Project description:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-shortening disease caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. Although bacterial lung infection and the resulting inflammation cause most of the morbidity and mortality, how loss of CFTR first disrupts airway host defense has remained uncertain. We asked what abnormality impairs elimination when a bacterium lands on the pristine surface of a newborn CF airway? To investigate this defect, we interrogated the viability of individual bacteria immobilized on solid grids and placed on the airway surface. As a model we studied CF pigs, which spontaneously develop hallmark features of CF lung disease. At birth, their lungs lack infection and inflammation, but have a reduced ability to eradicate bacteria. Here we show that in newborn wild-type pigs, the thin layer of airway surface liquid (ASL) rapidly killed bacteria in vivo, when removed from the lung, and in primary epithelial cultures. Lack of CFTR reduced bacterial killing. We found that ASL pH was more acidic in CF, and reducing pH inhibited the antimicrobial activity of ASL. Reducing ASL pH diminished bacterial killing in wild-type pigs, and increasing ASL pH rescued killing in CF pigs. These results directly link the initial host defense defect to loss of CFTR, an anion channel that facilitates HCO3- transport. Without CFTR, airway epithelial HCO3- secretion is defective, ASL pH falls and inhibits antimicrobial function, and thereby impairs killing of bacteria that enter the newborn lung. These findings suggest that increasing ASL pH might prevent the initial infection in patients with CF and that assaying ASL pH or bacterial killing could report on the benefit of therapeutic interventions. 11 samples of trachea primary airway epithelial cultures representing CFTR+/+ and CFTR-/- pigs. Pig samples representing 14 bronchus and 12 trachea tissue samples submitted in GSE21071.
Project description:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-shortening disease caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. Although bacterial lung infection and the resulting inflammation cause most of the morbidity and mortality, how loss of CFTR first disrupts airway host defense has remained uncertain. We asked what abnormality impairs elimination when a bacterium lands on the pristine surface of a newborn CF airway? To investigate this defect, we interrogated the viability of individual bacteria immobilized on solid grids and placed on the airway surface. As a model we studied CF pigs, which spontaneously develop hallmark features of CF lung disease. At birth, their lungs lack infection and inflammation, but have a reduced ability to eradicate bacteria. Here we show that in newborn wild-type pigs, the thin layer of airway surface liquid (ASL) rapidly killed bacteria in vivo, when removed from the lung, and in primary epithelial cultures. Lack of CFTR reduced bacterial killing. We found that ASL pH was more acidic in CF, and reducing pH inhibited the antimicrobial activity of ASL. Reducing ASL pH diminished bacterial killing in wild-type pigs, and increasing ASL pH rescued killing in CF pigs. These results directly link the initial host defense defect to loss of CFTR, an anion channel that facilitates HCO3- transport. Without CFTR, airway epithelial HCO3- secretion is defective, ASL pH falls and inhibits antimicrobial function, and thereby impairs killing of bacteria that enter the newborn lung. These findings suggest that increasing ASL pH might prevent the initial infection in patients with CF and that assaying ASL pH or bacterial killing could report on the benefit of therapeutic interventions.
Project description:Expression data from airway brush biopsy samples, differentiated primary cultures of human airway epithelia, CaLu3 cultures at the air liquid interface, and primary cultures of human airway epithelia submerged in nutrient media Organotypic cultures of primary human airway epithelial cells have been used to investigate the morphology, ion and fluid transport, innate immunity, transcytosis, infection, inflammation, signaling, cilia and repair functions of this complex tissue. However, we do not know how close these cultures resemble the epithelia in vivo. In this study, we examine the genome-wide expression profile of human airway epithelial cells in vivo obtained from brush biopsies of the trachea and bronchus of healthy volunteers and compare it to the expression profile of primary cultures of human airway epithelia grown at the air-liquid interface. For comparison we also investigate the expression profile of Calu3 cells grown at the air-liquid interface and primary cultures of human airway epithelia submerged in nutrient media.
