Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Anhui Institute of Innovative Drugs, School of Pharmacy, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, China.
The key Laboratory of Anti-inflammatory of Immune Medicines, Ministry of Education, Hefei, 230032, China.
Lab Invest. 2021 Sep;101(9):1210-1224. doi: 10.1038/s41374-021-00531-7. Epub 2021 Jun 10.
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is a major cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. Macrophages exhibit different functional states and are classified as classically activated (M1) and alternatively activated (M2) macrophages. However, the mechanisms that govern M1/M2 polarization in chronic ALD remain to be elucidated. Prostacyclin (PGI) synthase (PTGIS) is an enzyme of the prostaglandin pathway which catalyzes the conversion of Prostaglandin H (PGH) to PGI. PTGIS has anti-inflammatory properties. However, the function of PTGIS in ALD has not yet been determined. In this study, we demonstrated that PTGIS was downregulated in ALD and forced PTGIS expression in vivo using recombinant adeno-associated viral vector-packed PTGIS overexpression plasmid, which alleviated the inflammatory response and suppressed the macrophage M1 phenotype in mice. Loss- and gain-of function-experiments demonstrated that forced PTGIS expression inhibited the macrophage switch to the M1 phenotype and promoted M2 polarization. Furthermore, we identified the genes regulated by PTGIS through RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis. Gene ontology and KEGG pathway analyses showed that PTGIS regulates many genes involved in the immune response and is enriched in the Janus kinase/signal transducers and activators of transcription (JAK/STAT) signal transduction pathway, which plays an important role in regulating macrophage polarization. The proteins interacting with JAKs were predicted using the STRING database. The overlap between the RNA-seq and the STRING database was interleukin-6; this indicated that it was involved in macrophage polarization regulated by JAK/STAT signaling. We further explored the microRNAs that could regulate the expression of PTGIS through TargetScan. The results of luciferase assay illustrated that the expression of PTGIS was regulated by miR-140-3p.1. These results imply that PTGIS plays a pivotal role in ALD, partly by influencing macrophage polarization.
酒精性肝病 (ALD) 是全球慢性肝病的主要原因。巨噬细胞表现出不同的功能状态,并被分类为经典激活 (M1) 和替代激活 (M2) 巨噬细胞。然而,调节慢性 ALD 中 M1/M2 极化的机制仍有待阐明。前列环素 (PGI) 合酶 (PTGIS) 是前列腺素途径的一种酶,可催化前列腺素 H (PGH) 转化为 PGI。PTGIS 具有抗炎特性。然而,PTGIS 在 ALD 中的功能尚未确定。在这项研究中,我们证明了 PTGIS 在 ALD 中下调,并使用重组腺相关病毒载体包装的 PTGIS 过表达质粒在体内强制表达 PTGIS,这减轻了炎症反应并抑制了小鼠中巨噬细胞 M1 表型。失活和获得功能实验表明,强制表达 PTGIS 抑制了巨噬细胞向 M1 表型的转变,并促进了 M2 极化。此外,我们通过 RNA 测序 (RNA-seq) 分析确定了受 PTGIS 调节的基因。基因本体论和 KEGG 通路分析表明,PTGIS 调节许多参与免疫反应的基因,并富集在 Janus 激酶/信号转导和转录激活因子 (JAK/STAT) 信号转导通路中,该通路在调节巨噬细胞极化中起着重要作用。使用 STRING 数据库预测与 JAK 相互作用的蛋白质。RNA-seq 和 STRING 数据库的重叠是白细胞介素-6;这表明它参与了 JAK/STAT 信号转导调节的巨噬细胞极化。我们进一步通过 TargetScan 探索了可以通过 microRNA 调节 PTGIS 表达的 microRNA。荧光素酶检测结果表明,PTGIS 的表达受 miR-140-3p.1 调控。这些结果表明,PTGIS 在 ALD 中发挥着关键作用,部分是通过影响巨噬细胞极化。
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