MRNA sequencing on esophageal organoids derived from wild-type mice
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ABSTRACT: In our study, we used mRNA sequencing to investigate the effect of 3 days-treatment with TGFb1, BMP4 alone or in combination on the squamous and columnar differentiation.
Project description:In our study, we used mRNA sequencing to investigate the effect of 3 days-treatment with a combination of TGFb1 and BMP with or without ibuprofen.
Project description:In this study, we used RNA sequencing to characterize esophageal progenitors following activation of the hedgehog (HH) pathway in vivo. We observed two main fates following activation of the HH pathway in the squamous epithelium: one population is in an intermediate state between squamous and columnar epithelium, and another achieves a full columnar conversion. We compared these 2 populations to different FACS sorted epithelial cells from different tissues of the gastro-intestinal tract (adult esophagus, embryonic esophagus, transition epithelium from the stomach, corpus of the stomach and small intestine). Our results suggest a multistep process in which esophageal progenitors first turn on a transcriptomic program that resembles the one from embryonic esophagus, then, a subset of these dedifferentiated cells can turn on a columnar differentiation program that shares similarities with intestinal cells. Collectively, these data demonstrate that some esophageal cells can be reprogrammed to generate columnar cells in vivo.
Project description:In this study we used single cell mRNA sequencing to explore heterogeneity of the fate induced by hedgehog (HH) pathway activation in esophageal cells. We merged the data from the two samples and filtered the merged data to work only with cells expressing the SmoM2-YFP protein (2,413 cells). Using UMAP reduction, we observed 10 clusters with a resolution set at 0.3. Among these clusters, we identified clusters of squamous esophagus epithelial cells but also one cluster enriched for many columnar markers. These results show that activation of the HH pathway in esophageal keratinocytes leads to multiple cell phenotypes including a columnar epithelial one in a minority of keratinocytes.
Project description:Barrett's esophagus is a metaplastic condition of the distal esophagus, characterized by the replacement of normal squamous epithelium by columnar epithelium. Patients with BE have an increased risk of developing esophageal adenocarcinoma. MicroRNAs have been implicated to be disease and tissue specific, however limited data of microRNA expression in the esophagus is available. Therefore we evaluated microRNA expression profiles of esophageal adenocarcinoma and compared these with Barrett's esophagus and normal squamous esophagus.
Project description:MIXL1-GFP reporter lines were differentiated as Spin EBs in APEL medium supplemented with Wnt3a alone, BMP4 alone or Wnt3a/BMP4 in combination. EBs induced in the absence of growth factors were used as control. EBs induced with BMP4 or Wnt3a/BMP4 were FACS sorted based on E-CADHERIN and GFP expression. Unsorted EBs and sorted fractions were subjected to Illumina microarray processing.
Project description:Bone morphogenetic protein-4 (BMP4) is involved in regulation of neural stem cells (NSCs) proliferation, differentiation, migration and survival. It was previously thought that the treatment of NSCs with BMP4 alone induces astrocytes, whereas the treatment of NSCs with the bFGF/BMP4 combination induces quiescent neural stem cells (qNSCs). In this study, we performed RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) to compare the transcriptome profiles of BMP4-treated NSCs and bFGF/BMP4-treated NSCs, and found that both NSCs treated by these two methods were Sox2 positive qNSCs which were able to generate neurospheres. However, NSCs treated by those two methods exhibited different characteristics in state and the potential for neuronal differentiation based on transcriptome analysis and experimental results. We found that BMP4-treated NSCs tended to be in a deeper quiescent state than bFGF/BMP4-treated NSCs as the percentage of ki67-positive cells were lower in BMP4-treated NSCs. And after exposure to differentiated environment, bFGF/BMP4-treated NSCs generated more DCX-positive immature neurons and MAP2-positive neurons than BMP4-treated NSCs. Our study characterized qNSCs treated with BMP4 alone and bFGF/BMP4 combination, which laid a foundation for studying the activation mechanism of qNSCs.
Project description:Preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by surgery has been proved to improve esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) patients’ survival in comparison with surgery alone. However, the outcomes of CRT are heterogeneous, and no clinical or pathological method could predict CRT response. We aim to identify mRNA markers for ESCC CRT-response prediction through gene expression analyses.
Project description:Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) has the fastest increase of any cancer in the US and Europe, and arises in the setting of BarrettM-bM-^@M-^Ys esophagus (BE), defined by replacement of normal squamous epithelium with columnar intestinal-like epithelium. BE is thought to result from chronic esophageal inflammation but has been elusive to model in animals. Herein, we have generated the first transgenic mouse model of BarrettM-bM-^@M-^Ys esophagus through overexpression of interleukin-1M-CM-^_ (IL-1M-NM-2). IL-1M-NM-2 overexpression in the mouse esophageal mucosa induces chronic inflammation that progresses to intestinal metaplasia, with characteristic expression of TFF2, Bmp4 and Cdx2. With aging, IL-1b transgenic mice progress to esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) but the process is markedly accelerated by exposure to bile acids and/or nitrosamines, resembling the human counterpart. Moreover, progenitor cells present in the gastric cardia, but absent from the esophagus in humans and mice, are increased in BE, suggesting the cell of origin in the gastric cardia Comparison of BE and EAC tissue from the mouse with normal squamous epithelium from the mouse.
Project description:In this study, we used ATAC sequencing to compare the chromatin landscape of esophageal cells in which hedgehog (HH) pathway has been activated (K5SmoM2), to control esophageal cells (WT). We identified more than 50% of the peaks differentially opened in both conditions. Among these differentially opened peaks in EpHI cells, we identified chromatin regions in key columnar markers. Taken together these results show that HH pathway activation triggers chromatin landscape remodeling to facilitate transcommitment.