Metabolic control of cellular immune-competency by odors in Drosophila
- inStem, India
- Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
- Institut de Biologie, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, France
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Abstract
Studies in different animal model systems have revealed the impact of odors on immune cells, however, any understanding on why and how odors control cellular immunity remained unclear. We find that Drosophila employ an olfactory-immune cross-talk to tune a specific cell type, the lamellocytes, from hematopoietic-progenitor cells. We show that neuronally released GABA derived upon olfactory stimulation, is utilized by blood-progenitor cells as a metabolite and through its catabolism, these cells stabilize Sima/HIFα protein. Sima capacitates blood-progenitor cells with the ability to initiate lamellocyte differentiation. This systemic axis becomes relevant for larvae dwelling in wasp-infested environments where chances of infection are high. By co-opting the olfactory route, the pre-conditioned animals elevate their systemic GABA levels leading to the up-regulation of blood-progenitor cell Sima expression. This elevates their immune-potential and primes them to respond rapidly when infected with parasitic wasps. The present work highlights the importance of the olfaction in immunity and shows how odor detection during animal development is utilized to establish a long-range axis in the control of blood-progenitor competency and immune-priming.
Data availability
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files. Source data files have been provided for Figures 1-5 and Extended Data Figure 1-10.
Article and author information
Author details
Funding
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India (DBT/PR13446/COE/34/30/2015)
- Tina Mukherjee
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India (DST/ECR/2015/000390)
- Tina Mukherjee
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India (Ramalingaswami Fellowship)
- Tina Mukherjee
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Copyright
© 2020, Madhwal et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
Metrics
-
- 4,823
- views
-
- 642
- downloads
-
- 30
- citations
Views, downloads and citations are aggregated across all versions of this paper published by eLife.
Download links
A two-part list of links to download the article, or parts of the article, in various formats.
Downloads (link to download the article as PDF)
Open citations (links to open the citations from this article in various online reference manager services)
Cite this article (links to download the citations from this article in formats compatible with various reference manager tools)
Metabolic control of cellular immune-competency by odors in Drosophila
eLife 9:e60376.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60376
