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GSE137110
Homo sapiens
16 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Gene 2.0 ST Array (hugene20st)
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Publication Title
Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis and connective tissue disorder in humans with impaired JNK1-dependent responses to IL-17A/F and TGF-β.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Treatment, Time
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 16 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Gene 2.0 ST Array (hugene20st)
Description
Genetic etiologies of chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC) disrupt human IL-17A/F-dependent immunity at mucosal surfaces, whereas those of connective tissue disorders (CTD) often impair the TGF-β-dependent homeostasis of connective tissues. The signaling pathways involved are incompletely understood. We report a three-generation family with an autosomal dominant (AD) combination of CMC and a novel CTD that clinically overlaps with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). The patients are heterozygous for a private splice-site variant of MAPK8, the gene encoding c-Jun N-terminal kinase 1 (JNK1), a component of the MAPK signaling pathway. This variant is loss-of-expression and loss-of-function in the patients’ fibroblasts, which display AD JNK1 deficiency by haploinsufficiency. These cells have impaired, but not abolished, responses to IL-17A and IL-17F. Moreover, the development of the patients’ TH17 cells was impaired ex vivo and in vitro, probably due to the involvement of JNK1 in the TGF-β-responsive pathway and further accounting for the patients’ CMC. Consistently, the patients’ fibroblasts displayed impaired JNK1- and c-Jun/ATF2-dependent induction of key extracellular matrix (ECM) components and regulators, but not of EDS-causing gene products, in response to TGF-β. Furthermore, they displayed a transcriptional pattern in response to TGF-β different from that of fibroblasts from patients with Loeys-Dietz syndrome and mutations of TGFBR2 or SMAD3, further accounting for the patients’ complex and unusual CTD phenotype. This experiment of Nature indicates that the integrity of the human JNK1-dependent MAPK signaling pathway is essential for IL-17A- and IL-17F-dependent mucocutaneous immunity to Candida, and for the TGF-β-dependent homeostasis of connective tissues.
Publication Title
No associated publication
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Treatment
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 2.0 ST Array (hugene20st)
Description
Heterozygosity for human STAT3 dominant-negative (DN) mutations underlies an autosomal dominant form of hyper-IgE syndrome (HIES). We describe patients with an autosomal recessive form of HIES due to loss-of-function mutations of a previously uncharacterized gene, ZNF341. ZNF341 is a transcription factor that resides in the nucleus, where it binds a specific DNA motif present in various genes, including, most notably the STAT3 promoter. The patients cells have low basal levels of STAT3 mRNA and protein. The auto-induction of STAT3 production, activation, and function by STAT3-activating cytokines is particularly strongly impaired. Like patients with STAT3 DN mutations, ZNF341-deficient patients lack Th17 cells, have an excess of Th2 cells, and low memory B cells, due to the tight dependence of STAT3 activity on ZNF341 in lymphocytes. Their milder extra-hematopoietic manifestations and stronger inflammatory responses reflect the lower ZNF341-dependence of STAT3 activity in other cell types. Human ZNF341 is essential for the STAT3 transcription-dependent auto-induction and sustained activity of STAT3.
Publication Title
A recessive form of hyper-IgE syndrome by disruption of ZNF341-dependent STAT3 transcription and activity.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Disease stage
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 65 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST Array (hugene10st)
Description
Dysfunction in type I interferon (IFN) signaling occurs in patients with stage II or more advanced cancer. After screening the effects of a panel of 12 melanoma cell lines on PBMCs of healthy volunteers of IFNalpha signal pathway, two groups of melanoma cell lines could be identified one with stronger suppression (low pSTAT-1 group) than the other (high pSTAT-1 group). Comparative global gene expression between two groups identified 6771 differential expression genes. This gene list indicated down regulation of IFNalpha signal in immune suppressive melanoma cells. To evaluate this gene list for predictive power on IFNalpha signal modulatory function, we analyzed gene expression 41 independent melanoma cell lines and heat map clusters these cell lines into two groups, one with strong immune suppressive function and other with less effect.
Publication Title
Melanoma NOS1 expression promotes dysfunctional IFN signaling.
Sample Metadata Fields
Disease, Disease stage, Cell line
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 64 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
We describe here a male infant with a 100 kb de novo Xq28 deletion encompassing parts of the TMEM187 and MECP2 protein-coding genes and the IRAK1 protein-coding gene, as well as the MIR3202-1, MIR3202-2, and MIR718 RNA-coding genes. We analyzed the impact of human IRAK-1 deficiency on a genome-wide gene expression in human fibroblasts in response to TLR2/6, TLR4 agonists as well as to IL-1 and TNF-, using primary fibroblasts from healthy controls and IRAK-4-, MyD88- and MECP2-deficient patients for comparison.
