School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Department of Geriatric Endocrinology, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, China.
Front Immunol. 2023 Jan 24;14:1032355. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1032355. eCollection 2023.
Pulmonary fibrosis is an irreversible disease, and its mechanism is unclear. The lung is a vital organ connecting the respiratory tract and the outside world. The changes in lung microbiota affect the progress of lung fibrosis. The latest research showed that lung microbiota differs in healthy people, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and acute exacerbation-idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (AE-IPF). How to regulate the lung microbiota and whether the potential regulatory mechanism can become a necessary targeted treatment of IPF are unclear. Some studies showed that immune response and lung microbiota balance and maintain lung homeostasis. However, unbalanced lung homeostasis stimulates the immune response. The subsequent biological effects are closely related to lung fibrosis. Core fucosylation (CF), a significant protein functional modification, affects the lung microbiota. CF regulates immune protein modifications by regulating key inflammatory factors and signaling pathways generated after immune response. The treatment of immune regulation, such as antibiotic treatment, vitamin D supplementation, and exosome micro-RNAs, has achieved an initial effect in clearing the inflammatory storm induced by an immune response. Based on the above, the highlight of this review is clarifying the relationship between pulmonary microbiota and immune regulation and identifying the correlation between the two, the impact on pulmonary fibrosis, and potential therapeutic targets.
肺纤维化是一种不可逆转的疾病,其发病机制尚不清楚。肺是连接呼吸道和外界的重要器官,肺内微生物群的改变影响肺纤维化的进展。最新研究表明,健康人群的肺内微生物群存在差异,包括特发性肺纤维化(IPF)和急性加重特发性肺纤维化(AE-IPF)。如何调节肺内微生物群,以及潜在的调节机制是否可以成为 IPF 的必要靶向治疗尚不清楚。一些研究表明,免疫反应和肺内微生物群的平衡和维持肺内稳态。然而,肺内稳态的失衡会刺激免疫反应,随后的生物学效应与肺纤维化密切相关。核心岩藻糖基化(CF)是一种重要的蛋白质功能修饰,影响肺内微生物群。CF 通过调节免疫反应后产生的关键炎症因子和信号通路来调节免疫蛋白的修饰。免疫调节治疗,如抗生素治疗、维生素 D 补充和外泌体 micro-RNAs,在清除免疫反应引起的炎症风暴方面已取得初步效果。基于上述内容,本文的重点是阐明肺内微生物群与免疫调节之间的关系,并确定两者之间的相关性及其对肺纤维化的影响和潜在的治疗靶点。
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