Silicosis is one of the most serious occupational diseases with the main feature of inflammatory cell infiltration, fibroblasts activation, and large deposition of extracellular matrix in the lung. Increasing evidence indicates that macrophage-derived exosomes may play an important role in the development of silicosis by transferring their loaded microRNAs (miRNAs). Hence we carried out high-throughput sequencing to identify the expression of exosomal miRNA from macrophages exposed to silica or not in the previous study. Then we verified that miR-7219-3p was significantly up-regulated in macrophages and their exosomes after silica-exposure, as well as in the silicotic mice model by qRT-PCR, subsequent experiments confirmed that the increase of miR-7219-3p facilitated fibroblast to myofibroblast trans-differentiation (FMT), as well as cell proliferation and migration. Spouty1 (SPRY1), which served as a negative modulator of the Ras/ERK/MAPK signaling pathway, was verified as the target gene of miR-7219-3p, the knockdown or over-expression of SPRY1 apparently promoted or inhibited FMT via the Ras/ERK/MAPK signaling pathway. Furthermore, the inhibition of exosomal miR-7219-3p partially suppressed FMT and silica-induced pulmonary fibrosis in vitro and in vivo. In brief, our results demonstrated that exosomal miR-7219-3p played an important role in FMT and might be a novel therapeutic target of silicosis.
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