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Li NC, Iannuzo N, Christenson SA, Langlais PR, Kraft M, Ledford JG, Li X. Investigation of lactotransferrin messenger RNA expression levels as an anti-type 2 asthma biomarker. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2024:S0091-6749(24)00524-4. [PMID: 38797239 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2024.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 02/15/2024] [Accepted: 05/06/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
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BACKGROUND Lactotransferrin (LTF) has an immunomodulatory function, and its expression levels are associated with asthma susceptibility. OBJECTIVES We sought to investigate LTF messenger RNA (mRNA) expression levels in human bronchial epithelial cells (BECs) as an anti-type 2 (T2) asthma biomarker. METHODS Association analyses between LTF mRNA expression levels in BECs and asthma-related phenotypes were performed in the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) cross-sectional (n = 155) and longitudinal (n = 156) cohorts using a generalized linear model. Correlation analyses of mRNA expression levels between LTF and all other genes were performed by Spearman correlation. RESULTS Low LTF mRNA expression levels were associated with asthma susceptibility and severity (P < .025), retrospective and prospective asthma exacerbations, and low lung function (P < 8.3 × 10-3). Low LTF mRNA expression levels were associated with high airway T2 inflammation biomarkers (sputum eosinophils and fractional exhaled nitric oxide; P < 8.3 × 10-3) but were not associated with blood eosinophils or total serum IgE. LTF mRNA expression levels were negatively correlated with expression levels of TH2 or asthma-associated genes (POSTN, NOS2, and MUC5AC) and eosinophil-related genes (IL1RL1, CCL26, and IKZF2) and positively correlated with expression levels of TH1 and inflammation genes (IL12A, MUC5B, and CC16) and TH17-driven cytokines or chemokines for neutrophils (CXCL1, CXCL6, and CSF3) (P < 3.5 × 10-6). CONCLUSIONS Low LTF mRNA expression levels in BECs are associated with asthma susceptibility, severity, and exacerbations through upregulation of airway T2 inflammation. LTF is a potential anti-T2 biomarker, and its expression levels may help determine the balance of eosinophilic and neutrophilic asthma.
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- Nicholas C Li
- University of Arizona Internship, Basis Tucson North, Tucson, Ariz
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, University of California, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz
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- Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz
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- Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Medicine, Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
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Liu T, Liu S, Rui X, Cao Y, Hecker J, Guo F, Zhang Y, Gong L, Zhou Y, Yu Y, Krishnamoorthyni N, Bates S, Chun S, Boyer N, Xu S, Park JA, Perrella MA, Levy BD, Weiss ST, Mou H, Raby BA, Zhou X. Gasdermin B, an asthma-susceptibility gene, promotes MAVS-TBK1 signalling and airway inflammation. Eur Respir J 2024; 63:2301232. [PMID: 38514093 PMCID: PMC11063620 DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01232-2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/31/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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RATIONALE Respiratory virus-induced inflammation is the leading cause of asthma exacerbation, frequently accompanied by induction of interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs). How asthma-susceptibility genes modulate cellular response upon viral infection by fine-tuning ISG induction and subsequent airway inflammation in genetically susceptible asthma patients remains largely unknown. OBJECTIVES To decipher the functions of gasdermin B (encoded by GSDMB) in respiratory virus-induced lung inflammation. METHODS In two independent cohorts, we analysed expression correlation between GSDMB and ISG s. In human bronchial epithelial cell line or primary bronchial epithelial cells, we generated GSDMB-overexpressing and GSDMB-deficient cells. A series of quantitative PCR, ELISA and co-immunoprecipitation assays were performed to determine the function and mechanism of GSDMB for ISG induction. We also generated a novel transgenic mouse line with inducible expression of human unique GSDMB gene in airway epithelial cells and infected the mice with respiratory syncytial virus to determine the role of GSDMB in respiratory syncytial virus-induced lung inflammation in vivo. RESULTS GSDMB is one of the most significant asthma-susceptibility genes at 17q21 and acts as a novel RNA sensor, promoting mitochondrial antiviral-signalling protein (MAVS)-TANK binding kinase 1 (TBK1) signalling and subsequent inflammation. In airway epithelium, GSDMB is induced by respiratory viral infections. Expression of GSDMB and ISGs significantly correlated in respiratory epithelium from two independent asthma cohorts. Notably, inducible expression of human GSDMB in mouse airway epithelium led to enhanced ISGs induction and increased airway inflammation with mucus hypersecretion upon respiratory syncytial virus infection. CONCLUSIONS GSDMB promotes ISGs expression and airway inflammation upon respiratory virus infection, thereby conferring asthma risk in risk allele carriers.
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- Tao Liu
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- These authors contributed equally
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- These authors contributed equally
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- Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- The Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- The Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- These authors jointly conceptualised and supervised this work
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- These authors jointly conceptualised and supervised this work
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Georas SN, Khurana S. Update on asthma biology. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2024; 153:1215-1228. [PMID: 38341182 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2024.01.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2023] [Revised: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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This is an exciting time to be conducting asthma research. The recent development of targeted asthma biologics has validated the power of basic research to discover new molecules amenable to therapeutic intervention. Advances in high-throughput sequencing are providing a wealth of "omics" data about genetic and epigenetic underpinnings of asthma, as well as about new cellular interacting networks and potential endotypes in asthma. Airway epithelial cells have emerged not only as key sensors of the outside environment but also as central drivers of dysregulated mucosal immune responses in asthma. Emerging data suggest that the airway epithelium in asthma remembers prior encounters with environmental exposures, resulting in potentially long-lasting changes in structure and metabolism that render asthmatic individuals susceptible to subsequent exposures. Here we summarize recent insights into asthma biology, focusing on studies using human cells or tissue that were published in the past 2 years. The studies are organized thematically into 6 content areas to draw connections and spur future research (on genetics and epigenetics, prenatal and early-life origins, microbiome, immune and inflammatory pathways, asthma endotypes and biomarkers, and lung structural alterations). We highlight recent studies of airway epithelial dysfunction and response to viral infections and conclude with a framework for considering how bidirectional interactions between alterations in airway structure and mucosal immunity can lead to sustained lung dysfunction in asthma.
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- Steve N Georas
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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Nowowiejska J, Baran A, Pryczynicz A, Hermanowicz JM, Sieklucka B, Pawlak D, Flisiak I. Gasdermin B (GSDMB) in psoriatic patients-a preliminary comprehensive study on human serum, urine and skin. Front Mol Biosci 2024; 11:1382069. [PMID: 38693919 PMCID: PMC11061620 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2024.1382069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024] Open
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Psoriasis is one of the most common skin diseases and a crucial issue to manage in contemporary dermatology. The search for the details of its pathogenesis, markers and treatment is continuously ongoing. Our aim was to investigate the role of gasdermin B (GSDMB) in psoriasis, the second protein from the gasdermin family, involved in cell death and proliferation. GSDMB serum and urinary concentrations have never been studied in psoriatics, neither tissue expression of GSDMB by immunohistochemistry. The study included 60 psoriatic patients and 30 volunteers without dermatoses as controls. The serum and urinary GSDMB were evaluated by ELISA. Tissue expression of GSDMB was analyzed by immunohistochemistry. The serum and absolute urine concentrations of GSDMB were significantly higher in psoriatic patients than controls without skin diseases (p = 0.0137, p = 0.039 respectively). Urinary GSDMB/creatinine concentration ratio was significantly lower in patients compared to controls (p = 0.0241). The expression of GSDMB in the dermis and epidermis was significantly more prevalent in psoriatic plaque compared to the non-lesional skin and healthy skin of controls (p = 0.0012, p = 0.017, respectively). Serum GSDMB correlated positively with the age of patients (R = 0.41; p = 0.001). Our study adds to the current state of knowledge about psoriasis concerning the potential involvement of GSDMB. Possibly it could be engaged in keratinocytes migration, which requires further research. Elevated serum GSDMB and decreased urinary GSDMB/creatinine concentration ratio could potentially be investigated as psoriasis biomarkers. GSDMB could be investigated in the future as a potential therapeutic target.
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- Julia Nowowiejska
- Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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- Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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- Department of General Pathomorphology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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- Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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Yu X, Chen Y, Chen J, Fan Y, Lu H, Wu D, Xu Y. Shared genetic architecture between autoimmune disorders and B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: insights from large-scale genome-wide cross-trait analysis. BMC Med 2024; 22:161. [PMID: 38616254 PMCID: PMC11017616 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-024-03385-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND To study the shared genetic structure between autoimmune diseases and B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) and identify the shared risk loci and genes and genetic mechanisms involved. METHODS Based on large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary-level data sets, we observed genetic overlaps between autoimmune diseases and B-ALL, and cross-trait pleiotropic analysis was performed to detect shared pleiotropic loci and genes. A series of functional annotation and tissue-specific analysis were performed to determine the influence of pleiotropic genes. The heritability enrichment analysis was used to detect crucial immune cells and tissues. Finally, bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR) methods were utilized to investigate the casual associations. RESULTS Our research highlighted shared genetic mechanisms between seven autoimmune disorders and B-ALL. A total of 73 pleiotropic loci were identified at the genome-wide significance level (P < 5 × 10-8), 16 of which had strong evidence of colocalization. We demonstrated that several loci have been previously reported (e.g., 17q21) and discovered some novel loci (e.g., 10p12, 5p13). Further gene-level identified 194 unique pleiotropic genes, for example IKZF1, GATA3, IKZF3, GSDMB, and ORMDL3. Pathway analysis determined the key role of cellular response to cytokine stimulus, B cell activation, and JAK-STAT signaling pathways. SNP-level and gene-level tissue enrichment suggested that crucial role pleiotropic mechanisms involved in the spleen, whole blood, and EBV-transformed lymphocytes. Also, hyprcoloc and stratified LD score regression analyses revealed that B cells at different developmental stages may be involved in mechanisms shared between two different diseases. Finally, two-sample MR analysis determined causal effects of asthma and rheumatoid arthritis on B-ALL. CONCLUSIONS Our research proved shared genetic architecture between autoimmune disorders and B-ALL and shed light on the potential mechanism that might involve in.
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- Xinghao Yu
- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Outpatient and Emergency, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
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- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
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Zhu C, Xu S, Jiang R, Yu Y, Bian J, Zou Z. The gasdermin family: emerging therapeutic targets in diseases. Signal Transduct Target Ther 2024; 9:87. [PMID: 38584157 PMCID: PMC10999458 DOI: 10.1038/s41392-024-01801-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Revised: 03/03/2024] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024] Open
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The gasdermin (GSDM) family has garnered significant attention for its pivotal role in immunity and disease as a key player in pyroptosis. This recently characterized class of pore-forming effector proteins is pivotal in orchestrating processes such as membrane permeabilization, pyroptosis, and the follow-up inflammatory response, which are crucial self-defense mechanisms against irritants and infections. GSDMs have been implicated in a range of diseases including, but not limited to, sepsis, viral infections, and cancer, either through involvement in pyroptosis or independently of this process. The regulation of GSDM-mediated pyroptosis is gaining recognition as a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of various diseases. Current strategies for inhibiting GSDMD primarily involve binding to GSDMD, blocking GSDMD cleavage or inhibiting GSDMD-N-terminal (NT) oligomerization, albeit with some off-target effects. In this review, we delve into the cutting-edge understanding of the interplay between GSDMs and pyroptosis, elucidate the activation mechanisms of GSDMs, explore their associations with a range of diseases, and discuss recent advancements and potential strategies for developing GSDMD inhibitors.
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- Chenglong Zhu
- Faculty of Anesthesiology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China
- School of Anesthesiology, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Immunity & Inflammation, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- School of Anesthesiology, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Immunity & Inflammation, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China.
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- Faculty of Anesthesiology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China.
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- Faculty of Anesthesiology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China.
- School of Anesthesiology, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China.
