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PACS2-TRPV1 axis is required for ER-mitochondrial tethering during ER stress and lung fibrosis

Journal

CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 79, Issue 3, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-022-04189-2

Keywords

Mitochondrial associated membranes; ER stress; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Capsaicin; TRPV1

Funding

  1. Projekt DEAL
  2. Universitatsklinikum Giessen und Marburg GmbH [06/2020 GI]
  3. German Research Foundation/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [MA 6621/2]
  4. Von Behring-Rontgen Stiftung [63-LV02]

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Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria (mito) play a vital role in alveolar type II cell (AEC2) homeostasis and are both stressed in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) patients. This study shows that ER-mitochondrial tethering is reduced in IPF AEC2 and experimental ER stress, partly due to decreased PACS2 protein levels. Treatment with the TRPV1-modulating drug capsaicin (CPS) restores PACS2 levels and reduces alveolar epithelial apoptosis, suggesting therapeutic potential in IPF.
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria (mito) play a vital role in alveolar type II cell (AEC2) homeostasis and are both stressed in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Up to now, no data are available with regard to ER-mito cross talk and tethering under conditions of IPF. We here demonstrate that ER-mitochondrial tethering is reduced upon experimental ER stress in vitro and in the IPF AECII ex vivo, and this is-at least in part-due to decreased phosphofurin acidic cluster sorting protein 2 (PACS-2, also called PACS2) protein levels. PACS2 levels are influenced by its interaction with the transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1 (TRPV1) and can be experimentally modified by the TRPV1-modulating drug capsaicin (CPS). Employing alveolar epithelial cells with overexpression of the terminal ER stress signaling factor Chop or the IPF-associated surfactant protein C mutation (SPC Delta exon4) in vitro, we observed a restoration of PACS2 levels upon treatment with CPS. Similarly, treatment of precision cut lung slices from IPF patients with CPS ex vivo forwarded similar effects. Importantly, in all models such kind of intervention also greatly reduced the extent of alveolar epithelial apoptosis. We therefore conclude that therapeutic targeting of the PACS2-TRPV1 axis represents an interesting novel, epithelial-protective approach in IPF.

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