Abstract
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is the major cause of mortality among hospitalized acute lung injury (ALI) patients. Lung macrophages play an important role in maintaining the tissue-fluid homeostasis following injury. We recently showed that circulating monocytes recruited into the alveolar space suppressed the stimulator of type 1 interferon genes (STING) signaling in alveolar macrophages through sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P). We used CD11b-DTR mice to deplete CD11b+ monocytes following LPS or Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. Depletion of CD11b+ monocytes leads to the persistent inflammatory injury, infiltration of neutrophils, activation of STING signaling and mortality following lung infection. We demonstrated that adoptively transferred SPHK2-CD11b+ monocytes into CD11b-DTR mice after pathogenic infection rescue lung inflammatory injury.
Keywords
SPHK2, Lung injury, Macrophages, STING, ARDS