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Citation Information: JCI Insight. 2021;6(16):e139190. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.139190.
Abstract
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways associated with excess production of Th2 cytokines and lung eosinophil accumulation. This inflammatory response persists in spite of steroid administration that blocks autocrine/paracrine loops of inflammatory cytokines, and the detailed mechanisms underlying asthma exacerbation remain unclear. Here, we show that asthma exacerbation is triggered by airway macrophages through a prion-like cell-to-cell transmission of extracellular particulates, including ASC protein, that assemble inflammasomes and mediate IL-1β production. OVA-induced allergic asthma and associated IL-1β production were alleviated in mice with small GTPase Arf6-deficient macrophages. The extracellular ASC specks were slightly engulfed by Arf6–/– macrophages, and the IL-1β production was reduced in Arf6–/– macrophages compared with that in WT macrophages. Furthermore, pharmacological inhibition of the Arf6 guanine nucleotide exchange factor suppressed asthma-like allergic inflammation in OVA-challenged WT mice. Collectively, the Arf6-dependent intercellular transmission of extracellular ASC specks contributes to the amplification of allergic inflammation and subsequent asthma exacerbation.
Authors
SangJoon Lee, Akari Ishitsuka, Takahiro Kuroki, Yu-Hsien Lin, Akira Shibuya, Tsunaki Hongu, Yuji Funakoshi, Yasunori Kanaho, Kyosuke Nagata, Atsushi Kawaguchi
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