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Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Our previous work verified that decadienyl-L-carnitine (C10:2) biosynthesis has therapeutic-target capacity for RCE inhibiting pulmonary vascular remodeling to modulate experimental pulmonary hypertension(PH). However, the profound molecular mechanism remains incompletely elucidated.
Aim Of Study: This study aims to investigate whether C10:2 biosynthesis regulates pulmonary vascular remodeling by activating cell pyroptosis.
Materials And Methods: Rats and pulmonary artery smooth musle cells (PASMCs) model with PH were successfully induced with monocrataline (MCT) and platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB) in present study. Following RCE treatment, cell targeted metabolomics assay combining biological information analysis and molecular biological methods were used to investigate the modulatory function of C10:2 on pulmonary vascular remodeling by activating cell pyroptosis and accordingly pharmacological mechanism of RCE against cell pyroptosis.
Results: We found that C10:2 activated NLRP3/Caspase-1/GSDMD signaling pathway to promote PASMCs pyroptosis, and decreased the level of azelaic acid in PASMCs. RCE can significantly upregulate miR-149-5p to targeting bind Cpt1a mRNA, thus, to decrease CPT1A expression, by which low level of C10:2 was maintained to further promote the biosynthesis of anti-inflammatory azelaic acid in vivo, along with this functional molecule is also one main compound of RCE. Our data further demonstrated that the biosynthesis of azelaic acid directly regulates NLRP3/Caspase1/GSDMD axis to inhibit pyroptosis by targeting NLRP3, we therefore argue that azelaic acid is a key functional compound of RCE for treating PH by inhibiting cell pyroptosis.
Conclusion: Collectively, our work characterized that azelaic acid is a key functional compound in RCE to express pharmacological efficacy against PH, which was observed to inhibit cell pyroptosis to ameliorate pulmonary vascular remodeling in rats through the regulation of decadienyl-L-carnitine/NLRP3/GSDMD axis. Such work will provide essentially molecular basis for developing anti-PH strategy and associated drug discovery.
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