Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Endogenous metabolites of vitamin E limit inflammation by targeting 5-lipoxygenase

  • Helmut Pein,
  • Alexia Ville,
  • Simona Pace,
  • Veronika Temml,
  • Ulrike Garscha,
  • Martin Raasch,
  • Khaled Alsabil,
  • Guillaume Viault,
  • Chau-Phi Dinh,
  • David Guilet,
  • Fabiana Troisi,
  • Konstantin Neukirch,
  • Stefanie König,
  • Rosella Bilancia,
  • Birgit Waltenberger,
  • Hermann Stuppner,
  • Maria Wallert,
  • Stefan Lorkowski,
  • Christina Weinigel,
  • Silke Rummler,
  • Marc Birringer,
  • Fiorentina Roviezzo,
  • Lidia Sautebin,
  • Jean-Jacques Helesbeux,
  • Denis Séraphin,
  • Alexander S. Mosig,
  • Daniela Schuster,
  • Antonietta Rossi,
  • Pascal Richomme,
  • Oliver Werz,
  • Andreas Koeberle

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06158-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Vitamin E metabolites are proposed to have signalling capacity, but how they may regulate immune responses is still unclear. Here the authors show that a vitamin E metabolite, α-T-13′-COOH, can inhibit 5-lipoxygenase and thereby suppress the synthesis of lipid mediators of immune activation and inflammatory responses.