RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Dissecting the cellular specificity of smoking effects and reconstructing lineages in the human airway epithelium
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 612747
DO 10.1101/612747
A1 Katherine C. Goldfarbmuren
A1 Nathan D. Jackson
A1 Satria P. Sajuthi
A1 Nathan Dyjack
A1 Katie S. Li
A1 Cydney L. Rios
A1 Elizabeth G. Plender
A1 Michael T. Montgomery
A1 Jamie L. Everman
A1 Eszter K. Vladar
A1 Max A. Seibold
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/04/17/612747.abstract
AB Cigarette smoke first interacts with the lung through the cellularly diverse airway epithelium and goes on to drive development of most chronic lung diseases. Here, through single cell RNA-sequencing analysis of the tracheal epithelium from smokers and nonsmokers, we generated a comprehensive atlas of epithelial cell types and states, connected these into lineages, and defined cell-specific responses to smoking. Our analysis inferred multi-state lineages that develop into surface mucus secretory and ciliated cells and contrasted these to the unique lineage and specialization of submucosal gland (SMG) cells. Our analysis also suggests a lineage relationship between tuft, pulmonary neuroendocrine, and the newly discovered CFTR-rich ionocyte cells. Our smoking analysis found that all cell types, including protected stem and SMG populations, are affected by smoking, through both pan-epithelial smoking response networks and hundreds of cell type-specific response genes, redefining the penetrance and cellular specificity of smoking effects on the human airway epithelium.