Journal article
Characterization of air-liquid interface culture of A549 alveolar epithelial cells
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research, Vol.51(2), e6950
01/2018
DOI: 10.1590/1414-431x20176950
PMCID: PMC5731333
PMID: 29267508
Abstract
Alveolar epithelia play an essential role in maintaining the integrity and homeostasis of lungs, in which alveolar epithelial type II cells (AECII) are a cell type with stem cell potential for epithelial injury repair and regeneration. However, mechanisms behind the physiological and pathological roles of alveolar epithelia in human lungs remain largely unknown, partially owing to the difficulty of isolation and culture of primary human AECII cells. In the present study, we aimed to characterize alveolar epithelia generated from A549 lung adenocarcinoma cells that were cultured in an air-liquid interface (ALI) state. Morphological analysis demonstrated that A549 cells could reconstitute epithelial layers in ALI cultures as evaluated by histochemistry staining and electronic microscopy. Immunofluorescent staining further revealed an expression of alveolar epithelial type I cell (AECI) markers aquaporin-5 protein (AQP-5), and AECII cell marker surfactant protein C (SPC) in subpopulations of ALI cultured cells. Importantly, molecular analysis further revealed the expression of AQP-5, SPC, thyroid transcription factor-1, zonula occludens-1 and Mucin 5B in A549 ALI cultures as determined by both immunoblotting and quantitative RT-PCR assay. These results suggest that the ALI culture of A549 cells can partially mimic the property of alveolar epithelia, which may be a feasible and alternative model for investigating roles and mechanisms of alveolar epithelia in vitro.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Characterization of air-liquid interface culture of A549 alveolar epithelial cells
- Creators
- J Wu - Ningxia UniversityY Wang - Ningxia UniversityG Liu - Ningxia UniversityY Jia - Ningxia UniversityJ Yang - Ningxia UniversityJ Shi - Ningxia UniversityJ Dong - Ningxia UniversityJ Wei - Ningxia UniversityX Liu - Ningxia University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Brazilian journal of medical and biological research, Vol.51(2), e6950
- DOI
- 10.1590/1414-431x20176950
- PMID
- 29267508
- PMCID
- PMC5731333
- NLM abbreviation
- Braz J Med Biol Res
- ISSN
- 1414-431X
- eISSN
- 1414-431X
- Publisher
- Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
- Language
- Portuguese
- Date published
- 01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Record Identifier
- 9984025342102771
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