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Rockefeller University Press, Journal of Experimental Medicine, 9(220), 2023

DOI: 10.1084/jem.20210788

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STE20 kinase TAOK3 regulates type 2 immunity and metabolism in obesity

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Abstract

Healthy adipose tissue (AT) contains ST2+ Tregs, ILC2s, and alternatively activated macrophages that are lost in mice or humans on high caloric diet. Understanding how this form of type 2 immunity is regulated could improve treatment of obesity. The STE20 kinase Thousand And One amino acid Kinase-3 (TAOK3) has been linked to obesity in mice and humans, but its precise function is unknown. We found that ST2+ Tregs are upregulated in visceral epididymal white AT (eWAT) of Taok3−/− mice, dependent on IL-33 and the kinase activity of TAOK3. Upon high fat diet feeding, metabolic dysfunction was attenuated in Taok3−/− mice. ST2+ Tregs disappeared from eWAT in obese wild-type mice, but this was not the case in Taok3−/− mice. Mechanistically, AT Taok3−/− Tregs were intrinsically more responsive to IL-33, through higher expression of ST2, and expressed more PPARγ and type 2 cytokines. Thus, TAOK3 inhibits adipose tissue Tregs and regulates immunometabolism under excessive caloric intake.