Title
Constitutive immune activity promotes JNK- and FoxO-dependent remodeling of Drosophila airways
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology
Publication Date
2021-04-06
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Immunology and Infectious Disease | Respiratory Tract Diseases
Abstract
Extensive remodeling of the airways is a major characteristic of chronic inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). To elucidate the importance of a deregulated immune response in the airways for remodeling processes, we established a matching Drosophila model. Here, triggering the Imd (immune deficiency) pathway in tracheal cells induced organ-wide remodeling. This structural remodeling comprises disorganization of epithelial structures and comprehensive epithelial thickening. We show that these structural changes do not depend on the Imd pathway's canonical branch terminating on nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) activation. Instead, activation of a different segment of the Imd pathway that branches off downstream of Tak1 and comprises activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) and forkhead transcription factor of the O subgroup (FoxO) signaling is necessary and sufficient to mediate the observed structural changes of the airways. Our findings imply that targeting JNK and FoxO signaling in the airways could be a promising strategy to interfere with disease-associated airway remodeling processes.
Keywords
Drosophila melanogaster, asthma, COPD, toll-like receptor, trachea, Tak1, NF-kappaB
Rights and Permissions
Copyright 2021 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108956
Source
Wagner C, Uliczka K, Bossen J, Niu X, Fink C, Thiedmann M, Knop M, Vock C, Abdelsadik A, Zissler UM, Isermann K, Garn H, Pieper M, Wegmann M, Koczulla AR, Vogelmeier CF, Schmidt-Weber CB, Fehrenbach H, König P, Silverman N, Renz H, Pfefferle P, Heine H, Roeder T. Constitutive immune activity promotes JNK- and FoxO-dependent remodeling of Drosophila airways. Cell Rep. 2021 Apr 6;35(1):108956. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108956. PMID: 33826881. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Cell reports
Related Resources
PubMed ID
33826881
Repository Citation
Wagner C, Silverman NS, Roeder T. (2021). Constitutive immune activity promotes JNK- and FoxO-dependent remodeling of Drosophila airways. Open Access Publications by UMass Chan Authors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108956. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/4674
Creative Commons License
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Comments
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