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  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Genomics
  • Pathobiology

Background:

  • Radiological bronchiectasis can occur without a clinical diagnosis.
  • Understanding early-stage bronchiectasis pathobiology is crucial for improved treatment.
  • Airway gene expression may hold keys to early disease mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify airway gene expression alterations in individuals with radiological bronchiectasis.
  • To correlate gene expression changes with cellular landscape shifts.
  • To understand the pathobiology of early-stage bronchiectasis.

Main Methods:

  • Transcriptomic profiling of bronchial brushings from 173 individuals with radiological bronchiectasis.
  • Single-cell deconvolution to analyze cellular landscape changes.
  • Analysis of gene expression patterns and their association with clinical and radiological findings.

Main Results:

  • Decreased expression of cell adhesion genes and increased expression of inflammatory genes were observed.
  • Radiological bronchiectasis was associated with increased ciliated/deuterosomal cells and decreased basal cells.
  • Gene expression patterns clustered participants and correlated with disease severity, symptoms, and SERPINA1 mutations.

Conclusions:

  • Altered gene expression in cell adhesion, Wnt signaling, ciliogenesis, and interferon-γ pathways are linked to radiological bronchiectasis.
  • These changes may involve shifts in basal and ciliated cell populations.
  • The identified gene expression pattern reflects a process associated with, but not exclusive to, bronchiectasis, impacting airway symptoms.