{"doi":"10.1165/rcmb.2023-0379oc","title":"Endoplasmic Reticulum Oxidative Stress Promotes Glutathione-Dependent Oxidation of Collagen-1A1 and Promotes Lung Fibroblast Activation","abstract":"Abstract Changes in the oxidative (redox) environment accompany idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). S-glutathionylation of reactive protein cysteines is a post-translational event that transduces oxidant signals into biological responses. We recently demonstrated that increases in S-glutathionylation promote pulmonary fibrosis, which was mitigated by the deglutathionylating enzyme glutaredoxin (GLRX). However, the protein targets of S-glutathionylation that promote fibrogenesis remain unknown. In the present study we addressed whether the extracellular matrix is a target for S-glutathionylation. We discovered increases in COL1A1 (collagen 1A1) S-glutathionylation (COL1A1-SSG) in lung tissues from subjects with IPF compared with control subjects in association with increases in ERO1A (endoplasmic reticulum [ER] oxidoreductin 1) and enhanced oxidation of ER-localized PRDX4 (peroxiredoxin 4), reflecting an increased oxidative environment of the ER. Human lung fibroblasts exposed to TGFB1 (transforming growth factor-β1) show increased secretion of COL1A1-SSG. Pharmacologic inhibition of ERO1A diminished the oxidation of PRDX4, attenuated COL1A1-SSG and total COL1A1 concentrations, and dampened fibroblast activation. Absence of Glrx enhanced COL1A1-SSG and overall COL1A1 secretion and promoted the activation of mechanosensing pathways. Remarkably, COL1A1-SSG resulted in marked resistance to collagenase degradation. Compared with COL1, lung fibroblasts plated on COL1-SSG proliferated more rapidly and increased the expression of genes encoding extracellular matrix crosslinking enzymes and genes linked to mechanosensing pathways. Overall, these findings suggest that glutathione-dependent oxidation of COL1A1 occurs in settings of IPF in association with enhanced ER oxidative stress and may promote fibrotic remodeling because of increased resistance to collagenase-mediated degradation and fibroblast activation.","journal":"American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology","year":2024,"id":428635,"datarank":0.38474240361923057,"base_score":2.5649493574615367,"endowment":2.5649493574615367,"self_citation_contribution":0.38474240361923057,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.38474240361923057,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":12,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9528,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":668026,"name":"Maximilian B. 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