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Hastie AT, Bishop AC, Khan MS, Bleecker ER, Castro M, Denlinger LC, Erzurum SC, Fahy JV, Israel E, Levy BD, Mauger DT, Meyers DA, Moore WC, Ortega VE, Peters SP, Wenzel SE, Steele CH. Protein-Protein interactive networks identified in bronchoalveolar lavage of severe compared to nonsevere asthma. Clin Exp Allergy 2024; 54:265-277. [PMID: 38253462 PMCID: PMC11075125 DOI: 10.1111/cea.14447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Previous bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) proteomic analysis has evaluated limited numbers of subjects for only a few proteins of interest, which may differ between asthma and normal controls. Our objective was to examine a more comprehensive inflammatory biomarker panel in quantitative proteomic analysis for a large asthma cohort to identify molecular phenotypes distinguishing severe from nonsevere asthma. METHODS Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from 48 severe and 77 nonsevere adult asthma subjects were assessed for 75 inflammatory proteins, normalized to BALF total protein concentration. Validation of BALF differences was sought through equivalent protein analysis of autologous sputum. Subjects' data, stratified by asthma severity, were analysed by standard statistical tests, principal component analysis and 5 machine learning algorithms. RESULTS The severe group had lower lung function and greater health care utilization. Significantly increased BALF proteins for severe asthma compared to nonsevere asthma were fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2), TGFα, IL1Ra, IL2, IL4, CCL8, CCL13 and CXCL7 and significantly decreased were platelet-derived growth factor a-a dimer (PDGFaa), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), interleukin 5 (IL5), CCL17, CCL22, CXCL9 and CXCL10. Four protein differences were replicated in sputum. FGF2, PDGFaa and CXCL7 were independently identified by 5 machine learning algorithms as the most important variables for discriminating severe and nonsevere asthma. Increased and decreased proteins identified for the severe cluster showed significant protein-protein interactions for chemokine and cytokine signalling, growth factor activity, and eosinophil and neutrophil chemotaxis differing between subjects with severe and nonsevere asthma. CONCLUSION These inflammatory protein results confirm altered airway remodelling and cytokine/chemokine activity recruiting leukocytes into the airways of severe compared to nonsevere asthma as important processes even in stable status.
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- Annette T. Hastie
- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
- Current affiliation: Minneapolis R & D Center, Cargill, Inc., Plymouth, MN
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- Current affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston MA
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston MA
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- Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Penn State School of Medicine, Hershey, PA
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- Current affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
- Current affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
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- The University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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Voorhies K, Mohammed A, Chinthala L, Kong SW, Lee IH, Kho AT, McGeachie M, Mandl KD, Raby B, Hayes M, Davis RL, Wu AC, Lutz SM. GSDMB/ORMDL3 Rare/Common Variants Are Associated with Inhaled Corticosteroid Response among Children with Asthma. Genes (Basel) 2024; 15:420. [PMID: 38674355 PMCID: PMC11049905 DOI: 10.3390/genes15040420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2024] [Revised: 03/12/2024] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are efficacious in the treatment of asthma, which affects more than 300 million people in the world. While genome-wide association studies have identified genes involved in differential treatment responses to ICS in asthma, few studies have evaluated the effects of combined rare and common variants on ICS response among children with asthma. Among children with asthma treated with ICS with whole exome sequencing (WES) data in the PrecisionLink Biobank (91 White and 20 Black children), we examined the effect and contribution of rare and common variants with hospitalizations or emergency department visits. For 12 regions previously associated with asthma and ICS response (DPP10, FBXL7, NDFIP1, TBXT, GLCCI1, HDAC9, TBXAS1, STAT6, GSDMB/ORMDL3, CRHR1, GNGT2, FCER2), we used the combined sum test for the sequence kernel association test (SKAT) adjusting for age, sex, and BMI and stratified by race. Validation was conducted in the Biorepository and Integrative Genomics (BIG) Initiative (83 White and 134 Black children). Using a Bonferroni threshold for the 12 regions tested (i.e., 0.05/12 = 0.004), GSDMB/ORMDL3 was significantly associated with ICS response for the combined effect of rare and common variants (p-value = 0.003) among White children in the PrecisionLink Biobank and replicated in the BIG Initiative (p-value = 0.02). Using WES data, the combined effect of rare and common variants for GSDMB/ORMDL3 was associated with ICS response among asthmatic children in the PrecisionLink Biobank and replicated in the BIG Initiative. This proof-of-concept study demonstrates the power of biobanks of pediatric real-life populations in asthma genomic investigations.
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- Kirsten Voorhies
- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Center in Biomedical Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Center in Biomedical Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Channing Division for Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center in Biomedical Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Center in Biomedical Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Hoof I, Bønnelykke K, Stranzl T, Brand S, Li X, Shamji MH, Meyers DA, Bateman ED, Bleecker E, Andersen PS. Genetic and T2 biomarkers linked to the efficacy of HDM sublingual immunotherapy in asthma. Thorax 2024; 79:332-339. [PMID: 38160049 DOI: 10.1136/thorax-2023-220707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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BACKGROUND Hypersensitivity to house dust mite (HDM) allergens is a common cause of allergic asthma symptoms and can be effectively treated with allergy immunotherapy (AIT). OBJECTIVE To investigate whether genetic and type 2 (T2) inflammatory biomarkers correlate with disease severity in subjects with allergic asthma, and whether this can be modified by AIT. METHODS MITRA (NCT01433523) was a phase III, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of HDM sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT)-tablets in adults with HDM allergic asthma. Post hoc analyses of the study population (N=742) evaluated associations between T2 inflammatory (blood eosinophils, eosinophil cationic protein (ECP), total IgE and tryptase) and genetic (single-nucleotide polymorphisms, SNP) biomarkers (n=582) for the primary study endpoint (time to first moderate/severe asthma exacerbation). SNP associations were verified in HDM-positive subgroup from an independent 3-year Severe Asthma Research Programme (SARP3) subject cohort. RESULTS An increased asthma exacerbation risk in subjects homozygous for SNP rs7216389 (chromosomal locus 17q12-21) was reduced (p=0.037) by treatment with HDM SLIT (HR=0.37 (95% CI 0.22 to 0.64), p<0.001). The associations between exacerbation risk and 17q12-21 SNPs were replicated in the SARP3 HDM-positive subgroup. High levels of T2 biomarkers were associated with increased risk of asthma exacerbations in the placebo group. HDM SLIT-tablet treatment reduced this risk (blood eosinophils: HR=0.50 (95% CI 0.30 to 0.85); ECP: HR=0.45 (95% CI 0.29 to 0.87); tryptase: HR=0.45 (95% CI 0.25 to 0.80)). The treatment effect was higher (p=0.006) for subjects with a higher number of elevated T2 biomarkers. CONCLUSIONS HDM SLIT-tablet AIT is efficacious in HDM-sensitised asthma subjects with a genetic asthma predisposition and/or an underlying T2 endotype. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER NCT01433523.
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- Ilka Hoof
- Translational Research, Alk-Abello A/S, Horsholm, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Translational Research, Alk-Abello A/S, Horsholm, Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Division of Respiratory Medicine, Univ of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Medicine, University of Arizona, Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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Liu T, Hecker J, Liu S, Rui X, Boyer N, Wang J, Yu Y, Zhang Y, Mou H, Gomez-Escobar LG, Choi AM, Raby BA, Weiss ST, Zhou X. The Asthma Risk Gene, GSDMB, Promotes Mitochondrial DNA-induced ISGs Expression. JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE 2024; 1:10005. [PMID: 38737375 PMCID: PMC11086750 DOI: 10.35534/jrbtm.2024.10005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2024]
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Released mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in cells activates cGAS-STING pathway, which induces expression of interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) and thereby promotes inflammation, as frequently seen in asthmatic airways. However, whether the genetic determinant, Gasdermin B (GSDMB), the most replicated asthma risk gene, regulates this pathway remains unknown. We set out to determine whether and how GSDMB regulates mtDNA-activated cGAS-STING pathway and subsequent ISGs induction in human airway epithelial cells. Using qPCR, ELISA, native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, co-immunoprecipitation and immunofluorescence assays, we evaluated the regulation of GSDMB on cGAS-STING pathway in both BEAS-2B cells and primary normal human bronchial epithelial cells (nHBEs). mtDNA was extracted in plasma samples from human asthmatics and the correlation between mtDNA levels and eosinophil counts was analyzed. GSDMB is significantly associated with RANTES expression in asthmatic nasal epithelial brushing samples from the Genes-environments and Admixture in Latino Americans (GALA) II study. Over-expression of GSDMB promotes DNA-induced IFN and ISGs expression in bronchial epithelial BEAS-2B cells and nHBEs. Conversely, knockout of GSDMB led to weakened induction of interferon (IFNs) and ISGs in BEAS-2B cells. Mechanistically, GSDMB interacts with the C-terminus of STING, promoting the translocation of STING to Golgi, leading to the phosphorylation of IRF3 and induction of IFNs and ISGs. mtDNA copy number in serum from asthmatics was significantly correlated with blood eosinophil counts especially in male subjects. GSDMB promotes the activation of mtDNA and poly (dA:dT)-induced activation of cGAS-STING pathway in airway epithelial cells, leading to enhanced induction of ISGs.
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- Tao Liu
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- The Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- The Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Weil Cornell Medical School, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Li H, Li X. Genetic relationships between high blood eosinophil count, asthma susceptibility, and asthma severity. J Asthma 2024; 61:119-131. [PMID: 37560908 DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2023.2247490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 07/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Genetic relationships between blood eosinophil count (BEC), asthma susceptibility, and severity are unclear. We sought to identify the genetic difference between type 2 (T2) and nontype 2 (non-T2) asthma (defined by BEC) and investigate genetic relationships between high BEC, asthma susceptibility, and severity. METHODS Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) were performed for T2 (n = 9,064; BEC ≥ 300 cells/μL) versus non-T2 asthma (n = 14,379; BEC < 150 cells/μL) and asthma susceptibility (37,227 asthmatics vs. 124,132 nonasthma controls) in the UK Biobank and asthma severity (moderate-to-severe asthma [n = 2,153] vs. mild asthma [n = 5165]) in the All of Us Research Program (AoURP). Genetic causality between BEC, asthma susceptibility, and severity were dissected using Mendelian randomization (MR). RESULTS High BEC was associated with asthma and decreased pulmonary function. GWASs revealed four sets of genetic variants (p < 5 × 10-8): genes associated with only BEC or asthma and genes associated with high BEC and asthma in the same or opposite direction. The C allele of rs653178 in ATXN2 was associated with high BEC, risk for autoimmune diseases, and protection for asthma. Genetic variants associated with BEC or asthma were not associated with asthma severity. MR indicated high BEC and asthma were in bidirectional causal relationship (p < .001); however, they were not causal for asthma severity. CONCLUSIONS Genetic variants associated with asthma or BEC and asthma severity are distinctive. High BEC is a risk factor for asthma; however, it is neither necessary nor sufficient for asthma susceptibility and severity.
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- Huashi Li
- Statistics Consulting Lab, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Liang X, Qin Y, Wu D, Wang Q, Wu H. Pyroptosis: a double-edged sword in lung cancer and other respiratory diseases. Cell Commun Signal 2024; 22:40. [PMID: 38225586 PMCID: PMC10790448 DOI: 10.1186/s12964-023-01458-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 12/23/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024] Open
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Pyroptosis is an active cell death process mediated by gasdermin family proteins including Gasdermin A (GSDMA), Gasdermin B (GSDMB), Gasdermin C (GSDMC), Gasdermin D (GSDMD), Gasdermin E (GSDME, DFNA5), and DFNB59. Emerging evidences have shown that pyroptosis contributes to many pulmonary diseases, especially lung cancer, and pneumonia. The exact roles of pyroptosis and gasdermin family proteins are tremendously intricate. Besides, there are evidences that pyroptosis contributes to these respiratory diseases. However, it often plays a dual role in these diseases which is a cause for concern and makes it difficult for clinical translation. This review will focus on the multifaceted roles of pyroptosis in respiratory diseases.
