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Cigarette smoke aggravates asthma by inducing memory-like type 3 innate lymphoid cells

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Authors

Ham, Jongho; Kim, Jihyun; Sohn, Kyoung-Hee; Park, In-Won; Choi, Byoung-Whui; Chung, Doo Hyun; Cho, Sang-Heon; Kang, Hye Ryun; Jung, Jae-Woo; Kim, Hye Young

Issue Date
2022-07
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Citation
Nature Communications, Vol.13 No.1, p. 3852
Abstract
Cigarette smoking may exacerbate asthma, but the underlying mechanisms have not been studied extensively in human patients. Here authors show that type 3 innate lymphoid cells with activated phenotypes are found in the sputum and blood of smokers in higher frequencies, which might result in the aggravation of asthma. Although cigarette smoking is known to exacerbate asthma, only a few clinical asthma studies have been conducted involving smokers. Here we show, by comparing paired sputum and blood samples from smoking and non-smoking patients with asthma, that smoking associates with significantly higher frequencies of pro-inflammatory, natural-cytotoxicity-receptor-non-expressing type 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3) in the sputum and memory-like, CD45RO-expressing ILC3s in the blood. These ILC3 frequencies positively correlate with circulating neutrophil counts and M1 alveolar macrophage frequencies, which are known to increase in uncontrolled severe asthma, yet do not correlate with circulating eosinophil frequencies that characterize allergic asthma. In vitro exposure of ILCs to cigarette smoke extract induces expression of the memory marker CD45RO in ILC3s. Cigarette smoke extract also impairs the barrier function of airway epithelial cells and increases their production of IL-1 beta, which is a known activating factor for ILC3s. Thus, our study suggests that cigarette smoking increases local and circulating frequencies of activated ILC3 cells, plays a role in their activation, thereby aggravating non-allergic inflammation and the severity of asthma.
ISSN
2041-1723
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/185340
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31491-1
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