Project description:Human intestinal epithelial organoids (IEO) culture models are rapidly emerging as novel experimental tools to investigate fundamental aspects of intestinal epithelial (patho)physiology. Cellular source and culture protocols vary between different IEO models and reliable markers for their characterization/validation are currently limited. Here, we provide the following reference datasets of transcriptomic profiling by RNA-sequencing: Purified intestinal epithelial cells (EpCAM+) from paediatric ileum and colon, Intestinal organoid cultures from paediatric ileum and colon, Purified intestinal epithelial cells (EpCAM+) from foetal small intestine and foetal large intestine, Intestinal organoid cultures from foetal small intestine and foetal large intestine, Intestinal organoid cultures derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.<br> Complementary data from methylation profiling on the same samples have been deposited at ArrayExpress under accession number E-MTAB-4957 ( https://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/experiments/E-MTAB-4957 ).</br>
Project description:This study investigated alterations in the transcriptomic profiles of intestinal epithelial cells in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD), i.e. Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. Biopsies were taken from treatment-naive paediatric patients at diagnostic endoscopy from terminal ileum (TI), ascending colon (AC) and sigmoid colon (SC). Intestinal epithelial cells were purified using enzyme digestion and magnetic bead separation. RNA extraction was performed on EpCAM-positive cells, using AllPrep DNA/RNA mini kit. An Agilent Bioanalyzer was used to check RNA integrity following the manufacturer’s guidelines. mRNA was sequenced at the University of Kiel, Germany.
Project description:Hypothesis: Gene expression differences in biopsies from patients with inflammatory bowel disease can be used to identify molecular heterogeneity within patients with active disease. Methods: Patients with a diagnosis of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis or normal healthy controls (with or without infectious colitis) underwent ileocolonoscopy. In healthy controls, biopsies were taken in the sigmoid colon (n=21), ascending/descending colon (n=25) and the terminal ileum (n=12). In patients with Crohn's disease, biopsies were taken in the ascending/descending colon (n=107) and terminal ileum (n=70) in uninflamed areas in all patients; in patients with mucosal lesions, additional biopsies were taken in inflamed regions of the ascending/descending colon (n=35) and terminal ileum (n=55). In ulcerative colitis patients, paired uninflamed sigmoid (n=48) and inflamed sigmoid biopsies (n=46) were taken. Biopsies were placed in RNAlater at the clinical site, frozen and shipped to Genentech, where they were disrupted using TissueLyzer beads, then RNA was isolated using RNeasy columns. RNA was hybridized to Agilent human 4x44kv1 arrays, dual channel, using universal reference.
Project description:Human intestinal epithelial organoids (IEO) culture models are rapidly emerging as novel experimental tools to investigate fundamental aspects of intestinal epithelial (patho)physiology. Cellular source and culture protocols vary between different IEO models and reliable markers for their characterization/validation are currently limited. DNA methylation has been demonstrated to play a key role in regulating gene expression and cellular function. This epigenetic mark is comparably stable and has been shown to reflect cellular identity such as tissue origin, developmental stage and age. Our genome wide DNA methylation datasets of purified human epithelium represent a unique resource, which can be used by other researchers to validate their model systems We provide the following datasets of genome-wide DNA methylation profiling by Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip: Purified intestinal epithelial cells (EpCAM+) from paediatric ileum and colon, Non-epithelial mucosal cells (EpCAM-), Whole colonic mucosal biopsies, Intestinal organoid cultures from paediatric ileum and colon, Purified intestinal epithelial cells (EpCAM+) from foetal small intestine and foetal large intestine, Intestinal organoid cultures from foetal small intestine and foetal large intestine, Intestinal organoid cultures derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.<br>Note:</br><br>Some samples in this data set were previously submitted to ArrayExpress under accession number E-MTAB-3709. They're clearly marked in the âDescriptionâ field in sample annotations. </br><br>Information about batch effect during sample handling is included in the experimental variable âblockâ. Batch effect is not massive but present, so it is recommended that batch correction is carried out in data analysis.</br><br>Complementary RNA-seq data on the purified cells and organoids can be found in ArrayExpress at E-MTAB-5015 ( https://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/experiments/E-MTAB-5015/ ). </br>
Project description:Normal human colorectal mucosa was sampled at points along the colon. Experiment Overall Design: Normal human colorectal mucosa, cecum, ascending, transverse, sigmoid and rectum
Project description:The aim of the project is to generate a peptidomics map of gut hormone peptides along the gastrointestinal tract, starting with the stomach and including the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, ascending colon, sigmoid colon and rectum. The tissues would be collected after surgery and the peptide fraction extracted and anlysed by nano LC-MS to identify what peptide hormones are present. These data will then be used to compare against the human transcriptome, and also for comparison against equivent peptides from murine intestinal extracts.