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- Xiao Liang
- Department of Oncology, the Affiliated Jiangyin Hospital of Nantong University, 163# Shoushan Road, Jiangyin, Jiangsu, 214400, P. R. China
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- Department of Oncology, the Affiliated Jiangyin Hospital of Nantong University, 163# Shoushan Road, Jiangyin, Jiangsu, 214400, P. R. China
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- Department of Oncology, the Affiliated Jiangyin Hospital of Nantong University, 163# Shoushan Road, Jiangyin, Jiangsu, 214400, P. R. China
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- Department of Oncology, the Affiliated Jiangyin Hospital of Nantong University, 163# Shoushan Road, Jiangyin, Jiangsu, 214400, P. R. China.
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- Wuxi Key Laboratory of Biomaterials for Clinical Application, Department of Central Laboratory, the Affiliated Jiangyin Hospital of Nantong University, 163# Shoushan Road, Jiangyin, Jiangsu, 214400, P. R. China.
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Sarrio D, Colomo S, Moreno-Bueno G. Gasdermin-B (GSDMB) takes center stage in antibacterial defense, inflammatory diseases, and cancer. FEBS J 2023. [PMID: 37997534 DOI: 10.1111/febs.17018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 11/25/2023]
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One of the hottest topics in biomedical research is to decipher the functional implications of the Gasdermin (GSDM) protein family in human pathologies. These proteins are the key effectors of a lytic and pro-inflammatory cell death type termed pyroptosis (also known as "Gasdermin-mediated programmed cell death"). However, ever-growing evidence showed that GSDMs can play multiple and complex roles in a context-dependent manner. In this sense, Gasdermin-B (GSDMB; the only GSDM gene absent in mice and rats) has been implicated in antibacterial defense, numerous inflammatory pathologies (e.g., asthma, ulcerative colitis), and cancer, but both cell death-dependent and -independent functions have been reported in these diseases, fueling the debate on whether GSDMB has genuine pyroptotic capacity. Recently, a series of seminal papers cast light on the GSDMB multitasking capacity by showing that different GSDMB transcriptional isoforms have distinct biological activities. Nonetheless, there are still obscure areas to be clarified on the precise functional involvement of GSDMB translated variants in physiological and pathological conditions. In this viewpoint, we critically discuss the most recent and exciting data on this topic and propose a series of relevant challenges that need to be overcome before GSDMB-driven biomedical applications (as a biomarker of disease risk/progression/outcome or as specific therapeutic target) become a reality in clinical settings.
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- David Sarrio
- Biochemistry Department, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols" (IIBm-CISC), Conexión Cáncer (UAM-CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Biochemistry Department, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols" (IIBm-CISC), Conexión Cáncer (UAM-CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Biochemistry Department, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols" (IIBm-CISC), Conexión Cáncer (UAM-CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Fundación MD Anderson Internacional, Madrid, Spain
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Iannuzo N, Welfley H, Li NC, Johnson MDL, Rojas-Quintero J, Polverino F, Guerra S, Li X, Cusanovich DA, Langlais PR, Ledford JG. CC16 drives VLA-2-dependent SPLUNC1 expression. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1277582. [PMID: 38053993 PMCID: PMC10694244 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1277582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023] Open
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Rationale CC16 (Club Cell Secretory Protein) is a protein produced by club cells and other non-ciliated epithelial cells within the lungs. CC16 has been shown to protect against the development of obstructive lung diseases and attenuate pulmonary pathogen burden. Despite recent advances in understanding CC16 effects in circulation, the biological mechanisms of CC16 in pulmonary epithelial responses have not been elucidated. Objectives We sought to determine if CC16 deficiency impairs epithelial-driven host responses and identify novel receptors expressed within the pulmonary epithelium through which CC16 imparts activity. Methods We utilized mass spectrometry and quantitative proteomics to investigate how CC16 deficiency impacts apically secreted pulmonary epithelial proteins. Mouse tracheal epithelial cells (MTECS), human nasal epithelial cells (HNECs) and mice were studied in naïve conditions and after Mp challenge. Measurements and main results We identified 8 antimicrobial proteins significantly decreased by CC16-/- MTECS, 6 of which were validated by mRNA expression in Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) cohorts. Short Palate Lung and Nasal Epithelial Clone 1 (SPLUNC1) was the most differentially expressed protein (66-fold) and was the focus of this study. Using a combination of MTECs and HNECs, we found that CC16 enhances pulmonary epithelial-driven SPLUNC1 expression via signaling through the receptor complex Very Late Antigen-2 (VLA-2) and that rCC16 given to mice enhances pulmonary SPLUNC1 production and decreases Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp) burden. Likewise, rSPLUNC1 results in decreased Mp burden in mice lacking CC16 mice. The VLA-2 integrin binding site within rCC16 is necessary for induction of SPLUNC1 and the reduction in Mp burden. Conclusion Our findings demonstrate a novel role for CC16 in epithelial-driven host defense by up-regulating antimicrobials and define a novel epithelial receptor for CC16, VLA-2, through which signaling is necessary for enhanced SPLUNC1 production.
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- Natalie Iannuzo
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genetics, Genomics, and Precision Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States
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Chen S, Jiang J, Li T, Huang L. PANoptosis: Mechanism and Role in Pulmonary Diseases. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:15343. [PMID: 37895022 PMCID: PMC10607352 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242015343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Revised: 10/09/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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PANoptosis is a newly defined programmed cell death (PCD) triggered by a series of stimuli, and it engages three well-learned PCD forms (pyroptosis, apoptosis, necroptosis) concomitantly. Normally, cell death is recognized as a strategy to eliminate unnecessary cells, inhibit the proliferation of invaded pathogens and maintain homeostasis; however, vigorous cell death can cause excessive inflammation and tissue damage. Acute lung injury (ALI) and chronic obstructive pulmonary syndrome (COPD) exacerbation is related to several pathogens (e.g., influenza A virus, SARS-CoV-2) known to cause PANoptosis. An understanding of the mechanism and specific regulators may help to address the pathological systems of these diseases. This review presents our understanding of the potential mechanism of PANoptosis and the role of PANoptosis in different pulmonary diseases.
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Drug Target Identification and Delivery, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China; (S.C.); (J.J.); (T.L.)
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Li H, Castro M, Denlinger LC, Erzurum SC, Fahy JV, Gaston B, Israel E, Jarjour NN, Levy BD, Mauger DT, Moore WC, Wenzel SE, Zein J, Bleecker ER, Meyers DA, Chen Y, Li X. Investigations of a combination of atopic status and age of asthma onset identify asthma subphenotypes. J Asthma 2023; 60:1843-1852. [PMID: 36940238 PMCID: PMC10528448 DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2023.2193634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/21/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Subphenotypes of asthma may be determined by age onset and atopic status. We sought to characterize early or late onset atopic asthma with fungal or non-fungal sensitization (AAFS or AANFS) and non-atopic asthma (NAA) in children and adults in the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP). SARP is an ongoing project involving well-phenotyped patients with mild to severe asthma. METHODS Phenotypic comparisons were performed using Kruskal-Wallis or chi-square test. Genetic association analyses were performed using logistic or linear regression. RESULTS Airway hyper-responsiveness, total serum IgE levels, and T2 biomarkers showed an increasing trend from NAA to AANFS and then to AAFS. Children and adults with early onset asthma had greater % of AAFS than adults with late onset asthma (46% and 40% vs. 32%; P < 0.00001). In children, AAFS and AANFS had lower % predicted FEV1 (86% and 91% vs. 97%) and greater % of patients with severe asthma than NAA (61% and 59% vs. 43%). In adults with early or late onset asthma, NAA had greater % of patients with severe asthma than AANFS and AAFS (61% vs. 40% and 37% or 56% vs. 44% and 49%). The G allele of rs2872507 in GSDMB had higher frequency in AAFS than AANFS and NAA (0.63 vs. 0.55 and 0.55), and associated with earlier age onset and asthma severity. CONCLUSIONS Early or late onset AAFS, AANFS, and NAA have shared and distinct phenotypic characteristics in children and adults. AAFS is a complex disorder involving genetic susceptibility and environmental factors.
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- Huashi Li
- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Lerner Research Institute and the Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Wells Center for Pediatric Research and Riley Hospital for Children, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Penn State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Lerner Research Institute and the Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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Colomo S, Ros-Pardo D, Oltra SS, Gomez-Puertas P, Sarrio D, Moreno-Bueno G. Structural and functional insights into GSDMB isoforms complex roles in pathogenesis. Cell Cycle 2023; 22:2346-2359. [PMID: 38037340 PMCID: PMC10730220 DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2023.2287933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023] Open
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SHADSGasdermins (GSDMs) have garnered significant scientific interest due to their protective and detrimental roles in innate immunity, host defense, inflammation, and cancer alongside with other pathologies. While GSDMs are mostly recognized as key effectors of a lytic type of pro-inflammatory cell death known as pyroptosis, they do also take part in other cell death processes (NETosis, secondary necrosis, or apoptosis) and exhibit cell-death independent functions depending on the cellular context. Among GSDMs, Gasdermin B (GSDMB) pyroptotic capacity has been a subject of conflicting findings in scientific literature even when its processing, and subsequent activation, by Granzyme A (GZMA) was decoded. Nevertheless, recent groundbreaking publications have shed light on the crucial role of alternative splicing in determining the pyroptotic capacity of GSDMB isoforms, which depends on the presence of exon 6-derived elements. This comprehensive review pays attention to the relevant structural differences among recently crystalized GSDMB isoforms. As a novelty, the structural aspects governing GSDMB isoform susceptibility to GZMA-mediated activation have been investigated. By elucidating the complex roles of GSDMB isoforms, this review aims to deepen the understanding of this multifunctional player and its potential implications in disease pathogenesis and therapeutic interventions. [Figure: see text].
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- Sara Colomo
- Biochemistry Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Sols-Morreale’ (IIBm-CISC), Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de modelado molecular, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CBMSO (CSIC-UAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Biochemistry Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Sols-Morreale’ (IIBm-CISC), Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Laboratorio de Investigación Traslacional, Fundación MD Anderson Internacional (FMDA), Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de modelado molecular, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CBMSO (CSIC-UAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Biochemistry Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Sols-Morreale’ (IIBm-CISC), Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Biochemistry Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Sols-Morreale’ (IIBm-CISC), Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Laboratorio de Investigación Traslacional, Fundación MD Anderson Internacional (FMDA), Madrid, Spain
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Li X, Li H, Christenson SA, Castro M, Denlinger LC, Erzurum SC, Fahy JV, Gaston BM, Israel E, Jarjour NN, Levy BD, Mauger DT, Moore WC, Zein J, Kaminski N, Wenzel SE, Woodruff PG, Bleecker ER, Meyers DA. Genetic analyses of chr11p15.5 region identify MUC5AC- MUC5B associated with asthma-related phenotypes. J Asthma 2023; 60:1824-1835. [PMID: 36946148 PMCID: PMC10524756 DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2023.2193631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in chr11p15.5 region associated with asthma and idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs). We sought to identify functional genes for asthma by combining SNPs and mRNA expression in bronchial epithelial cells (BEC) in the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP). METHODS Correlation analyses of mRNA expression of six candidate genes (AP2A2, MUC6, MUC2, MUC5AC, MUC5B, and TOLLIP) and asthma phenotypes were performed in the longitudinal cohort (n = 156) with RNAseq in BEC, and replicated in the cross-sectional cohort (n = 155). eQTL (n = 114) and genetic association analysis of asthma severity (426 severe vs. 531 non-severe asthma) were performed, and compared with previously published GWASs of IIPs and asthma. RESULTS Higher expression of AP2A2 and MUC5AC and lower expression of MUC5B in BEC were correlated with asthma, asthma exacerbations, and T2 biomarkers (P < 0.01). SNPs associated with asthma and IIPs in previous GWASs were eQTL SNPs for MUC5AC, MUC5B, or TOLLIP, however, they were not in strong linkage disequilibrium. The risk alleles for asthma or protective alleles for IIPs were associated with higher expression of MUC5AC and lower expression of MUC5B. rs11603634, rs12788104, and rs28415845 associated with moderate-to-severe asthma or adult onset asthma in previous GWASs were not associated with asthma severity (P > 0.8). CONCLUSIONS SNPs associated with asthma in chr11p15.5 region are not associated with asthma severity neither with IIPs. Higher expression of MUC5AC and lower expression of MUC5B are risk for asthma but protective for IIPs.
