Jagged and Delta ligands control distinct events during airway progenitor cell differentiation

  1. Maria R Stupnikov
  2. Ying Yang
  3. Munemasa Mori
  4. Jining Lu
  5. Wellington V Cardoso  Is a corresponding author
  1. Columbia University Medical Center, United States

Abstract

Notch signaling regulates cell fate selection during development in multiple organs including the lung. Previous studies on the role of Notch in the lung focused mostly on Notch pathway core components or receptor-specific functions. It is unclear, however, how individual (Dll1/Dll4/Jag1/Jag2) or families of ligands (Delta/Jagged) influence differentiation of airway epithelial progenitors. Using mouse genetic models we show major differences in Jag and Dll in regulation and establishment of cell fate. Jag ligands had a major impact in balancing distinct cell populations in conducting airways, but had no role in establishment of domains and cellular abundance in the neuroendocrine (NE) microenvironment. Surprisingly, Dll ligands were crucial in restricting cell fate and size of NE bodies and showed an overlapping role with Jag in differentiation of NE-associated secretory (club) cells. These mechanisms may potentially play a role in human conditions that result in aberrant NE differentiation, including NE hyperplasias and cancer.

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  1. Maria R Stupnikov

    Columbia Center for Human Development, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Allergy Critical Care, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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  2. Ying Yang

    Columbia Center for Human Development, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Allergy Critical Care, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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  3. Munemasa Mori

    Columbia Center for Human Development, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Allergy Critical Care, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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  4. Jining Lu

    Columbia Center for Human Development, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Allergy Critical Care, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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  5. Wellington V Cardoso

    Columbia Center for Human Development, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Allergy Critical Care, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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    wvc2104@cumc.columbia.edu
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Funding

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R35-HL135834-01)

  • Wellington V Cardoso

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Edward E Morrisey, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Ethics

Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All of the animals were handled according to approved institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) protocol (AAAS0503) of Columbia University.

Version history

  1. Received: July 24, 2019
  2. Accepted: October 18, 2019
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: October 21, 2019 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: December 2, 2019 (version 2)

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© 2019, Stupnikov et al.

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  1. Maria R Stupnikov
  2. Ying Yang
  3. Munemasa Mori
  4. Jining Lu
  5. Wellington V Cardoso
(2019)
Jagged and Delta ligands control distinct events during airway progenitor cell differentiation
eLife 8:e50487.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.50487

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