Vitamin B-reath easier: vitamin B6 derivatives reduce IL-33 to limit lung inflammation.
Vitamin B-reath easier: vitamin B6 derivatives reduce IL-33 to limit lung inflammation.
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维生素 B 更容易:维生素 B6 衍生物可降低 IL-33 以限制肺部炎症。
DOI:
10.1038/s41423-023-01076-z
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
24.1
通讯作者:
Turnquist,HēthR
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作者:
Turnquist,HēthR
Asthma is a chronic allergic lung disease that inflames and constricts the airways [1]. Symptoms include shortness of breath, coughing, and wheezing that can lead to death during severe asthma attacks. Asthma imposes substantial personal, societal and economic burdens and causes approximately half a million deaths per year [2]. Unfortunately, the prevalence of asthma is increasing globally in high-, low-, and middle-income countries alike. The pathophysiology of asthma involves a dysregulated relationship between lung epithelial cells and the local immune cell axis that is difficult to resolve. One prominent epithelial-immune pathway implicated in asthma is the epithelial-derived cytokine and injury signal interleukin-33 (IL-33) and local immune cells expressing the IL-33 receptor IL-1 receptor-like 1 (IL1RL1), commonly referred to as ST2 [3]. Human IL-33 is a 270-amino acid protein comprising two key domains (Fig. 1 A). The first domain (amino acids 1-65) facilitates the nuclear localization and chromatin association of IL-33. The second domain (amino acids 112-270) is the IL-1-like cytokine domain that mediates cytokine activities. These domains are separated by a central linker region (amino acids 66-111)[4]. Genetic variations in IL-33 and IL1RL1 are associated with susceptibility to asthma and allergic diseases [5-7], and targeting IL-33 has shown promise in the prevention and treatment of allergic lung inflammation in preclinical studies and recent clinical trials [8, 9].The proper regulation of IL-33 is essential to avoid lethal type 2 inflammation [10], and multiple regulatory mechanisms have been identified. A major mechanism is nuclear sequestration, where the N-terminal domain of IL-33 binds IL-33 to chromatin in the nucleus to sequester IL-33 until it is released during necrosis, cellular damage, or stress through poorly understood mechanisms (Fig. 1 B). Released full-length IL-33 is active and can be proteolytically cleaved at the linker domain to generate more bioactive “mature7 fragments or inactivated through apoptotic caspase-mediated cleavage at the cytokine domain (Fig. 1 C). Once in the extracellular space, IL-33 is rapidly inactivated via oxidization or neutralized by soluble decoy receptor ST2 (Fig. 1 C)[4]. Zhu et al. have now elucidated a new mechanism that regulates IL-33 homeostatic levels and protein stability involving phosphate-pyridoxal (PLP), an active form of vitamin B6, and protective ubiquitination [11](summarized in Fig. 2). It has been known for some time that low PLP blood levels are common in asthmatic patients, and supplementation with vitamin B6 may reduce the severity of asthma symptoms [12]. In the current study, a comparison of PLP levels in the plasma of asthmatic patients (n= 52) and healthy controls (n= 58)