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Series GSE7832 Query DataSets for GSE7832
Status Public on Dec 16, 2008
Title Down-regulation of the Notch Differentiation Pathway in the Airway Epithelium of Normal Smokers and Smokers with COPD
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Expression profiling by array
Summary Down-regulation of the Notch Differentiation Pathway in the Human Airway Epithelium in Normal Smokers and Smokers with Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

In cigarette smokers, the toxic components of smoke place the epithelium under the constant stress of a variety of mechanisms of injury, with consequent modulation of airway epithelial regeneration and disordered differentiation. Based on the underlying hypothesis that these airway epithelial changes must involve quantitative changes in genes involved with the regulation of differentiation, we assessed the expression of the Notch pathway, a signaling pathway known to play a fundamental role in the embryonic lung as a gatekeeper for differentiation, in the small airway epithelium of non-smokers, normal smokers, and smokers with COPD. Microarray analysis demonstrated that 45 of the 55 Notch pathway-related genes are expressed in the human adult small airway epithelium and TaqMan quantitative PCR confirmed the expression of key genes in the pathway. TaqMan quantitative PCR analysis of the normal small airway epithelium demonstrated that Delta-like ligand 1 is the most highly expressed Notch ligand, Notch2 and 3 the most highly expressed receptor genes, and Hes1 the predominant downstream effector gene. TaqMan PCR was used to compare gene expression in nonsmokers vs healthy smokers vs smokers with COPD. The data show that some key genes in the ligands, receptors and downstream effectors in the Notch pathway are differentially expressed in smokers, with significant downregulation of a greater number of Notch-related genes in smokers with COPD compared to healthy smokers. These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that the Notch pathway, known to play an important role in lung morphogenesis, also likely plays a role in the adult human airway epithelium, with at least some of the Notch pathway gene expression dysregulated in association with smoking and its related disorder, COPD.
Keywords: non-smokers, airway epithelial cells
 
Overall design Gene expression in airway epithelial cells of normal non-smokers.
 
Contributor(s) Tilley AE, Harvey B, Heguy A, Hackett NR, Crystal RG
Citation(s) 19106307
Submission date May 17, 2007
Last update date Mar 25, 2019
Contact name Yael Strulovici-Barel
E-mail(s) yas2003@med.cornell.edu
Organization name Weill Cornell Medical College
Department Department of Genetic Medicine
Lab Crystal
Street address 1300 York Avenue
City New York
State/province NY
ZIP/Postal code 10021
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL570 [HG-U133_Plus_2] Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array
Samples (20)
GSM101095 small airways, non-smoker 001, RMA and MAS
GSM101096 small airways, non-smoker 004, RMA and MAS
GSM101097 small airways, non-smoker 002, RMA and MAS
Relations
BioProject PRJNA100071

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