PMID- 36511516 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230208 LR - 20240202 IS - 1522-1504 (Electronic) IS - 1040-0605 (Print) IS - 1040-0605 (Linking) VI - 324 IP - 2 DP - 2023 Feb 1 TI - Mitoquinone mesylate attenuates pathological features of lean and obese allergic asthma in mice. PG - L141-L153 LID - 10.1152/ajplung.00249.2022 [doi] AB - Obesity is associated with severe, difficult-to-control asthma, and increased airway oxidative stress. Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mROS) are an important source of oxidative stress in asthma, leading us to hypothesize that targeting mROS in obese allergic asthma might be an effective treatment. Using a mouse model of house dust mite (HDM)-induced allergic airway disease in mice fed a low- (LFD) or high-fat diet (HFD), and the mitochondrial antioxidant MitoQuinone (MitoQ), we investigated the effects of obesity and ROS on HDM-induced airway inflammation, remodeling, and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR). Obese allergic mice showed increased lung tissue eotaxin, airway tissue eosinophilia, and AHR compared with lean allergic mice. MitoQ reduced airway inflammation, remodeling, and hyperreactivity in both lean and obese allergic mice, and tissue eosinophilia in obese-allergic mice. Similar effects were observed with decyl triphosphonium (dTPP(+)), the hydrophobic cationic moiety of MitoQ lacking ubiquinone. HDM-induced oxidative sulfenylation of proteins was increased particularly in HFD mice. Although only MitoQ reduced sulfenylation of proteins involved in protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), ER stress was attenuated by both MitoQ and dTPP(+) suggesting the anti-allergic effects of MitoQ are mediated in part by effects of its hydrophobic dTPP(+) moiety reducing ER stress. In summary, oxidative signaling is an important mediator of allergic airway disease. MitoQ, likely through reducing protein oxidation and affecting the UPR pathway, might be effective for the treatment of asthma and specific features of obese asthma. FAU - Chandrasekaran, Ravishankar AU - Chandrasekaran R AD - Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Bruno, Sierra R AU - Bruno SR AD - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Mark, Zoe F AU - Mark ZF AD - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Walzer, Joseph AU - Walzer J AD - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Caffry, Sarah AU - Caffry S AD - Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Gold, Clarissa AU - Gold C AD - Department of Biology and Vermont Biomedical Research Network Proteomics Facility, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Kumar, Amit AU - Kumar A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7043-3798 AD - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Chamberlain, Nicolas AU - Chamberlain N AD - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Butzirus, Isabella M AU - Butzirus IM AD - Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Morris, Carolyn R AU - Morris CR AD - Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Daphtary, Nirav AU - Daphtary N AD - Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Aliyeva, Minara AU - Aliyeva M AD - Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Lam, Ying-Wai AU - Lam YW AD - Department of Biology and Vermont Biomedical Research Network Proteomics Facility, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - van der Vliet, Albert AU - van der Vliet A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0923-0016 AD - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Janssen-Heininger, Yvonne AU - Janssen-Heininger Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2735-8745 AD - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Poynter, Matthew E AU - Poynter ME AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7578-4570 AD - Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Dixon, Anne E AU - Dixon AE AD - Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. FAU - Anathy, Vikas AU - Anathy V AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4288-912X AD - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. LA - eng GR - R01 HL136917/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - P20 GM103449/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 HL076122/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL138708/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL141364/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL142081/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - S10 OD025030/OD/NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL122383/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL133920/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20221213 PL - United States TA - Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol JT - American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology JID - 100901229 RN - 47BYS17IY0 (mitoquinone) RN - 37107-08-7 (DTPP) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *Asthma/metabolism MH - Lung/metabolism MH - Obesity/metabolism MH - Inflammation/pathology MH - Pyroglyphidae MH - *Eosinophilia/pathology MH - Disease Models, Animal PMC - PMC9902225 OTO - NOTNLM OT - ER stress OT - MitoQ OT - obese allergic asthma COIS- Y. Janssen-Heininger and V. Anathy hold patents: United States Patent No. 8,679,811, "Treatments Involving Glutaredoxins and Similar Agents"; United States Patent No. 8,877,447, "Detection of Glutathionylated Proteins"; United States Patent Nos. 9,907,828 and 10,688,150, "Treatments of oxidative stress conditions." In the past, Y. Janssen-Heininger and V. Anathy have received consulting fees and laboratory contracts from Celdara Medical LLC, NH. None of the other authors has any conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, to disclose. EDAT- 2022/12/14 06:00 MHDA- 2023/02/09 06:00 PMCR- 2024/02/01 CRDT- 2022/12/13 08:03 PHST- 2022/12/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/02/09 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/12/13 08:03 [entrez] PHST- 2024/02/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - L-00249-2022 [pii] AID - 10.1152/ajplung.00249.2022 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2023 Feb 1;324(2):L141-L153. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00249.2022. Epub 2022 Dec 13.