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Homo sapiens
59 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST Array (hugene10st)
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an early onset neurodevelopmental disorder, which is characterized by disturbances of brain function and behavioral deficits in core areas of impaired reciprocal socialization, impairment in communication skills, and repetitive or restrictive interests and behaviors. ASD is known to have a significant genetic risk, but the underlying genetic variation can be attributed to hundreds of genes. The molecular and pathophysiologic basis of ASD remains elusive because of its genetic heterogeneity and complexity, its high comorbidity with other diseases, and the paucity of brain tissue for study. The invasive nature of collecting primary neuronal tissue from patients might be circumvented through reprogramming peripheral cells to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which are able to generate live neurons carrying the genetic variants of disease. This breakthrough allows us to access the cellular and molecular phenotypes of patients with intrinsic autism, that is patients without known genetic disorders or identifiable syndromes or malformations. To do this, we studied a relatively homogeneous patient population of boys with intrinsic autism by excluding patients with known genetic disease or recognizable phenotypes or syndromes, as well as those with profound mental retardation or primary seizure disorders. We generated iPSCs from patients with intrinsic autism, their unaffected male siblings and age-, and sex-matched unaffected controls. And these stem cells were subsequently differentiated into electrophysiologically active neurons. The expression profile for autistic and their unaffected siblings' iPSC-derived neurons were compared. A distinct expression profile was found between autism and sib control. The significantly differentially expressed genes (> 2-fold, FDR < 0.05) in autistic iPSC-derived neurons were significantly enriched for processes related to synaptic transmission, such as neuroactive ligand-receptor signaling and extracellular matrix interactions (FDR < 0.05), and were significantly enriched for genes previously associated with ASD (p < 0.05). Our findings suggest approaches such as iPSC-derived neurons will be an important method to obtain tissue for study that appropriately recapitulates the complex dynamics of an autistic neural cell.
Publication Title
Idiopathic Autism: Cellular and Molecular Phenotypes in Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neurons.
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Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 36 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Organophosphorus compounds may induce neurotoxicity through mechanisms other than the cholinergic pathway, which need to be unraveled by a comprehensive and systematic approach such as genome-wide gene expression analysis.
Publication Title
Toxicogenomic studies of human neural cells following exposure to organophosphorus chemical warfare nerve agent VX.
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Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 20 Downloadable Samples
IlluminaHiSeq1000
Description
Transcriptome analysis by RNAseq of leukemia model promoted by MLL-Af4 or MLL-AF9 fusion proteins. We find each fusion protein promotes a specific gene signature correlating to those identified in patients Overall design: Human CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells were transduced with retrovirus expressing MLL-Af4 or MLL-AF9. Transduced cells were transplanted into immunodeficient mice to induce lymphoid leukemia or placed in myeloid in vitro culture. CD19+ lymphoid leukemia cells (3 AF9, 6 Af4), control health CD19+CD34+ proB cells (n=3) and 4 pairs of Af4 and AF9 CD33+CD19- myeloid culture cells were collected for RNA-seq
Publication Title
Instructive Role of MLL-Fusion Proteins Revealed by a Model of t(4;11) Pro-B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
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No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 17 Downloadable Samples
- IlluminaHiSeq2000
Description
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related mortality worldwide, with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as the most prevalent form. Despite advances in treatment options including minimally invasive surgery, CT-guided radiation, novel chemotherapeutic regimens, and targeted therapeutics, prognosis remains dismal. Therefore, further molecular analysis of NSCLC is necessary to identify novel molecular targets that impact prognosis and the design of new-targeted therapies. In recent years, tumor “activated/reprogrammed” stromal cells that promote carcinogenesis have emerged as potential therapeutic targets. However, the contribution of stromal cells to NSCLC is poorly understood. Here, we show increased numbers of bone marrow (BM)-derived hematopoietic cells in the tumor parenchyma of NSCLC patients compared with matched adjacent non-neoplastic lung tissue. By sorting specific cellular fractions from lung cancer patients, we compared the transcriptomes of intratumoral myeloid compartments within the tumor bed with their counterparts within adjacent non-neoplastic tissue from NSCLC patients. The RNA sequencing of specific myeloid compartments (immature monocytic myeloid cells and polymorphonuclear neutrophils) identified differentially regulated genes and mRNA isoforms, which were inconspicuous in whole tumor analysis. Genes encoding secreted factors, including osteopontin (OPN), chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 7 (CCL7) and thrombospondin 1 (TSP1) were identified, which enhanced tumorigenic properties of lung cancer cells indicative of their potential as targets for therapy. This study demonstrates that analysis of homogeneous stromal populations isolated directly from fresh clinical specimens can detect important stromal genes of therapeutic value. Overall design: We sorted pure populations of the immature monocytic myeloid cells (IMMCs), neutrophils (Neu), and epithelial cells (Epi) from tumors and adjacent lung tissues of stage I-III lung adenocarcinoma patients. RNA samples (totally 17 samples) were sequenced: from tumor IMMC (n=3), Neu (n=2), Epi (n=2); from adjacent lung IMMC (n=3), Neu (n=4), Epi (n=3).
