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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Volume 182, Issue 7, Pages 897-904Publisher
AMER THORACIC SOC
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200906-0937OC
Keywords
Histone deacetylase 2; dexamethasone; cigarette smoke; oxidative stress; RNA interference
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Funding
- Wellcome Trust [076,472/Z/05/Z]
- Medical Research Council [G0401662]
- Mitsubishi Pharma
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Calistoga Pharmaceutical [CIHR 7246, IC87114]
- AstraZeneca
- Cempra
- RespiVert
- Novartis
- Chiesi
- Pfizer
- IMMD
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Teva
- Daiichi-Sankyo
- Medical Research Council [G0401662] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0401662] Funding Source: UKRI
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Rationale: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) show a poor response to corticosteroids. This has been linked to a reduction of histone deacetylase-2 as a result of oxidative stress and is reversed by theophylline. Objectives: To determine the role of phosphoinositide-3-kinase-delta (PI3K-delta) on the development of corticosteroid insensitivity in COPD and under oxidative stress, and as a target for theophylline. Methods: Corticosteroid sensitivity was determined as the 50% inhibitory concentration of dexamethasone on tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induced interleukin-8 release in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with COPD (n = 17) and compared with that of nonsmoking (n = 8) and smoking (n = 7) control subjects. The effect of theophylline and a selective PI3K-delta inhibitor (IC87114) on restoration of corticosteroid sensitivity was confirmed in cigarette smoke-exposed mice. Measurements and Main Results: Peripheral blood mononuclear cells of COPD (50% inhibitory concentration of dexamethasone: 156.8 +/- 32.6 nM) were less corticosteroid sensitive than those of nonsmoking (41.2 +/- 10.5 nM; P = 0.018) and smoking control subjects (47.5 +/- 19.6 nM; P = 0.031). Corticosteroid insensitivity and reduced histone deacetylase-2 activity after oxidative stress were reversed by a non-selective PI3K inhibitor (LY294002) and low concentrations of theophylline. Theophylline was a potent selective inhibitor of oxidant-activated PI3K-delta, which was up-regulated in peripheral lung tissue of patients with COPD. Furthermore, cells with knock-down of PI3K-delta failed to develop corticosteroid insensitivity with oxidative stress. Both theophylline and IC87114, combined with dexamethasone, inhibited corticosteroid-insensitive lung inflammation in cigarette-smoke-exposed mice in vivo. Conclusions: Inhibition of oxidative stress dependent PI3K-delta activation by a selective inhibitor or theophylline provides a novel approach to reversing corticosteroid insensitivity in COPD.
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