TACSTD2 upregulation is an early reaction to lung infection.

Lenárt, Sára; Lenárt, Peter; Knopfová, Lucia; Kotasová, Hana; Pelková, Vendula; Sedláková, Veronika; Vacek, Ondřej; Pokludová, Jana; Čan, Vladimír; Šmarda, Jan; Souček, Karel; Hampl, Aleš; Beneš, Petr (2022). TACSTD2 upregulation is an early reaction to lung infection. Scientific reports, 12(1), p. 9583. Springer Nature 10.1038/s41598-022-13637-9

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TACSTD2 encodes a transmembrane glycoprotein Trop2 commonly overexpressed in carcinomas. While the Trop2 protein was discovered already in 1981 and first antibody-drug conjugate targeting Trop2 were recently approved for cancer therapy, the physiological role of Trop2 is still not fully understood. In this article, we show that TACSTD2/Trop2 expression is evolutionarily conserved in lungs of various vertebrates. By analysis of publicly available transcriptomic data we demonstrate that TACSTD2 level consistently increases in lungs infected with miscellaneous, but mainly viral pathogens. Single cell and subpopulation based transcriptomic data revealed that the major source of TACSTD2 transcript are lung epithelial cells and their progenitors and that TACSTD2 is induced directly in lung epithelial cells following infection. Increase in TACSTD2 expression may represent a mechanism to maintain/restore epithelial barrier function and contribute to regeneration process in infected/damaged lungs.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Cell Biology

UniBE Contributor:

Lenart, Peter

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology

ISSN:

2045-2322

Publisher:

Springer Nature

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

13 Jun 2022 07:45

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:20

Publisher DOI:

10.1038/s41598-022-13637-9

PubMed ID:

35688908

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/170603

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/170603

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