Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Is a Danger Signal Promoting Innate Inflammatory Responses in Bronchial Epithelial Cells
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Is a Danger Signal Promoting Innate Inflammatory Responses in Bronchial Epithelial Cells
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DOI:
10.1159/000447668
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发表时间:
2016-01-01
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Weitnauer, Michael
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作者:
Mijok, Vedrana;Lasitschka, Felix;Weitnauer, Michael
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is associated with chronic pulmonary inflammatory diseases. We hypothesized that the combined activation of both Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling and ER stress might increase inflammatory reactions in otherwise tolerant airway epithelial cells. Indeed, ER stress resulted in an increased response of BEAS-2B and human primary bronchial epithelial cells to pathogen-associated molecular pattern stimulation with respect to IL6 and IL8 production. ER stress elevated p38 and ERK MAP kinase activation, and pharmacological inhibition of these kinases could inhibit the boosting effect. Knockdown of unfolded protein response signaling indicated that mainly PERK and ATF6 were responsible for the synergistic activity. Specifically, PERK and ATF6 mediated increased MAPK activation, which is needed for effective cytokine secretion. We conclude that within airway epithelial cells the combined activation of TLR signaling and ER stress-mediated MAPK activation results in synergistic proinflammatory activity. We speculate that ER stress, present in various chronic pulmonary diseases, boosts TLR signaling and therefore pro inflammatory cytokine production, thus acting as a costimulatory danger signal. (C) 2016 S. Karger AG, Basel