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- Xingnan Li
- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Lerner Research Institute and the Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Wells Center for Pediatric Research and Riley Hospital for Children, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Penn State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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- Lerner Research Institute and the Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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Slaufova M, Karakaya T, Di Filippo M, Hennig P, Beer HD. The gasdermins: a pore-forming protein family expressed in the epidermis. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1254150. [PMID: 37771587 PMCID: PMC10523161 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1254150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023] Open
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Gasdermins comprise a family of pore-forming proteins, which play critical roles in (auto)inflammatory diseases and cancer. They are expressed as self-inhibited precursor proteins consisting of an aminoterminal cytotoxic effector domain (NT-GSDM) and a carboxyterminal inhibitor domain (GSDM-CT) separated by an unstructured linker region. Proteolytic processing in the linker region liberates NT-GSDM, which translocates to membranes, forms oligomers, and induces membrane permeabilization, which can disturb the cellular equilibrium that can lead to cell death. Gasdermin activation and pore formation are associated with inflammation, particularly when induced by the inflammatory protease caspase-1 upon inflammasome activation. These gasdermin pores allow the release of the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin(IL)-1β and IL-18 and induce a lytic type of cell death, termed pyroptosis that supports inflammation, immunity, and tissue repair. However, even at the cellular level, the consequences of gasdermin activation are diverse and range from induction of programmed cell death - pyroptosis or apoptosis - to poorly characterized protective mechanisms. The specific effects of gasdermin activation can vary between species, cell types, the membrane that is being permeabilized (plasma membrane, mitochondrial membrane, etc.), and the overall biological state of the local tissue/cells. In epithelia, gasdermins seem to play crucial roles. Keratinocytes represent the main cell type of the epidermis, which is the outermost skin layer with an essential barrier function. Compared to other tissues, keratinocytes express all members of the gasdermin family, in part in a differentiation-specific manner. That raises questions regarding the specific roles of individual GSDM family members in the skin, the mechanisms and consequences of their activation, and the potential crosstalk between them. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge about gasdermins with a focus on keratinocytes and the skin and discuss the possible roles of the different family members in immunity and disease.
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- Marta Slaufova
- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Li X, Zhang T, Kang L, Xin R, Sun M, Chen Q, Pei J, Chen Q, Gao X, Lin Z. Apoptotic caspase-7 activation inhibits non-canonical pyroptosis by GSDMB cleavage. Cell Death Differ 2023; 30:2120-2134. [PMID: 37591921 PMCID: PMC10482963 DOI: 10.1038/s41418-023-01211-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2022] [Revised: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023] Open
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GSDMB is associated with several inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, sepsis and colitis. GZMA is released by cytotoxic lymphocytes and cleaves GSDMB at the K244 site and to induce GSDMB N-terminus dependent pyroptosis. This cleavage of GSDMB is noncell autonomous. In this study, we demonstrated that the GSDMB-N domain (1-91 aa) was important for a novel cell-autonomous function and that GSDMB could bind caspase-4 and promote noncanonical pyroptosis. Furthermore, activated caspase-7 cleaved GSDMB at the D91 site to block GSDMB-mediated promotion of noncanonical pyroptosis during apoptosis. Mechanistically, the cleaved GSDMB-C-terminus (92-417 aa) binds to the GSDMB-N-terminus (1-91 aa) to block the function of GSDMB. During E. coli and S. Typhimurium infection, inhibition of the caspase-7/GSDMB axis resulted in more pyroptotic cells. Furthermore, in a septic mouse model, caspase-7 inhibition or deficiency in GSDMB-transgenic mice led to more severe disease phenotypes. Overall, we demonstrate that apoptotic caspase-7 activation inhibits non-canonical pyroptosis by cleaving GSDMB and provide new targets for sepsis therapy.
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- Xu Li
- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animals for Disease Study, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Model Animal Research Center, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice of China, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210061, China
- Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animals for Disease Study, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Model Animal Research Center, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice of China, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210061, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animals for Disease Study, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Model Animal Research Center, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice of China, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210061, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animals for Disease Study, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Model Animal Research Center, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice of China, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210061, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animals for Disease Study, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Model Animal Research Center, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice of China, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210061, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animals for Disease Study, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Model Animal Research Center, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice of China, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210061, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animals for Disease Study, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Model Animal Research Center, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice of China, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210061, China
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- Department of Oral Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 639 Zhizaoju Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, CN, 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animals for Disease Study, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Model Animal Research Center, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice of China, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210061, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animals for Disease Study, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Model Animal Research Center, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice of China, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210061, China.
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Liu Y, Lei H, Zhang W, Xing Q, Liu R, Wu S, Liu Z, Yan Q, Li W, Liu X, Hu Y. Pyroptosis in renal inflammation and fibrosis: current knowledge and clinical significance. Cell Death Dis 2023; 14:472. [PMID: 37500614 PMCID: PMC10374588 DOI: 10.1038/s41419-023-06005-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
Abstract
Pyroptosis is a novel inflammatory form of regulated cell death (RCD), characterized by cell swelling, membrane rupture, and pro-inflammatory effects. It is recognized as a potent inflammatory response required for maintaining organismal homeostasis. However, excessive and persistent pyroptosis contributes to severe inflammatory responses and accelerates the progression of numerous inflammation-related disorders. In pyroptosis, activated inflammasomes cleave gasdermins (GSDMs) and generate membrane holes, releasing interleukin (IL)-1β/18, ultimately causing pyroptotic cell death. Mechanistically, pyroptosis is categorized into caspase-1-mediated classical pyroptotic pathway and caspase-4/5/11-mediated non-classical pyroptotic pathway. Renal fibrosis is a kidney disease characterized by the loss of structural and functional units, the proliferation of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts, and extracellular matrix (ECM) accumulation, which leads to interstitial fibrosis of the kidney tubules. Histologically, renal fibrosis is the terminal stage of chronic inflammatory kidney disease. Although there is a multitude of newly discovered information regarding pyroptosis, the regulatory roles of pyroptosis involved in renal fibrosis still need to be fully comprehended, and how to improve clinical outcomes remains obscure. Hence, this review systematically summarizes the novel findings regarding the role of pyroptosis in the pathogenesis of renal fibrosis and discusses potential biomarkers and drugs for anti-fibrotic therapeutic strategies.
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- Ya Liu
- Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
- Honghao Zhou Research Institute, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
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- Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310006, China
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- Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
- Honghao Zhou Research Institute, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
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- Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
- Honghao Zhou Research Institute, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
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- Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
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- Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
- Honghao Zhou Research Institute, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
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- Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
- Honghao Zhou Research Institute, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
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- Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
- Honghao Zhou Research Institute, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China
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- Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China.
- Honghao Zhou Research Institute, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China.
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- Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China.
- Honghao Zhou Research Institute, Xiangtan Center Hospital, Xiangtan, 411100, China.
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Liu L, Zhou L, Wang LL, Zheng PD, Zhang FQ, Mao ZY, Zhang HJ, Liu HG. Programmed Cell Death in Asthma: Apoptosis, Autophagy, Pyroptosis, Ferroptosis, and Necroptosis. J Inflamm Res 2023; 16:2727-2754. [PMID: 37415620 PMCID: PMC10321329 DOI: 10.2147/jir.s417801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/08/2023] Open
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Bronchial asthma is a complex heterogeneous airway disease, which has emerged as a global health issue. A comprehensive understanding of the different molecular mechanisms of bronchial asthma may be an efficient means to improve its clinical efficacy in the future. Increasing research evidence indicates that some types of programmed cell death (PCD), including apoptosis, autophagy, pyroptosis, ferroptosis, and necroptosis, contributed to asthma pathogenesis, and may become new targets for future asthma treatment. This review briefly discusses the molecular mechanism and signaling pathway of these forms of PCD focuses on summarizing their roles in the pathogenesis and treatment strategies of asthma and offers some efficient means to improve clinical efficacy of therapeutics for asthma in the near future.
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- Lu Liu
- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of Health Ministry, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of Health Ministry, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of Health Ministry, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of Health Ministry, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of Health Ministry, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of Health Ministry, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of Health Ministry, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
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Boboltz A, Kumar S, Duncan GA. Inhaled drug delivery for the targeted treatment of asthma. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2023; 198:114858. [PMID: 37178928 PMCID: PMC10330872 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2023.114858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/29/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Asthma is a chronic lung disease affecting millions worldwide. While classically acknowledged to result from allergen-driven type 2 inflammatory responses leading to IgE and cytokine production and the influx of immune cells such as mast cells and eosinophils, the wide range in asthmatic pathobiological subtypes lead to highly variable responses to anti-inflammatory therapies. Thus, there is a need to develop patient-specific therapies capable of addressing the full spectrum of asthmatic lung disease. Moreover, delivery of targeted treatments for asthma directly to the lung may help to maximize therapeutic benefit, but challenges remain in design of effective formulations for the inhaled route. In this review, we discuss the current understanding of asthmatic disease progression as well as genetic and epigenetic disease modifiers associated with asthma severity and exacerbation of disease. We also overview the limitations of clinically available treatments for asthma and discuss pre-clinical models of asthma used to evaluate new therapies. Based on the shortcomings of existing treatments, we highlight recent advances and new approaches to treat asthma via inhalation for monoclonal antibody delivery, mucolytic therapy to target airway mucus hypersecretion and gene therapies to address underlying drivers of disease. Finally, we conclude with discussion on the prospects for an inhaled vaccine to prevent asthma.
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- Allison Boboltz
- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States
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- Biological Sciences Graduate Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States; Biological Sciences Graduate Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States.
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Fang Y, Tang Y, Huang B. Pyroptosis: A road to next-generation cancer immunotherapy. Semin Immunol 2023; 68:101782. [PMID: 37302166 DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2023.101782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 05/13/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
The goal of cancer immunotherapy is to clear tumor cells by activating antitumor immunity, especially by mobilizing tumor-reactive CD8+T cells. Pyroptosis, programmed lytic cell death mediated by gasdermin (GSDM), results in the release of cellular antigens, damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) and cytokines. Therefore, pyroptotic tumor cell-derived tumor antigens and DAMPs not only reverse immunosuppression of the tumor microenvironment (TME) but also enhance tumor antigen presentation by dendritic cells, leading to robust antitumor immunity. Exploring nanoparticles and other approaches to spatiotemporally control tumor pyroptosis by regulating gasdermin expression and activation is promising for next-generation immunotherapy.
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- Yiliang Fang
- Institute of Pathology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), Chongqing 400038, PR China
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 400010, Chongqing, PR China
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- Department of Immunology and National Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, PR China.
