Cellular Regulation of Nitric Oxide in Airway Inflammation

一氧化氮在气道炎症中的细胞调节

• 批准号: 7571586
• 负责人: N. Tony Eissa
• 金额: $ 37.5万
• 依托单位: BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-02-01 至 2011-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7571586
• 关键词: 26S proteasome; Adaptor Signaling Protein; Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Adverse effects; Affect; Air; Arginine; Asthma; Binding; Cell Culture Techniques; Cells; Cellular biology; Complex; Cultured Cells; Data; Disease; Enzymes; Epithelial Cells; F Box Domain; Future; Goals; Grant; Half-Life; In Vitro; Interphase; Liquid substance; Location; Methods; Molecular; Nitric Oxide; Normal Cell; Pathogenesis; Pathway interactions; Physiological; Play; Process; Protein Isoforms; Proteins; Regulation; Research; Research Personnel; Research Proposals; Role; Specificity; System; Testing; Therapeutic; Ubiquitin; Ubiquitination; Work; airway inflammation; analog; cell growth regulation; design; human NOS2A protein; multicatalytic endopeptidase complex; novel; programs; protein degradation; research study; response; ubiquitin ligase; ubiquitin-protein ligase

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Overproduction of nitric oxide (NO) by inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of airway inflammation of asthma. The long-term goal of this research is to understand the regulation of iNOS activity and to devise novel methods to regulate it. Although much is known about factors affecting the synthesis and catalytic activity of iNOS, little is known about its cellular regulation. We have recently shown that iNOS is degraded through the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. The specificity of the ubiqutination system, is mainly provided by the specific ubiquitin ligase enzyme (E3) that recognizes and binds to the target protein. Therefore, identification and characterization of the E3 ubiquitin ligase for iNOS should be regarded as one of the most critical steps for understanding the mechanisms of iNOS cellular regulation. Our preliminary data identified an F-box-containing protein; we termed FBXinos that is a likely candidate to be the E3 ubiquitin ligase for iNOS. Additional preliminary data suggest that cells regulate NO synthesis by temporal and spatial regulation of iNOS. These mechanisms include a relatively rapid rate of iNOS turnover and sequestration of iNOS to a perinuclear location we termed the "physiologic aggresome". Interestingly, our preliminary data suggest that FBXinos is important not only for iNOS turnover but also for subcellular targeting of iNOS. We propose to test the following hypothesis: An F-box-containing protein, FBXinos, is the E3 ligase for iNOS and it plays a central role in iNOS cellular regulation. The cellular regulation of this FBXinos further modulates iNOS and NO cellular levels. To test this hypothesis we propose studies with the following specific aims: 1) Characterization of the regulation of iNOS by FBXinos. 2) Determine the mechanisms by which FBXinos ubiquitin ligase targets iNOS to the aggresome. 3) Characterization of the regulation of iNOS and FBXinos in airway inflammation. Studies will be conducted in cultured cells expressing iNOS and in primary bronchial epithelial cells cultured at the air/liquid interphase. The rationale for the proposed studies is that once these mechanisms are understood, they would greatly increase our understanding of cellular handling of iNOS. Future therapeutic strategies can be designed to regulate these cellular responses in disease states.

描述（由申请人提供）：诱导型一氧化氮合酶（iNOS）过量产生一氧化氮（NO）与哮喘气道炎症的发病机制有关。本研究的长期目标是了解iNOS活性的调节，并设计新的方法来调节它。虽然对影响iNOS合成和催化活性的因素了解很多，但对其细胞调控知之甚少。我们最近发现iNOS是通过泛素-蛋白酶体途径降解的。泛素化系统的特异性，主要由识别并结合靶蛋白的特异性泛素连接酶（E3）提供。因此，鉴定和表征iNOS的E3泛素连接酶应被视为理解iNOS细胞调控机制的最关键步骤之一。我们的初步数据确定了一个含有f -box的蛋白；我们将其命名为FBXinos，它可能是E3泛素连接酶的候选者。另外的初步数据表明，细胞通过iNOS的时空调节来调节NO的合成。这些机制包括相对较快的iNOS周转和将iNOS隔离到核周位置，我们称之为“生理性聚集体”。有趣的是，我们的初步数据表明，FBXinos不仅对iNOS的转换很重要，而且对iNOS的亚细胞靶向也很重要。我们提出验证以下假设：含有f -box的蛋白FBXinos是iNOS的E3连接酶，它在iNOS细胞调控中起核心作用。FBXinos的细胞调控进一步调节了iNOS和NO细胞水平。为了验证这一假设，我们提出了以下具体目标的研究：1)表征FBXinos对iNOS的调节。2)确定FBXinos泛素连接酶将iNOS靶向到聚合体的机制。3) iNOS和FBXinos在气道炎症中的调节特性。研究将在表达iNOS的培养细胞和在气/液间期培养的原代支气管上皮细胞中进行。提出这些研究的基本原理是，一旦这些机制被理解，它们将大大增加我们对细胞处理iNOS的理解。未来的治疗策略可以设计为在疾病状态下调节这些细胞反应。