The goal of this experiment was to determine gene expression changes during influenza A virus infection as the result of expression influenza virus inducible miRNAs in A549 cells.
Small RNA profiling of influenza A virus-infected cells identifies miR-449b as a regulator of histone deacetylase 1 and interferon beta.
Cell line
View SamplesThe ability to generate defined null mutations in mice revolutionized the analysis of gene function in mammals. However, gene-deficient mice generated by using 129-derived embryonic stem (ES) cells may carry large segments of 129 DNA, even when extensively backcrossed to reference strains, such as C57BL/6J, and this may confound interpretation of experiments performed in these mice. Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), encoded by the PLAT gene, is a fibrinolytic serine protease that is widely expressed in the brain. A large number of neurological abnormalities have been reported in tPA-deficient mice. The studies here compare genes differentially expressed in the brains of Plat-/- mice from two independent Plat-/- mouse derivations to wild-type C57BL/6J mice. One strain denoted “Old” was constructed in ES cells from a 129 mouse and backcrossed extensively to C57BL/6J, and one denoted “New” Plat-/- mouse was constructed using zinc finger nucleases directly in the C57BL/6J-Plat-/- mouse strain. We identify a significant set of genes that are differentially expressed in the brains of Old Plat-/- mice that preferentially cluster in the vicinity of Plat on chromosome 8, apparently linked to more than 20 Mbp of DNA flanking Plat being of 129 origin. No such clustering is seen in the New Plat-/- mice. Overall design: Whole-transcriptome profiling of the cerebral cortex of wild-type control C57BL/6J mice and two independent Plat-/- mice strains on the C57BL/6J background.
Passenger mutations and aberrant gene expression in congenic tissue plasminogen activator-deficient mouse strains.
Age, Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesLiver-specific depletion of HDAC3 leads to liver steatosis (fatty liver), suggesting disregulation of lipid metabolism. This is correlated with changes in lipid metabolic gene expression.
A circadian rhythm orchestrated by histone deacetylase 3 controls hepatic lipid metabolism.
Sex, Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesBMP treatment induces expression of late differenitation genes in primary human keratinocytes. Overall design: RNA-seq analysis after treatment with EGFR inhibitor AG1478 with or without BMP27 or BMP inhibitor DMH1. each treatment and control was performed in triplicate
Single-Cell ID-seq Reveals Dynamic BMP Pathway Activation Upstream of the MAF/MAFB-Program in Epidermal Differentiation.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesSustained Akt activation induces cardiac hypertrophy (LVH), which may lead to heart failure. This study tested the hypothesis that Akt activation contributes to mitochondrial dysfunction in pathological LVH. Akt activation induced LVH and progressive repression of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation (FAO) pathways. Preventing LVH by inhibiting mTOR failed to prevent the decline in mitochondrial function but glucose utilization was maintained. Akt activation represses expression of mitochondrial regulatory, FAO, and oxidative phosphorylation genes in vivo that correlate with the duration of Akt activation in part by reducing FOXO-mediated transcriptional activation of mitochondrial-targeted nuclear genes in concert with reduced signaling via PPAR/PGC-1 and other transcriptional regulators. In cultured myocytes Akt activation disrupted mitochondrial bioenergetics, which could be partially reversed by maintaining nuclear FOXO, but not by increasing PGC-1. Thus, although short-term Akt activation may be cardioprotective during ischemia by reducing mitochondrial metabolism and increasing glycolysis, long-term Akt activation in the adult heart contributes to pathological LVH in part by reducing mitochondrial oxidative capacity.
Enhanced cardiac Akt/protein kinase B signaling contributes to pathological cardiac hypertrophy in part by impairing mitochondrial function via transcriptional repression of mitochondrion-targeted nuclear genes.