Project description:Expression data from airway brush biopsy samples, differentiated primary cultures of human airway epithelia, CaLu3 cultures at the air liquid interface, and primary cultures of human airway epithelia submerged in nutrient media Organotypic cultures of primary human airway epithelial cells have been used to investigate the morphology, ion and fluid transport, innate immunity, transcytosis, infection, inflammation, signaling, cilia and repair functions of this complex tissue. However, we do not know how close these cultures resemble the epithelia in vivo. In this study, we examine the genome-wide expression profile of human airway epithelial cells in vivo obtained from brush biopsies of the trachea and bronchus of healthy volunteers and compare it to the expression profile of primary cultures of human airway epithelia grown at the air-liquid interface. For comparison we also investigate the expression profile of Calu3 cells grown at the air-liquid interface and primary cultures of human airway epithelia submerged in nutrient media. We compare the transcriptional profile of human in vivo airway epithelia from trachea and bronchus to differentiated primary human airway epithelia cultures, also from trachea and bronchus, and grown at the air-liquid interface. We also included the profile of Calu3 cultures grown at the air-liquid interface and primary cultures submerged in nutrient media.
Project description:We have developed a new model of the human airway epithelial cell by deriving the cell-specific metabolic reactions identified from (i) a draft automated model by Wang et al. 2017 (ii) gene expression datasets of the human airway epithelial cell (Deprez et al., 2020; Braga et al., 2020). (iii) We obtained additional reactions, gene-to-reaction associations and pathways (that were not in the automated model) from HumanCyc (Trupp et al., 2010) and (iv) performed stochastic and dynamic simulations on the model generated including manual curations from primary literature and Recon3D (Brunk et al., 2018). (v) We added the viral biomass maintenance function into the model, previously developed for the macrophage cell (Renz et al. 2020) to develop the new integrated model of the human airway epithelial cell and the SARS-CoV-2 virus, (iBBEC4660).
Project description:To investigate how murine airway epithelial cells respond to Influenza infection and how important interferon type I signaling is for this response, we harvested airway epithelial cells from the tracheas of wild type, interferon type I knockout(IFNaR-/-) and STAT1 knockout (STAT1-/-) mice and cultured them as previously described (Pickles et al,1998) in polarized airway epithelial cell cultures (mAECs). Triplicate mAECs from each type of mouse (wt,IFNaR-/-,STAT1-/-) were infected with 2X105 PFUs Influenza A (WSN) for 2h or mock inoculated and harvested 24h after infection. Triplicate murine polarized airway epithelial cell cultures from wild type, IFNaR-/- or STAT1-/- mice were mock treated or infected with 2x10^5 PFUs of Influenza A (WSN) for 2h and harvested 24 h post infection.
Project description:IL13 exposure results in a distinct gene expression profile in human airway epithelia. We investigated whether this expression profile can be used to identify compounds able to block goblet cell metaplasia We used microarrays to determine transcriptional changes in cultures of primary human airway epithelia grown at the air-liquid interface after exposure to 20 ng/mL recombinant human IL13
Project description:To investigate how murine airway epithelial cells respond to Influenza infection and how important interferon type I signaling is for this response, we harvested airway epithelial cells from the tracheas of wild type, interferon type I knockout(IFNaR-/-) and STAT1 knockout (STAT1-/-) mice and cultured them as previously described (Pickles et al,1998) in polarized airway epithelial cell cultures (mAECs). Triplicate mAECs from each type of mouse (wt,IFNaR-/-,STAT1-/-) were infected with 2X105 PFUs Influenza A (WSN) for 2h or mock inoculated and harvested 24h after infection.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE32137: The response of murine primary airway epithelial cells to Influenza infection and the importance of Interferon type I signaling in this response [mAEC]. GSE32138: The response of human primary airway epithelial cells to Influenza or RSV infection [hAECs_Agilent]. GSE32139: The response of human primary airway epithelial cells to Influenza or RSV infection [hAECs_Illumina] GSE34205: Transcriptional profile of PBMCs in patients with acute RSV or Influenza infection Refer to individual Series