COPD basal cells are primed towards secretory to multi-ciliated cell imbalance driving increased resilience to environmental stressors
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PROVIDER: GSE233145 | GEO | 2024/04/01
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Introduction: Environmental pollutants irritate and injure the bronchial elevator, thereby provoking disease progression in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Epithelial resilience mechanisms to environmental nanoparticles in health and disease are poorly characterized. Methods: We delineated the impact of prevalent pollutants such as carbon and zinc oxide nanoparticles, on cellular function and progeny in primary human bronchial epithelial cells (pHBEC) from end-stage COPD, early disease and pulmonary healthy individuals. After nanoparticle exposure of pHBECs at the air liquid interface, cell cultures were characterized by functional assays as well as transcriptome and protein analysis, complemented by single cell analysis in serial samples of pHBEC culture focussing on basal cell differentiation. Results: In end-stage COPD, environmentally abundant doses of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO) aggravated a pro-secretory phenotype at the expense of the multi-ciliated epithelium alongside a reduction of barrier integrity and increased resilience towards cell damage. Similar effects on cellular composition and function were induced by co-treatment of early stage COPD pHEBC cultures with cigarette smoke extract. Time-resolved single cell transcriptomics revealed a unique end stage COPD associated basal cell state characterized by altered Wnt and Notch pathway activation. A conserved set of COPD specific genes persisted from this disease associated basal cell state into its differentiated progeny. Conclusion: We identified COPD stage specific gene program alterations in basal stem cells that affect the cellular composition of the bronchial elevator and may control epithelial resilience mechanisms in response to environmental nanoparticles. The identified phenomena likely inform treatment or prevention strategies.
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Project description:COPD basal cells are primed towards secretory to multi-ciliated cell imbalance driving increased resilience to environmental stressors
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Project description:COPD basal cells are primed towards secretory to multi-ciliated cell imbalance driving increased resilience to environmental stressors
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Project description:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) collectively refers to chronic and progressive lung diseases causing not fully reversible limitations in airflow. COPD patients are at high risk for severe respiratory symptoms upon influenza virus infection. Airway epithelial cells provide the first-line antiviral defense, but whether their susceptibility and response to influenza virus infection changes in COPD has not been elucidated. Therefore, this study aimed to i) compare the susceptibility of COPD- and control-derived airway epithelium to influenza virus, and ii) assess protein changes during influenza virus infection by quantitative proteomics. Fluorescent stainings confirmed expression of human- and avian-type influenza virus receptors in primary human bronchial epithelial cells (phBECs) from COPD patients (n=4) and controls (n=3) differentiated at the air-liquid interface. Subjects were closely matched in age, sex, and smoking history and, for COPD-derived phBECs, included stage II (n=2), stage III (n=1) and stage IV (n=1). Proteomics of fully differentiated phBECs pre- and post-influenza A virus infection with A/Puerto Rico/8/34 (PR8) revealed no significant differences between GOLD stage II/ III COPD (n=3) and control phBECs in terms of flu receptor expression, cell type composition, virus replication, or protein profile pre- and post-infection. In contrast, COPD GOLD stage IV phBECs (n=1) showed a distinct pattern of flu receptor expression and a typical COPD phenotype as assessed by a literature-derived panel of 20 proteins and quantification of cell type composition. Independent of health state, proteomics showed a robust antiviral response to influenza virus infection, as well as upregulation of several novel influenza virus-regulated proteins.
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2022-10-19 | GSE193749 | GEO
Project description:Rationale: Multiciliated cell (MCC) loss/dysfunction is common in the small airways of patients with COPD but it is unclear if this contributes to COPD lung pathology. Objectives: To determine whether loss of MCCs causes a COPD-like phenotype in mice and explore a potential role for the transcription factor p73 in COPD. Methods: p73floxE7-E9 mice were crossed with Shh-Cre mice to generate mice lacking MCCs in the airway epithelium. The resulting p73airway mice were analyzed using electron microscopy, flow cytometry, morphometry, forced oscillation technique, and single-cell RNA sequencing. Further, the effects of cigarette smoke on p73 transcript and protein expression were examined using in vitro and in vivo models and in studies including airway epithelium from smokers and COPD patients. Measurements and Main Results: Loss of functional p73 in the respiratory epithelium resulted in a near-complete absence of MCCs in p73airway mice. In adulthood, these mice spontaneously developed neutrophilic inflammation and emphysema-like lung remodeling and had progressive loss of secretory cells. Exposure of normal airway epithelium cells to cigarette smoke rapidly and durably suppressed p73 expression in vitro and in vivo. Further, TP73 mRNA expression was reduced in the airways of current smokers (n=82) compared to former smokers (n=69) and p73-expressing MCCs were reduced in the small airways of COPD patients (n=11) compared non-COPD controls (n=12). Conclusions: Loss of functional p73 in murine airway epithelium results in the absence of MCCs and promotes COPD-like lung pathology. In smokers and patients with COPD, loss of p73 may contribute to MCC loss or dysfunction.
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Project description:Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease poses a major risk for public health, yet remarkably little is known about its detailed pathophysiology. Definition of COPD as non-reversible pulmonary obstruction may thus reveal more about the spatial orientation of the disease than about its mechanisms. We conducted a controlled observational study allowing for simultaneous assessment of clinical and biological development in COPD. 16 healthy controls and 104 subjects with chronic bronchitis, with or without pulmonary obstruction at baseline, were investigated using both extent and change of bronchial obstruction as main scoring criteria for the analysis of gene expression in lung tissue. We identified 410 genes significantly associated with progression of COPD. 110 of these genes demonstrated a distinctive expression pattern, their functional annotations indicating a participation in the regulation of cellular coherence, membrane integrity, growth and differentiation as well as inflammation and fibroproliferative repair. The regulatory pattern indicates a sequentially unfolding pathology that centers on a two-step failure of surface integrity commencing with a loss of epithelial coherence as early as chronic bronchitis. Decline of regenerative repair starting in GOLD stage I then activates degradation of ECM hyaluronan causing structural failure of the bronchial wall only to be resolved by scar formation.
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