the intracellular space along a concentration gradient (Nomura et al., 2015). Upregulation of GLUT expression and density and accelerated glucose uptake can promote glycolysis (Liu and Gan, 2016; Ryu et al., 2021). Metabolic enzymes in glycolysis [HK, LDHA, and pyruvate kinase (PKM)] and lactate have regulatory effects on glycolysis.
Key Metabolic Enzymes of Glycolysis
Hexokinase is a primary glycolytic rate-limiting enzyme that catalyzes the initial glucose metabolism step by phosphorylating glucose. There are four isoforms of HK, of which HK2 is the form that is more expressed and regulated in tissues (Roberts and Miyamoto, 2015). HK binds to the mitochondrial outer membrane and interacts with VDACs (DeWaal et al., 2018). HK can be allosterically inhibited and released from mitochondria by the catalytic product glucose-6-phosphate (G6P; Wilson, 2003). The massive dissociation of HK2 induces cell death (Smeele et al., 2011). Knockdown of HK2 inhibits glycolysis while inhibiting mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR; DeWaal et al., 2018).
Pyruvate kinase converts phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to pyruvate. The expression and low enzymatic activity of pyruvate kinase are essential for lactate as a glucose metabolite (Tamada et al., 2012). Pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) accelerates the production of GLUT and LDHA by upregulating the expression of the C-MYC gene and further promoting aerobic glycolysis (Yang and Lu, 2013).
Lactate dehydrogenase A, as the terminal enzyme in aerobic glycolysis, converts pyruvate to lactate and is accompanied by the regeneration of NADH to NAD+, which is essential for maintaining glycolytic flux. Overexpression of LDHA and pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK) prevents pyruvate from entering the TCA cycle (Everts et al., 2014). Despite the proinflammatory effects of glycolysis, lactate production through hypoxia–lactate axis can upregulate the expression of macrophage genes such as Tgfb and Il10 and M2-like markers, such as Vegf, Mg1-1, Mgl-2, and CD206, which have the effect of reducing inflammation (Ivashkiv, 2020).
Upstream Pathway of Glycolysis
Mammalian target of rapamycin is an influential node in the transition from aerobic phosphorylation to glycolysis and is a key metabolic regulator that promotes glycolysis in multiple immune cells, including T cells, B cells, dendritic cells, macrophages, neutrophils, mast cells, and natural killer cells (Xu et al., 2012). mTOR appears as two distinct protein complexes and is divided into mTOR Complex1 and 2 (mTORC1 and mTORC2; Edinger et al., 2003). Activation of mTORC1 signaling encodes nearly every step of glycolysis of gene expression (Duvel et al., 2010). MTORC2 can phosphorylate Akt Ser 473 to maintain Akt activity, increase the binding of HK2 to mitochondria, and promote glycolysis, while HK2 binding to mitochondria is feedback inhibited by G-6P (Hagiwara et al., 2012; Roberts et al., 2013; Roberts and Miyamoto, 2015; Xue et al., 2015).
Currently, the more reported glycolytic pathways are AKT/mTOR or adenosine 5′-monophosphate (AMP)-activated protein kinase (AMPK)/mTOR. Akt phosphorylates tuberous sclerosis complex 2 (TSC2) to activate mTORC1. TSC is a heterologous complex composed of TSC1, TSC2, and TBC1D7, a key factor in regulating mTORC1 activity. TSC2 acts as a GTPase activating protein (GAP) that phosphorylates small GTPase Rheb to inactivate it, activating mTORC1 (Condon and Sabatini, 2019). Akt is involved in glycolysis upregulated by 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-biphosphatase isoenzymes 3/4 (PFKFB3 and PFKFB4), whereas knockdown of Akt decreases lactate accumulation in cells (Houddane et al., 2017).
Adenosine 5′-monophosphate (AMP)-activated protein kinase is a heterotrimeric complex upstream of mTORC1, and its activation leads to the repression of anabolic processes. AMPK, as a cellular energy sensor, signals back to the cell by sensing AMP/ATP ratio and is a link between host cells and mitochondria (Gowans et al., 2013; Lin and Hardie, 2018). AMPK activates TSC2 by phosphorylation, which inhibits mTORC1 function, whereas Akt decreases the AMP/ATP ratio to maintain high levels of ATP, which inhibits the AMPK-mediated phosphorylation and the activation of TSC2 (Wullschleger et al., 2006).
