Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology

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    Submucosal Gland Myoepithelial Cells Are Reserve Stem Cells That Can Regenerate Mouse Tracheal Epithelium
    (Elsevier, 2018-05-03) Lynch, Thomas J.; Anderson, Preston J.; Rotti, Pavana G.; Tyler, Scott R.; Crooke, Adrianne K.; Choi, Soon H.; Montoro, Daniel T.; Silverman, Carolyn L.; Shahin, Weam; Zhao, Rui; Jensen-Cody, Chandler; Adamcakova-Dodd, Andrea; Evans, T. Idil Apak; Xie, Weiliang; Zhang, Yulong; Mou, Hongmei; Herring, B. Paul; Thorne, Peter S.; Rajagopal, Jayaraj; Yeaman, Charles; Parekh, Kalpaj R.; Engelhardt, John F.; Cellular and Integrative Physiology, School of Medicine
    The mouse trachea is thought to contain two distinct stem cell compartments that contribute to airway repair-basal cells in the surface airway epithelium (SAE) and an unknown submucosal gland (SMG) cell type. Whether a lineage relationship exists between these two stem cell compartments remains unclear. Using lineage tracing of glandular myoepithelial cells (MECs), we demonstrate that MECs can give rise to seven cell types of the SAE and SMGs following severe airway injury. MECs progressively adopted a basal cell phenotype on the SAE and established lasting progenitors capable of further regeneration following reinjury. MECs activate Wnt-regulated transcription factors (Lef-1/TCF7) following injury and Lef-1 induction in cultured MECs promoted transition to a basal cell phenotype. Surprisingly, dose-dependent MEC conditional activation of Lef-1 in vivo promoted self-limited airway regeneration in the absence of injury. Thus, modulating the Lef-1 transcriptional program in MEC-derived progenitors may have regenerative medicine applications for lung diseases.