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STAT-3 regulates surfactant phospholipid homeostasis in normal lung and during endotoxin-mediated lung injury

Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Submitted 15 August 2007 ; accepted in final form 24 March 2008

Acute lung injury associated with surfactant deficiency remains a major cause of pulmonary morbidity and mortality. Since signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (STAT-3) plays an important role in protecting respiratory epithelial cells during injury, we hypothesized that STAT-3 may regulate gene expression in type II cells that mediate surfactant phospholipid synthesis. Conditional deletion of Stat-3 in respiratory epithelial cells in the lung of transgenic mice (Stat-3^/ mice) decreased surfactant phospholipid synthesis and secretion. Deletion of Stat-3 was associated with decreased expression of Akt2, Srebf-1, and other genes expressed in type II cells that may influence surfactant phospholipid synthesis (Glut-1, Slc34a2, Gpam, Acox2, and Cds2). Stat-3^/ mice were more susceptible to intratracheal lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Saturated phosphatidylcholine and surfactant protein B levels were significantly decreased in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from LPS-treated Stat-3^/ mice. Alveolar capillary leak, proinflammatory cytokine expression, and perturbations of lung mechanics caused by LPS were exacerbated after deletion of STAT-3. STAT-3 plays a critical role in the regulation of surfactant lipid synthesis in the normal lung and during lung injury caused by LPS.

acute lung injury; lipopolysaccharide; cytokine signaling; Akt2; Srebf-1

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