The regulation of HIF and c-Myc also has a certain promotion effect on glycolysis. Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF-1α) can directly upregulate the GLUT-1 and participate in glycolytic metabolic enzymes to increase the glycolytic flux, such as hexokinase, pyruvate kinase, and lactate dehydrogenase (Seagroves et al., 2001). What is more, HIF trans-activates PDK1 to phosphorylate pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) and blocks the conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA, which in turn promotes glycolysis (Kim et al., 2006). Activation of AKT/mTOR can stimulate elevated HIF-1α protein levels (Kaidanovich-Beilin and Woodgett, 2011). Phosphorylation and activation of AMPK inhibit HIF1α and NFκB by the deacetylation of regulating proteins (Kim, 2018). As a transcription factor, C-Myc stimulates the same glycolytic genes and enhances the glycolytic pathway as HIF-1. C-Myc increases the target gene expression of GLUTs via pyruvate kinase and LDHA, allowing glucose-derived lactate efflux (Osthus et al., 2000).
Lncrna’s Role in Glycolysis
Long noncoding RNAs regulate glycolysis mainly through three aspects. (1) lncRNAs regulate glycolysis by regulating metabolic pathways, including activation of the AKT/mTOR signaling pathway, c-Myc, and miRNA sponge action; (2) LncRNA regulates glucose-related metabolic enzymes, genes, including GLUTs, HK, and LDHA; and(3) LncRNAs regulate glycolysis through epigenetic reprogramming, including histone acetylation and DNA methylation regulation.
At present, studies on the regulation of glycolysis by LncRNA mainly focus on different tumor cells. Many lncRNAs can promote the proliferation and invasion of malignant tumor cells, but many lncRNAs also play an inhibitory role in tumor cells. These studies suggest that lncRNAs may act as cellular metabolic regulatory points and then provide new ideas for disease treatment. It is worth noting that lncRNAs, in addition to directly regulating glycolysis, also act as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) of microRNAs to become mediators of metabolic reorganization for immune cells (Table 1; Figure 1).
Table 1. Long noncoding RNA (LncRNA) links glycolysis.
Figure 1. LncRNAs regulate the glucose metabolism. Upstream metabolic pathways interact downstream glycolysis sites. Many lncRNAs regulate glycolysis via glycolysis sites, adenosine 5′-monophosphate (AMP)-activated protein kinase (AMPK)/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), and AKT/mTOR pathway.
Glycolysis and Innate Immunity
Glycolysis is tightly associated with immune cells, trained immunity, and the antiviral pathway as a critical part that supplies energy. Viruses facilitate cellular glycolysis by using signaling pathways upstream of glycolysis, key enzymes, and mitochondrial function, which achieves viral replication and evades innate immunity. The interaction of MAVS with HK2 and lactate communicates the relationship between immunity and metabolism.
Glycolysis and Immune Cells
Increased glycolysis is a marker of activation of many immune cells and results in changes in various immune cell functions (e.g., natural killer cells, macrophages, and dendritic cells), which indicates that glycolysis is essential in innate immune function (O’Neill et al., 2016; Buck et al., 2017; Figure 2).
Nk cells are innate lymphocytes involved in controlling early intracellular pathogen infection and produce IFN-γ by recognizing surface receptor activation of target cells (Vivier et al., 2008). The function of NK cells to produce IFN-γ and granzyme B is achieved by mTOR-mediated upregulation of glucose uptake and glycolysis rate, while mTOR activity is controlled by NK cells developmental signals, inflammatory signals and partly controlled by PI3K (Donnelly et al., 2014; Marcais et al., 2014; Viel et al., 2016). Similarly, cytokines (e.g., IL-10) target mTOR to activate NK cells to upregulate nutrient transport receptors (e.g., glucose transport receptors and amino acid transport receptors), promoting glycolysis and enhancing NK cells cytotoxicity and producing IFN-γ (O’Brien and Finlay, 2019; Wang et al., 2021b). In addition, cytokine-induced glycolytic flux, IFN-γ, and granzyme B secretion were reduced without affecting sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP) activity in natural killer cells (Assmann et al., 2017). Moreover, Seon Ah Lim found that NK injury could be reversed by the HIF-1α-mediated shift from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis (Lim et al., 2021). However, lactate is an influential factor that inhibits the function and survival of NK cells (Brand et al., 2016).
