Senescence of alveolar stem cells drives progressive pulmonary fibrosis
Yao, C.; Guan, X.; Carraro, G.; Parimon, T.; Liu, X.; Huang, G.; Soukiasian, H.; David, G.; Weight, S. S.; Belperio, J. A.; Chen, P.; Jiang, D.; Noble, P. W.; Stripp, B. R.
10.1101/820175 bioRxivShow abstract
Tissue fibrosis is a common pathological outcome of chronic disease that markedly impairs organ function leading to morbidity and mortality. In the lung, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an insidious and fatal interstitial lung disease associated with declining pulmonary function. Here, we show that alveolar type 2 (AT2) stem cells isolated from IPF lung tissue exhibit characteristic transcriptomic features of cellular senescence. We used conditional loss of Sin3a in adult mouse AT2 cells to initiate a program of p53-dependent cellular senescence, AT2 cell depletion, and spontaneous, progressive pulmonary fibrosis. We establish that senescence rather than loss of epithelial stem cells serves as a proximal driver of Tgf{beta} activation and progressive fibrosis and show that either genetic or pharmacologic interventions targeting p53 activation, senescence, or downstream Tgf{beta} activation, block fibrogenesis.
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