Publication Title
Identification of Reprogrammed Myeloid Cell Transcriptomes in NSCLC.
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GSE17993- Danio rerio
- 15 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Zebrafish Genome Array (zebrafish)
Description
Ischemic cardiopathy is the leading cause of death in the world, for which efficient regenerative therapy is not currently available. In mammals, after a myocardial infarction episode, the damaged myocardium is replaced by scar tissue featuring collagen deposition and tissue remodelling with negligible cardiomyocyte proliferation. Zebrafish, in contrast, display an extensive regenerative capacity as they are able to restore completely lost cardiac tissue after partial ventricular amputation. Due to the lack of genetic lineage tracing evidence, it is not yet clear if new cardiomyocytes arise from existing contractile cells or from an uncharacterised set of progenitors cells. Nonetheless, several genes and molecules have been shown to participate in this process, some of them being cardiomyocyte mitogens in vitro. Though questions as what are the early signals that drive the regenerative response and what is the relative role of each cardiac cell in this process still need to be answered, the zebrafish is emerging as a very valuable tool to understand heart regeneration and devise strategies that may be of potential value to treat human cardiac disease. Here, we performed a genome-wide transcriptome profile analysis focusing on the early time points of zebrafish heart regeneration and compared our results with those of previously published data. Our analyses confirmed the differential expression of several transcripts, and identified additional genes the expression of which is differentially regulated during zebrafish heart regeneration. We validated the microarray data by conventional and/or quantitative RT-PCR. For a subset of these genes, their expression pattern was analyzed by in situ hybridization and shown to be upregulated in the regenerating area of the heart. The specific role of these new transcripts during zebrafish heart regeneration was further investigated ex vivo using primary cultures of zebrafish cardiomyocytes and/or epicardial cells. Our results offer new insights into the biology of heart regeneration in the zebrafish and, together with future experiments in mammals, may be of potential interest for clinical applications.
Publication Title
Transcriptomics approach to investigate zebrafish heart regeneration.
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Specimen part, Time
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 12 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
Inhibition of miR-33 results in increased cholesterol efflux and HDL-cholesterol levels in mice. In this study we examined the effect of miR-33 inhibition in a mouse model of atherosclerosis and observed significant reduction in atherosclerotic plaque size. At the end of the study, gene expression in macrophages from the atherosclerotic plaques was assessed.
Publication Title
Antagonism of miR-33 in mice promotes reverse cholesterol transport and regression of atherosclerosis.
