Project description:The impact of LPS and LTA stimulation on differentiated bone marrow and Yolk sac Hoxb8 macrophages in comparison to untreated control cells was studied by global protein profiling using a bottom-up approach.
Project description:Progenitor cells of yolk sac and bone marrow origin were transduced with an estrogen receptor Hoxb8 fusion protein to generate stable cell lines. Macrophages were differentiated with M-CSF in the absence of estrogen, and then stimulated with IL-4 or LPS. Hoxb8 progenitor cells and differentiated macrophages were analyzed by RNA sequencing.
Project description:Investigation of immune cell differentiation and function is limited by shortcomings of suitable and scalable experimental systems. Although forced expression of certain Hox genes allows immortalization of hematopoietic progenitor cells, their differentiation potential is limited to select myeloid lineages. Here we show that an estrogen-regulated form of Hoxb8 that is retrovirally delivered into bone marrow cells can be used along with FLT3 ligand to conditionally immortalize early hematopoietic progenitor cells (Hoxb8-FL). Hoxb8-FL cells have lost self-renewal capacity and the ability to adopt megakaryocyte/ erythroid lineage fates, but sustain myeloid and lymphoid differentiation potential. Hoxb8-FL cells differentiate in vitro and in vivo into different myeloid and lymphoid cell types, including macrophages, granulocytes, dendritic cells and B- and T-lymphocytes, which are phenotypically and functionally indistinguishable from their primary counterparts. Given the simplicity to generate Hoxb8-FL cells and their unlimited proliferative capacity, this system provides unique opportunities to investigate cell differentiation and immune cell functions. Hoxb8 expressing immortalized cells
Project description:Various pathways can target nascent or fully synthesized precursor polypeptides to the human endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Typically, they involve cytosolic proteins or complexes and their respective receptors on the ER surface. The signal recognition particle (SRP) and the heterodimeric SRP-receptor (SR) represent one such targeting system, others are TRC40 and its heterodimeric TRC-receptor (WRB/CAML) and the components of the SND pathway. Apparently, they all can target precursor polypeptides to the Sec61-channel in the ER membrane. To characterize the substrate specificities of these targeting pathways, we combined siRNA-mediated depletion of membrane receptor subunits in HeLa cells with label-free quantitative proteomics and differential protein abundance analyis.
Project description:HOXB8 acts as a transcription facor, thus we knock down HOXB8 gene by doxycycline induced shRNA in colon cancer cells and profiled the change of transcriptome after knocking down HOXB8
Project description:HOXB8 functions as a transcription factor, but its genomic targets remains unknown. Thus, we profiled HOXB8 binding loci across the genome using ChIP-seq.