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Hsu SK, Chen YE, Shu ED, Ko CC, Chang WT, Lin IL, Li CY, Gallego RP, Chiu CC. The Pyroptotic and Nonpyroptotic Roles of Gasdermins in Modulating Cancer Progression and Their Perspectives on Cancer Therapeutics. Arch Immunol Ther Exp (Warsz) 2023; 71:14. [PMID: 37258998 DOI: 10.1007/s00005-023-00678-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
Gasdermins (GSDMs) are a protein family encoded by six paralogous genes in humans, including GSDMA, GSDMB, GSDMC, GSDMD, GSDME (also known as DFNA5), and DFNB59 (also known as pejvakin). Structurally, members of the GSDM family possess a C-terminus (an autoinhibitory domain) and a positively charged N-terminus (a pore-forming domain) linked with divergent peptide linkers. Recently, GSDMs have been identified as key executors of pyroptosis (an immunogenic programmed cell death) due to their pore-forming activities on the plasma membrane when proteolytically cleaved by caspases or serine proteases. Accumulating studies suggest that chemoresistance is attributed to dysregulation of apoptotic machinery and that inducing pyroptosis to bypass aberrant apoptosis can potently resensitize apoptosis-resistant cancer to chemotherapeutics. Pyroptosis is initiated by pore formation and culminates with plasma membrane rupture; these processes enable the release of proinflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-1β and IL-18) and damage-associated molecular patterns, which further modulate antitumor immunity within the tumor microenvironment. Although pyroptosis is considered a promising strategy to boost antitumor effects, it is also reported to cause unwanted tissue damage (e.g., gut damage and nephrotoxicity). Intriguingly, mounting evidence has uncovered nonpyroptotic roles of GSDMs in tumorigenesis, such as proliferation, invasion, metastasis, and drug resistance. Thus, this provides a rationale for GSDMs as potential therapeutic targets. Taken together, we shed unbiased light on the pyroptosis-dependent roles of GSDMs in cancer progression and highlighted how GSDMs modulate tumorigenesis in a pyroptosis-independent manner. It is evident that targeting GSDMs seems profound in cancer management; however, several problems require further investigation to target GSDMs from bench to bedside, which is elucidated in the discussion section.
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- Sheng-Kai Hsu
- Department of Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, 710, Taiwan
- Department of Health and Nutrition, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Division of General and Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan
- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan
- Center for Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 80708, Taiwan
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- Department of Biomedical Science and Environment Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan.
- Center for Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan.
- Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, 804, Taiwan.
- Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, 807, Taiwan.
- National Laboratory Animal Center, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taipei, 115, Taiwan.
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Wang X, Wei X, Lu Y, Wang Q, Fu R, Wang Y, Wang Q, Wang X, Chen S, Xu A, Yuan S. Characterization of GSDME in amphioxus provides insights into the functional evolution of GSDM-mediated pyroptosis. PLoS Biol 2023; 21:e3002062. [PMID: 37134086 PMCID: PMC10155998 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2022] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 05/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Members of the gasdermin (GSDM) family are pore-forming effectors that cause membrane permeabilization and pyroptosis, a lytic proinflammatory type of cell death. To reveal the functional evolution of GSDM-mediated pyroptosis at the transition from invertebrates to vertebrates, we conducted functional characterization of amphioxus GSDME (BbGSDME) and found that it can be cleaved by distinct caspase homologs, yielding the N253 and N304 termini with distinct functions. The N253 fragment binds to cell membrane, triggers pyroptosis, and inhibits bacterial growth, while the N304 performs negative regulation of N253-mediated cell death. Moreover, BbGSDME is associated with bacteria-induced tissue necrosis and transcriptionally regulated by BbIRF1/8 in amphioxus. Interestingly, several amino acids that are evolutionarily conserved were found to be important for the function of both BbGSDME and HsGSDME, shedding new lights on the functional regulation of GSDM-mediated inflammation.
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- Xinli Wang
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
- School of Life Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, People's Republic of China
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Barry A, McNulty MT, Jia X, Gupta Y, Debiec H, Luo Y, Nagano C, Horinouchi T, Jung S, Colucci M, Ahram DF, Mitrotti A, Sinha A, Teeninga N, Jin G, Shril S, Caridi G, Bodria M, Lim TY, Westland R, Zanoni F, Marasa M, Turudic D, Giordano M, Gesualdo L, Magistroni R, Pisani I, Fiaccadori E, Reiterova J, Maringhini S, Morello W, Montini G, Weng PL, Scolari F, Saraga M, Tasic V, Santoro D, van Wijk JAE, Milošević D, Kawai Y, Kiryluk K, Pollak MR, Gharavi A, Lin F, Simœs E Silva AC, Loos RJF, Kenny EE, Schreuder MF, Zurowska A, Dossier C, Ariceta G, Drozynska-Duklas M, Hogan J, Jankauskiene A, Hildebrandt F, Prikhodina L, Song K, Bagga A, Cheong H, Ghiggeri GM, Vachvanichsanong P, Nozu K, Lee D, Vivarelli M, Raychaudhuri S, Tokunaga K, Sanna-Cherchi S, Ronco P, Iijima K, Sampson MG. Multi-population genome-wide association study implicates immune and non-immune factors in pediatric steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2481. [PMID: 37120605 PMCID: PMC10148875 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37985-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Pediatric steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome (pSSNS) is the most common childhood glomerular disease. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified a risk locus in the HLA Class II region and three additional independent risk loci. But the genetic architecture of pSSNS, and its genetically driven pathobiology, is largely unknown. Here, we conduct a multi-population GWAS meta-analysis in 38,463 participants (2440 cases). We then conduct conditional analyses and population specific GWAS. We discover twelve significant associations-eight from the multi-population meta-analysis (four novel), two from the multi-population conditional analysis (one novel), and two additional novel loci from the European meta-analysis. Fine-mapping implicates specific amino acid haplotypes in HLA-DQA1 and HLA-DQB1 driving the HLA Class II risk locus. Non-HLA loci colocalize with eQTLs of monocytes and numerous T-cell subsets in independent datasets. Colocalization with kidney eQTLs is lacking but overlap with kidney cell open chromatin suggests an uncharacterized disease mechanism in kidney cells. A polygenic risk score (PRS) associates with earlier disease onset. Altogether, these discoveries expand our knowledge of pSSNS genetic architecture across populations and provide cell-specific insights into its molecular drivers. Evaluating these associations in additional cohorts will refine our understanding of population specificity, heterogeneity, and clinical and molecular associations.
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- Alexandra Barry
- Division of Nephrology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Kidney Disease Initiative & Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Kidney Disease Initiative & Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Genome Medical Science Project (Toyama), National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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- Sorbonne Université, UPMC Paris 06, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherde Médicale, Unité Mixte de Rechereche, S 1155, Paris, France
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- Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7FY, United Kingdom
- Center for Data Sciences, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Kidney Disease Initiative & Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-gu, Seoul, Korea
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- Renal Diseases Research Unit, Genetics and Rare Diseases Research Division, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory on Molecular Nephrology, IRCCS Instituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, IRCCS Instituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Clinical Hospital Hospital Center Zagreb, University of Zagreb Medical School, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Division of Nephrology and Pediatric Dialysis, Bari Polyclinic Giovanni XXIII Children's Hospital, Bari, Italy
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- Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplant Unit, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy
- Surgical, Medical and Dental Department of Morphological Sciences, Section of Nephrology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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- Unità Operativa Nefrologia, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Unità Operativa Nefrologia, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Nephrology, Medicine and General University Hospital, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Pediatric Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy
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- Pediatric Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center-Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences, and Public Health, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, University of Brescia and ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, University Children's Hospital, Skopje, Macedonia
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- Division of Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, University of Messina, Sicily, Italy
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Clinical Hospital Hospital Center Zagreb, University of Zagreb Medical School, Zagreb, Croatia
- Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences, Praska 2/III p.p. 27, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Genome Medical Science Project (Toyama), National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatric, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatric, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Medical Investigation, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Division of Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical University Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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- AP-HP, Pediatric Nephrology Department, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France
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- Pediatric Nephrology, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- AP-HP, Pediatric Nephrology Department, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Division of Nephrology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Research and Clinical Institute for Pediatrics, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Taldomskava St, 2, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-gu, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, 22, Gwanpyeong-ro 170 beon-gil, Dongan-gu, Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, 14068, Korea
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- Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, IRCCS Instituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat-Yai, Songkhla, 90110, Thailand
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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- Division of Nephrology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Kidney Disease Initiative & Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, and Dialysis, Department of Pediatric Subspecialities, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Data Sciences, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Centre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Genome Medical Science Project (Toyama), National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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- Sorbonne Université, UPMC Paris 06, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherde Médicale, Unité Mixte de Rechereche, S 1155, Paris, France
- Department of Nephrology, Centre Hospitalier du Mans, Le Mans, France
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- Hyogo Prefectural Kobe Children's Hospital, Kobe, Japan
- Department of Advanced Pediatric Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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- Division of Nephrology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Kidney Disease Initiative & Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Herrera-Luis E, Forno E, Celedón JC, Pino-Yanes M. Asthma Exacerbations: The Genes Behind the Scenes. J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol 2023; 33:76-94. [PMID: 36420738 PMCID: PMC10638677 DOI: 10.18176/jiaci.0878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The clinical and socioeconomic burden of asthma exacerbations (AEs) constitutes a major public health problem. In the last 4 years, there has been an increase in ethnic diversity in candidate-gene and genome-wide association studies of AEs, which in the latter case led to the identification of novel genes and underlying pathobiological processes. Pharmacogenomics, admixture mapping analyses, and the combination of multiple "omics" layers have helped to prioritize genomic regions of interest and/or facilitated our understanding of the functional consequences of genetic variation. Nevertheless, the field still lags behind the genomics of asthma, where a vast compendium of genetic approaches has been used (eg, gene-environment nteractions, next-generation sequencing, and polygenic risk scores). Furthermore, the roles of the DNA methylome and histone modifications in AEs have received little attention, and microRNA findings remain to be validated in independent studies. Likewise, the most recent transcriptomic studies highlight the importance of the host-airway microbiome interaction in the modulation of risk of AEs. Leveraging -omics and deep-phenotyping data from subtypes or homogenous subgroups of patients will be crucial if we are to overcome the inherent heterogeneity of AEs, boost the identification of potential therapeutic targets, and implement precision medicine approaches to AEs in clinical practice.
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- E Herrera-Luis
- Genomics and Health Group, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Cell Biology and Genetics, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, UPMC Children´s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, UPMC Children´s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Genomics and Health Group, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Cell Biology and Genetics, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain 4 Instituto de Tecnologías Biomédicas (ITB), Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- Instituto de Tecnologías Biomédicas (ITB), Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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Li S, Bracey S, Liu Z, Xiao TS. Regulation of gasdermins in pyroptosis and cytokine release. Adv Immunol 2023; 158:75-106. [PMID: 37453754 PMCID: PMC10874695 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ai.2023.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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Gasdermins are effectors of pyroptosis downstream of diverse signaling pathways. Emerging evidence suggests that a number of post-translational modifications regulate the function of gasdermins in pyroptosis, a highly inflammatory form of cell death, and lytic or non-lytic secretion of intracellular contents. These include processing by different caspases and other proteases that may activate or suppress pyroptosis, ubiquitination by a bacterial E3 ligase that suppresses pyroptosis as an immune evasion mechanism, modifications at Cys residues in mammalian or microbial gasdermins that promote or inhibit pyroptosis, and potential phosphorylation that represses pyroptosis. Such diverse regulatory mechanisms by host and microbial proteases, ubiquitin ligases, acyltransferases, kinases and phosphatases may underlie the divergent physiological and pathological functions of gasdermins, and furnish opportunities for therapeutic targeting of gasdermins in infectious diseases and inflammatory disorders.
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- Sai Li
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States.
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States.
