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      Cigarette smoke-induced mitochondrial fragmentation and dysfunction in human airway smooth muscle

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          The balance between mitochondrial fission and fusion is crucial for mitochondria to perform its normal cellular functions. We hypothesized that cigarette smoke (CS) disrupts this balance and enhances mitochondrial dysfunction in the airway. In nonasthmatic human airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells, CS extract (CSE) induced mitochondrial fragmentation and damages their networked morphology in a concentration-dependent fashion, via increased expression of mitochondrial fission protein dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1) and decreased fusion protein mitofusin (Mfn) 2. CSE effects on Drp1 vs. Mfn2 and mitochondrial network morphology involved reactive oxygen species (ROS), activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt), protein kinase C (PKC) and proteasome pathways, as well as transcriptional regulation via factors such as NF-κB and nuclear erythroid 2-related factor 2. Inhibiting Drp1 prevented CSE effects on mitochondrial networks and ROS generation, whereas blocking Mfn2 had the opposite, detrimental effect. In ASM from asmatic patients, mitochondria exhibited substantial morphological defects at baseline and showed increased Drp1 but decreased Mfn2 expression, with exacerbating effects of CSE. Overall, these results highlight the importance of mitochondrial networks and their regulation in the context of cellular changes induced by insults such as inflammation (as in asthma) or CS. Altered mitochondrial fission/fusion proteins have a further potential to influence parameters such as ROS and cell proliferation and apoptosis relevant to airway diseases.

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                Journal
                American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
                American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
                American Physiological Society
                1040-0605
                1522-1504
                May 01 2014
                May 01 2014
                : 306
                : 9
                : L840-L854
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;
                [2 ]Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; and
                [3 ]Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
                Article
                10.1152/ajplung.00155.2013
                24610934
                715740ae-48f2-4ce6-9a12-2169e612a862
                © 2014
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