Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

The arginine methyltransferase PRMT7 promotes extravasation of monocytes resulting in tissue injury in COPD

  • Gizem Günes Günsel,
  • Thomas M. Conlon,
  • Aicha Jeridi,
  • Rinho Kim,
  • Zeynep Ertüz,
  • Niklas J. Lang,
  • Meshal Ansari,
  • Mariia Novikova,
  • Dongsheng Jiang,
  • Maximilian Strunz,
  • Mariia Gaianova,
  • Christine Hollauer,
  • Christina Gabriel,
  • Ilias Angelidis,
  • Sebastian Doll,
  • Jeanine C. Pestoni,
  • Stephanie L. Edelmann,
  • Marlene Sophia Kohlhepp,
  • Adrien Guillot,
  • Kevin Bassler,
  • Hannelore P. Van Eeckhoutte,
  • Özgecan Kayalar,
  • Nur Konyalilar,
  • Tamara Kanashova,
  • Sophie Rodius,
  • Carolina Ballester-López,
  • Carlos M. Genes Robles,
  • Natalia Smirnova,
  • Markus Rehberg,
  • Charu Agarwal,
  • Ioanna Krikki,
  • Benoit Piavaux,
  • Stijn E. Verleden,
  • Bart Vanaudenaerde,
  • Melanie Königshoff,
  • Gunnar Dittmar,
  • Ken R. Bracke,
  • Joachim L. Schultze,
  • Henrik Watz,
  • Oliver Eickelberg,
  • Tobias Stoeger,
  • Gerald Burgstaller,
  • Frank Tacke,
  • Vigo Heissmeyer,
  • Yuval Rinkevich,
  • Hasan Bayram,
  • Herbert B. Schiller,
  • Marcus Conrad,
  • Robert Schneider,
  • Ali Önder Yildirim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28809-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a progressive and incurable chronic condition that involves accumulation of inflammatory macrophages in the lung tissue. Authors here show in mouse models of lung disease that PRMT7, a protein arginine methyltransferase, is an important regulator of recruitment and the pro-inflammatory phenotype of macrophages.