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1 Department of Pediatrics, 2 Cardiovascular Research Institute, and 3 Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0106
The pulmonary alveolar epithelium is composed of two distinct types of cells, type I and type II cells, both of which are critical for normal lung function. On the basis of experiments of both nature and in vivo studies, it has been hypothesized that expression of the type I or type II phenotype is influenced by mechanical factors. We have investigated the effects of mechanical distension on the expression of specific markers for the type I and type II cell phenotypes in cultured alveolar type II cells. Rat alveolar type II cells were tonically mechanically distended in culture. Cells were analyzed for a marker for the type I phenotype (rTI40, an integral membrane protein specific for type I cells) and for markers for the type II phenotype [surfactant protein (SP) A, SP-B, and SP-C] as well as for glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH). Mechanical distension caused a 68 ± 25% (n = 3) increase in mRNA content of rTI40 relative to undistended controls. In contrast, mechanical distension resulted in a decrease in mRNA content of SP-B to 35 ± 19% (n = 3) and of SP-C to 20 ± 6.7% (n = 3) of undistended controls. There was no effect on mRNA content of SP-A or GAPDH. The differences in mRNA content of SP-B and SP-C were found to be primarily due to changes at the transcriptional level by nuclear run-on assays. The effects on rTI40 appear to be due to posttranscriptional events. These data show that mechanical distension influences alveolar epithelial phenotypic expression in vitro, at least in part, at the transcriptional level.
type II cell; type I cell; mechanical stretch; gene expression
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