Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Alveolar regeneration through a Krt8+ transitional stem cell state that persists in human lung fibrosis

  • Maximilian Strunz,
  • Lukas M. Simon,
  • Meshal Ansari,
  • Jaymin J. Kathiriya,
  • Ilias Angelidis,
  • Christoph H. Mayr,
  • George Tsidiridis,
  • Marius Lange,
  • Laura F. Mattner,
  • Min Yee,
  • Paulina Ogar,
  • Arunima Sengupta,
  • Igor Kukhtevich,
  • Robert Schneider,
  • Zhongming Zhao,
  • Carola Voss,
  • Tobias Stoeger,
  • Jens H. L. Neumann,
  • Anne Hilgendorff,
  • Jürgen Behr,
  • Michael O’Reilly,
  • Mareike Lehmann,
  • Gerald Burgstaller,
  • Melanie Königshoff,
  • Harold A. Chapman,
  • Fabian J. Theis,
  • Herbert B. Schiller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17358-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Injury repair is characterized by the generation of transient cell states important for tissue recovery. Here, the authors present a single cell RNA-seq map of recovery from bleomycin lung injury in mice and uncover a Krt8+ transitional stem cell state that precedes the regeneration of AT1 cells and persists in human lung fibrosis.