Ma Linyi, He Ying, Xie Huancheng, Wang Jing, Chen Jiaqian, Song Shijie, Zhang Le, Li Linmei, Lai He, Liu Yongping, Chen Huifang, Zhang Xueyan, Liu Xueting, Zou Zehong, Zhang Qingling, Yan Jie, Tao Ailin
The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Allergy & Immunology, The State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Medical University, 250 Changgang Road East, Guangzhou, 510260, China.
Department of Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital of the Yangtze River Shipping, Wuhan, 430005, China.
Cell Death Discov. 2024 Feb 23;10(1):96. doi: 10.1038/s41420-024-01861-3.
Asthma is a common allergic disease characterized by airway hypersensitivity and airway remodeling. Ferroptosis is a regulated death marked by iron accumulation and lipid peroxidation. Several environmental pollutants and allergens have been shown to cause ferroptosis in epithelial cells, but the relationship between birch pollinosis and ferroptosis in asthma is poorly defined. Here, for the first time, we have identified ferroptosis of type II alveolar epithelial cells in mice with Bet v 1-induced asthma. Further analysis revealed that treatment with ferrostatin-1 reduced T2/T17-related inflammation and alleviated epithelial damage in mice with Bet v 1-induced asthma. In addition, ACSL4-knocked-down A549 cells are more resistant to Bet v 1-induced ferroptosis. Analysis of clinical samples verified higher serum MDA and 4-HNE concentrations compared to healthy individuals. We demonstrate that birch pollen allergen Bet v 1 induces ferroptosis underlaid T2 and T17 hybrid asthma. Lipid peroxidation levels can be considered as a biomarker of asthma severity, and treatment with a specific ferroptosis inhibitor could be a novel therapeutic strategy.
哮喘是一种常见的过敏性疾病,其特征为气道高反应性和气道重塑。铁死亡是一种由铁积累和脂质过氧化标记的程序性死亡。几种环境污染物和过敏原已被证明可导致上皮细胞发生铁死亡,但桦树花粉症与哮喘中铁死亡之间的关系尚不明确。在此,我们首次在Bet v 1诱导的哮喘小鼠中鉴定出II型肺泡上皮细胞的铁死亡。进一步分析表明,用铁抑素-1治疗可减轻Bet v 1诱导的哮喘小鼠的T2/T17相关炎症并减轻上皮损伤。此外,ACSL4基因敲低的A549细胞对Bet v 1诱导的铁死亡更具抗性。临床样本分析证实,与健康个体相比,血清丙二醛(MDA)和4-羟基壬烯醛(4-HNE)浓度更高。我们证明,桦树花粉过敏原Bet v 1在T2和T17混合型哮喘中诱导铁死亡。脂质过氧化水平可被视为哮喘严重程度的生物标志物,用特定的铁死亡抑制剂进行治疗可能是一种新的治疗策略。