Cigarette Smoke-derived Electrophilic Aldehydes and Airway Inflammation

描述（由申请人提供）：吸烟仍然是全球主要的健康负担，与儿童呼吸道感染增加和慢性肺部疾病（如COPD、哮喘和肺癌）的发生密切相关。香烟烟雾（CS）的不良健康影响在很大程度上与其免疫抑制特性有关，导致先天免疫反应，宿主防御和肿瘤监视受损。虽然人们通常认为这些作用是由于CS衍生的活性氧（ROS），主要是基于硫醇基抗氧化剂的保护作用的观察，CS中的主要硫醇反应剂是丙烯醛（2，3-丙烯醛）和其他相关的不饱和醛。我们最近在小鼠中的研究已经证明丙烯醛对肺泡巨噬细胞的免疫抑制作用模拟CS。急性机制与直接和短暂的烷基化氧化还原敏感蛋白的目标似乎是至关重要的，在这方面，直接影响激活NF-？B或AP-1和改变细胞氧化还原调节。然而，这些蛋白质烷基化的具体功能后果尚不清楚。丙烯醛暴露还通过促进过敏性致敏以及通过抑制过敏性炎症来模拟吸烟对哮喘发展和严重程度的一些可变影响。丙烯醛的这些作用与增加的上皮损伤有关，并且可能由改变的上皮屏障完整性和与树突状细胞（肺中主要的抗原呈递细胞）的相互作用介导，尽管丙烯醛影响上皮完整性和调节树突状细胞成熟的介质产生的机制尚不清楚。本提案的主要目标是阐明丙烯醛改变先天巨噬细胞和上皮免疫反应以及过敏性炎症的机制，并确定关键酶系统直接烷基化的重要性。我们计划使用新开发的蛋白质组学方法和对靶蛋白中这些修饰的功能重要性的分析，确定丙烯醛诱导的先天免疫应答抑制中直接蛋白质修饰的重要性（目的1），并探索丙烯醛暴露对过敏性炎症和致敏的后果（目的2），集中于上皮屏障功能的改变和与直接烷基化或相关靶蛋白相关的介质产生。此外，根据最近的研究表明，丙烯醛是解毒谷胱甘肽S-转移酶P1（GSTP 1）和硫化氢（H2S），一个新认识的内源性介质产生的（同型）半胱氨酸代谢的胱硫醚合酶（CBS），我们将探讨GSTP 1和CBS/H2S在调节丙烯醛诱导的免疫反应的变化的重要性（目的3）。总的来说，这些研究不仅将提供重要的见解丙烯醛CS相关疾病的潜在贡献，但也可能是相关的了解其他相关的内源性或环境亲电试剂的行动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cigarette smoking remains a major global health burden and is strongly associated with increased childhood respiratory infections and development of chronic lung diseases such as COPD, asthma and lung cancer. The adverse health effects of cigarette smoke (CS) are largely related to its immuno-suppressive properties leading to impaired innate immune responses, host defense, and tumor surveillance. Although it is commonly thought that these effects are due to CS-derived reactive oxygen species (ROS), largely based on observations of protective effects of thiol-based antioxidants, the main thiol-reactive agents within CS are acrolein (2,3- propenal) and other related unsaturated aldehydes. Our recent studies in mice have demonstrated immunosuppressive effects of acrolein on alveolar macrophages that mimic those of CS. Acute mechanisms associated with direct and transient alkylation of redox-sensitive protein targets appear to be critical in this respect, diretly affecting activation of NF-?B or AP-1 and altering cellular redox regulation. However, the specific functional consequences of these protein alkylations are not known. Acrolein exposure also mimics some of the variable effects of cigarette smoking on asthma development and severity, by promoting allergic sensitization but also by suppressing allergic inflammation. These effects of acrolein were associated with increased epithelial injury and are likely mediated by altered epithelial barrier integrity and interaction with dendritic cells, the main antigen-presentng cell in the lung, although the mechanisms by which acrolein impacts on epithelial integrity and production of mediators that regulate dendritic cell maturation are not known. The main goal of the present proposal is to elucidate the mechanisms by which acrolein alters innate macrophage and epithelial immune responses as well as allergic inflammation, and to identify the importance of direct alkylation of critical enzyme systems. We plan to determine the importance of direct protein modifications in acrolein-induced suppression of innate immune responses (Aim 1), using newly developed proteomic approaches and analysis of the functional importance of these modifications in target proteins, and explore the consequences of acrolein exposure on allergic inflammation and sensitization (Aim 2), focusing on alterations in epithelial barrier function and mediator production in association with direct alkylation or relevant target proteins. Also, based on recent studies indicating that acrolein is detoxified by glutathione S-transferase P1 (GSTP1) and by hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a newly recognized endogenous mediator produced by (homo)cysteine metabolism by cystathionine ¿-synthase (CBS), we will explore the importance of GSTP1 and CBS/H2S in modulating acrolein-induced alterations in immune responses (Aim 3). Collectively, these studies will not only offer important insights into the potential contribution of acrolein to CS-related disease, but may also be relevant to understanding the actions of other relevant endogenous or environmental electrophiles.