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ArticleThe EMBO journal2020

Multilineage murine stem cells generate complex organoids to model distal lung development and disease.

Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz, Monika Heiner, Elie El Agha, Isabelle Salwig, Andreas Hoek, Marie Christin Hessler, Irina Shalashova, Amit Shrestha, Gianni Carraro, Jan Philip Mengel and 11 more

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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58citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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58 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Ana Ivonne Vazquez-ArmendarizDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8498-6492
Monika HeinerDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.
Elie El AghaDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7504-3417
Isabelle SalwigDepartment of Cardiac Development and Remodelling, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
Andreas HoekBioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany.
Marie Christin HesslerDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.
Irina ShalashovaDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.
Amit ShresthaDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.
Gianni CarraroLung and Regenerative Medicine Institutes, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Jan Philip MengelInstitute for Medical Microbiology, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Partner Site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Giessen, Germany.
Andreas GüntherDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.
Rory Edward MortyDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0833-9749
István VadászDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.
Martin SchwemmleInstitute of Virology, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2972-6855
Wolfgang KummerInstitute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Justus-Liebig-University, UGMLC, DZL, Giessen, Germany.
Torsten HainInstitute for Medical Microbiology, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Partner Site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Giessen, Germany.
Alexander GoesmannBioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany.
Saverio BellusciDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.
Werner SeegerDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.
Thomas BraunDepartment of Cardiac Development and Remodelling, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6165-4804
Susanne HeroldDepartment of Internal Medicine II and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and The Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Giessen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6343-0911
German Center for Lung Research · DEJustus-Liebig-Universität Gießen · DEMax Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research · DECedars-Sinai Medical Center · USUniversity of Freiburg · DE

Funding

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) FKZ 031A533Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) BE4443/4-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) BE4443/6-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) KFO 309 P2/P5/P6/P7/P8/Z01Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) SFB 1021 C05 and Z02Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) SFB 1160Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) SFB1213Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) SFB-TR84 B9 and A6Deutsche Zentrum für Lungenforschung (DZL)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organoids derived from mouse and human stem cells have recently emerged as a powerful tool to study organ development and disease. We here established a three-dimensional (3D) murine bronchioalveolar lung organoid (BALO) model that allows clonal expansion and self-organization of FACS-sorted bronchioalveolar stem cells (BASCs) upon co-culture with lung-resident mesenchymal cells. BALOs yield a highly branched 3D structure within 21 days of culture, mimicking the cellular composition of the bronchioalveolar compartment as defined by single-cell RNA sequencing and fluorescence as well as electron microscopic phenotyping. Additionally, BALOs support engraftment and maintenance of the cellular phenotype of injected tissue-resident macrophages. We also demonstrate that BALOs recapitulate lung developmental defects after knockdown of a critical regulatory gene, and permit modeling of viral infection. We conclude that the BALO model enables reconstruction of the epithelial-mesenchymal-myeloid unit of the distal lung, thereby opening numerous new avenues to study lung development, infection, and regenerative processes in vitro.

Indexed as

AnimalsAtaxin-1Cell DifferentiationCells, CulturedEndothelial CellsEpithelial Cell Adhesion MoleculeEpithelial CellsFibroblastsHumansLungLung DiseasesMesenchymal Stem CellsMiceMorphogenesisOrganogenesisOrganoidsAtaxin-1Atxn1 protein, mouseEpithelial Cell Adhesion MoleculeRNA, MessengerBALOBASClung organoidsstem cells

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PMID32985719
PMCPMC7604576
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