Age, Specimen part
View SamplesMucosa-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are unconventional innate-like T cells that recognize microbial riboflavin metabolites presented by the MHC class I-like protein MR1. Human MAIT cells predominantly express the CD8a co-receptor (CD8+), with a smaller subset lacking both CD4 and CD8 (DN). However, it is unclear if these two MAIT cell sub-populations distinguished by CD8a represent functionally distinct subsets. To address this, we investigated the phenotypic, transcriptional, and functional differences between CD8+ and DN MAIT cells using human samples from peripheral blood, mucosal tissues, and fetal tissues. Overall design: We FACS sorted CD8+ and CD8- MAIT cells from human peripheral blood and performed bulk RNAseq on these cells
The CD4<sup>-</sup>CD8<sup>-</sup> MAIT cell subpopulation is a functionally distinct subset developmentally related to the main CD8<sup>+</sup> MAIT cell pool.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesT follicular helper CD4 T cells (Tfh) provide requisite help to B cells in the germinal centers (GC) of lymphoid tissue. GC Tfh are identified by high expression of the chemokine receptor CXCR5 and the inhibitory molecule PD-1. Although more accessible, blood contains lower frequencies of CXCR5+ and PD-1+ cells that have been termed circulating Tfh (cTfh). However, it remains unclear whether GC Tfh exit lymphoid tissues and populate this cTfh pool. To examine exiting cells, we assessed the phenotype of Tfh present within the major conduit of efferent lymph from lymphoid tissues into blood, the human thoracic duct. Unlike blood, we consistently identified a CXCR5-Bright PD-1-Bright (CXCR5BrPD-1Br) Tfh population in thoracic duct lymph (TDL). These CXCR5BrPD-1Br TDL Tfh shared phenotypic and transcriptional similarities with GC Tfh. Moreover, components of the epigenetic profile of GC Tfh could be detected in CXCR5BrPD-1Br TDL Tfh, and the transcriptional imprint of this epigenetic signature was enriched in an activated cTfh subset known to contain vaccine-responding cells. Together with data showing shared TCR sequences between the CXCR5BrPD-1Br TDL Tfh and cTfh, these studies identify a population in TDL as a circulatory intermediate connecting the biology of Tfh in blood to Tfh in lymphoid tissue. Overall design: Transcriptional features of germinal center Tfh were detected in a population of Tfh in the efferent lymph of the human thoracic duct and can be traced to an activated subset of circulating Tfh in blood.
T follicular helper cells in human efferent lymph retain lymphoid characteristics.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesUndifferentiated and differentiated Keratinocytes (AG1478 treated) were stained with antibody-RNA conjugates to measure protein-based diffrentiation changes in conjunction with single-cell transcriptomics. The cells were crosslinked and stained according to the RAID procedure to allow intracellular immunostaining. Antibodies used in this experiment are (TGM1, NOTCH1, KLK6, JAG1, phospho-RPS6, phospho-FAK). Overall design: Three 384 wells plates for untreated and Three 384 wells plates for AG1478 treated cells were processed for single cell transcriptomics
Combined quantification of intracellular (phospho-)proteins and transcriptomics from fixed single cells.
Specimen part, Treatment, Subject
View SamplesCell fixation, permeabilization and antibody staining of could have adverse effects on the quality of single cell transcriptomics data. To assess the effects of the RAID procedure, which includes such steps, we performed a direct comparison of single cell transcriptomics by CELseq2 using unfixed and RAID-processed cells. Quality measures (gene complexity, gene detection rate, average gene expression) were performed using 40000 samples UMI counts per cell. Overall design: Single cells were sorted in 96, wells plates. Per condition (unfixed or RAID) three sets (A,B,C) of 48 cells were processed with the CELseq2 protocol.
Combined quantification of intracellular (phospho-)proteins and transcriptomics from fixed single cells.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesUndifferentiated and differentiated Keratinocytes (AG1478 treated) were stained with antibody-RNA conjugates (targeting EGFR and ITGA6) to measure protein-based differentiation changes in conjunction with single-cell transcriptomics. Overall design: Two 384 wells plates for untreated and two 384 wells plates for AG1478 treated cells were processed for single cell transcriptomics.
Combined quantification of intracellular (phospho-)proteins and transcriptomics from fixed single cells.
Specimen part, Treatment, Subject
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