Impairment of Immunoproteasome Function by Cigarette Smoke and in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Autor: Susanne Krauss-Etschmann, Alessandra Mossina, Tobias Straub, Oliver Vosyka, Dorothee Brech, Petra Nathan, Darcy E. Wagner, Rudolf Hatz, Hermen S. Overkleeft, Ivan O. Rosas, Elfriede Noessner, Gerhard Preissler, Ali Önder Yildirim, Hauke Winter, Ilona Kammerl, Antje Prasse, Thomas M. Conlon, Oliver Eickelberg, Melanie Königshoff, Katharina Heinzelmann, Christina Lukas, Angela Dann, Silke Meiners, Michael Lindner, Jürgen Behr
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 193(11), 1230-1241
ISSN: 1535-4970
1073-449X
Popis: RATIONALE\nChronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients and in particular smokers are more susceptible to respiratory infections contributing to acute exacerbations of disease. The immunoproteasome is a specialized type of proteasome destined to improve major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-mediated antigen presentation for the resolution of intracellular infections.\nOBJECTIVES\nTo characterize immunoproteasome function in COPD and its regulation by cigarette smoke.\nMETHODS\nImmunoproteasome expression and activity were determined in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and lungs of human donors, COPD, and IPF patients, as well as in cigarette smoke-exposed mice. Smoke-mediated alteration of immunoproteasome activity and MHC I surface expression were analysed in human blood-derived macrophages. Immunoproteasome-specific MHC I antigen presentation was evaluated in spleen and lung immune cells that had been smoke-exposed in vitro or in vivo.\nMEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS\nImmunoproteasome and MHC I mRNA expression was reduced in BAL cells of COPD patients and in isolated alveolar macrophages of COPD and IPF patients. Exposure of immune cells to cigarette smoke extract in vitro reduced immunoproteasome activity and impaired immunoproteasome-specific MHC I antigen presentation. In vivo, acute cigarette smoke exposure dynamically regulated immunoproteasome function and MHC I antigen presentation in mouse BAL cells. End-stage COPD lungs showed markedly impaired immunoproteasome activities.\nCONCLUSIONS\nWe here show for the first time that the activity of the immunoproteasome is impaired by cigarette smoke resulting in reduced MHC I antigen presentation. Regulation of immunoproteasome function by cigarette smoke may thus alter adaptive immune responses and add to prolonged infections and exacerbations in COPD and IPF.
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