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Pepsinogen C: a type 2 cell-specific protease

Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4318

Submitted 5 September 2003 ; accepted in final form 14 October 2003

Pepsinogen C, also known as progastricsin or pepsinogen II, is an aspartic protease expressed primarily in gastric chief cells. Prior microarray studies of an in vitro model of type 2 cell differentiation indicated that pepsinogen C RNA was highly induced, comparable to surfactant protein RNA induction. Using second-trimester human fetal lung, third-trimester postnatal and adult lung, and a model of type 2 cell differentiation, we examined the specificity of pepsinogen C expression in lung. Pepsinogen C RNA and protein were only detected in >22 wk gestation samples of neonatal lung or in adult lung tissue. By immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization, pepsinogen C expression was restricted to type 2 cells. Pepsinogen C expression was rapidly induced during type 2 cell differentiation and rapidly quenched with dedifferentiation of type 2 cells after withdrawal of hormones. In all samples, pepsinogen C expression occurred concomitantly with or in advance of processing of surfactant protein-B to its mature 8-kDa form. Our results indicate that pepsinogen C is a type 2 cell-specific marker that exhibits tight developmental regulation in vivo during human lung development, as well as during in vitro differentiation and dedifferentiation of type 2 cells.

pepsinogen C; alveolar type 2 cell; cell differentiation

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