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Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol (June 8, 2007). doi:10.1152/ajplung.00084.2007
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Submitted on March 6, 2007
Accepted on June 4, 2007

Heterogeneity of Transcription Factor Expression and Regulation in Human Airway Epithelial and Smooth Muscle Cells

Alfredo Panebra1, Mary Rose Schwarb1, Clare B. Glinka1, and Stephen Bryant Liggett1*

1 Cardiopulmonary Genomics Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sligg001{at}umaryland.edu.

Transcription factors represent a major mechanism by which cells establish basal and conditional expression of proteins, the latter potentially being adaptive or maladaptive in disease. The complement of transcription factors in two major-structural cells of the lung relevant to asthma, airway epithelial and smooth muscle cells, is not known. A plate-based platform using nuclear extracts from these cells was utilized to assess potential expression by binding to oligonucleotide consensus sequences representing >300 transcription factors. Four conditions were studied: basal, {beta}-agonist exposure, culture under pro-asthmatic conditions (IL-13, IL-4, TGF{beta} and LTD4) and the dual setting of {beta}-agonist with pro-asthmatic culture. Airway epithelial cells expressed 70 transcription factors while airway smooth muscle expressed 110. High levels of multiple transcription factors not previously recognized as being expressed in these cells were identified. Moreover, expression/binding patterns under these conditions revealed extreme discordance in the direction and magnitude of change between the cell-types. Singular (one cell-type displayed regulation) and antithetic regulation (both cell-types underwent expression changes but in opposite directions) dominated these patterns, with concomitant regulation in both cell-types being rare (<10%). {beta}-agonist evoked up- and downregulation of transcription factors, which was highly influenced by the pro-asthmatic condition, with little overlap of factors regulated by {beta}-agonists under both conditions. Taken together, these results reveal complex, cell-type dependent networks of transcription factors in human airway epithelium and smooth muscle that are dynamically regulated in unique ways by {beta}-agonists and inflammation. These factors may represent additional components in asthma pathophysiology or potential new drug targets.







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