Publication Title
Inherited human IRAK-1 deficiency selectively impairs TLR signaling in fibroblasts.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 56 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST Array (hugene10st)
Description
Melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer. Clinical efforts to combat melanoma include immune therapies whose benefit depends on antitumor T-cells, to target and to clear melanoma. However, most tumors lack significant immune infiltration prior to therapy, and some immune therapies are hindered by a persistent lack of immune-cell infiltration. Chemokines can promote T-cell migration into tumors; therefore, agents that induce T-cell attracting chemokines in the tumor microenvironment could potentially improve the clinical activity of current immune therapies for melanoma. CXCL10 has been implicated as a critical chemokine supporting T-cell infiltration into the tumor microenvironment. Here we report that combination treatment of human melanoma cell lines with Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2/6 agonists MALP-2 or FSL-1 +IFNlambda synergize to induce production of immune-cell attracting chemokines CCL3 and CXCL10 by melanoma cells. We find that TLR2 and TLR6 are widely expressed on human melanoma cells, and that stimulation of fresh patient melanoma specimens with TLR2/6 agonists+IFNlambda induces CXCL10 production from melanoma cells, endothelial and immune-cells. Furthermore, ex vivo migration assays demonstrate that stimulation of melanoma cells with TLR2/6 agonists+IFNlambda increases CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell migration toward melanoma. Collectively, these data identify a novel synergy of TLR2/6 agonists+IFNlambda for inducing CXCL10 production by melanoma cells and suggest that intralesional administration of TLR2/6 agonists+IFNlambda may improve immune signatures in melanoma metastases and have value in combination with other immune therapies, by supporting better T-cell migration to melanoma.
Publication Title
No associated publication
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Cell line
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 40 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST Array (hugene10st)
Description
Phenotypic and immunogenetic characteristics of NK cells have been recently associated with treatment outcome of HCV infected patients. However, thus far, no global NK patterns predictive of response to antiviral therapy in HCV infection have been identified. We here analyzed phenotypic and transcriptional characteristics of NK cells derived from prospectively followed patients with chronic HCV infection prior to treatment with PEG-IFN/RBV. The results report that the pre-treatment transcriptional patterns of purified NK cells from patients subsequently undergoing a sustained virologic response (SVR) clearly segregated from those of non-responder (NR) patients and surprisingly overlapped with the genomic profile of NK cells from healthy donors and from patients who spontaneously cleared the virus (SR). The treatment outcome was associated with differential surface expression of NKp30 and NKG2D and with the transcriptional expression of molecules involved in post-transcriptional modifications of RNA/protein trafficking and HLA class II signaling. With the development of a highly stringent prediction model (LOOCV p value < 0.00001) we identified a 33 gene signature whose expression predicted with 100% accuracy the outcome of IFN based treatment. None of the genes found to differentiate patients with SVR from NR were related to the IL28B polymorphism. Neither an IL28B CC homozygosis was significantly and clearly associated with SVR in our series of patients. Thus, NK cells are associated to different HCV disease courses and response to treatment and the NK cell evaluation in HCV patients might provide a comprehensive explanation of useful determinants of clinical response in HCV-infected patients subjected to treatment regimens that have IFN as their backbone.
Publication Title
No associated publication
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 12 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 2.0 ST Array (hugene20st)
Description
Whipple's disease (WD) affects only a very small minority of individuals infected by Tropheryma whipplei (Tw). Asymptomatic and chronic carriage of the causative organism is less rare and therefore, the pathogenesis of WD is poorly understood.
Publication Title
No associated publication
Sample Metadata Fields
Age, Treatment, Time
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 30 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST Array (mogene10st)
Description
Some unicellular organisms exhibit collective decision-making through intercellular communication once a quorum of members sense an environmental stress. Whether T cells at different states of differentiation may also synchronize their behavior on a population basis through direct interactions remains unclear. We report that memory CD8+ T cells (TMem) directly interact with naive T cells (TN) during priming, affecting the phenotypic, functional, transcriptional and metabolic differentiation of TN-derived progeny. This previously unrecognized, contact and concentration-dependent interaction between naive (TN) and memory CD8+ T cells (TMem) directly enhanced TN effector differentiation through non-apoptotic Fas signaling resulting in downstream Akt pathway activation. TN primed with TMem exhibited significantly impaired persistence and antitumor activity compared with TN primed alone. Disruption of FasL-Fas signaling in TN cells limited differentiation and enhanced anti-tumor immunity while provision of exogenous FasL in the absence of TMem impaired anti-tumor immunity by augmenting TN differentiation. These findings reveal that the full therapeutic potential of TN-derived cells for adoptive immunotherapy requires physical separation from TMem prior to priming or antagonism of Fas-signaling.
Publication Title
No associated publication
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Specimen part, Disease
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 16 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 2.0 ST Array (hugene20st)
Description
Clinical approaches to treat advanced melanoma include immune therapies, whose benefits depend on tumor-reactive T-cells to infiltrate metastases. However, most tumors lack significant immune infiltration prior to therapy, and some immune therapies are hindered by a persistent lack of immune cell infiltration. CXCL10 has been implicated as a critical chemokine supporting T-cell migration into tumors; thus agents that induce CXCL10 in tumors may improve patient responses to systemic immune therapy. We find that melanoma cells treated with TLR2/6 agonists (MALP-2 or FSL-1) and interferon-gamma (IFNgamma) upregulate CXCL10 production, when compared to IFNgamma treatment alone or no treatment. Gene profiling of melanoma cells lines treated with TLR2/6 agonists and IFNgamma demonstrate that a selective profile of genes are induced which may be favorable for promoting immune cell infiltration of tumors. TLR2 and TLR6 are widely expressed on human melanoma cells, and treatment of melanoma cells with TLR2/6 agonists and IFNgamma does not hinder melanoma cell apoptosis or promote proliferation. Furthermore, melanoma cells from surgically resected patient tumors upregulate CXCL10 production after treatment with TLR2/6 agonists and IFNgamma when compared to treatment with either agent alone. Collectively, these data identify TLR2/6 agonists and IFNgamma as a novel target for promoting CXCL10 production directly from melanoma cells.
Publication Title
No associated publication
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Cell line
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