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What Have Mechanistic Studies Taught Us About Childhood Asthma? THE JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY. IN PRACTICE 2023; 11:684-692. [PMID: 36649800 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaip.2023.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Revised: 01/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Childhood asthma is a chronic heterogeneous syndrome consisting of different disease entities or phenotypes. The immunologic and cellular processes that occur during asthma development are still not fully understood but represent distinct endotypes. Mechanistic studies have examined the role of gene expression, protein levels, and cell types in early life development and the manifestation of asthma, many under the influence of environmental stimuli, which can be both protective and risk factors for asthma. Genetic variants can regulate gene expression, controlled partly by different epigenetic mechanisms. In addition, environmental factors, such as living space, nutrition, and smoking, can contribute to these mechanisms. All of these factors produce modifications in gene expression that can alter the development and function of immune and epithelial cells and subsequently different trajectories of childhood asthma. These early changes in a partially immature immune system can have dramatic effects (e.g., causing dysregulation), which in turn contribute to different disease endotypes and may help to explain differential responsiveness to asthma treatment. In this review, we summarize published studies that have aimed to uncover distinct mechanisms in childhood asthma, considering genetics, epigenetics, and environment. Moreover, a discussion of new, powerful tools for single-cell immunologic assays for phenotypic and functional analysis is included, which promise new mechanistic insights into childhood asthma development and therapeutic and preventive strategies.
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Li X, Guerra S, Ledford JG, Kraft M, Li H, Hastie AT, Castro M, Denlinger LC, Erzurum SC, Fahy JV, Gaston B, Israel E, Jarjour NN, Levy BD, Mauger DT, Moore WC, Zein J, Kaminski N, Wenzel SE, Woodruff PG, Meyers DA, Bleecker ER. Low CC16 mRNA Expression Levels in Bronchial Epithelial Cells Are Associated with Asthma Severity. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2023; 207:438-451. [PMID: 36066606 PMCID: PMC9940145 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202206-1230oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Rationale: CC16 is a protein mainly produced by nonciliated bronchial epithelial cells (BECs) that participates in host defense. Reduced CC16 protein concentrations in BAL and serum are associated with asthma susceptibility. Objectives: Few studies have investigated the relationship between CC16 and asthma progression, and none has focused on BECs. In this study, we sought to determine if CC16 mRNA expression levels in BECs are associated with asthma severity. Methods: Association analyses between CC16 mRNA expression levels in BECs (242 asthmatics and 69 control subjects) and asthma-related phenotypes in Severe Asthma Research Program were performed using a generalized linear model. Measurements and Main Results: Low CC16 mRNA expression levels in BECs were significantly associated with asthma susceptibility and asthma severity, high systemic corticosteroids use, high retrospective and prospective asthma exacerbations, and low pulmonary function. Low CC16 mRNA expression levels were significantly associated with high T2 inflammation biomarkers (fractional exhaled nitric oxide and sputum eosinophils). CC16 mRNA expression levels were negatively correlated with expression levels of Th2 genes (IL1RL1, POSTN, SERPINB2, CLCA1, NOS2, and MUC5AC) and positively correlated with expression levels of Th1 and inflammation genes (IL12A and MUC5B). A combination of two nontraditional T2 biomarkers (CC16 and IL-6) revealed four asthma endotypes with different characteristics of T2 inflammation, obesity, and asthma severity. Conclusions: Our findings indicate that low CC16 mRNA expression levels in BECs are associated with asthma susceptibility, severity, and exacerbations, partially through immunomodulation of T2 inflammation. CC16 is a potential nontraditional T2 biomarker for asthma development and progression.
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- Xingnan Li
- Division of Genetics, Genomics, and Precision Medicine, and
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Division of Genetics, Genomics, and Precision Medicine, and
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- Department of Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas
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- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Lerner Research Institute and the Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Wells Center for Pediatric Research and Riley Hospital for Children, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Penn State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Lerner Research Institute and the Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; and
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Pyroptosis is a form of regulated cell death that is mediated by the membrane-targeting, pore-forming gasdermin family of proteins. Pyroptosis was initially described as a caspase 1- and inflammasome-dependent cell death pathway typified by the loss of membrane integrity and the secretion of cytokines such as IL-1β. However, gasdermins are now recognized as the principal effectors of this form of regulated cell death; activated gasdermins insert into cell membranes, where they form pores that result in the secretion of cytokines, alarmins and damage-associated molecular patterns and cause cell membrane rupture. It is now evident that gasdermins can be activated by inflammasome- and caspase-independent mechanisms in multiple cell types and that crosstalk occurs between pyroptosis and other cell death pathways. Although they are important for host antimicrobial defence, a growing body of evidence supports the notion that pyroptosis and gasdermins have pathological roles in cancer and several non-microbial diseases involving the gut, liver and skin. The well-documented roles of inflammasome activity and apoptosis pathways in kidney diseases suggests that gasdermins and pyroptosis may also be involved to some extent. However, despite some evidence for involvement of pyroptosis in the context of acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease, our understanding of gasdermin biology and pyroptosis in the kidney remains limited.
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Tang R, Lyu X, Li H, Sun J. The 4G/5G polymorphism of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 is a predictor of allergic cough. Front Genet 2023; 14:1139813. [PMID: 36911417 PMCID: PMC9998911 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1139813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/14/2023] Open
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Background: It has been suggested that genetic factors may be substantially linked to allergy disorders. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the genetic susceptibility of Chinese patients with allergy disorders and the polymorphisms of plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 gene (PAI-1) rs1799762, cysteinyl leukotriene receptor 1 gene (CYSLTR1) rs320995, gasdermin B gene (GSDMB) rs7216389, glycoprotein IIIa gene (GPIIIa) rs5918, glycoprotein Ib alpha gene (GP1BA) rs6065, platelet endothelial aggregation receptor 1 gene (PEAR1) rs12041331, and tumor necrosis factor alpha gene (TNF-α) rs1800629. Methods: From the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, this study enrolled 60 healthy participants and 286 participants with allergic diseases. TaqMan-minor groove binder (MGB) quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) was used to examine the gene polymorphisms in each group. Results: The TaqMan-MGB qPCR results were completely consistent with the DNA sequencing results, according to other studies in this medical center (Kappa = 1, p < .001). Only the distribution of PAI-1 rs1799762 was different between patients with allergic cough and healthy people (χ2 = 7.48, p = .0238). With regard to cough patients, the 4G4G and 5G5G genotypes were more frequent (allergic cough vs. healthy individuals: 4G4G 57.9% vs. 26.7%; 5G5G 20.0% vs. 13.3%), but the 4G5G genotype was more frequent in healthy people (allergic cough vs. healthy individuals: 45.7% vs. 60.0%). The CYSLTR1 rs320995, GSDMB rs7216389, GPIIIa rs5918, GP1BA rs6065, PEAR1 rs12041331, and TNF-α rs1800629 polymorphisms, however, did not show any of such relationships. Conclusion: The PAI-1 rs1799762 polymorphisms may be associated with the genetic susceptibility of Chinese allergic disease patients with cough performance.
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- Rui Tang
- Allergy Department, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,Allergy Department, Beijing Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine for Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergic Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Allergy Department, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,Allergy Department, Beijing Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine for Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergic Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,Eight-Year Program of Clinical Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Allergy Department, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,Allergy Department, Beijing Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine for Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergic Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Allergy Department, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,Allergy Department, Beijing Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine for Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergic Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Baloh CH, Mathias RA. Recent progress in the genetic and epigenetic underpinnings of atopy. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2023; 151:60-69. [PMID: 36608983 PMCID: PMC9987265 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2022.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Revised: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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In the past 2 years, there continue to be advances in our understanding of the genetic and epigenetic underpinnings of atopy pertaining to disease risk and disease severity. The joint role of genetics and the environment has been emphasized in multiple studies. Combining genetics with family history, biomarkers, and comorbidities is further refining our ability to predict the development of individual atopic diseases as well as the advancement of the atopic march. Polygenic risk scores will be an important next step for the field moving toward clinical translation of the genetic findings thus far. A systems biology approach, as illustrated by studies of the microbiome and epigenome, will be necessary to fully understand disease development and to develop increasingly targeted therapeutics.
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- Carolyn H Baloh
- The Immune Tolerance Network, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Wash; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Baltimore, Md.
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Ivanov AI, Rana N, Privitera G, Pizarro TT. The enigmatic roles of epithelial gasdermin B: Recent discoveries and controversies. Trends Cell Biol 2023; 33:48-59. [PMID: 35821185 PMCID: PMC9789163 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2022.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2022] [Revised: 06/11/2022] [Accepted: 06/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Gasdermin B (GSDMB) belongs to a family of structurally related proteins [(i.e., gasdermins (GSDMs)]. It distinguishes itself from other members by the lack of autoinhibition but clear bioactivity of its full-length form, its preference to bind to phosphatidylinositol phosphates and sulfatides, and the ability to promote both lytic and nonlytic cellular functions. It is the only gasdermin that lacks a mouse ortholog, making in vivo mechanistic studies challenging to perform. GSDMB is abundantly expressed in epithelial cells lining organs that directly interface with the external environment, such as the gastrointestinal tract, with emerging evidence supporting its role in enteric infections, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and colorectal cancer. This review discusses the unique features of GSDMB among other gasdermin family members and controversies surrounding GSDMB-dependent mammalian inflammatory cell death (i.e., pyroptosis), including recent discoveries revealing both lytic and nonlytic functions of epithelial-derived GSDMB, particularly during gut health and disease.
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- Andrei I Ivanov
- Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Learner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
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Pore-forming proteins as drivers of membrane permeabilization in cell death pathways. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2022; 24:312-333. [PMID: 36543934 DOI: 10.1038/s41580-022-00564-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Regulated cell death (RCD) relies on activation and recruitment of pore-forming proteins (PFPs) that function as executioners of specific cell death pathways: apoptosis regulator BAX (BAX), BCL-2 homologous antagonist/killer (BAK) and BCL-2-related ovarian killer protein (BOK) for apoptosis, gasdermins (GSDMs) for pyroptosis and mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL) for necroptosis. Inactive precursors of PFPs are converted into pore-forming entities through activation, membrane recruitment, membrane insertion and oligomerization. These mechanisms involve protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions, proteolytic processing and phosphorylation. In this Review, we discuss the structural rearrangements incurred by RCD-related PFPs and describe the mechanisms that manifest conversion from autoinhibited to membrane-embedded molecular states. We further discuss the formation and maturation of membrane pores formed by BAX/BAK/BOK, GSDMs and MLKL, leading to diverse pore architectures. Lastly, we highlight commonalities and differences of PFP mechanisms involving BAX/BAK/BOK, GSDMs and MLKL and conclude with a discussion on how, in a population of challenged cells, the coexistence of cell death modalities may have profound physiological and pathophysiological implications.
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Schoettler N, Dissanayake E, Craven MW, Yee JS, Eliason J, Schauberger EM, Lemanske RF, Ober C, Gern JE. New Insights Relating Gasdermin B to the Onset of Childhood Asthma. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2022; 67:430-437. [PMID: 35580164 PMCID: PMC9564923 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2022-0043ps] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Chromosome 17q12-q21 is the most replicated genetic locus for childhood-onset asthma. Polymorphisms in this locus containing ∼10 genes interact with a variety of environmental exposures in the home and outdoors to modify asthma risk. However, the functional basis for these associations and their linkages to the environment have remained enigmatic. Within this extended region, regulation of GSDMB (gasdermin B) expression in airway epithelial cells has emerged as the primary mechanism underlying the 17q12-q21 genome-wide association study signal. Asthma-associated SNPs influence the abundance of GSDMB transcripts as well as the functional properties of GSDMB protein in airway epithelial cells. GSDMB is a member of the gasdermin family of proteins, which regulate pyroptosis and inflammatory responses to microbial infections. The aims of this review are to synthesize recent studies on the relationship of 17q12-q21 SNPs to childhood asthma and the evidence pointing to GSDMB gene expression or protein function as the underlying mechanism and to explore the potential functions of GSDMB that may influence the risk of developing asthma during childhood.
