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Acute Lung Injury^*

Functional Genomics and Genetic Susceptibility

^* From the Departments of Environmental Health, Pediatrics, & Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; and the Divisions of Pulmonary Biology, Developmental Biology, Information Services, and Pulmonary Medicine, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Correspondence to: George D. Leikauf, PhD, Director, Molecular Toxicology Division, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, PO Box 670056, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056; e-mail: leikaugd{at}uc.edu

Initiated by numerous factors, acute lung injury is marked by epithelial and endothelial cell perturbation and inflammatory cell influx that leads to surfactant disruption, pulmonary edema, and atelectasis. This syndrome has been associated with a myriad of mediators including cytokines, oxidants, and growth factors. To better understand gene-environmental interactions controlling this complex process, the sensitivity of inbred mouse strains was investigated following acute lung injury that was induced by fine nickel sulfate aerosol. Measuring survival time, protein and neutrophil concentrations in BAL fluid, lung wet-to-dry weight ratio, and histology, we found that these responses varied between inbred mouse strains and that susceptibility is heritable. To assess the progression of acute lung injury, the temporal expression of genes and expressed sequence tags was assessed by complementary DNA microarray analysis. Enhanced expression was noted in genes that were associated with oxidative stress, antiprotease function, and extracellular matrix repair. In contrast, expression levels of surfactant proteins (SPs) and Clara cell secretory protein (ie, transcripts that are constitutively expressed in the lung) decreased markedly. Genome-wide analysis was performed with offspring derived from a sensitive and resistant strain (C57BL/6xA F₁ backcrossed with susceptible A strain). Significant linkage was identified for a locus on chromosome 6 (proposed as Aliq4), a region that we had identified previously following ozone-induced acute lung injury. Two suggestive linkages were identified on chromosomes 1 and 12. Using haplotype analysis to estimate the combined effect of these regions (along with putative modifying loci on chromosomes 9 and 16), we found that five loci interact to account for the differences in survival time of the parental strains. Candidate genes contained in Aliq4 include SP-B, aquaporin 1, and transforming growth factor-. Thus, the functional genomic approaches of large gene set expression (complementary DNA microarray) and genome-wide analyses continue to provide novel insights into the genetic susceptibility of lung injury.

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