Salivary cytokine alterations in HIV infection part 1
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ABSTRACT: Systemic and local (oral mucosal) immune responses in acutely infected HIV individuals before the initiation of HAART have not been well characterized. Protein microarrays were used to analyze saliva and plasma from HIV infected and HIV uninfected subjects to identify new biomarkers for HIV disease progression and pathogenesis. A 507 protein microarray was employed to provide a broad view of cytokines and chemokines in saliva and plasma in acutely HIV infected subjects as compared to uninfected subjects. A custom array derived from the initial results was refined to highlight those molecules with significant change relative to control subjects indicating the potential for biological impact.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE24037: Salivary cytokine alterations in HIV infection part 1 GSE24064: Salivary cytokine alterations in HIV infection part 2 Refer to individual Series
Project description:A 507 protein microarray was employed to provide a broad view of cytokines and chemokines in saliva and plasma in acutely HIV infected subjects as compared to uninfected subjects. A 40 cytokine custom array derived from the initial results was refined to highlight those molecules with significant change relative to control subjects indicating the potential for biological impact. Systemic and local (oral mucosal) immune responses in acutely infected HIV individuals before the initiation of HAART have not been well characterized. Protein microarrays were used to analyze saliva and plasma from HIV infected and HIV uninfected subjects to identify new biomarkers for HIV disease progression and pathogenesis.
Project description:Small-molecule inhibitors of AKT signaling are being in evaluated in patients with various cancer types, but have so far proven therapeutically disappointing for reasons that remain unclear. Here, we treat cancer cells with sub-therapeutic doses of Akti-1/2, an allosteric small molecule AKT inhibitor, in order to experimentally model pharmacologic inhibition of AKT signaling in vitro. We then apply a combined RNA, protein, and metabolite profiling approach to develop an integrated, multi-scale, molecular snapshot of this â??AKTlowâ?? cancer cell state. We find that AKT-inhibited cancer cells suppress thousands of mRNA transcripts, and proteins related to the cell cycle, ribosome, and protein translation. Surprisingly, however, these AKT-inhibited cells simultaneously up-regulate a host of other proteins and metabolites post-transcriptionally, reflecting activation of their endo-vesiculo-membrane system, secretion of inflammatory proteins, and elaboration of extracellular microvesicles. Importantly, these microvesicles enable rapidly proliferating cancer cells of various types to better withstand different stress conditions, including serum deprivation, hypoxia, or cytotoxic chemotherapy in vitro and xenografting in vivo. These findings suggest a model whereby cancer cells experiencing a partial inhibition of AKT signaling may actually promote the survival of neighbors through non-cell autonomous communication. Secreted protein profiles of MCF7 and HCT116 Akti-1/2 treated cells and MCF7 and HCT116 vehicle (i.e. DMSO) treated cells were generated using antibody arrays.
Project description:Small-molecule inhibitors of AKT signaling are being in evaluated in patients with various cancer types, but have so far proven therapeutically disappointing for reasons that remain unclear. Here, we treat cancer cells with sub-therapeutic doses of Akti-1/2, an allosteric small molecule AKT inhibitor, in order to experimentally model pharmacologic inhibition of AKT signaling in vitro. We then apply a combined RNA, protein, and metabolite profiling approach to develop an integrated, multi-scale, molecular snapshot of this âAKTlowâ cancer cell state. We find that AKT-inhibited cancer cells suppress thousands of mRNA transcripts, and proteins related to the cell cycle, ribosome, and protein translation. Surprisingly, however, these AKT-inhibited cells simultaneously up-regulate a host of other proteins and metabolites post-transcriptionally, reflecting activation of their endo-vesiculo-membrane system, secretion of inflammatory proteins, and elaboration of extracellular microvesicles. Importantly, these microvesicles enable rapidly proliferating cancer cells of various types to better withstand different stress conditions, including serum deprivation, hypoxia, or cytotoxic chemotherapy in vitro and xenografting in vivo. These findings suggest a model whereby cancer cells experiencing a partial inhibition of AKT signaling may actually promote the survival of neighbors through non-cell autonomous communication. Secreted protein profiles of MCF7 and HCT116 Akti-1/2 treated cells and MCF7 and HCT116 vehicle (i.e. DMSO) treated cells were generated using antibody arrays.