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; and
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Sun J, Li Y. Pyroptosis and respiratory diseases: A review of current knowledge. Front Immunol 2022; 13:920464. [PMID: 36248872 PMCID: PMC9561627 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.920464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Pyroptosis is a relatively newly discovered programmed cell death accompanied by an inflammatory response. In the classical view, pyroptosis is mediated by caspases-1,-4,-5,-11 and executed by GSDMD, however, recently it was demonstrated that caspase-3 and-8 also participate in the process of pyroptosis, by cleaving GSDMD/E and GSDMD respectively. Different from autophagy and apoptosis, many pores are formed on the cell membrane during pyroptosis, which makes the cell membrane lose its integrity, eventually leading to the release of cytokines interleukin(IL)-1β and IL-18. When the body is infected with pathogens or exposed to some stimulations, pyroptosis could play an immune defense role. It is found that pyroptosis exists widely in infectious and inflammatory respiratory diseases such as acute lung injury, bronchial dysplasia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and asthma. Excessive pyroptosis may accompany airway inflammation, tissue injury, and airway damage, and induce an inflammatory reaction, leading to more serious damage and poor prognosis of respiratory diseases. This review summarizes the relationship between pyroptosis and related respiratory diseases.
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Washington C, Dapas M, Biddanda A, Magnaye KM, Aneas I, Helling BA, Szczesny B, Boorgula MP, Taub MA, Kenny E, Mathias RA, Barnes KC, Khurana Hershey GK, Kercsmar CM, Gereige JD, Makhija M, Gruchalla RS, Gill MA, Liu AH, Rastogi D, Busse W, Gergen PJ, Visness CM, Gold DR, Hartert T, Johnson CC, Lemanske RF, Martinez FD, Miller RL, Ownby D, Seroogy CM, Wright AL, Zoratti EM, Bacharier LB, Kattan M, O'Connor GT, Wood RA, Nobrega MA, Altman MC, Jackson DJ, Gern JE, McKennan CG, Ober C. African-specific alleles modify risk for asthma at the 17q12-q21 locus in African Americans. Genome Med 2022; 14:112. [PMID: 36175932 PMCID: PMC9520885 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-022-01114-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2022] [Accepted: 09/15/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children, occurring at higher frequencies and with more severe disease in children with African ancestry. METHODS We tested for association with haplotypes at the most replicated and significant childhood-onset asthma locus at 17q12-q21 and asthma in European American and African American children. Following this, we used whole-genome sequencing data from 1060 African American and 100 European American individuals to identify novel variants on a high-risk African American-specific haplotype. We characterized these variants in silico using gene expression and ATAC-seq data from airway epithelial cells, functional annotations from ENCODE, and promoter capture (pc)Hi-C maps in airway epithelial cells. Candidate causal variants were then assessed for correlation with asthma-associated phenotypes in African American children and adults. RESULTS Our studies revealed nine novel African-specific common variants, enriched on a high-risk asthma haplotype, which regulated the expression of GSDMA in airway epithelial cells and were associated with features of severe asthma. Using ENCODE annotations, ATAC-seq, and pcHi-C, we narrowed the associations to two candidate causal variants that are associated with features of T2 low severe asthma. CONCLUSIONS Previously unknown genetic variation at the 17q12-21 childhood-onset asthma locus contributes to asthma severity in individuals with African ancestries. We suggest that many other population-specific variants that have not been discovered in GWAS contribute to the genetic risk for asthma and other common diseases.
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- Charles Washington
- Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, 928 E. 58th St. CLSC 507C, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, 928 E. 58th St. CLSC 507C, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, 928 E. 58th St. CLSC 507C, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, 928 E. 58th St. CLSC 507C, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, 928 E. 58th St. CLSC 507C, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, 928 E. 58th St. CLSC 507C, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Division of Asthma Research, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Children's Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Children's National Hospital and George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- The Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health Systems, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health Systems, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Henry Ford Health Systems, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Monroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, 928 E. 58th St. CLSC 507C, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Immunology Division, Benaroya Research Institute Systems, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, 928 E. 58th St. CLSC 507C, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
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Pyroptosis in inflammation-related respiratory disease. J Physiol Biochem 2022; 78:721-737. [PMID: 35819638 PMCID: PMC9684248 DOI: 10.1007/s13105-022-00909-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Pyroptosis is commonly induced by the gasdermin (GSDM) family and is accompanied by the release of inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β and IL-18. Recently, increasing evidence suggests that pyroptosis plays a role in respiratory diseases. This review aimed to summarize the roles and mechanisms of pyroptosis in inflammation-related respiratory diseases. There are several pathways involved in pyroptosis, such as the canonical inflammasome-induced pathway, non-canonical inflammasome-induced pathway, caspase-1/3/6/7/GSDMB pathway, caspase-8/GSDMC pathway, caspase-8/GSDMD pathway, and caspase-3/GSEME pathway. Pyroptosis may be involved in asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, acute lung injury (ALI), silicosis, pulmonary hypertension (PH), and tuberculosis (TB), in which the NLRP3 inflammasome-induced pathway is mostly highlighted. Pyroptosis contributes to the deterioration of asthma, COPD, ALI, silicosis, and PH. In addition, pyroptosis has dual effects on lung cancer and TB. Additionally, whether pyroptosis participates in cystic fibrosis (CF) and sarcoidosis or not is largely unknown, though the activation of NLRP3 inflammasome is found in CF and sarcoidosis. In conclusion, pyroptosis may play a role in inflammation-related respiratory diseases, providing new therapeutic targets.
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Li S, Li X, Zhang S, Feng Y, Jia T, Zhu M, Fang L, Gong L, Dong S, Kong X, Wang Z, Sun L. Association Between GSDMB Gene Polymorphism and Cervical Cancer in the Northeast Chinese Han Population. Front Genet 2022; 13:860727. [PMID: 35832190 PMCID: PMC9271821 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.860727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2022] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between GSDMB gene polymorphism and genetic susceptibility to cervical cancer in the Han population in Northeast China. Methods: In this case-control study, the genotypes and alleles of rs8067378 in the GSDMB gene were analyzed by multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and next-generation sequencing methods in 482 cervical cancer (CC) patients, 775 cervical squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL) patients, and 495 healthy women. The potential relationships between the SNP of the GSDMB gene with SIL and CC were analyzed by multivariate logistic regression analysis combined with 10,000 permutation tests. Results: In the comparison between the SIL group and the control group, the genotype and allele distribution frequencies of rs8067378 SNP of the GSDMB gene were statistically significant (p = 0.0493 and p = 0.0202, respectively). The allele distribution frequencies of rs8067378 were also statistically significant in the comparison between high-grade cervical squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) and low-grade cervical squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) groups with control group ( p = 0.0483 and p = 0.0330, respectively). Logistic regression analysis showed that after adjusting for age, the rs8067378 SNP of the GSDMB gene was significantly associated with the reduced risk of SIL under the dominant model (p = 0.0213, OR = 0.764, CI = 0.607-0.961) and the additive model (p = 0.0199, OR = 0.814, and CI = 0.684-0.968), and its mutant gene G may play a role in the progression of healthy people to LSIL and even HSIL as a protective factor. However, there was no significant association between cervical cancer and its subtypes with the control group (p > 0.05). After 10,000 permutations, there was still no correlation that has provided evidence for the accuracy of our study. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that rs8067378 single nucleotide polymorphism of the GSDMB gene may reduce the risk of SIL and protect the susceptibility to cervical precancerous lesions in the Northeast Chinese Han population, but it has no significant correlation with the progression of cervical cancer.
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- Songxue Li
- Cancer Center, Department of Ultrasound Medicine, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Cancer Center, Department of Ultrasound Medicine, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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- Cancer Center, Department of Ultrasound Medicine, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Cancer Center, Department of Ultrasound Medicine, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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- Cancer Center, Department of Ultrasound Medicine, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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Zhang S, Liang Y, Yao J, Li DF, Wang LS. Role of Pyroptosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): From Gasdermins to DAMPs. Front Pharmacol 2022; 13:833588. [PMID: 35677444 PMCID: PMC9168461 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.833588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Pyroptosis is a pro-inflammatory cell death executed by gasdermin family proteins that involve the formation of pores on cells, recognition of danger signals, and release of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18. Pyroptosis modulates mucosal innate immunity and enteropathogenic bacterial infection. Similarly, the gasdermin family has been reported to be involved in the defense of the intestinal epithelium against bacterial infection and in the regulation of intestinal inflammation. Pyroptosis initiates damage signals that activate multiple pathways to cause inflammation, which may be a potential cause of chronic intestinal inflammation. In this review, we discuss the impact of pyroptosis on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with a focus on the executive proteins of pyroptosis (GSDMB, GADMD, and GSDME) and IBD-related endogenous damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) produced by pyroptosis.
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- Shuxia Zhang
- School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen People Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Clinical Medicine College (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Clinical Medicine College (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Clinical Medicine College (Shenzhen People's Hospital), Jinan University, Shenzhen, China
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No longer married to inflammasome signaling: the diverse interacting pathways leading to pyroptotic cell death. Biochem J 2022; 479:1083-1102. [PMID: 35608339 PMCID: PMC9162454 DOI: 10.1042/bcj20210711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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For over 15 years the lytic cell death termed pyroptosis was defined by its dependency on the inflammatory caspase, caspase-1, which, upon pathogen sensing, is activated by innate immune cytoplasmic protein complexes known as inflammasomes. However, this definition of pyroptosis changed when the pore-forming protein gasdermin D (GSDMD) was identified as the caspase-1 (and caspase-11) substrate required to mediate pyroptotic cell death. Consequently, pyroptosis has been redefined as a gasdermin-dependent cell death. Studies now show that, upon liberation of the N-terminal domain, five gasdermin family members, GSDMA, GSDMB, GSDMC, GSDMD and GSDME can all form plasma membrane pores to induce pyroptosis. Here, we review recent research into the diverse stimuli and cell death signaling pathways involved in the activation of gasdermins; death and toll-like receptor triggered caspase-8 activation of GSDMD or GSMDC, apoptotic caspase-3 activation of GSDME, perforin-granzyme A activation of GSDMB, and bacterial protease activation of GSDMA. We highlight findings that have begun to unravel the physiological situations and disease states that result from gasdermin signaling downstream of inflammasome activation, death receptor and mitochondrial apoptosis, and necroptosis. This new era in cell death research therefore holds significant promise in identifying how distinct, yet often networked, pyroptotic cell death pathways might be manipulated for therapeutic benefit to treat a range of malignant conditions associated with inflammation, infection and cancer.
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Gereige JD, Morin A, Calatroni A, Visness CM, Wood RA, Kattan M, Bacharier LB, Becker P, Altman MC, Gern JE, Ober C, O'Connor GT. 17q12-q21 variants interact with early-life exposures to modify asthma risk in Black children. Clin Exp Allergy 2022; 52:565-568. [PMID: 34862819 PMCID: PMC10829392 DOI: 10.1111/cea.14074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2021] [Revised: 11/21/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jessica D Gereige
- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
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- Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Benaroya Research Institute, Systems Immunology Division, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Rana N, Privitera G, Kondolf HC, Bulek K, Lechuga S, De Salvo C, Corridoni D, Antanaviciute A, Maywald RL, Hurtado AM, Zhao J, Huang EH, Li X, Chan ER, Simmons A, Bamias G, Abbott DW, Heaney JD, Ivanov AI, Pizarro TT. GSDMB is increased in IBD and regulates epithelial restitution/repair independent of pyroptosis. Cell 2022; 185:283-298.e17. [PMID: 35021065 PMCID: PMC8879997 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Revised: 10/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Gasdermins are a family of structurally related proteins originally described for their role in pyroptosis. Gasdermin B (GSDMB) is currently the least studied, and while its association with genetic susceptibility to chronic mucosal inflammatory disorders is well established, little is known about its functional relevance during active disease states. Herein, we report increased GSDMB in inflammatory bowel disease, with single-cell analysis identifying epithelial specificity to inflamed colonocytes/crypt top colonocytes. Surprisingly, mechanistic experiments and transcriptome profiling reveal lack of inherent GSDMB-dependent pyroptosis in activated epithelial cells and organoids but instead point to increased proliferation and migration during in vitro wound closure, which arrests in GSDMB-deficient cells that display hyper-adhesiveness and enhanced formation of vinculin-based focal adhesions dependent on PDGF-A-mediated FAK phosphorylation. Importantly, carriage of disease-associated GSDMB SNPs confers functional defects, disrupting epithelial restitution/repair, which, altogether, establishes GSDMB as a critical factor for restoration of epithelial barrier function and the resolution of inflammation.
