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Silicosis is a chronic occupational lung disease caused by long-term inhalation ofcrystalline silica particulates. We created a rat model that closely approximates the exposure and development of silicosis in humans. Isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) technologies weused to identify proteins differentially expressed in activated rat lung tissue. We constructed three lentiviral knockdown vectorsand an overexpression vectorfor the protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 2 ( PTPN2 ) geneto achieve stable long-term expression.A total of 471 proteins were differentially expressed in the silicosis group compared with controls. Twenty upregulated, and eight downregulated proteins exhibited a ≥ 1.5-fold change relative to controls. We next found that the PTPN2, Factor B, and VRK1 concentrations in silicotic rats silicosis and SiO 2 -stimulated MLE-12 cells were significantly higher than control groups.More importantly, we found that overexpression of PTPN2 simultaneously decreased the expression of phospho-signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (p-STAT3) and Vimentin, while increasing E-cadherin expression. The opposite pattern was observed for PTPN2 -gene silencing. We identified three proteins with substantially enhanced expression in silicosis. Our study also showed that PTPN2 can inhibit epithelial-mesenchymal transition by dephosphorylating STAT3 in silicosis fibrosis.

international journal of molecular sciences

Protein Expression Profile in Rat Silicosis Model Reveals Upregulation of PTPN2 and Its Inhibitory Effect on Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition by Dephosphorylation of STAT3