A549 cigarette smoke resistant cell line expression profiling

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is currently the third cause of death worldwide with still increasing mortality and morbidity. Primary etiology of COPD is cigarette smoking. However, in clinic, not all smokers develop COPD. The underlying mechanism remains unclear. A549 cells, which are widely used in vitro as a model of alveolar type II pulmonary epithelium, were subjected to step-wise increasing cigarette smoke extract (CSE) treatments. Those cigarette smoke extract resistant (SER) cells were cultured and used for further experiments. The aim of this study is to investigate the differentially expressed genes in SER group with or without CSE treatment and identify potential genes or pathways which could play a role in COPD pathogenesis. 6 groups (2 genotypes x 3 time points), each with 4 biological replicates