Natural compound fraxinellone ameliorates intestinal fibrosis in mice via direct intervention of HSP47-collagen interaction in the epithelium

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Intestinal fibrosis is a common complication of inflammatory bowel disease. There is still a lack of effective drugs for the prevention or treatment of intestinal fibrosis. Heat shock protein 47 (HSP47) plays a key role in the development of intestinal fibrosis. In this study we investigated the therapeutic potential and underlying mechanisms of fraxinellone, a degraded limonoid isolated from the root bark of Dictamnus dasycarpus, in the treatment of intestinal fibrosis. Intestinal fibrosis was induced in mice by dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) treatment. DDS-treated mice were administered fraxinellone (7.5, 15, 30 mg·kg-1·d-1, i.g.) for 45 days. We showed that fraxinellone administration dose-dependently alleviated DSS-induced intestinal impairments, and reduced the production of intestinal fibrosis biomarkers such as α-smooth muscle actin (SMA), collagen I, hydroxyproline, fibronectin and laminin, and cytokines such as TGF-β, TNF-α and IL-β. We then established in vitro intestinal fibrosis cell models in SW480 and HT-29 cells, and demonstrated that treatment with fraxinellone (3, 10, 30 μM) significantly relieved TGF-β-induced fibrosis responses by inhibiting the TGF-β/Smad2/3 signaling pathway. Molecular docking suggested that the fraxinellone might disrupt the interaction between HSP47 and collagen, which was confirmed by coimmunoprecipitation experiments. SPR analysis showed that fraxinellone had a high affinity for HSP47 with a Kd value of 3.542 × 10-5 M. This study provides a new example of HSP47-collagen intervention by a natural compound and has important implications for the clinical treatment of inflammation-induced issue fibrosis.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:44

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Acta pharmacologica Sinica - 44(2023), 12 vom: 14. Dez., Seite 2469-2478

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Bai, Mei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Cui [VerfasserIn]
An, Ning [VerfasserIn]
Wan, Li [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xiao-Ning [VerfasserIn]
Du, Rong-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Zhi-Yao [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xu-Dong [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xue-Feng [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Qiang [VerfasserIn]

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28808-62-0
9007-34-5
Antifibrotic drugs
Collagen
Fraxinellone
HSP47
HSP47 Heat-Shock Proteins
Inflammatory bowel disease
Intestinal fibrosis
Journal Article
Transforming Growth Factor beta

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Date Completed 04.12.2023

Date Revised 05.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41401-023-01143-1

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360798209