NK cell function is closely related to aerobic glycolysis; other immune cells are similarly associated with glycolysis. The metabolic shift from oxidative phosphorylation to aerobic glycolysis is an important marker of activating macrophages and dendritic cells and an altered metabolism involved in the signal-directed program of pro-inflammation or anti-inflammation (O’Neill and Hardie, 2013). HIF-1α is a master regulator of aerobic glycolysis and plays a crucial role in macrophage polarization to the M1 phenotype associated with inflammation, and HIF-1α stabilization promotes IL-1α production (Tannahill et al., 2013). Similarly, HIF-1α is upregulated in SARS-CoV-2 patients and promotes macrophage inflammatory responses (Zhu et al., 2021a). HIF-1α can also induce miR-210 to shift macrophages to a proinflammatory state while knocking down miR-210 limits the cytokine storm (Virga et al., 2021). Nevertheless, the complex formation between HIF-1α and PKM2 inhibits the expression of HIF-1α and IL-1β and promotes the expression of IL-10, in turn leading to a shift in the macrophage phenotype from proinflammatory M1 to pro-reparatory M2 (Palsson-McDermott et al., 2015). Lactate can counteract the inflammatory effects of HIF-1α and glycolytic metabolites and increase anti-inflammatory genes’ expression (Ivashkiv, 2020). More than this, HIF-1α-mediated lactate induces M2-like polarization of macrophages (Colegio et al., 2014). Consistently, lactate produced by c-Myc-promoted glycolysis inhibits the production of proinflammatory cytokines in early polarized M1 macrophages (Bae et al., 2021). Increased glycolysis of dendritic cells results in IL-6 and TNF-α production (Cheng et al., 2021b). This increase in glycolysis is conducted by Akt driven by the kinases TBK1 and IKKε, which directly promotes the association of the glycolytic enzyme HK-II with mitochondria (Everts et al., 2014). In addition, glycolysis in dendritic cells can also be activated through PI3K/Akt, inhibiting AMPK and IL-10 (Krawczyk et al., 2010). However, inhibition of glycolysis decreases dendritic cell activation and longevity.
Glycolysis and Trained Immunity
Glycolysis plays a crucial role not only in regulating immune cell function but also in training immunity. Trained immunity refers to an enhanced host defense response when subjected to homogenous or heterologous stimulation after receiving an immune stimulation for the first time. This immune memory mainly occurs in immune cells, including monocytes, macrophages, and NK cells (Netea et al., 2011). Trained immunity is regulated by epigenetic reprogramming and cellular metabolic reprogramming. For example, peripheral monocytes trained with the BCG vaccine have increased H3K4me3 histone modifications associated with promoters of TNFα, IL6, and TLR4 genes, leading to transcriptional activation of proinflammatory cytokines (Covian et al., 2019). In addition, the process of trained immunity by β-glucan-trained monocytes showed increased glucose consumption, lactate production, and NAD +/NADH ratio. This increase in glycolysis depends on the dectin-1/Akt/HIF1α/mTOR axis while inhibiting Akt, mTOR, or HIF1α inhibits the training immunity of monocytes (Cheng et al., 2014). Other studies have also shown that mTOR-dependent HIF1α is a prerequisite for metabolic reprogramming during trained immunity (Bekkering et al., 2018).
Epigenetic reprogramming and cellular metabolic reprogramming also present interactions during trained immunity. Increased glycolysis promotes cytokine production, and cytokine production is achieved by histone modification of cytokine gene promoters. Metabolic intermediates can be served as substrates for epigenetic reprogramming enzymes. For example, the sirtuin family of histone deacetylases (HDACs) depends on the intracellular NAD+ concentration. Moreover, increased expression of glycolytic enzymes is mediated through histone modification effects (Riksen and Netea, 2021).
Similarly, the control of macrophage glycolysis on histones is fundamental to trained immunity, and the inhibition of glycolysis leads to repressing trained immunity (Ieronymaki et al., 2019; Keating et al., 2020). The interaction between epigenetic mechanisms and aerobic glycolysis does not only occur in trained immunity. LDHA in Th1 cells promotes the expression of IFN-γ through histone acetylation (H3K9Ac), which occurs in LDHA-mediated aerobic glycolysis (Peng et al., 2016).
