Loss of tight junction protein claudin 18 uncovers alveolar epithelial stem cell plasticity and emergence of non-fibrogenic transitional progenitors
Castaldi, A.; Chin, J. S.; Ma, B.; Chang, M. W.; Samimi, K.; Allen, A.; Pinon-Rose, W.; Castillo, J.; Zamani, P.; Xie, M.; Arias, N.; Solaimanpour, K.; Liu, Y.; Shen, H.; Scott, B. T.; Horie, M.; Flodby, P.; Kasirer-Friede, A.; Dang, K.; Buchanan, J.; Lancione, R.; Miller, M.; Yang, Q.; Benner, C.; Marconett, C.; Wang, A.; Zhou, B.; Sun, X.; Borok, Z.
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Persistence of senescent alveolar transitional progenitors following lung injury is implicated in the pathogenesis of fibrosis. We identified transitional cells in uninjured Cldn18 knockout (KO) mouse lungs distinct from previously reported damage-associated transitional progenitors (DATPs) with a less fibrogenic transcriptomic profile. Cldn18 KO mice are protected from bleomycin-induced fibrosis, with early restoration of cellular homeostasis. Lineage tracing implicates accelerated differentiation as a mechanism for protection from fibrosis, leading us to name these cells regeneration-associated transitional progenitors (RATPs). Multiome confirms that RATPs and DATPs are epigenetically distinct, with RATPs comprised of RATP2s and RATP1s based on epigenomic proximity to AT2s and AT1s, respectively, and suggests dynamic regulatory remodeling during AT2-to-AT1 differentiation, with NKX2.1 and AP-1 active in early transitions and TEAD factors in later stages. These results reveal an unexpected role for Cldn18 in regulation of AEC plasticity, while identification of RATPs challenges the notion that persistence of transitional alveolar cells is invariably pathologic.
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