Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, BIOPOLIS, 41500, Larissa, Greece.
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 3 Panepistimiou Str., BIOPOLIS, 41500, Larissa, Greece.
Inflammation. 2019 Dec;42(6):2072-2085. doi: 10.1007/s10753-019-01070-6.
Interleukin 33 (IL-33) is an alarmin with multiple roles in immunity and cell homeostasis, highly expressed in barrier sites, acting via the suppression of tumorigenicity 2 receptor (ST2). Production of IL-33 and soluble ST2 (sST2), a decoy receptor for IL-33, has been implicated in several pulmonary diseases, but both have been scarcely investigated in pleural diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the levels of IL-33 and sST2 in transudative (TrPEs), malignant (MPEs), and parapneumonic (PPEs) pleural effusions (PEs) and investigate the effect of PE fluids from each group with low and high IL-33/sST2 levels on MeT-5A cell adhesion and migration. IL-33 and sST2 pleural fluid levels were similar among TrPEs, MPEs, and PPEs. However, a significant correlation was found between IL-33 and LDH and in sST2 levels with lymphocyte counts in TrPEs. Additionally, in MPEs the levels of IL-33 correlated with the levels of sST2 and with the red blood cell counts. Furthermore, incubation of MeT-5A cells with MPEs and PPEs bearing low or high levels of IL-33/sST2 yielded significant differential effects on MeT-5A cell adhesion and migration. In MPEs, high IL-33/sST2 levels led to increased adhesion and migration of MeT-5A cells, while in PPEs the effect was the opposite, while no effect in both cell phenotypes was determined for TrPEs. These results reveal a clinical context dependent effect of the IL-33/sST2 axis in PEs.
白细胞介素 33(IL-33)是一种具有多种免疫和细胞内稳态作用的警报素,在屏障部位高表达,通过抑制肿瘤抑制物 2 受体(ST2)发挥作用。IL-33 和可溶性 ST2(sST2)的产生,IL-33 的诱饵受体,已被牵连到几种肺部疾病中,但在胸膜疾病中都很少被研究。本研究旨在确定渗出性(TrPEs)、恶性(MPEs)和类肺炎性(PPEs)胸腔积液(PEs)中 IL-33 和 sST2 的水平,并研究每组具有低和高 IL-33/sST2 水平的胸腔积液对 MeT-5A 细胞黏附和迁移的影响。TrPEs、MPEs 和 PPEs 之间 IL-33 和 sST2 胸腔液水平相似。然而,在 TrPEs 中发现 IL-33 与 LDH 之间存在显著相关性,而 sST2 水平与淋巴细胞计数之间存在相关性。此外,在 MPEs 中,IL-33 水平与 sST2 水平以及红细胞计数相关。此外,用具有低或高 IL-33/sST2 水平的 MPEs 和 PPEs 孵育 MeT-5A 细胞会对 MeT-5A 细胞黏附和迁移产生显著的差异影响。在 MPEs 中,高 IL-33/sST2 水平导致 MeT-5A 细胞的黏附和迁移增加,而在 PPEs 中则相反,而 TrPEs 对两种细胞表型均无影响。这些结果揭示了 IL-33/sST2 轴在 PEs 中具有临床相关的作用。