The Association Between Glycolysis and Antiviral Innate Immunity
Virus Recognition
Innate immunity is a non-specific immunity against foreign pathogens and plays a critical role in protecting higher organisms from pathogenic infections. Infection of host cells by viral pathogens in the antiviral response is recognized by pattern recognition receptors (PRRs). The RLRs are the principal defense cascade molecules of sensing RNA viruses and have cross talk with the recognition mechanism of DNA viruses (Xing et al., 2012; Cai et al., 2021). RIG-I consists of a DExD/H-box helicase-like domain-containing ATPase and translocase activity, a repressor regulatory domain (RD) at the C-terminal, and two caspase-associated recruitment domains (CARD) at the N-terminal (Takeuchi and Akira, 2010; Schlee and Hartmann, 2016). When the CTD of RIG-I recognizes 5′ triphosphate-containing double-stranded (DS) viral RNA, the conformation of RIG-I protein is changed that k63 linked E3 ligase polyubiquitinated at different sites (Sanchez-Aparicio et al., 2017). Hence, the CARD domain of RIG-I binds to the CARD domain of the downstream adaptive molecule MAVS to induce its activation, and MAVS redistributes and accumulates on the mitochondrial surface to activate IRF3 in response to viral infection (Hou et al., 2011). MAVS phosphorylates IRF3/IRF7 and NF-kB by activating TBK1 kinase and IKKε, which drives their nuclear translocation, and then activating IRF3 dimer, NF-kB, and AP-1 transcription factors leading to IFN-I transcription and proinflammatory cytokine production. The secreted IFN-I activates IFNAR, leading to phosphorylation and nuclear translocation of STAT1, thereby enabling the expression of IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs) with extensive antiviral function (Stark and Darnell, 2012). MAVS deletion produces neither activation of NF-κB- and IRF3-responsive viruses, nor IFN-I and proinflammatory factors in RIG-I-mediated antiviral immune responses. The above indicates that MAVS is the sole adaptor downstream of RIG-I (Kumar et al., 2006; Sun et al., 2006). MAVS co-localizes with the mitochondrial outer membrane protein Bcl-xL at the mitochondrial outer membrane, while mislocalization of MAVS leads to decreased activity and impaired antiviral function (Seth et al., 2005). Moreover, The TRIM family’s ubiquitination generally accompanies post-transcription regulation of MAVS (e.g., TRIM21, 25, 29, and 31) in response to virus infection (Oshiumi et al., 2010; Xing et al., 2016, 2018; Ren et al., 2020). SARS-CoV-2 nonstructural protein5 (nsp5) cleaves RIG-I and promotes MAVS degradation to evade innate immunity (Liu et al., 2021b).
Glycolysis and Antivirus
Metabolic pathways and antiviral pathways are closely linked. In Huh7 cells, the Akt-mTOR axis was activated at the early stage of SARS-CoV-2 infection to promote virus replication, while the use of the AKT inhibitor MK-2206 significantly reduced the virus replication and infection capacity. Exposing cells to high glucose significantly increased viral infection, whereas viral replication was significantly reduced after using glycolytic inhibitors, and viral infection was restored after adding exogenous ATP (Kohio and Adamson, 2013). Other studies have shown that cellular glycolytic flux is significantly increased during viral infection and is a major source of ATP (Rezinciuc et al., 2020), as viral entry initiates glycolysis, and viral replication amplifies this metabolic change. Glycolysis provides the required metabolic fuel for virus replication, while inhibition of glycolysis reduces viral titers (Smallwood et al., 2017). As a crucial protein for viral replication, coronavirus nonstructural protein 13 (SCV nsp13) promotes synergistic translocation in the unwinding of duplex RNA in high concentrations of ATP (Jang et al., 2020).
Increased glycolysis contributes to proinflammatory factors’ production and viral replication (Chi et al., 2018; Erlich et al., 2020), while low-flux glycolysis enables RLR-mediated IFN-I production, enhancing viral clearance capacity. Zhang et al. (2019b) found that PEP, pyruvate, and lactate were downregulated during the initial phase of RLR-mediated type I interferon production, indicating impaired glycolysis. Increased production of IFN-β and IL-6 and reduced viral replication were found in both Sendai virus (SEV) and herpes stomatitis virus (VSV)-infected mice and cells under the effect of 2-deoxy-ᴅ-glucose (2-DG; Zhang et al., 2019b). In addition, it was shown by using galactose medium and 2-DG that inhibition of glycolysis can repress HCV from cell to supernatant release (Yu et al., 2021). While glycolysis may contribute to the inflammatory storm (Wang et al., 2020b; Virga et al., 2021), the absence of glycolysis can lead to the loss of antiviral function in NK cells. Sheppard et al. (2021) found that LDHA-mediated aerobic glycolysis is a hallmark of NK cell activation. However, NK cells are more susceptible to MCNV infection in the absence of LDHA, caused by the decreased value-added rate and defective cytotoxicity of NK cells deficient in LDHA (Sheppard et al., 2021). Consistently, in early NK cells activated by IL-2/IL-12, mTOR1 significantly upregulated c-Myc and increased the rate of glycolysis, whereas NK cells lacking the c-Myc transcription factor downregulated IFNγ and cytolytic molecule granzyme B (Loftus et al., 2018). 2-DG in NK cells infected by mouse cytomegalovirus (MCMV) inhibits glycolysis, which in turn leads to decreasing expression of cytotoxic proteins and altering the adhesion of NK cells to target conjugates (Mah et al., 2017).
