AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol 267, Issue 3 263-L270, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Expression of the tyrosine phosphatase LAR-PTP2 is developmentally regulated in lung epithelia

D. Rotin, B. J. Goldstein and C. A. Fladd
Medical Research Council Group in Lung Development (Division of Respiratory Research), Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The role of tyrosine kinases in regulating cell proliferation, differentiation, and development has been well documented. In contrast, little is known about the role of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) in mammalian development. To identify PTPs that may be involved in lung development, we have isolated (by polymerase chain reaction) from rat fetal alveolar epithelial cells a cDNA fragment which was identified as the recently cloned tyrosine phosphatase LAR-PTP2. Analysis of tissue expression of LAR-PTP2 identified a approximately 7.5-kb message in the lung, which is also expressed weakly in brain, and an alternatively spliced approximately 6.0-kb message (LAR-PTP2B) expressed in brain. In the fetal lung, LAR-PTP2 was preferentially expressed in lung epithelial (but not fibroblast) cells grown briefly in primary culture, and its expression was tightly regulated during lung development, peaking at 20 days of gestational age (term = 22 days), when mature alveolar type II epithelium first appears. Accordingly, immunoblot analysis revealed high expression of endogenous LAR-PTP2 protein in alveolar epithelial cells from 21-day gestation fetuses. LAR-PTP2 was also expressed in lungs of newborn rats, but transcripts (and protein) were barely detectable in adult lungs and in the nonproliferating adult alveolar type II cells. Interestingly, expression was restored in the transformed adult type II-like A549 cells. These results suggest that LAR-PTP2 may play a role in the proliferation and/or differentiation of epithelial cells during lung development.

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