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American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. Vol. 31, pp. 595-600, 2004
© 2004 American Thoracic Society
DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2004-0008OC

Emphysema Lung Tissue Gene Expression Profiling

Heiko A. Golpon, Christopher D. Coldren, Martin R. Zamora, Gregory P. Cosgrove, Mark D. Moore, Rubin M. Tuder, Mark W. Geraci and Norbert F. Voelkel

Pulmonary Hypertension Center, COPD Center, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver; National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado; and Pulmonary Division, University of Magdeburg Medical Center, Magdeburg, Germany

Address correspondence to: Norbert F. Voelkel, M.D., Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, C272, Denver, CO 80262. E-mail: norbert.voelkel{at}uchsc.edu

Emphysema occurs in a subgroup of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and patients with the genetic defect of alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency who have a smoking history of many years' duration. Emphysema is generally the result of a chronic and progressive destruction of the alveolar structures, which is believed to be driven by chronic inflammation, infections, oxidative stress, and an imbalance of protease and antiprotease activity. Here, we use microarray technology to characterize the gene expression profile of lung tissue samples obtained from patients with advanced emphysema and that obtained from healthy subjects. We hypothesized that the gene expression profile of emphysema lung tissue is distinct when compared with the expression profile of normal lungs. We report that severely emphysematous tissue is characterized by a global decrease in gene expression and by an increased abundance of transcripts encoding proteins involved in inflammation, immune responses, and proteolysis. Whereas the gene expression profile is to some degree shared between "usual" emphysema and alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency–related emphysema, there are statistically significant differences in the modulation of groups of genes associated with protein and energy metabolism, and immune function, which allow distinction between these two emphysema types on the lung tissue level.

Abbreviations: alpha1-antitrypsin, AAT • "usual" emphysematous lung tissue, EML • normal lung tissue, NML • polymerase chain reaction, PCR




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