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ABSTRACT: Aims
Recent studies have shown that cigarette smoke (CS)-induced oxidative stress impairs autophagy, resulting in aggresome-formation that correlates with severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-emphysema, although the specific step in autophagy pathway that is impaired is unknown. Hence, in this study, we aimed to evaluate the role of master autophagy transcription factor EB (TFEB) in CS-induced COPD-emphysema pathogenesis.Results
We first observed that TFEB accumulates in perinuclear spaces as aggresome-bodies in COPD lung tissues of tobacco smokers and severe emphysema subjects, compared with non-emphysema or nonsmoker controls. Next, Beas2b cells and C57BL/6 mice were exposed to either cigarette smoke extract (CSE) or subchronic-CS (sc-CS), followed by treatment with potent TFEB-inducing drug, gemfibrozil (GEM, or fisetin as an alternate), to experimentally verify the role of TFEB in COPD. Our in vitro results indicate that GEM/fisetin-mediated TFEB induction significantly (p?InnovationCS exposure impairs autophagy in COPD-emphysema by inducing perinuclear localization of master autophagy regulator, TFEB, to aggresome-bodies.Conclusion
TFEB-inducing drug(s) can control CS-induced TFEB/autophagy-impairment and COPD-emphysema pathogenesis. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 27, 150-167.
SUBMITTER: Bodas M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5510670 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bodas Manish M Patel Neel N Silverberg David D Walworth Kyla K Vij Neeraj N
Antioxidants & redox signaling 20170201 3
<h4>Aims</h4>Recent studies have shown that cigarette smoke (CS)-induced oxidative stress impairs autophagy, resulting in aggresome-formation that correlates with severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-emphysema, although the specific step in autophagy pathway that is impaired is unknown. Hence, in this study, we aimed to evaluate the role of master autophagy transcription factor EB (TFEB) in CS-induced COPD-emphysema pathogenesis.<h4>Results</h4>We first observed that TFEB acc ...[more]