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Sex, Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 2 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2000
Description
The process of neural tube closure is a highly complex morphogenetic event that results in the generation of the primordial central nervous system. During formation of the neural tube, the non-neural ectoderm separates from the neighboring neural ectoderm and forms a single layer epithelial sheet that overlies the closed neural tube. Previous work has shown that the non-neural ectoderm is necessary for proper cranial neural tube closure, however little is known about this cell population at the molecular level or how the non-neural ectoderm contributes to neural tube closure. In this study, we used a mouse genetic system to fluorescently label the non-neural ectoderm cells and FACS sorted these cells away from the other cell populations in the neural tube. We performed high throughput RNA-sequencing to identify the transcriptome of the non-neural ectoderm and compared the gene expression profile of non-neural ectoderm cells to the remaining population of cells within the neural tube in order to identify which genes are enriched within the non-neural ectoderm. This analysis provides a clue as to which underlying molecular processes may be important for non-neural ectoderm function during neural tube closure. Overall design: mTomato/mGFP dual fluorescent reporter mice were mated to Grhl3-cre mice to generate embryos that expressed a membrane-bound RFP throughout the embryo with specific expression of membrane-bound GFP in the Grhl3+ non-neural ectoderm. Embryos were dissected at 9.5 days post-fertilization and scored for correct genetic recombination. Non-neural tube tissue was dissected away and single cell suspensions were made followed by FACS to sort the GFP+ and RFP+ populations. RNA was isolated immediately and pooled samples of 1ug total RNA were used to generate libraries for sequencing with the Illumina TruSeq RNA sample preparation kit. Pooled RNA was generated from 25 individual embryos all aged betweed 21 and 25 somites. RNA-sequencing was performed on an Illumina HiSeq 2000.
Publication Title
Grainyhead-like 2 downstream targets act to suppress epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition during neural tube closure.
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No sample metadata fields
View Samples SRP099006- Mus musculus
- 2 Downloadable Samples
- NextSeq 500
Description
Monocytes and macrophages constitute important components of immune system. Monocytes differentiate into macrophages following stimulation with cytokines and/or microbial molecule. Macrophages play central role in the maintenance of tissue homeostasis, development and its restoration after injury, as well as the initiation and resolution of innate and adaptive immunity. Though macrophages were long considered to be derived from differentiation of bone marrow monocytes, recent studies have proved that tissue resident macrophages are derived from yolk sac macrophages, fetal liver macrophages, can self-replicate from local proliferation. However, during homeostatic adaptations, injury and inflammation macrophages of different phenotypes can be recruited from the monocyte reservoirs of blood, spleen and bone marrow. Our studies show that Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), a small lipid molecule converts monocytes into macrophages. We report the gene expression profile of primary mouse bone marrow monocytes treated for 5 days with LPA with respect to control monocytes. Overall design: We have performed RNA-seq in mouse bone marrow monocytes and LPA derived macrophages from bone marrow monocytes.
Publication Title
Lysophosphatidic acid converts monocytes into macrophages in both mice and humans.
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Age, Cell line, Subject
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 43 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2500
Description
Purpose: To determine effects of arsenic on gene expression in polarized primary human bronchial epithelial (HBE) cells and impact on transcriptional response to Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection Methods: mRNA profiles of HBE cells from 6 donors exposed to 0, 5, 10 or 50 ug/L total arsenic +/- Pseudomonas aeruginosa (48 samples) were generated using Illumina sequencing, aligned in CLC Genomics workbench and analyzed for DE in EdgeR Findings: 20-30 million reads were mapped per sample and transcripts were identifed that were significantly differentially expressed in response to arsenic and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Overall design: Gene expression profiles of HBE cells from 6 donors exposed to three concentrations of arsenic +/- Pseudomonas were generated using mRNA sequencing
Publication Title
Arsenic alters transcriptional responses to Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection and decreases antimicrobial defense of human airway epithelial cells.
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Sex, Specimen part, Subject
View Samples- Danio rerio
- 15 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Zebrafish Genome Array (zebrafish)
Description
Photoreceptor damage in adult mammals results in permanent cell loss and glial scarring in the retina. In contrast, adult zebrafish can regenerate photoreceptors following injury. By using a stable transgenic line in which GFP is driven by the cis-regulatory sequences of a glial specific marker gfap, Tg(gfap:GFP)mi2002, previous studies showed that Mller glia, the radial glial cells in the retina, proliferate after photoreceptor loss and give rise to neuronal progenitors that eventually differentiate into regenerated photoreceptors. To identify the molecular mechanisms that initiate this regenerative response, Mller glia were isolated from Tg(gfap:GFP)mi2002 fish during the early stages of regeneration after light lesion and gene expression profiles were generated by microarray analyses.
Publication Title
Genetic evidence for shared mechanisms of epimorphic regeneration in zebrafish.
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