Overexpression of V-ATPase B2 attenuates lung injury/fibrosis by stabilizing lysosomal membrane permeabilization and increasing collagen degradation
EXPERIMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE(2022)
Abstract
Excessive oxidative stress causes lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP), which leads to cell death. Vacuolar ATPase (V-ATPase) is the enzyme responsible for pumping H + into the cytosol and thus maintaining intracellular pH. Previously, we reported that V-ATPase B2 subunit expression is upregulated in the TiO 2 -exposed lung epithelium. We investigated the role of the lysosomal V-ATPase B2 subunit in oxidative stress-induced alveolar epithelial cell death and in an experimental lung injury/fibrosis model. Overexpression of V-ATPase B2 increased lysosomal pH and lysosomal activities in the cells. In the presence of H 2 O 2 , overexpression of V-ATPase B2 increased survival, and silencing of V-ATPase B2 dramatically increased cell death. Overexpression of V-ATPase B2 diminished H 2 O 2 -triggered LMP, as evidenced by a reduction in acridine orange staining and leakage of cathepsin D from the lysosome to the cytoplasm. In addition, V-ATPase B2-overexpressing macrophages exhibited significantly enhanced uptake and degradation of collagen. V-ATPase B2-overexpressing transgenic mice showed significant inhibition of the bleomycin-induced increases in lung inflammation and fibrosis. We conclude that V-ATPase B2 is critical for maintaining lysosomal activities against excessive oxidative stress by stabilizing LMP. Our findings reveal a previously unknown role of this V-ATPase subunit in a lung injury and fibrosis model.
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Cell adhesion,Experimental models of disease,Biomedicine,general,Molecular Medicine,Medical Biochemistry,Stem Cells
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