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Interleukin-11 causes alveolar type 2 cell dysfunction and prevents alveolar regeneration [scRNA-Seq]

ABSTRACT: Following lung injury, alveolar regeneration is characterized by the transformation of alveolar type 2 (AT2) cells, via a transitional KRT8+ state, into alveolar type 1 (AT1) cells. In lung disease, dysfunctional intermediate cells accumulate, AT2 and AT1 cells are diminished and fibrosis occurs. Using single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets of human interstitial lung disease, we found that Interleukin-11 (IL11) is specifically expressed in aberrant KRT8 expressing KRT5-/KRT17+ epithelial cells and basaloid cells. Stimulation of AT2 cells and distal airway epithelial cells with IL11 or TGFβ1 caused epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), induced extracellular matrix (ECM) production, increased KRT8 expression and stalled AT2-to-AT1 differentiation, with TGFβ1 effects being partially IL11 dependent. In bleomycin injured mouse lung, IL11 was increased in AT2-derived Krt8+ transitional cells and deletion of Il11ra1 in AT2 lineage cells prevented the accumulation of Krt8+ transitional cells, enhanced AT1 differentiation and promoted alveolar regeneration, which was replicated in therapeutic studies using anti-IL11 antibodies. scRNA-seq analysis of lung epithelial cells from mice with deletion of Il11ra1 in AT2 lineage cells further identified the importance of IL11 signaling for the potentiation and polarization of a disease-causing, ECM producing KRT8+ transitional cells that contributes to pathological lung remodeling. Overall, our data show that IL11 maintains damaged AT2 cells in a transitional state, impairs reparative AT1 differentiation and impairs endogenous alveolar regeneration to cause fibrotic lung disease.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE261793 | GEO | 2024/08/12

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Alveoli are thin-walled sacs that serve as the gas exchange units of the lung. They are affected in devastating lung diseases including COPD, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, and the major form (adenocarcinoma) of lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths. The alveolar epithelium is composed of two morphologically distinct cell types: alveolar type (AT) 1 cells, exquisitely thin cells across which oxygen diffuses to reach the blood, and AT2 cells, specialized surfactant-secreting cells. Classical studies suggested that AT1 cells arise from AT2 cells during development and following injury, but more recent studies suggest other sources. Here we use histological and marker analysis, lineage tracing, and clonal analysis in mice to identify alveolar progenitor and stem cells and map their locations and potential in vivo. The results show that AT1 and AT2 cells arise independently during development from a bipotential progenitor. After birth, new AT1 cells derive from rare, long-lived, self-renewing AT2 cells, each producing a slowly expanding clonal focus of regenerated alveoli contiguous with the founder AT2 cell. This stem cell function of AT2 cells is broadly activated by diffuse AT1 cell injury, and AT2 self-renewal can be induced in vitro by EGF ligands and permanently activated in vivo by AT2 cell-specific targeting of the oncogenic KrasG12D allele, efficiently transforming AT2 cells into monoclonal adenomatous tumors that rapidly enlarge and prove fatal. Thus, there is a developmental switch in alveolar progenitor cells after birth, when mature AT2 cells function as facultative stem cells that contribute to local alveolar renewal, repair, and cancer. We propose that short-range signals from dying AT1 cells regulate AT2 stem cell activity: a signal transduced by EGFR-KRAS controls AT2 self-renewal and is hijacked during oncogenic transformation, and a separate signal controls reprogramming to AT1 cell fate. To compare expression between ATII and E18 BP populations, RNA was isolated from either population purified by FACS. Two populations are analyzed with 3 biological replicates per population.

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