Omics · study · 2026
AP-1 mediated chromatin changes govern alveolar type 2 cell transition in lung injury-repair [multiome]
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Facultative stem cells including alveolar type 2 (AT2) cells in the lung must toggle between unipotent specialization and multipotent plasticity during injury-repair.
Description
The underlying molecular switches and epigenetic changes remain unclear yet dictate regeneration versus pathology. Using multiomics and mouse genetics, we show that AP-1 members FOS, FOSB, and JUNB promote an injury-induced transitional AT2 cell state and associated chromatin landscape.
Joint transcriptomic-epigenomic profiling and immunostaining distinguish CLDN4+ AT2 cells as a KRT8high subset with open chromatin highly enriched for AP-1 motifs. JUNB and FOSB accumulate in these cells upon viral injury and, along with constitutive FOS, are required for CLDN4 induction, AT2 cell dispersion, and senescence signaling toward fibroblasts, while impacting region-specific alveolar type 1 (AT1) differentiation.
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AP-1 activation also occurs in mouse AT2 cells expressing oncogenic Kras and transitional cells of human lung adenocarcinoma. Our work refines AT2 transitional states and reveals a gene regulatory logic shared by tissue repair and tumorigenesis.
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Get the data
- GEO FTP directory ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/GSE310nnn/GSE310539 ↗
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Where it is published
- GEO accession page ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE310539 ↗
landing page · from NCBI GEO
Documentation and papers
- PRJNA1366485 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA1366485 ↗
project · from NCBI GEO
Topics
- Stated by source
- Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing · Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencing · Mus musculus
- From keywords
- Life Sciences
- Inferred from text
- Genetics 69%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NCBI GEO | GSE310539 | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3105 | enrichment · NCBI GEO | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (69%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[method].geo_series_type:expression-profiling-by-high-throughput-sequencing | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /gdstype |
| concepts[method].geo_series_type:genome-binding-occupancy-profiling-by-high-throughput-sequencing | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /gdstype |
| concepts[organism].NCBITaxon:10090 | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /taxon |
| description | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /summary |
| publication_date | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /title |