Surfactant Protein D Deficiency Aggravates Cigarette Smoke-Induced Lung Inflammation by Upregulation of Ceramide Synthesis

Bartosz Pilecki; Helle Wulf-Johansson; Christian Støttrup; Patricia Troest Jørgensen; Pascal Djiadeu; Anders Bathum Nexøe; Anders Schlosser; Søren Werner Karlskov Hansen; Jens Madsen; Howard William Clark; Claus Henrik Nielsen; Jørgen Vestbo; Nades Palaniyar; Uffe Holmskov; Grith Lykke Sorensen

doi:10.3389/fimmu.2018.03013

Surfactant Protein D Deficiency Aggravates Cigarette Smoke-Induced Lung Inflammation by Upregulation of Ceramide Synthesis

Bartosz Pilecki, Helle Wulf-Johansson, Christian Støttrup, Patricia Troest Jørgensen, Pascal Djiadeu, Anders Bathum Nexøe, Anders Schlosser, Søren Werner Karlskov Hansen, Jens Madsen, Howard William Clark, Claus Henrik Nielsen, Jørgen Vestbo, Nades Palaniyar, Uffe Holmskov, Grith Lykke Sorensen

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Cigarette smoke (CS) is the main cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is an important anti-inflammatory protein that regulates host immune defense in the lungs. Here, we investigated the role of SP-D in a murine model of CS-induced inflammation. Pulmonary SP-D localization and abundance was compared between smoker and non-smoker individuals. For in vivo studies, wildtype, and SP-D-deficient mice were exposed to CS for either 12 weeks or 3 days. Moreover, the effect of therapeutic administration of recombinant fragment of human SP-D on the acute CS-induced changes was evaluated. Pulmonary SP-D appeared with heterogenous expression in human smokers, while mouse lung SP-D was uniformly upregulated after CS exposure. We found that SP-D-deficient mice were more susceptible to CS-induced macrophage-rich airway inflammation. SP-D deficiency influenced local pro-inflammatory cytokine levels, with increased CCL3 and interleukin-6 but decreased CXCL1. Furthermore, CS exposure caused significant upregulation of pro-inflammatory ceramides and related ceramide synthase gene transcripts in SP-D-deficient mice compared to wildtype littermates. Administration of recombinant fragment of human SP-D (rfhSP-D) alleviated CS-induced macrophage infiltration and prevented induction of ceramide synthase gene expression. Finally, rfhSP-D treatment attenuated CS-induced human epithelial cell apoptosis in vitro. Our results indicate that SP-D deficiency aggravates CS-induced lung inflammation partly through regulation of ceramide synthesis and that local SP-D enrichment rescues CS-induced inflammation.

Original language	English
Article number	3013
Journal	Frontiers in Immunology
Volume	9
Number of pages	12
ISSN	1664-3224
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2018.03013
Publication status	Published - 18 Dec 2018

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ceramide
ceramide synthase
cigarette smoke (CS)
mouse models
surfactant protein D (SP-D)

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Pilecki, B., Wulf-Johansson, H., Støttrup, C., Jørgensen, P. T., Djiadeu, P., Nexøe, A. B., Schlosser, A., Hansen, S. W. K., Madsen, J., Clark, H. W., Nielsen, C. H., Vestbo, J., Palaniyar, N., Holmskov, U., & Sorensen, G. L. (2018). Surfactant Protein D Deficiency Aggravates Cigarette Smoke-Induced Lung Inflammation by Upregulation of Ceramide Synthesis. Frontiers in Immunology, 9, [3013]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2018.03013

Pilecki, B, Wulf-Johansson, H, Støttrup, C, Jørgensen, PT, Djiadeu, P, Nexøe, AB, Schlosser, A, Hansen, SWK, Madsen, J, Clark, HW, Nielsen, CH, Vestbo, J, Palaniyar, N, Holmskov, U & Sorensen, GL 2018, 'Surfactant Protein D Deficiency Aggravates Cigarette Smoke-Induced Lung Inflammation by Upregulation of Ceramide Synthesis', Frontiers in Immunology, vol. 9, 3013. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2018.03013

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Surfactant Protein D Deficiency Aggravates Cigarette Smoke-Induced Lung Inflammation by Upregulation of Ceramide Synthesis

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