Transcription profiling of human T-lymphocytes and monocytes from participants of the Tour de France 2005
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ABSTRACT: Exercise has an measureable impact on gene expression profiles of white blood cells. While subpopulations of white blood cells undergo specific changes in answer to physical load we focused on pan T-lymphocytes and Monocytes. These cells are in direct contact to organs influenced by exercise and additionally should be affected by alterations of nutrient and gas composition in blood, which occur as a consequence of exercise. We screened the gene expression profiles of top athletes at the beginning and the end of the Tour de France 2005 and at at the annual rest period in order to find functional processes that are differentially expressed in answer to the longtime and high load training and competition. Therefor we filtered out genes with significant changes in gene expression more than 1.5fold between two of the three conditions and build overlap lists of this list and GO (gene ontology) lists and KEGG (kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes) lists. We observed a strong decline in immune functions and an equal decline in metabolic processes. Experiment Overall Design: 12 professional cyclists from two german top teams gave written agreement to participate to this study. We collected 12ml of whole blood at each time point and isolated T-lymphocytes out of 4ml and monocytes out of 8ml whole blood. The experimental groups are divided into rest (6 replicates in Tcells/ 7 replicates in Monocytes), start (10 replicates in each cell type) and final (8 replicates in Tcells/ 9 replicates in Monocytes). This means that we collected samples at the beginning and the end of the Tour de France and during the annual rest period of the athletes.
Project description:These gene expression profiles were measured to create a broad and balanced control for any project that examines gene expression changes in men exposed to a defined stimulus (see series 5105). Experiment Overall Design: 9 healthy men (aged 21 to 44) gave written agreement to participate to this study. At the time of blood withdrawal all participants were non-smokers, with normal BMI and did not obtain any medicamentation. We collected 12ml of whole blood and isolated T-lymphocytes out of 4ml and monocytes out of 8ml whole blood.
Project description:White blood cells (WBCs) express tens of thousands of genes. Their expression levels are modified by genetic and external factors. In further study we found that gene expression profiles of these cellls can serve as surrogate markers for monitoring exercise and training load.The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of acute exercise on gene expression profiles (GEPs) of PBMCs and T-lymphocytes in order to re-detect the patterns in subpopulations. The use of WBC subpopulations is necessary because of the well known subpopulation shifts that occur during physical activities. Three male probands performed an exhaustive treadmill test (ET) at 80% of their VO2max. PBMCs were isolated using BD Vacutainer CPT tubes containig Ficoll. T-lymphocytes were isolated from the PBMCs via rosetting technology. Gene expression profiles were measured using the Affymetrix GeneChip® technology. After scaling, normalisation, and filtering groupwise and pairwise comparisons of gene expression intensities were performed. We found that sorting increases the detection sensitivity and enables the researcher to observe regulation that is hidden in heterogenous populations. We therefore suggest not to work on mixed nbut instead on sorted cells when performing gene expression analyses. Experiment Overall Design: Three healthy male probands executed an exhaustive treadmill test (80% VO2max) until individual exhaustion. Blood samples (16ml) were drawn before and one hour past the tests. PBMCs were isolated using the Ficoll density centrifugation methode. T-lymphocytes were isolated by adding rosetting anibodies zo the cells before centrifugation. Cells were lysed using Trizol and worked up with Qiagen RNeasy Micro columns. RNA was processed and hybridised on U133A 2.0 Affymetrix GeneChips. Samples were grouped and gene expression changes were detected via multiple algorithms included in GeneSpring 7.2 (Agilent). Experiment Overall Design: The four groups contained three samples related to the cell type "PBMC" or "T-cell" and "before exercise" or "1hour past exercise". TTest, GOs and KEGG classification, principal component analysis and hierarchical clstering were used to scan for gene expression profiles induced through the different exercise conditions.
Project description:Blood genomic profiling has been applied to disorders of the blood and various organ systems including brain to elucidate disease mechanisms and identify surrogate disease markers. Since most studies have not examined specific cell types, we performed a preliminary genomic survey of major blood cell types from normal individuals using microarrays. CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, CD19+ B cells, CD56+ natural killer cells, and CD14+ monocytes were negatively selected using the RosetteSep antibody cocktail, while polymorphonuclear leukocytes were separated with density gradient media. Genes differentially expressed by each cell type were identified. To demonstrate the potential use of such cell subtype-specific genomic expression data, a number of the major genes previously reported to be regulated in ischemic stroke, migraine, and Tourette syndrome are shown to be associated with distinct cell populations in blood. These specific gene expression, cell-type-related profiles will need to be confirmed in larger data sets and could be used to study these and many other neurological diseases. This study includes data from major blood cell types from normal individuals. These cell types include CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, CD19+ B cells, CD56+ natural killer cells, CD14+ monocytes and PMN (polymorphonuclear cells). The data were hybridized on 3 separate batches of gene chips.
Project description:TREM-1 is an orphan immunoreceptor expressed on monocytes, macrophages, and neutrophils. TREM-1 associates with and signals via the adapter protein DAP12/TYROBP, which contains an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM). TREM-1 activation by receptor cross-linking is pro-inflammatory, and can amplify cellular responses to Toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands such as bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). To investigate the cellular consequences of TREM-1 activation, we have characterized global gene expression changes in human monocytes in response to TREM-1 cross-linking in comparison to and combined with LPS. Both TREM-1 activation and LPS up-regulate chemokines, cytokines, matrix metalloproteases, and PTGS/COX2, consistent with a core inflammatory response. However, other immunomodulatory factors are selectively induced, including SPP1 and CSF1 (i.e., M-CSF) by TREM-1 activation and IL-23 and CSF3 (i.e., G-CSF) by LPS. Additionally, cross-talk between TREM-1 activation and LPS occurs on multiple levels. While synergy in GM-CSF protein production is reflected in commensurate mRNA abundance, comparable synergy in IL-1b protein production is not. TREM-1 activation also attenuates the induction of some LPS target genes, including those that encode IL-12 cytokine family subunits. Whereas positive TREM-1 outputs are abolished by the PI3K inhibitor wortmannin, this attenuation is largely PI3K-independent. These experiments provide a detailed analysis of the cellular consequences of TREM-1 activation, and highlight some of the complexity in signal integration between ITAM- and TLR-mediated signaling. Experiment Overall Design: 11 anonymous donors were treated with Vehicle, isotype control antibody, TREM1 antibody, LPS, isotype control antibody plus LPS and TREM1 antibody plus LPS
Project description:Recent technological advances have made transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) possible in cells with low RNA copy number including platelets. Resulting studies have used RNA-seq in platelets isolated from healthy individuals to characterize the platelet transcriptome. However, platelets, possibly through gene expression changes, contribute to the etiology of and response to cardiovascular disease and events. To address this, we performed the largest human platelet RNA-seq analysis to date in 34 platelet samples: 16 ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), 16 non-STEMI (NSTEMI), and 2 controls. RNA-seq of platelet samples from 34 individuals: 16 with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), 16 with non-STEMI, and 2 non-myocardial infarction controls
Project description:Recent advances in serum proteomic analysis tools have expanded our understanding of various diseases. To identify a novel disease-specific proteomic markers, we used the high-throughput proximity extension assay (PEA) platform to profile plasma proteins from 62 patients with atopic dermatitis (AD), or ulcerative colitis (UC) and 29 healthy subjects. Differentially expressed protein (DEP) analysis yielded 85 (20 unique) and 99 (14 unique) upregulated proteins in AD and UC, respectively, compared to healthy subjects. We integrated a machine-learning (ML) model and selected 24 proteins to distinguish between the diseases, which accurately predicted disease-defining biomarkers based on distinctive proteomic signatures and disease severity. Correlation analysis with disease severity identified upregulated ML-selected proteins such as CCL13, CCL26, CD70, CDON, LY6D and MMP1 in AD, and ITM2A and REG4 in UC. Among these identified proteins, we suggest CDON, CD70 and LY6D, which had highly correlated expression levels, as AD-specific biomarkers. Thus, our results provide insight into the application of ML algorithms for disease diagnosis, and our model may be expanded to other disease contexts.