Glycolytic rate-limiting enzymes can represent increased glycolysis during viral infection. Elevated levels of HIF-1a protein and its transcriptional activity as measured by GLUT-1, PKM2, and LDHA were found in SARS-CoV-2-infected monocytes, resulting in increased glycolytic flux (Codo et al., 2020). This increase in glycolysis is necessary for SARS-CoV-2 replication. Ramiere et al. (2014) found that the hepatitis C virus (HCV) can increase HK2 enzyme activity in host cells through the viral protein NS5A, showing increased glucose consumption and lactate secretion. LDHB catalyzes the conversion of lactate and NAD+ to pyruvate, NADH, and H+. Fan et al., 2020 found that classical swine fever virus (CSFV) infection affects lactate and pyruvate content in PG-15 cells via LDHB. LDHB inhibits CSFV replication through the NFκB signaling pathway to repress the replication of CSFV (Fan et al., 2020).
Adenosine 5′-monophosphate (AMP)-activated protein kinase inhibits inflammation and viral replication, mediated by the inhibition of glycolysis (O’Neill and Hardie, 2013; Singh et al., 2020). ZIKV infection caused a time-dependent reduction in the active phosphorylated state of AMPK and its downstream target acetyl-CoA carboxylase. AMPK activation inhibits virus-induced glycolysis, enhances genes’ expression with antiviral properties (e.g., IFN, OAS2, ISG15, and MX1), and suppresses inflammatory mediators (e.g., TNF-a and CCL5; Singh et al., 2020). In VSV-infected mouse macrophages or mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), AMPK is also found to promote innate immunity by stimulating the Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) to upregulate IFN (Prantner et al., 2017). However, it has been shown that activating and promoting the expression of the catalytic subunit AMPKα2 in fibroblasts infected by HCMV promote glycolysis and induce an environment conducive to viral infection (Dunn et al., 2020).
Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 and c-Myc regulate glycolytic flux during viral infection. Under normoxic conditions, b-catenin specifically interacts with HIF-1α in alveolar macrophages (AMs) infected by respiratory viruses, thus regulating HIF-1α-driven glycolysis to promote excessive inflammation, leading to inhibition of AMs proliferation (Zhu et al., 2021a). Similarly, cellular mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation is impaired by HCV infection, resulting in upregulation of HIF-1 and consequently glycolysis-related gene expression (Ripoli et al., 2010). Avian reovirus (ARV) structural protein σA was found to inhibit LDHA, upregulated hexokinase, and pyruvate kinase mRNA through HIF-1α to promote ATP production and viral replication (Chi et al., 2018). What is more, c-Myc promotes glycolysis leading to increased ATP production, which promotes mitochondrial biogenesis. Adenovirus e4orf1 infection of mammary epithelial cells induced activation of c-Myc, significantly improved transcription of HK2 and PFKM, and increased glycolysis (Thai et al., 2014). Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) cells infected by Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) have similar conclusions (Xiao et al., 2014). Upregulation of c-Myc in four DNA tumor viruses, human adenovirus, human papillomavirus, EBV, and Kaposi’s associated sarcoma herpesvirus, affects cellular metabolism (Prusinkiewicz and Mymryk, 2021). Glycolysis and c-Myc expression were increased in DC cells infected with IAV while inhibiting c-Myc activity blocked the increase of glycolysis induced by IAV (Rezinciuc et al., 2020).
Glycolysis and MAVS-RIG-I are each other’s negative regulators, and MAVS communicate the relationship between antiviral immunity and metabolism. This relationship is mainly reflected through HK2-MAVS and lactate–MAVS interaction. On the one hand, glycolysis is impaired during RLR signal activation, and on the other hand, glycolysis inhibits MAVS-TBK1-IRF3 activation and IFN-I production. When RLR triggers MAVS-RIG-I recognition, the binding of MAVS to HK2 switches to binding to RIG-I, resulting in impaired mitochondrial localization and activity of HK2, which in turn impairs subsequent glycolysis (Zhang et al., 2019b), which was also confirmed by Chauhan et al. (2019). In addition, the interaction of HK2 with MAVS requires binding to VDAC.
