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Differences in the transcriptomic response of human adult and neonatal dendritic cell subsets to TLR7/8 stimulation

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have shown that purified dendritic cells (DCs) have cell-intrinsic, age-dependent differences in their response to TLR stimulation. To delineate which aspects of the age-dependent difference in innate immunity are cell intrinsic vs extrinsic, we searched for global differences to TLR7/8 stimulation in purified adult vs neonatal DC populations. We hypothesize that very few selected cell intrinsic differences in gene expression of key immune genes between these 2 age groups exist, and the bulk would be cell extrinsic differences. The results show that there are age-dependent differences in expression of several key genes involved in the immune response at baseline already. Upon stimulation, we identified a substantially larger fraction of age-dependent differentially expressed genes in conventional than plasmacytoid DCs. Bioinformatics analyses indicate that important immune pathways were significantly differentially expressed in DC subsets between the 2 age groups. Total RNA was isolated from purified human conventional and plasmacytoid dendritic cells from 6 adult and 6 cord blood donors that were stimulated with 3M-003 at a final concentration of 5 uM for 1 and 6 hr.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Kathleen Wee

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-67057 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Differences in the transcriptomic response of human adult and neonatal dendritic cell subsets to TLR7/8 stimulation

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