Answers are grounded in this paper and cite their sources.
Research reveals glutamine metabolism controls macrophage functions to improve skin repair by regulating inflammation.
• Glutamine metabolism is a key feature of resolving wound macrophages in vivo • Tissue repair and inflammatory resolution require glutamine metabolism • Neutrophil chemotaxis genes are suppressed by glutamine metabolism • Chemotaxis inhibition restores defective wound repair under glutamine deficiency Glutamine metabolism is a key feature of resolving wound macrophages in vivo Tissue repair and inflammatory resolution require glutamine metabolism Neutrophil chemotaxis genes are suppressed by glutamine metabolism Chemotaxis inhibition restores defective wound repair under glutamine deficiency Tissue repair requires inflammation resolution, but the molecular mechanisms involved in vivo are not fully understood. Here, we show that glutamine metabolism suppresses neutrophil recruitment to abrogate inflammation and drive skin wound repair. Integrated metabolomic and transcriptional profiling identified glutamine metabolism as enriched in macrophages during resolution. Dietary depletion studies and conditional deletion of glutaminase, the enzyme essential for glutamine metabolism, in mouse myeloid cells revealed that macrophages suppress neutrophil recruitment genes during tissue resolution to promote repair. We also found that these genes are upregulated in macrophages in patients with diabetes. Mechanistically, our data reveal that glutamine metabolism in macrophages induces suppressive chromatin remodeling of neutrophil recruitment genes, including Ccl ligands, during resolution of inflammation. These findings highlight the ability of specific metabolites to control cellular communication during tissue repair, with glutamine specifically to suppress neutrophil recruitment to advance inflammation resolution.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Xu et al. (2026) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 10 related papers. Consider them for comparative context: