Isolation and 3D expansion of multipotent Sox9+ mouse lung progenitors.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2017

JAX Source

Nat Methods 2017 Dec; 14(12):1205-1212

Volume

14

Issue

12

First Page

1205

Last Page

1212

ISSN

1548-7105

PMID

29106405

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4498

Abstract

Multiple adult tissues are maintained by stem cells of restricted developmental potential which can only form a subset of lineages within the tissue. For instance, the two adult lung epithelial compartments (airways and alveoli) are separately maintained by distinct lineage-restricted stem cells. A challenge has been to obtain multipotent stem cells and/or progenitors that can generate all epithelial cell types of a given tissue. Here we show that mouse Sox9+ multipotent embryonic lung progenitors can be isolated and expanded long term in 3D culture. Cultured Sox9+ progenitors transcriptionally resemble their in vivo counterparts and generate both airway and alveolar cell types in vitro. Sox9+ progenitors that were transplanted into injured adult mouse lungs differentiated into all major airway and alveolar lineages in vivo in a region-appropriate fashion. We propose that a single expandable embryonic lung progenitor population with broader developmental competence may eventually be used as an alternative for region-restricted adult tissue stem cells in regenerative medicine. Nat Methods 2017 Dec; 14(12):1205-1212.

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