An Essential Role for Fibronectin Extra Type III Domain A in Pulmonary Fibrosis
- 15 March 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Thoracic Society in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
- Vol. 177 (6), 638-645
- https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.200708-1291oc
Abstract
Tissue fibrosis is considered a dysregulated wound-healing response. Fibronectin containing extra type III domain A (EDA) is implicated in the regulation of wound healing. EDA-containing fibronectin is deposited during wound repair, and its presence precedes that of collagen. To investigate the role of EDA-containing fibronectin in lung fibrogenesis. Primary lung fibroblasts from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis or from patients undergoing resection for lung cancer were assessed for EDA-containing fibronectin and alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA) expression. Mice lacking the EDA domain of fibronectin and their wild-type littermates were challenged with the bleomycin model of lung fibrosis. Primary lung fibroblasts from these mice were assayed in vitro to determine the contribution of EDA-containing fibronectin to fibroblast phenotypes. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis lung fibroblasts produced markedly more EDA-containing fibronectin and alpha-SMA than control fibroblasts. EDA-null mice failed to develop significant fibrosis 21 days after bleomycin challenge, whereas wild-type controls developed the expected increase in total lung collagen. Histologic analysis of EDA-null lungs after bleomycin showed less collagen and fewer alpha-SMA-expressing myofibroblasts compared with that observed in wild-type mice. Failure to develop lung fibrosis in EDA-null mice correlated with diminished activation of latent transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta and decreased lung fibroblast responsiveness to active TGF-beta in vitro. The data show that EDA-containing fibronectin is essential for the fibrotic resolution of lung injury through TGF-beta activation and responsiveness, and suggest that EDA-containing fibronectin plays a critical role in tissue fibrogenesis.This publication has 43 references indexed in Scilit:
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