Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

The in vivo genetic program of murine primordial lung epithelial progenitors

  • Laertis Ikonomou,
  • Michael J. Herriges,
  • Sara L. Lewandowski,
  • Robert Marsland,
  • Carlos Villacorta-Martin,
  • Ignacio S. Caballero,
  • David B. Frank,
  • Reeti M. Sanghrajka,
  • Keri Dame,
  • Maciej M. Kańduła,
  • Julia Hicks-Berthet,
  • Matthew L. Lawton,
  • Constantina Christodoulou,
  • Attila J. Fabian,
  • Eric Kolaczyk,
  • Xaralabos Varelas,
  • Edward E. Morrisey,
  • John M. Shannon,
  • Pankaj Mehta,
  • Darrell N. Kotton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14348-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The identity of the earliest murine in vivo lung epithelial progenitors (marked by NKX2-1 expression) is unclear. Here, the authors use single-cell RNA sequencing to define the genetic program of these lung primordial progenitors, which will improve in vitro lung specification of pluripotent stem cells.