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- Nitish Rana
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Departments of Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Inflammation & Immunity, Learner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Inflammation & Immunity, Learner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Inflammation & Immunity, Learner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Colon & Rectal Surgery, Learner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Inflammation & Immunity, Learner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Academic Department of Gastroenterology, Ethnikon & Kapodistriakon University of Athens, Laikon Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Inflammation & Immunity, Learner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
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Gokuladhas S, Zaied RE, Schierding W, Farrow S, Fadason T, O'Sullivan JM. Integrating Multimorbidity into a Whole-Body Understanding of Disease Using Spatial Genomics. Results Probl Cell Differ 2022; 70:157-187. [PMID: 36348107 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06573-6_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Multimorbidity is characterized by multidimensional complexity emerging from interactions between multiple diseases across levels of biological (including genetic) and environmental determinants and the complex array of interactions between and within cells, tissues and organ systems. Advances in spatial genomic research have led to an unprecedented expansion in our ability to link alterations in genome folding with changes that are associated with human disease. Studying disease-associated genetic variants in the context of the spatial genome has enabled the discovery of transcriptional regulatory programmes that potentially link dysregulated genes to disease development. However, the approaches that have been used have typically been applied to uncover pathological molecular mechanisms occurring in a specific disease-relevant tissue. These forms of reductionist, targeted investigations are not appropriate for the molecular dissection of multimorbidity that typically involves contributions from multiple tissues. In this perspective, we emphasize the importance of a whole-body understanding of multimorbidity and discuss how spatial genomics, when integrated with additional omic datasets, could provide novel insights into the molecular underpinnings of multimorbidity.
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- Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- The Maurice Wilkins Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- The Maurice Wilkins Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
- The Maurice Wilkins Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Australian Parkinson's Mission, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
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Zhang Y, Xu C, Agudelo Higuita NI, Bhattacharya R, Chakrabarty JH, Mukherjee P. Evaluation of I-TAC as a potential early plasma marker to differentiate between critical and non-critical COVID-19. Cell Stress 2022; 6:6-16. [PMID: 35083423 PMCID: PMC8728569 DOI: 10.15698/cst2022.01.262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Revised: 11/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant global health and economic consequences. There is an unmet need to define a molecular fingerprint of severity of the disease that may guide an early, rational and directed intervention preventing severe illness. We collected plasma from patients with moderate (nine cases), severe (22 cases) and critical (five cases) COVID-19 within three days of hospitalization (approximately one week after symptom onset) and used a cytokine antibody array to screen the 105 cytokines included in the array. We found that I-TAC, IP-10, ST2 and IL-1ra were significantly upregulated in patients with critical disease as compared to the non-critical (moderate and severe combined). ELISA further quantified I-TAC levels as 590.24±410.89, 645.35±517.59 and 1613.53±1010.59 pg/ml in moderate, severe and critical groups, respectively. Statistical analysis showed that I-TAC levels were significantly higher in patients with critical disease when compared with moderate (p = 0.04), severe (p = 0.03) or the combined non-critical (p = 0.02) group. Although limited by the low sample numbers, this study may suggest a role of I-TAC as a potential early marker to discriminate between critical and non-critical COVID-19 cases. Such knowledge is urgently needed for appropriate allocation of resources and to serve as a platform for future research towards early interventions that could mitigate disease severity and save lives.
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- Yushan Zhang
- Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA
- Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA
- Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA
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Illi S, Depner M, Pfefferle PI, Renz H, Roduit C, Taft DH, Kalanetra KM, Mills DA, Farquharson FM, Louis P, Schmausser-Hechfellner E, Divaret-Chauveau A, Lauener R, Karvonen AM, Pekkanen J, Kirjavainen PV, Roponen M, Riedler J, Kabesch M, Schaub B, von Mutius E. Immune Responsiveness to LPS Determines Risk of Childhood Wheeze and Asthma in 17q21 Risk Allele Carriers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2021; 205:641-650. [PMID: 34919021 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202106-1458oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In murine models microbial exposures induce protection from experimental allergic asthma through innate immunity. Our aim was to assess the association of early life innate immunity with the development of asthma in children at risk. METHODS In the PASTURE farm birth cohort innate, Th2, Th1 and Th17 cytokine expression at age 1 year was measured after stimulation of PBMCs with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in N=445 children. Children at risk of asthma were defined based on single-nucleotide polymorphisms at the 17q21 asthma gene locus. Specifically, we used the SNP rs7216389 in the GSDMB gene. Wheeze in the 1st year of life was assessed by weekly diaries and asthma by questionnaire at age 6 years. RESULTS Not all cytokines were detectable in all children after LPS-stimulation. When classifying detectability of cytokines by latent class analysis, carrying the 17q21 risk allele rs7216389 was associated with risk of wheeze only in the class with the lowest level of LPS-induced activation, odds ratio (OR)=1.89, 95%-CI 1.13-3.16, p=0.015. In contrast, in children with high cytokine activation after LPS-stimulation no association of the 17q21 risk allele with wheeze (OR=0.63, 95%-CI 0.29-1.40, p=0.258, p=0.034 for interaction) or school age asthma was observed. In these children consumption of unprocessed cow's milk was associated with higher cytokine activation (OR=3.37, 95%-CI 1.56-7.30, p=0.002), which was in part mediated by the gut microbiome. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that within the 17q21 genotype asthma risk can be mitigated by activated immune responses after innate stimulation, which is partly mediated by a gut-immune axis.
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- Sabina Illi
- Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Gesundheit und Umwelt, 9150, Institute of Asthma and Allergy Prevention, Neuherberg, Germany.,German Center for Lung Research, 542891, Giessen, Germany;
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- Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Umwelt und Gesundheit, 9150, Institute of Asthma and Allergy Prevention, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Philipps-Universität Marburg Fachbereich Medizin, 98594, Comprehensive Biobank Marburg CBBM, Marburg, Germany.,German Center for Lung Research, 542891, Giessen, Germany
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- Philipps-Universität Marburg, 9377, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Marburg, Germany.,Sechenov University, 68477, Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, Laboratory of Immunopathology, Moskva, Russian Federation.,German Center for Lung Research, 542891, Giessen, Germany
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- University of Zurich, Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.,Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE) , Davos, Switzerland.,Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland
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- University of California Davis, 8789, Department of Food Science & Technology, Davis, California, United States
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- University of California Davis, 8789, Department of Food Science & Technology, Davis, California, United States
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- University of California Davis, 8789, Department of Food Science & Technology, Davis, California, United States
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- University of Aberdeen, 1019, The Rowett Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- University of Aberdeen, 1019, The Rowett Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, 9150, Institute of Asthma and Allergy Prevention, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Burgundy Franche-Comté University, 439716, UMR 6249 Chrono-environment , Besancon, France.,University of Lorraine, 137665, EA3450 Développement Adaptation et Handicap (DevAH) , Nancy, France.,University Hospital Centre Nancy, 26920, Pediatric Allergy Department, Nancy, France
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- Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland.,Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE) , Davos, Switzerland
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- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, 3837, Department of Health Security, Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health, Helsinki, Finland.,Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, 3837, Department of Health Security, Helsinki, Finland
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- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, 3837, Department of Health Security, Kuopio, Finland.,University of Eastern Finland, 163043, Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, Kuopio, Finland
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- University of Eastern Finland, 163043, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Kuopio, Finland
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- Children's Hospital Schwarzach, Children's Hospital Schwarzach, Schwarzach, Austria
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- University Children's Hospital Regensburg (KUNO), Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Allergy, Campus St. Hedwig, Regensburg, Germany
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- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, 9183, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Munchen, Germany.,German Center for Lung Research, 542891, Giessen, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Gesundheit und Umwelt, 9150, Institute of Asthma and Allergy Prevention, Neuherberg, Germany.,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, 9183, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, München, Germany.,German Center for Lung Research, 542891, Giessen, Germany
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Dy ABC, Langlais PR, Barker NK, Addison KJ, Tanyaratsrisakul S, Boitano S, Christenson SA, Kraft M, Meyers D, Bleecker ER, Li X, Ledford JG. Myeloid-associated differentiation marker is a novel SP-A-associated transmembrane protein whose expression on airway epithelial cells correlates with asthma severity. Sci Rep 2021; 11:23392. [PMID: 34862427 PMCID: PMC8642528 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02869-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Surfactant protein A (SP-A) is well-known for its protective role in pulmonary immunity. Previous studies from our group have shown that SP-A mediates eosinophil activities, including degranulation and apoptosis. In order to identify potential binding partners on eosinophils for SP-A, eosinophil lysates were subjected to SP-A pull-down and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) analysis. We identified one membrane-bound protein, myeloid-associated differentiation marker (MYADM), as a candidate SP-A binding partner. Blocking MYADM on mouse and human eosinophils ex vivo prevented SP-A from inducing apoptosis; blocking MYADM in vivo led to increased persistence of eosinophilia and airway hyper-responsiveness in an ovalbumin (OVA) allergy model and increased airways resistance and mucus production in a house dust mite (HDM) asthma model. Examination of a subset of participants in the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) cohort revealed a significant association between epithelial expression of MYADM in asthma patients and parameters of airway inflammation, including: peripheral blood eosinophilia, exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) and the number of exacerbations in the past 12 months. Taken together, our studies provide the first evidence of MYADM as a novel SP-A-associated protein that is necessary for SP-A to induce eosinophil apoptosis and we bring to light the potential importance of this previously unrecognized transmembrane protein in patients with asthma.
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- Alane Blythe C Dy
- Clinical Translational Sciences, University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA
- Department of Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94117, USA
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA
- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA
- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA
- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA.
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA.
- , 1230 N Cherry Avenue, BSRL Building, Tucson, AZ, 85719, USA.
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Bourdonnay E, Henry T. Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Gasdermins. J Mol Biol 2021; 434:167253. [PMID: 34537234 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.167253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Revised: 08/26/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Abstract
Gasdermins (GSDM) are a family of six homologous proteins (GSDMA to E and Pejvakin) in humans. GSDMA-E are pore-forming proteins targeting the plasma membrane to trigger a rapid cell death termed pyroptosis or bacterial membranes to promote antibacterial immune defenses. Activation of GSDM relies on a proteolytic cleavage but is highly dependent on GSDM expression levels. The different GSDM genes have tissue-specific expression pattern although metabolic, environmental signals, cell stress and numerous cytokines modulate their expression levels in tissues. Furthermore, expression of GSDM genes can be modulated by polymorphisms and have been associated with susceptibility to asthma, inflammatory bowel diseases and rhinovirus wheezing illness. Finally, the expression level of GSDMs controls the balance between apoptosis and pyroptosis affecting both the response and the toxicity to chemotactic drugs and antitumoral treatments. Numerous cancer demonstrate positive or negative modulation of GSDM expression levels correlating with distinct tumor-specific prognosis. In this review, we present the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms controlling GSDM levels and their functional consequences in asthma, infection, cancers and inflammatory bowel disease to highlight how this first layer of regulations has key consequences on disease susceptibility and response to treatment.
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- Emilie Bourdonnay
- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Inserm U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Univ Lyon, F-69007 Lyon, France
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Inserm U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Univ Lyon, F-69007 Lyon, France.
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