Project description:To compare the salivary proteins from healthy and dental erosion patients to determine if there is an absence of proteins forming the enamel pellicle that may reduce their protection from acid erosion
Project description:Oral mucositis (OM) is a common, painful and often treatment-limiting side effect of radiotherapy (RT) for head and neck cancer (HNC) patients. Unstimulated saliva was collected before the first radiotherapy application in 50 HNC patients. 41 out of 50 patients developed OM (grade III) during radiotherapy, of which 14 patients even displayed an early OM (grade III) at low radiation dose of 30 Gy. Nine patients did not develop OM (grade III). Using an LC-MS/MS approach 5,323 tryptic peptides were assigned to 487 distinct proteins (≥2 peptides) in the data set. The levels of 48 proteins differed significantly (p<0.05) between patients developing OM or not. 17 proteins displayed increased levels (≥1.3-fold) and 31 proteins decreased in level in OM, respectively. Furthermore, using partial least square analysis proteins patterns could be used to distinguish subjects which did not develop grade III OM even after 70 Gy total dose (n=9) and those displaying early OM (grade III at <30 Gy total dose, n=14). Using leave one out cross validation 37 of 41 patients (90%) developing OM could be correctly assigned indicating that prognostic proteome signatures may help to identify patients that should be specifically monitored to increase overall effectiveness of RT treatment.
Project description:Decreased salivary flow rates and/or changes in protein composition reported after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT) reduces the protective function of saliva. This might be associated with the development of oral mucositis (OM), an inflammation of the oral mucosa as a result of chemotherapy before ASCT which affects patients? quality of life and risk factor for systemic infections. In this study, a TMT-labelled proteomics experiment, a label-free quantification (LFQ) proteomics experiment and a DIA-MS proteomics experiment were used to identify differences in the salivary proteome between patients with ulcerative OM (uOM; WHO score ? 2) and those without (nOM). For the TMT-labelled experiment, saliva samples of 5 uOM and 5 nOM were pooled at different time points: baseline, 1, 2, and 3 weeks after ASCT and 3 months after ASCT. A different salivary proteome was suggested by a distinct clustering of the OM pools at baseline, week 2 and week 3 after ASCT.
Project description:The aims were to explore whether saliva composition could reflect the physiopathological changes occurring in canine pyometra and to identify potential biomarkers of the disease using a high-throughput quantitative proteomic analysis. Saliva samples from six healthy (H) and six bitches with pyometra (P) were analysed using Tandem Mass Tags (TMT) - based approach.
Project description:Using novel methods for mapping U/A base pairs in HIV DNA, we find that HIV proviruses within infected monocytes and macrophages contain high levels of U/A base pairs arising from the high levels of dUTP present during reverse transcription in these cells. Although U/A pairs retain the coding information of T/A pairs, they are the substrate for the nuclear uracil base excision repair (UBER) machinery that effectively degrades most of the uracilated viral DNA at the pre-integration stage of infection. Uracilated proviruses that successfully integrate either retain the uracils, undergo U/A T/A repair, or experience catastrophic mutagenesis induced by cytokine stimulated error-prone repair. Uracil is abundant in proviruses isolated from genomic DNA of short-lived blood monocytes, but not T cells, of HIV infected blood donors who show complete drug suppression plasma virus. This suggests that monocytes are recently infected by coming into contact with persistent virus producing cells in one or more tissue reservoirs. Data for HIV lockdown of Illumina libraries of MDM cells post viral infection with and without UDG treatment as compared to HT29-ugi cells treated with RTX.