Furthermore, in the subsequent study, Chao found that HK2 colocalizes with MAVS and interacts with MAVS CARD domains. However, after this interaction was disrupted, HK2 activity and lactate amount decreased (Chao et al., 2019). LDHA-associated lactate has a blocking effect on the MAVS-RIG-I signaling pathway. Lactate specifically binds to the TM structural domain of MAVS to inhibit its mitochondrial localization, impair MAVS accumulation, disrupt MAVS-RIG-I interactions, and thus repress IFN-I production. Knockdown of HK2 enhanced TBK1-TRF3 signaling, promoted cytokine production, and strengthened the inhibitory effect on viral replication, which inhibited the inhibitory effect of lactate on MAVS (Zhang et al., 2019b). Similarly, Zhou et al., 2021 found that lactate plays a proviral role in interfering with IFN-β expression and helps HBV-mediated immune escape on virus-infected hepatocellular carcinoma cells and mice (Figure 3).
Moreover, miR-33/33* was found in macrophages infected with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) to inhibit MAVS accumulation by targeting AMPK, thereby inhibiting RIG-I signaling (Liu et al., 2021a). Other studies have also shown that AMPK decentralizes MAVS distribution in mitochondria and inhibits proinflammatory factors (IFN-β and IL-6; Hanada et al., 2020). Therefore, we suggest that AMPK may inhibit MAVS accumulation by regulating HK2 or lactate, but the specific mechanism needs further experimental proof.
Mitochondria Play a Vital Role in Innate Immunity
Not only MAVS is anchored on the mitochondrial membrane surface, but HK2 is also on the mitochondrial membrane surface. Mitochondria are, therefore, the site of communication between antiviral innate immunity and metabolism. As a multi-protein complex, NLRP inflammasomes can promote the maturation and secretion of downstream proinflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-1β and IL-18), specifically dependent on VDACs (Zhou et al., 2011). mTORC1-HK-dependent glycolysis is required for NLRP3 inflammasome activation in response to proinflammatory stimuli (Moon et al., 2015). HK interacts with VDAC to localize to the outer mitochondrial membrane, and dissociation of HK induces NLRP3 activation and IL-1β production (Wolf et al., 2016), leading to mitochondrial damage and mitochondrial ROS (mtROS) production (Mills et al., 2017). MtROS formation occurs downstream of the mTOR-cytoROS-HIF1α feedback loop and can induce HIF-1α to promote inflammatory signaling in macrophages, but inhibition of mtROS represses the increase in lactate production (Sohrabi et al., 2018; Silwal et al., 2021). MtROS drives the polymerization of MAVS and the generation of type-I interferon (Buskiewicz et al., 2016). MAVS promotes the recruitment and activation of NLPR3 to mitochondria (Subramanian et al., 2013). In contrast, viruses can target MAVS to interact with NLRP3 and inhibit NLRP3 activation (Cheung et al., 2020), suggesting that mitochondria are the signaling center that activates antiviral innate immunity and glycolysis. That inflammasome may be involved in MAVS and HK2 interactions. Furthermore, many studies have shown that lncRNAs are characterized by subcellular localization, and this localization role is also included in mitochondria (Wilk et al., 2016).
