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An anti-inflammatory eicosanoid switch mediates the suppression of type-2 inflammation by helminth larval products.

Authors :
de los Reyes Jiménez, Marta
Lechner, Antonie
Alessandrini, Francesca
Bohnacker, Sina
Schindela, Sonja
Trompette, Aurélien
Haimerl, Pascal
Thomas, Dominique
Henkel, Fiona
Mourão, André
Geerlof, Arie
da Costa, Clarissa Prazeres
Chaker, Adam M.
Brüne, Bernhard
Nüsing, Rolf
Jakobsson, Per-Johan
Nockher, Wolfgang A.
Feige, Matthias J.
Haslbeck, Martin
Ohnmacht, Caspar
Source :
Science Translational Medicine; 4/22/2020, Vol. 12 Issue 540, p1-14, 14p
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

Tamping down type-2 inflammation: Type-2 immunity in allergy and asthma is driven by nonredundant pathways, sometimes making therapeutic targeting difficult. De los Reyes Jiménez et al. investigated whether factors from a known mediator of type-2 immunity, the helminth Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri, could have added beneficial anti-inflammatory effects. They found that helminth larvae modulated eicosanoids in human macrophages and granulocytes. Both the larvae and the helminth protein glutamate dehydrogenase alleviated inflammation in a house dust mite model of asthma. These results suggest that helminth products have the potential to broadly modulate pathways in type-2 immune diseases. Eicosanoids are key mediators of type-2 inflammation, e.g., in allergy and asthma. Helminth products have been suggested as remedies against inflammatory diseases, but their effects on eicosanoids are unknown. Here, we show that larval products of the helminth Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri (HpbE), known to modulate type-2 responses, trigger a broad anti-inflammatory eicosanoid shift by suppressing the 5-lipoxygenase pathway, but inducing the cyclooxygenase (COX) pathway. In human macrophages and granulocytes, the HpbE-driven induction of the COX pathway resulted in the production of anti-inflammatory mediators [e.g., prostaglandin E<subscript>2</subscript> (PGE<subscript>2</subscript>) and IL-10] and suppressed chemotaxis. HpbE also abrogated the chemotaxis of granulocytes from patients suffering from aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD), a severe type-2 inflammatory condition. Intranasal treatment with HpbE extract attenuated allergic airway inflammation in mice, and intranasal transfer of HpbE-conditioned macrophages led to reduced airway eosinophilia in a COX/PGE<subscript>2</subscript>-dependent fashion. The induction of regulatory mediators in macrophages depended on p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α), and Hpb glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), which we identify as a major immunoregulatory protein in HpbE. Hpb GDH activity was required for anti-inflammatory effects of HpbE in macrophages, and local administration of recombinant Hpb GDH to the airways abrogated allergic airway inflammation in mice. Thus, a metabolic enzyme present in helminth larvae can suppress type-2 inflammation by inducing an anti-inflammatory eicosanoid switch, which has important implications for the therapy of allergy and asthma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
19466234
Volume :
12
Issue :
540
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Science Translational Medicine
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
142810800
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aay0605