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Several diseases stall the protection provided by the mucus by altering its components and biophysical properties. This review provides an overview of how the defensive mucus of the airways functions in health, how the mucus can fail to clear with muco-obstructive lung diseases, how mucins respond to pathogens that infect the mucus, how the molecular signals of mucin secretion function, and how therapeutics may improve morbidity and mortality for people with muco-obstructive lung disease. Recent studies of the spatial organization of mucin-producing cells have led to new understanding of the difference between constitutive MUC5B production by superficial epithelial cells and between trigger-induced production and secretion by the goblet cells and submucosal glands. 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