The cellular heterogeneity and dynamics of bladder mucosa under homeostasis and injured conditions
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ORGANISM(S): Oryctolagus cuniculus
PROVIDER: GSE297503 | GEO | 2025/06/16
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Kruppel-like transcription factor 5 (Klf5) is expressed during late embryogenesis in the forming murine bladder urothelium. Targeted disruption of the Klf5flox alleles by the ShhGfpCre transgene resulted in failure of the bladder urothelium to mature accompanied by hydronephrosis, hydroureter, and vesicoureteric reflux in all E18.5 fetuses. The bladder urothelium did not stratify nor did it express terminal differentiation markers characteristic of basal, intermediate, and umbrella cells including keratins 20, 14, and 5, and uroplakins. At E18.5, an ectopic alpha smooth muscle actin positive layer of cells was identified subjacent to the undifferentiated Klf5-deficient urothelium. The effects of Klf5 deficiency were unique to the urothelium since maturation of the epithelium comprising the bladder neck and urethra were unaffected by the lack of KLF5. mRNA microarray analysis of whole E14.5 control and Klf5 deficient bladders identified Ppar? and Grhl3 as putative downstream intermediary transcription factors that regulate urothelial maturation. Transient transfection assays demonstrated that KLF5 regulated expression of the mGrhl3 promoter. These observations show that alterations in maturation of the bladder urothelium alone are sufficient to induce bladder dysfunction leading to prenatal hydronephrosis. Total RNA from E14.5 whole bladders isolated from Klf5D/D and Klf5+/+ShhGfpCre+ embryos (n=3 samples/genotype, each sample a pool of two bladders) was isolated using the Qiagen MicroRNA Kit. The cDNA was then hybridized according to the manufacturer’s protocol to the Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST Array
2011-08-01 | E-GEOD-27014 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Kruppel-like transcription factor 5 (Klf5) is expressed during late embryogenesis in the forming murine bladder urothelium. Targeted disruption of the Klf5flox alleles by the ShhGfpCre transgene resulted in failure of the bladder urothelium to mature accompanied by hydronephrosis, hydroureter, and vesicoureteric reflux in all E18.5 fetuses. The bladder urothelium did not stratify nor did it express terminal differentiation markers characteristic of basal, intermediate, and umbrella cells including keratins 20, 14, and 5, and uroplakins. At E18.5, an ectopic alpha smooth muscle actin positive layer of cells was identified subjacent to the undifferentiated Klf5-deficient urothelium. The effects of Klf5 deficiency were unique to the urothelium since maturation of the epithelium comprising the bladder neck and urethra were unaffected by the lack of KLF5. mRNA microarray analysis of whole E14.5 control and Klf5 deficient bladders identified Ppar-gamma and Grhl3 as putative downstream intermediary transcription factors that regulate urothelial maturation. Transient transfection assays demonstrated that KLF5 regulated expression of the mGrhl3 promoter. These observations show that alterations in maturation of the bladder urothelium alone are sufficient to induce bladder dysfunction leading to prenatal hydronephrosis.
