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dc.contributor.authorBoberg, Emma
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-18T11:09:02Z
dc.date.available2022-05-18T11:09:02Z
dc.date.issued2022-05-18
dc.identifier.isbn978-91-8009-766-6 (PRINT)
dc.identifier.isbn978-91-8009-765-9 (PDF)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/70938
dc.description.abstractAsthma is a chronic heterogeneous respiratory disease affecting more than 300 million people globally. The different phenotypes, including allergic and nonallergic asthma, are driven by different underlying mechanisms illustrating the complexity of the disease. Allergic asthmatics often exhibit elevated levels of type 2 (T2) cytokines including interleukin (IL)-4, IL-5 and IL-13 which typically coincide with increased numbers of blood and airway eosinophils. This group generally responds well to treatments. However, more research is needed to develop personalized treatments targeting inflammatory drivers in asthmatics that are unresponsive to currently available treatments, which is more common in non-allergic asthmatics. Type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) are a major source of T2 cytokines and are implicated in both allergic and non-allergic eosinophilic asthma. ILC2s can respond to the cytokine IL-33 that functions as an alarm signal upon tissue damage or cell injury. We identified bone marrow ILC2s to be IL-33-responsive cell types contributing to IL-5-dependent eosinophilic inflammation induced by the protease allergen papain (Paper I). In the second study (Paper II), we concluded that bone marrow ILC2s might have a critical role at the onset of bone marrow eosinophilia in response to the allergen house dust mite. We also identified IL-33-responsive eosinophils and T helper cells in this study. Targeting ILC2s therapeutically via the IL-33/ST2 axis might be promising in eosinophilic diseases such as asthma. In addition, different pathways are required for pro-inflammatory properties of ILC2s that can be modulated. We demonstrated that airway exposure of IL-33 induced mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) activity in bone marrow ILC2s and that the mTORC1 pathway was crucial for IL-5 production in experiments using the mTORC1 inhibitor rapamycin (Paper III). Other drivers in inflammatory diseases are microRNAs (miRNAs). These short non-coding RNAs exert immune-modulatory effects and can act pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory. We identified distinct miRNAs in lung and bone marrow that might drive responses caused by IL-33 (Paper IV). There is a need for new stable biomarkers and identification of disease drivers in non-allergic asthma which can be either T2 low or T2 high. We identified unique proteomic profiles in bronchial lavage supernatants from allergic and non-allergic asthmatics (Paper V). Proteins distinguishing the two asthma groups, were for example shown to be involved in ciliogenesis, mucociliary clearance and complement activation. With the ultimate goal of identifying new therapeutic targets, these studies increase our understanding of different inflammatory mechanisms contributing to the ongoing inflammation that might cause airway disease.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.relation.haspartI. Boberg E*, Johansson K*, Malmhäll C, Calvén J, Weidner J and Rådinger M. (2020). Interplay between the IL-33/ST2 axis and bone marrow ILC2s in protease allergen-induced IL-5-dependent eosinophilia. Front Immunol.11:1058. * Equal contributions. ::doi::10.3389/fimmu.2020.01058en
dc.relation.haspartII. Boberg E, Johansson K, Malmhäll C, Weidner J and Rådinger M. (2020). House dust mite induces bone marrow IL-33-responsive ILC2s and TH cells. Int J Mol Sci. 21(11). ::doi::10.3390/ijms21113751en
dc.relation.haspartIII. Boberg E, Weidner J, Malmhäll C, Calvén J, Corciulo C and Rådinger M. Rapamycin dampens inflammatory properties of bone marrow ILC2s in IL-33-induced eosinophilic airway inflammation. In revision.en
dc.relation.haspartIV. Boberg E, Johansson K, Weidner J, Malmhäll C, Calvén J, Lässer C and Rådinger M. Altered bone marrow and lung microRNAs in interleukin-33-induced eosinophilic airway inflammation. In manuscript.en
dc.relation.haspartV. Boberg E, Lässer C, Johansson K, Malmhäll C, Mincheva R, Ekerljung L, Olsson H and Rådinger M. Proteomic profiles in non-allergic and allergic asthma: A clinical study on bronchial lavage samples using LC-MS/MS. In manuscript.en
dc.subjectILC2sen
dc.subjecteosinophilsen
dc.subjectIL-33en
dc.subjectmiRNAsen
dc.subjectproteomicsen
dc.titleAllergic and non-allergic asthma: Translational research in immunologyen
dc.typetexteng
dc.type.svepDoctoral thesiseng
dc.gup.mailemma.boberg@gu.seen
dc.type.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (Medicine)en
dc.gup.originUniversity of Gothenburg. Sahlgrenska Academyen
dc.gup.departmentInst of Medicine. Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutritionen
dc.gup.defenceplaceFredagen den 10 juni 2022, kl. 9.00, Hörsal Arvid Carlsson, Academicum, Medicinaregatan 3, Göteborgen
dc.gup.defencedate2022-06-10
dc.gup.dissdb-fakultetSA


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