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Biochem Biophys Res Commun ; 678: 179-185, 2023 10 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37643535

RESUMO

Extracellular histones induce endothelial damage, resulting in lung haemorrhage; however, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Factor XIII, as a Ca2+-dependent cross-linking enzyme in blood, mediates fibrin deposition. As another isozyme, transglutaminase 2 (TG2) has a catalytic activity distributing in most tissues. Herein, we investigated whether TG2 promotes fibrin deposition and mediates the adhesion of platelets to ECs in histone-induced acute lung injury (ALI). We evaluated the lung histology and the adhesion of platelets to endothelial cells (ECs) after injecting histones to wild-type (WT) C57BL/6J and TG2 knockout (TG2-/-) mice, and administered a TG2 inhibitor (NC9) to WT mice. Pulmonary haemorrhage was more severe in TG2-/- mice than that in WT mice. The area of fibrin deposition and the proportion of CD41+CD31+ cells were lower in TG2-/- mice than in WT mice. Pre-treatment of NC9 decreased the area of fibrin deposition and the proportion of CD41+CD31+ cells in WT mice. These results suggest that TG2 prevents from pulmonary haemorrhage in ALI by promoting the adhesion of platelets to ECs and the fibrin deposition.


Assuntos
Lesão Pulmonar Aguda , Células Endoteliais , Animais , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Histonas , Proteína 2 Glutamina gama-Glutamiltransferase , Lesão Pulmonar Aguda/induzido quimicamente , Fibrina
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Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol ; 65(3): 319-330, 2021 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34264172

RESUMO

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by the invariably progressive deposition of fibrotic tissue in the lungs and overall poor prognosis. TG2 (transglutaminase 2) is an enzyme that crosslinks glutamine and lysine residues and is involved in IPF pathogenesis. Despite the accumulating evidence implicating TG2 as a critical enzyme, the causative function and direct target of TG2 relating to this pathogenesis remain unelucidated. Here, we clarified the distributions of TG2 protein/activity and conducted quantitative proteomics analyses of possible substrates crosslinked by TG2 on unfixed lung sections in a mouse pulmonary fibrosis model. We identified 126 possible substrates as markedly TG2-dependently increased in fibrotic lung. Gene ontology analysis revealed that these identified proteins were mostly enriched in the lipid metabolic process, immune system process, and protein transport. In addition, these proteins were enriched in 21 pathways, including phagosome, lipid metabolism, several immune responses, and protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum. Furthermore, the network analyses screened out the six clusters and top 20 hub proteins with higher scores, which are related to endoplasmic reticulum stress and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor signals. Several enriched pathways and categories were identified, some of which were the same terms based on transcription analysis in IPF. Our results provide novel pathological molecular networks driven by protein crosslinking via TG2, which can lead to the development of new therapeutic targets for IPF.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Ligação ao GTP/metabolismo , Pulmão/enzimologia , Proteômica , Fibrose Pulmonar/epidemiologia , Transdução de Sinais , Transglutaminases/metabolismo , Animais , Pulmão/patologia , Camundongos , Proteína 2 Glutamina gama-Glutamiltransferase , Fibrose Pulmonar/induzido quimicamente , Fibrose Pulmonar/patologia
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Anal Biochem ; 604: 113629, 2020 09 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32061735

RESUMO

The transglutaminase (TGase) family consists of eight isozymes that catalyze Ca2+-dependent crosslink formation between glutamine and lysine residues of proteins. In the pathogenesis of various chronic diseases, among the TGase isozymes, TG2 in particular is upregulated and contributes to a critical role in fibrosis development and progression via the stabilization of extracellular matrix proteins and activation of TGF-ß. Although TG2 has been considered a key enzyme in fibrosis, the causative role of TG2 and involvement of other isozymes remain unclear. We have recently developed a comprehensive analysis method targeting the isozyme-specific substrates of TGase in liver and kidney fibrosis. In this review article, we introduce a previously developed method for determining the activity and tissue distribution of TGase and for the detecting and identification of TGase substrates in an isozyme-specific manner. Using our comprehensive analysis method, we newly characterized the overlapping profile data regarding potential substrates of TG1 and TG2 that have been identified in liver and kidney fibrosis to date. Our results obtained by comparing the specificity and similarity of potential TGase substrates between different tissue fibrosis models provide a deeper understanding regarding the specific and common pathways in disease pathogenesis and progression.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Ligação ao GTP/metabolismo , Nefropatias/enzimologia , Rim/enzimologia , Cirrose Hepática/enzimologia , Fígado/enzimologia , Transglutaminases/metabolismo , Animais , Humanos , Isoenzimas/metabolismo , Rim/patologia , Fígado/patologia , Proteína 2 Glutamina gama-Glutamiltransferase , Especificidade por Substrato
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Cell Death Dis ; 14(2): 136, 2023 03 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36864028

RESUMO

Macrophages are important components in modulating homeostatic and inflammatory responses and are generally categorized into two broad but distinct subsets: classical activated (M1) and alternatively activated (M2) depending on the microenvironment. Fibrosis is a chronic inflammatory disease exacerbated by M2 macrophages, although the detailed mechanism by which M2 macrophage polarization is regulated remains unclear. These polarization mechanisms have little in common between mice and humans, making it difficult to adapt research results obtained in mice to human diseases. Tissue transglutaminase (TG2) is a known marker common to mouse and human M2 macrophages and is a multifunctional enzyme responsible for crosslinking reactions. Here we sought to identify the role of TG2 in macrophage polarization and fibrosis. In IL-4-treated macrophages derived from mouse bone marrow and human monocyte cells, the expression of TG2 was increased with enhancement of M2 macrophage markers, whereas knockout or inhibitor treatment of TG2 markedly suppressed M2 macrophage polarization. In the renal fibrosis model, accumulation of M2 macrophages in fibrotic kidney was significantly reduced in TG2 knockout or inhibitor-administrated mice, along with the resolution of fibrosis. Bone marrow transplantation using TG2-knockout mice revealed that TG2 is involved in M2 polarization of infiltrating macrophages derived from circulating monocytes and exacerbates renal fibrosis. Furthermore, the suppression of renal fibrosis in TG2-knockout mice was abolished by transplantation of wild-type bone marrow or by renal subcapsular injection of IL4-treated macrophages derived from bone marrow of wild-type, but not TG2 knockout. Transcriptome analysis of downstream targets involved in M2 macrophages polarization revealed that ALOX15 expression was enhanced by TG2 activation and promoted M2 macrophage polarization. Furthermore, the increase in the abundance of ALOX15-expressing macrophages in fibrotic kidney was dramatically suppressed in TG2-knockout mice. These findings demonstrated that TG2 activity exacerbates renal fibrosis by polarization of M2 macrophages from monocytes via ALOX15.


Assuntos
Nefropatias , Proteína 2 Glutamina gama-Glutamiltransferase , Humanos , Animais , Camundongos , Macrófagos , Monócitos , Rim
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