Project description:White blood cells (WBCs) express tens of thousands of genes. Their expression levels are modified by genetic and external factors. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of acute exercise on gene expression profiles (GEPs) of WBCs and to identify suitable genes which may serve as surrogate markers for monitoring exercise and training load. Five male probands performed an exhaustive treadmill test (ET) at 80% of their VO2max, and a moderate treadmill test (MT) at 60% VO2max for exactly the same time one to two week later. White blood cells (WBCs) were isolated by the erythrocyte lysis method. Gene expression profiles were measured using the Affymetrix GeneChip® technology. After scaling, normalisation, and filtering groupwise and pairwise comparisons of gene expression intensities were performed and validated by real-time PCR. We found 450 genes up-regulated and 150 down-regulated (> 1.5-fold change; ANOVA with Benjamini-Hochberg correction for multiple testing, p<0.05) upon exhaustive exercise. Analysis of mean expression levels after MT showed that the extent of up- and down-regulation was workload dependent. The genes for the stress proteins HSPA1A, HSPH1 and the matrix metalloproteinase MMP-9 showed the most prominent increases whereas the mRNA concentrations of the YES1 oncogene (YES1), of CD160 (BY55), and of a member of the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ATP5s) were most strongly reduced. Remarkably, we could largely reproduce the data from a previous report by Connolly et al. (01) even though we used considerably different methodology. After acute exercise the genes with increased expression levels were highly significantly associated with the gene ontology terms heat-shock proteins, apoptosis and inflammation. The results demonstrate that gene expression changes in WBCs can reflect intensity and duration of exercise. Further analysis is needed to confirm the applicability of expression fingerprints as useful tools for monitoring exercise and training loads in order to avoid training associated health risks. Experiment Overall Design: Five healthy male probands executed an exhaustive treadmill test (80% VO2max) until individual exhaustion. One week later they repeated the test at 60% VO2max for the same time (moderate test). Blood samples (9ml) were drawn before and one hour past the tests. Erythrocytes were lysed and RNA was isolated from the white blood cells. RNA was processed and hybridised on U133A 2.0 Affyetrix GeneChips. Samples were grouped and gene expression changes were detected via multiple algorithms included in GeneSpring 7.2 (Agilent). Experiment Overall Design: Three groups were build from the twenty samples. All ten pre exercise samples were grouped together as the pre test" group. The other two groups contained five samples related to the "exhaustive test" or the "moderate test". TTest in cobination with multiple testing corrections, principal component analysis and hierarchical clstering were used to scan for gene expression profiles induced through the different exercise conditions.
Project description:The pathogenesis of nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (NLPHL) and its relationship to other lymphomas are largely unknown. This is partly due to the technical challenge of analyzing its rare neoplastic L&H cells, which are dispersed in an abundant non-neoplastic cellular microenvironment. We performed a genome-wide expression study of microdissected lymphocytic and histiocytic (L&H) lymphoma cells in comparison to normal and other malignant B cells, which indicates a relationship of L&H cells to and/or origin from germinal center B cells at transition to memory B cells. L&H cells show a surprisingly high similarity to the tumor cells of T cell-rich B cell lymphoma and classical Hodgkin lymphoma, a partial loss of their B cell phenotype and deregulation of many apoptosis-regulators and putative oncogenes. Importantly, L&H cells are characterized by constitutive NF-κB activity and aberrant ERK signaling. Thus, these findings shed new light on the nature of L&H cells, revealed several novel pathogenetic mechanisms in NLPHL, and may help in differential diagnosis and lead to novel therapeutic strategies. Experiment Overall Design: Analysis of differential gene expression in primary human lymphoma cells of nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (NLPHL) in comparison with primary lymphoma cells of classical Hodgkin lymphoma cells and other B-non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL) samples and subsets of non-neoplastic B lymphocytes isolated from blood or tonsils. 67 gene expression profiles were analysed.
Project description:The fermentable carbohydrate composition of wort and the manner in which it is utilised by yeast during brewery fermentation has a direct influence on fermentation efficiency and quality of the finished product. In this study the response of a brewing yeast strain to changes in wort fermentable carbohydrate concentration and composition during full-scale (3275 hL) brewery fermentation was investigated by measuring transcriptome changes with the aid of oligonucleotide based DNA arrays. Up to 90% of the detectable genes showed a significant (P ≤ 0.05) differential expression pattern during fermentation and the majority of these genes showed either transient or prolonged peaks in expression following the exhaustion of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose from the wort. Those which did not display this apparent carbon catabolite derepression response were mainly those genes involved in cytokinesis and cell budding, which had higher expression values during active growth of cells. Transcriptional activity of many genes was consistent with their known responses to glucose de/repression under laboratory conditions, despite the presence of di- and trisaccharide sugars in the wort. Experimenter name: Katherine Smart; Experimenter phone: 0044-1159516214; Experimenter address: School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire; Experimenter zip/postal_code: LE12 5RD; Experimenter country: England Experiment Overall Design: 14 samples were used in this experiment