Project description:To test the mechanism by which IGF1 is cardioprotective, we performed single cell RNA sequencing on myeloid cells isolated from the heart 3 days after myocardial infarction of mice with and without IGF1 treatment. Myocardial infarction was induced in C57Bl6/J mice by 45 min occlusion of the left anterior descending artery followed by 3 days of reperfusion. Animals of the IGF1 group (n=3) received 40 ng/g mature recombinant IGF1 subcutaneously as bolus at the beginning of reperfusion. In addition, IGF1 (1 µg/g/d) was administered continuously during reperfusion using micro-osmotic pumps (Alzet, 1003D) that were implanted subcutaneously. Control mice received vehicle (0.1% BSA). After 3 days hearts were digested and CD45+CD11b+ cells were isolated using FACS cell sorting. Each sample contained cells containing 1 control and 1 IGF1 treated mouse, labeled with TotalSeq hashtags. 16000 cells were used as input for the single-cell droplet libraries generation for each sample.
Project description:Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a rare genetic disease associated with cohesinopathy. A novel iPSC line was generated from the CdLS patient carrying a heterozygous missense point-mutation of the NIPBL gene. iPSC lines prepared from the healthy parents and the mutation-corrected isogenic cell lines are used as the respective controls. Upon differentiation into hepatocytes, the patient-derived iPSC demonstrate the capacity to express hepatocyte-specific marker transcripts and the respective proteins, however, the efficiency of differentiation is significantly inferior to those of the respective controls, demonstrated by single-cell RNA sequencing and immune-fluorescent analyses. Global change of transcriptome in the patient-derived iPSC relative to the control cells is associated with altered chromatin accessibility, assessed by RNAseq combined with ATACseq analysis. Differentially down-regulated genes in the patient-derived iPSC, in particular, are those coding for proteins related to neural differentiation and transcription factors, while up-regulated genes contain some of antisense RNA coding genes, pseudo genes and long non-coding RNAs. Some of the differentially regulated genes are consistent with the altered chromatin accessibility and this observation is consistent during hepatocyte differentiation. Thus, the mutation in the NIPBL gene of the CdLS patient could be responsible for defects of differentiation primarily due to alteration of chromatin accessibility.
Project description:Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia of Down syndrome (DS-AMKL) is a model of clonal evolution from a preleukemic transient myeloproliferative disorder requiring both a trisomy 21 (T21) and a GATA1s mutation to a leukemia driven by additional driver mutations. We modelled this leukemic evolution through stepwise gene editing of GATA1s, SMC3+/- and MPLW515K providing 20 different trisomy or disomy 21 iPSC clones. Single cell analysis was performed on hematopoietic cells obtained from IPSC clones after 13 days of differentiation. Sample preparation was done at room temperature. Single-cell suspensions were loaded onto a Chromium Single Cell Chip (10x Genomics) according to the manufacturer’s instructions for co-encapsulation with barcoded Gel Beads at a target capture rate of ~10,000 individual cells per sample. Captured mRNAs were barcoded during cDNA synthesis using the Chromium Next GEM Single Cell 3' GEM, Library & Gel Bead Kit v3.1 (10X Genomics) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. All samples were processed simultaneously with the Chromium Controller (10X Genomics) and the resulting libraries were prepared in parallel in a single batch. We pooled all of the libraries for sequencing in a single SP Illumina flow cell. All of the libraries were sequenced with an 8-base index read, a 28-base Read1 containing cell-identifying barcodes and unique molecular identifiers (UMIs), and a 91-base Read2 containing transcript sequences on an Illumina NovaSeq 6000.
Project description:The spinal cord neural stem cell potential is contained within the ependymal cells lining the central canal. This neural stem cell potential is known to decline with age in the mouse. Here, we microdissected and dissociated into single cells the central canal region from the spinal cord of 4 young adult (3-to-4-month old) and 4 aged (18-to-19-month old) C57BL/6J mice to profile the transcriptomes of cells in and around the central canal using 10x Genomics technology.
Project description:Macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor (M-CSFR/CSF1R) signaling is crucial for the differentiation, proliferation, and survival of myeloid cells. Therapeutic targeting of the CSF1R pathway is a promising strategy in many human diseases, including neurological disorders or cancer. Zebrafish are commonly used for human disease modeling and preclinical therapeutic screening. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the proper function of cytokine signaling in zebrafish to reliably model human-related diseases. Here, we investigate the roles of zebrafish csf1ra and csf1rb in adult myelopoiesis using single-cell RNA sequencing. Our analysis of adult whole kidney marrow (WKM) hematopoietic cells suggests that csf1rb is expressed mainly by blood and myeloid progenitors and that the expression of csf1ra and csf1rb is non-overlapping. We point out differentially expressed genes important in hematopoietic cell differentiation and immune response in selected WKM populations. Our findings could improve the understanding of myeloid cell function and lead to the further study of CSF1R pathway deregulation in disease, mostly in cancerogenesis.
Project description:In this in-vitro study, we demonstrated the different effects of exosomes produced by G361 melanoma cells on the functional properties of normal dermal fibroblasts and fibroblasts prepared from skin metastasis of cutaneous malignant melanoma. Both normal and cancer-associated fibroblasts were cultivated in either DMEM with 10% EDS (exosome-depleted serum) (control) or DMEM with 10% EDS + 10 microg/ml G361 exosomes (EXO). The cells were harvested after 24 hours of cultivation.
Project description:We performed single cell RNAseq to measure gene expression in different subsets of lung dendritic cells hyperglycaemic mice. We used streptozotocin model to achieve hyperglycaemia. Each sample contains cells from 4 different mice and hashing was done to allow disentangling which cell comes from which condition. Hashing was done with biolegend antibodies: Sample1: B0303: control 1, B0304 control 2, B0305 STZ 1, B0306 STZ 2 Sample2: B0303: control 3, B0304 control 4, B0305 STZ 3, B0306 STZ 4
Project description:We describe a distinct macrophage population, whose presence in the liver during homoeostasis depends on recruitment signals mediated by the chemokine receptor CCR2. The identified polarization state of this population closely resembles that induced in co-culture experiments, where hepatocytes are reducing the availability of TGFb to macrophages. Accordingly, disruption of TGFb signal transduction in macrophages phenocopies the influence of hepatocytes on macrophage polarization.
Project description:This single cell transcriptome sequencing experiment is part of the study \\"Preclinical animal model of Diamond-Blackfan anemia with single amino acid mutation of ribosomal protein Rps19\\". A mouse model with this mutation develops features characteristic of human Diamond-Blackfan anemia, a rare bone marrow failure syndrome, including hematologic dysfunctions, early onset growth delay, intrinsic anemia, severe craniofacial, skeletal, urogenital, cardiovascular, and cerebral abnormalities leading to premature lethality during the adolescence of the mouse. This DBA mouse model exhibits cell intrinsic activation of the Trp53 signaling pathway in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) leading to reduced erythroid lineage development that may be rescued after inactivation of the tumor suppressor Trp53. The study uncovers that the development of the DBA phenotype significantly involves non-canonical components of the p53 signaling pathway in the etiopathogenesis of DBA with the Rps19R67∆ mutation leading to the disrupted hematopoietic hierarchy starting at the stage of short-term repopulating stem cells and the central role of induced Trp53 expression and upregulation of its non-canonical targets in the mediation of neural crest lineage deficiency-mediated development of craniofacial malformations in this model.