Pyruvate Kinase M2 Nuclear Translocation Regulate Ferroptosis-Associated Acute Lung Injury in Cytokine Storm

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Cytokine storm (CS) is linked with macrophage dysfunction and acute lung injury (ALI), which can lead to patient mortality. Glycolysis is preferentially exploited by the pro-inflammatory macrophages, in which pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) is a critical enzyme. The mechanism underlying the link between CS and ALI involves cell death, with the recently discovered programmed cell death known as ferroptosis being involved. However, the relationship between the glycolysis and ferroptosis in the context of CS-related ALI remains unclear. CS-associated ALI induced by poly I:C (10 mg/kg, i.v) and LPS (5 mg/kg, i.p) (IC: LPS) exhibit significant ferroptosis. Ferrostatin-1 (ferroptosis inhibitor) treatment attenuated IC:LPS‑induced mortality and lung injury. Moreover, Alveolar macrophage (AM) from IC:LPS model exhibited enhanced glycolysis and PKM2 translocation. The administration of ML-265(PKM2 monomer/dimer inhibitor) resulted in the formation of a highly active tetrameric PKM2, leading to improved survival and attenuation of ALI. Furthermore, ML-265 treatment decreased ferroptosis and restored the balance between anaerobic glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation. Notably, in patients with lung infection, intracellular expression level of PKM2 were correlated with circulating inflammation. Enhanced ferroptosis and PKM2 nuclear translocation was noticed in CD14+ blood monocytes of lung infection patients with CS. In conclusion, PKM2 is a key regulatory node integrating metabolic reprograming with intra-nuclear function for the regulation of ferroptosis. Targeting PKM2 could be explored as a potential means in the future to prevent or alleviate hyper-inflammatory state or cytokines storm syndrome with aberrant ferroptotic cell death.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Inflammation - (2024) vom: 14. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Haiting [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Chenyu [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xuelian [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Li [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Shuang [VerfasserIn]
He, Shuangjun [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yi [VerfasserIn]

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Acute lung injury
Cytokine storm
Ferroptosis
Journal Article
Pyruvate kinase M2

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Date Revised 14.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1007/s10753-024-02000-x

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NLM369734025