Antiviral Innate Immune Effects of Lncrna
LncRNA Regulates Immune Response and Immune Cell Differentiation
Long noncoding RNA and inflammatory pathways are bidirectionally regulated. Lnc01140 inhibits NF-κB activity and reduces macrophage inflammatory response via downregulation of miR-23b (He et al., 2020). TNFα and IL-1β can upregulate LncRNA Lethe via NF-κB. In contrast, Lethe interacts with the NF-κB subunit RelA, which inhibits the binding of RelA to target genes (Rapicavoli et al., 2013). Induction of LncRNA DNM3OS overexpression by activated NF-κB in mouse bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMS) leads to upregulation of inflammatory and immune response genes under diabetic conditions (Das et al., 2018). In addition, LncRNA MacORIS inhibits the expression of IFNγ-responsive genes in macrophages via the JAK2/STAT1 phosphorylation pathway (Zhang et al., 2017). LncRNA GAS5 upregulates mir-544/RUNX3, increasing IFN-γ and NK cell toxicity (Fang et al., 2019). LncRNA expression regulates the immune response and plays a role in developing myeloid and lymphoid cells polarization (Ahmad et al., 2020). Li et al. found that LncRNA H19 enhanced the activation of M1 polarization in Kupffer cells and promoted the recruitment and differentiation of bone marrow-derived macrophages (Li et al., 2020). Lnc-DC promotes the differentiation of dendritic cells and facilitates phosphorylation of STAT3 on tyrosine-705 (Chapman et al., 2014). LncRNA CD56 positively regulates the human NK cell marker CD56, which is involved in NK cell differentiation and development (Zhang et al., 2016). DC-specific lnc-Dpf3 deficiency enables CCR7 to activate the HIF-1α pathway of DC cells and increase glycolysis. However, lnc-DPF3 directly binds to HIF-1α and inhibits transcription of HIF-1α-dependent glycolysis gene LDHA, thereby inhibiting DC glycolysis metabolism and migration (Liu et al., 2019b). In addition, lncRNAs act as ceRNAs in regulating both immune cell differentiation and inflammatory responses (Wang et al., 2019b; Nie and Zhao, 2020).
LncRNA Regulates Antiviral Pathways and Viral Replication
Target genes of lncRNAs during viral infection are mainly enriched in inflammatory pathways and antiviral signaling pathways, including “NF-κB signaling pathway,” “RIG-I-like receptor signaling pathway,” “Jak-signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) signaling pathway,” and “TNF-signaling pathway,” which are finally reflected in the production of interferons and inflammatory cytokines (Gao et al., 2021). LncRNA also regulates epigenetic markers of IFN-encoding chromatin, IFN expression, and susceptibility to viruses (Gomez et al., 2013), expression of inflammatory mediators, ISGs, immune genes (Carpenter et al., 2013; Cui et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2019a). LncRNAs also act as ceRNAs in regulating innate immunity against viral infection. LncRNA IFITM4P can be used as a target of miR-24-3p to regulate the mRNA levels of interferon-induced transmembrane proteins (IFITM1, IFITM2, and IFITM3) and thereby inhibit influenza A virus (IAV) virus replication in vitro (Xiao et al., 2021). Similarly, LncRNA (MARL) found in scleractinian fish infected with Siniperca chuatsi rhabdovirus (SCRV) acts as a ceRNA for miR-122 to enhance the abundance of MAVS protein, thereby promoting MAVS-mediated antiviral responses (Chu et al., 2020). On the one hand, lncRNAs act as positive regulators of antiviral innate immunity and inhibit viral replication (Khatun et al., 2021); on the other hand, the expression of some lncRNAs may facilitate viral infection and replication (Ouyang et al., 2014; Shirahama et al., 2020). Therefore, overexpression or silencing of lncRNAs to control antiviral immune responses may be a future direction in antivirus (Table 2; Figure 4).
Table 2. The role of lncRNA in antiviral innate immunity.
Figure 2. Roles of metabolic pathway and lncRNA in immune cell differentiation. Glycolysis enhances macrophage M1 polarization and promises the function of NK cells. LncRNAs play a vital role in immune cells in differentiation and development.
Figure 3. Mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein (MAVS) is a bridge between immunity and glycolysis. Viruses promote hexokinase (HK) activity and lactate production and subsequently impress TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1)-IRF3 activation and IFN-I production. Mitochondria HK activity inactivated, and glycolysis is suffered blocks during RIG-I-like receptor (RLR) activation. Lactate negatively regulates RLR-mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein (MAVS) signaling and following reactions.
Figure 4. Interaction of lncRNA with RIG-I-MAVS pathway. LncRNAs are regulators in NF-κB and IRFs via the RIG-I-MAVS pathway and finally modulate IFN/cytokines. LncRNAs also directly regulate IFNs, cytokines, and even interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) through Janus Kinases (JAKs)/signal transducer and activator of transcriptions (STATs) pathway.
The Relationship Between Glycolysis, Lncrna, and Antiviral Innate Immunity
Although many studies have shown that lncRNAs regulate viral replication and proliferation and the antiviral signaling pathways of viral infection are well understood, the mechanism of action of some lncRNAs for antiviral function remains unclear. During viral infection, the rise in aerobic glycolysis provides favorable conditions for viral replication and promotes the secretion of inflammatory factors. MAVS disrupted the mitochondrial localization of HK2, whereas lactate production inhibited MAVS-RIG-I interaction. Therefore, RIG-I-MAVS is an essential pathway of immunity and metabolism.
