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Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles from Murine Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Using an Ultrafiltration Centrifugation Technique

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are newly discovered subcellular components that play important roles in many biological signaling functions during ...

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Syndecan-1 is a cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycan primarily expressed in the lung epithelium. Because the influenza virus is tropic to the airway epithelium, we investigated the role of syndecan-1 in influenza infection.

Syndecan-1 Attenuates Lung Injury during Influenza Infection by Potentiating c-Met Signaling to Suppress Epithelial Apoptosis.

Maladaptive epithelial repair from chronic injury is a common feature in fibrotic diseases, which in turn activates a pathogenic fibroblast response that produces excessive matrix deposition. Dysregulated microRNAs (miRs) can regulate expression of multiple genes and fundamentally alter cellular phenotypes during fibrosis. Although several miRs have been shown to be associated with lung fibrosis, the mechanisms by which miRs modulate epithelial behavior in lung fibrosis are lacking. Here, we identified miR-323a-3p to be downregulated in the epithelium of lungs with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) after lung transplantation, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), and murine bleomycin-induced fibrosis. Antagomirs for miR-323a-3p augment, and mimics suppress, murine lung fibrosis after bleomycin injury, indicating that this miR may govern profibrotic signals. We demonstrate that miR-323a-3p attenuates TGF-α and TGF-β signaling by directly targeting key adaptors in these important fibrogenic pathways. Moreover, miR-323a-3p lowers caspase-3 expression, thereby limiting programmed cell death from inducers of apoptosis and ER stress. Finally, we find that epithelial expression of miR-323a-3p modulates inhibitory crosstalk with fibroblasts. These studies demonstrate that miR-323a-3p has a central role in lung fibrosis that spans across murine and human disease, and downregulated expression by the lung epithelium releases inhibition of various profibrotic pathways to promote fibroproliferation.

miR-323a-3p regulates lung fibrosis by targeting multiple profibrotic pathways.

αβ Integrin Directs Alveolar Epithelial Migration.

Syndecan-1 is a transmembrane proteoglycan expressed prominently by lung epithelium and has pleiotropic functions such as regulating cell migration, proliferation, and survival. Loss of syndecan-1 expression by lung cancer cells is associated with higher-grade cancers and worse clinical prognosis. We evaluated the effects of syndecan-1 in various cell-based and animal models of lung cancer and found that lung tumorigenesis was moderated by syndecan-1. We also demonstrate that syndecan-1 (or lack thereof) alters the miRNA cargo carried within exosomes exported from lung cancer cells. Analysis of the changes in miRNA expression identified a distinct shift toward augmented procancer signaling consistent with the changes found in lung adenocarcinoma. Collectively, our work identifies syndecan-1 as an important factor in lung cancer cells that shapes the tumor microenvironment through alterations in miRNA packaging within exosomes.

Syndecan-1 Controls Lung Tumorigenesis by Regulating miRNAs Packaged in Exosomes.

Influenza infects millions of people each year causing respiratory distress and death in severe cases. On average, 200,000 people annually are hospitalized in the United States for influenza related complications. Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1), a secreted protein that inhibits MMPs, has been found to be involved in lung inflammation. Here, we evaluated the role of TIMP-1 in the host response to influenza-induced lung injury.

Tanyalak Parimon

Department of Medicine,
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care,
Women's Guild Lung Institute,
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Women's Guild Lung Institute

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles from Murine Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Using an Ultrafiltration Centrifugation Technique

Tanyalak Parimon

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles from Murine Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Using an Ultrafiltration Centrifugation Technique

Department of Medicine,
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care,
Women's Guild Lung Institute,
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Women's Guild Lung Institute