School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI)Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.
Nat Commun. 2020 Feb 26;11(1):1055. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14945-2.
Activated caspase-1 and caspase-11 induce inflammatory cell death in a process termed pyroptosis. Here we show that Prostaglandin E (PGE) inhibits caspase-11-dependent pyroptosis in murine and human macrophages. PGE suppreses caspase-11 expression in murine and human macrophages and in the airways of mice with allergic inflammation. Remarkably, caspase-11-deficient mice are strongly resistant to developing experimental allergic airway inflammation, where PGE is known to be protective. Expression of caspase-11 is elevated in the lung of wild type mice with allergic airway inflammation. Blocking PGE production with indomethacin enhances, whereas the prostaglandin E analog misoprostol inhibits lung caspase-11 expression. Finally, alveolar macrophages from asthma patients exhibit increased expression of caspase-4, a human homologue of caspase-11. Our findings identify PGE as a negative regulator of caspase-11-driven pyroptosis and implicate caspase-4/11 as a critical contributor to allergic airway inflammation, with implications for pathophysiology of asthma.
半胱氨酸天冬氨酸蛋白酶 1(caspase-1)和 caspase-11 可诱导细胞发生炎症性死亡,这一过程被称为细胞焦亡。本文作者发现前列腺素 E(PGE)可抑制小鼠和人源巨噬细胞中的 caspase-11 依赖性细胞焦亡。PGE 可抑制小鼠和人源巨噬细胞以及过敏性炎症小鼠气道中的 caspase-11 表达。值得注意的是,caspase-11 缺陷型小鼠对实验性过敏性气道炎症具有很强的抵抗力,而 PGE 已知对其具有保护作用。在过敏性气道炎症的野生型小鼠的肺部,caspase-11 的表达水平升高。用吲哚美辛阻断 PGE 生成可增强,而前列腺素 E 类似物米索前列醇则可抑制肺 caspase-11 的表达。最后,哮喘患者的肺泡巨噬细胞中 caspase-4(caspase-11 的人类同源物)的表达增加。这些发现表明 PGE 是 caspase-11 驱动的细胞焦亡的负调控因子,并提示 caspase-4/11 是过敏性气道炎症的关键贡献者,这与哮喘的病理生理学有关。