Long noncoding RNAs can regulate glycolysis in immune cells, and interfere with metabolic pathways and anabolism in virus-infected cells. Studies have shown that the lncRNA MIR4435-2HG in HIV-infected macrophages promote glycolysis by targeting the gene (RPTOR) on mTORC1 that controls glycolysis (Hartana et al., 2021). LncRNAs inhibit viral replication by binding glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1) and blocking the interaction with the kinase TBK1, elevating TBK1 activity and IFN-I production (Wang et al., 2020c). IFN-I-IRF3 axis non-dependent LncRNA-ACOD1 feedback promotes viral replication by promoting the catalytic activity of the metabolic enzyme glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT2; Wang et al., 2017). In hepatitis C-infected cells, lncRNA promotes adipogenesis, is vital for releasing viral particles, and has a beneficial effect on viral replication (Sharma et al., 2019; Khatun et al., 2021). In addition, in many studies, LncRNA often regulates glycolysis in hepatocellular carcinoma cells (Shang et al., 2020), caused by HBV and HCV infection (Nguyen et al., 2020). A previous study reported that multiple lncRNAs significantly enrich and regulate interaction networks, including metabolic and TNF signaling pathways in infected Porcine delta coronavirus (PDCoV) cells (Liu et al., 2019a). Besides, several lncRNA-associated genes are also found clustering in the glycolytic process in African swine fever virus (ASFV)-infected cells, contributing to ASFV pathogenesis (Ju et al., 2021).
Exploration of the relationship among the three gave us several thoughts. The previous section of this paper showed that LncRNA could act as a regulator of RIG-I, which is necessary for activating downstream TBK1/IRF3 by MAVS (Cai et al., 2017). What is more, MAVS is inhibited by HK2 and lactate, while LncRNA may regulate HK2- or LDHA-dependent lactate production via upstream kinase stimulation. Accordingly, the role of miRNA in regulating RIG-MAVS and the function of lncRNA as a ceRNA for miRNA, and the recent finding that miRNA enhances glycolysis in HBV-positive cells and promotes HCC cells’ development (Chen et al., 2021) give us a hint. LncRNA may act as ceRNA to promote antiviral innate immunity by interacting with MAVS to dissociate HK2 from mitochondria. As a pathway regulated by many lncRNAs, RIG-I-MAVS, its upregulation or downregulation may also result from downregulation or upregulation of glycolytic flux. However, these conjectures need to be explored through experimentation. With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, data suggest that patients with underlying conditions, including diabetes, have more severe infections and sequelae. SARS-CoV-2, as an RNA virus, shifts cell metabolism from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis, which triggers excessive inflammatory responses and cytokine storms (Mahrooz et al., 2021), indicating that cellular metabolism is closely linked to SARS-CoV-2 infection. LncRNA is differentially expressed in COVID-19-infected patients (Devadoss et al., 2021; Taheri et al., 2021). Therefore, the speculation above may also occur in SARS-CoV-2 infection, giving us a great impetus to explore the relationship between LncRNA, glycolysis, and antiviral innate immunity.
Author Contributions
ZR, YY, and CC contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
Funding
This work was supported by Agricultural Industrial Technology System of Sichuan Provincial Department of Agriculture (CARS-SVDIP; “National Agricultural Industry Technology System Sichuan Veterinary Drug Innovation Team Special Project and Key”); R&D Key research and development project of Sichuan science and technology plan (2020YFN0147; “Research and integration demonstration of key technologies for improving quality and efficiency of Sichuan pig industry chain”); and Key R&D Program of Sichuan Province (2018NZ0151; “Study on comprehensive control technology of African classical swine fever”).
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Abbreviations
PKM2, Pyruvate kinase M2; HK, hexokinase; LDHA, lactate dehydrogenase A; PFK, phosphofructokinase; RAF, tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factors; NEMO, NF-κB essential modulator; TBK1, TANK-binding kinase 1; ISGs, IFN-stimulated genes; IRFs, interferon regulatory factors; JAK, Janus Kinase; STAT, signal transducer and activator of transcription.
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Keywords: glycolysis, lncRNA, antivirus, innate immunity, RIG-I/MAVS
Citation: Ren Z, Yu Y, Chen C, Yang D, Ding T, Zhu L, Deng J and Xu Z (2021) The Triangle Relationship Between Long Noncoding RNA, RIG-I-like Receptor Signaling Pathway, and Glycolysis. - ->Front. Microbiol. 12:807737. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.807737
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