2011-08-02 | GSE27014 | GEO
Project description:Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-gamma (PPARG) is a nuclear hormone receptor that was originally described as a master regulator of adipogenesis but could also promote cellular differentiation in a number of epithelium. PPARG also serves as an important regulator in anti-inflammatory activity after a variety of injuries, acting in part by antagonizing the NF-kB pathway. Moreover, the expression of PPARG is strongly down regulated in the basal subtype of bladder cancer, suggesting that its removal might be essential in tumorigenesis. In urothelial cells, it has been shown that PPARG promotes urothelial differentiation in vitro, but its function in vivo remains unexplored. The urothelium is a stratified epithelium that serves as a barrier between the urinary tract and blood. It consists of terminally differentiated umbrella cells, intermediate cells which serve as umbrella cell progenitors; and unipotent basal cells. To determine the role of PPARG in vivo, we used Cre-Lox recombination to conditionally delete the Pparg gene in the mouse urothelium using the ShhCre driver, which drives recombination in basal and intermediate cells, and their respective daughters. Interestingly, ShhCre;Ppargfl/fl mutants lack umbrella and intermediate cells, but have an abnormal cell population negative for classical urothelial markers instead. Furthermore, we observed an increase of KRT14+ population in the basal compartment and squamous features in the mutant urothelium. Expression profile analysis suggested PPARG regulates metabolism, urothelial differentiation and innate immune response. We further challenged the Pparg mutant urothelium with acute injury. In wild type animals, urinary tract infection (UTI) with uropathogenic E.coli results in a transient innate immune response, followed by a completed regernation within 2 weeks. When ShhCre;Ppargfl/fl mutants were challenged with urinary tract infection, the innate immune response was not resolved even after several weeks and the Pparg ablated urothelium exhibited squamous metaplasia. RNAseq data suggested that PPARG plays a role in regulating squmous differentiation and NFkB signial pathway. Together these findings suggest that PPARG is essential for the normal differentiation of the urothelium and is a potent regulator of the inflammatory response after UTI. Understanding the link between the loss of PPARG, chronic inflammation and tumorigenesis in the urothelium could shed light on the urothelial differentiation network and pave the way for the development of therapeutic approaches to various urinary diseases.
2019-07-25 | GSE123779 | GEO
Project description:Urothelium forms a distensible yet impermeable barrier, senses and transduces stimuli, and defends the urinary tract from mechanical, chemical and bacterial injuries. Biochemical and genetic labeling studies support the existence of one or more progenitor populations with the capacity to rapidly regenerate the urothelium following injury, but slow turnover, a low mitotic index, and inconsistent methodologies obscure progenitor identity. The progenitor properties of basal Keratin 5 urothelial cells (K5-UC) have been previously investigated, but those studies focused on embryonic or adult bladder urothelium. Urothelium undergoes desquamation and apoptosis after birth, which requires postnatal proliferation and restoration. Therefore, we mapped the fate of bladder K5-UCs across postnatal development/maturation and following administration of cyclophosphamide to measure homeostatic and reparative progenitor capacities, respectively. In vivo studies demonstrate that basal K5-UCs are age-restricted progenitors in neonates and juveniles, but not in adult mice. Neonatal K5-UCs retain a superior progenitor capacity in vitro, forming larger and more differentiated urothelial organoids than adult K5-UCs. Accordingly, K5-UC transcriptomes are temporally distinct, with enrichment of transcripts associated with cell proliferation and differentiation in neonates. Induction of urothelial proliferation is sufficient to restore adult K5-UC progenitor capacity. Our findings advance the understanding of urothelial progenitors and support a linear model of urothelial formation and regeneration, which may have significant impact on therapeutic development or tissue engineering strategies.
2024-01-03 | GSE248463 | GEO
Project description:Objectives: Much of the information to date in terms of subtypes and function of bladder urothelial cells were derived from anatomical location or by the expression of a small number of marker genes. To have a comprehensive map of the cellular anatomy of bladder urothelial cells, we performed single-cell RNA-sequencing to thoroughly characterize mouse bladder urothelium. Materials and methods: A total of 18,917 single cells from mouse bladder urothelium was analyzed by unbiased single-cell RNA sequencing. The expression of the novel cell marker was confirmed by immunofluorescence using urinary tract infections models. Results: Unsupervised clustering analysis identified 8 transcriptionally distinct cell subpopulations from mouse bladder urothelial cells. We discovered a novel type of bladder urothelial cells marked by Plxna4 that may be involved with host response and wound healing. We also found a group of basal-like cells labeled by ASPM that could be the progenitor cells of adult bladder urothelium. ASPM+ urothelial cells are significantly increased after injury by UPEC. In addition, specific transcription factors were found to be associated with urothelial cell differentiation. At the last, a number of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome-regulating genes were found differentially expressed among different urothelial cell subpopulations. Conclusions: Our study provides a comprehensive characterization of bladder urothelial cells, which is fundamental to understanding the biology of bladder urothelium and associated bladder disease.
2020-12-12 | GSE163029 | GEO
Project description:Although there are several reports describing a stem cell fraction to form urothelium and lineage tracing studies in urinary bladder, it is still unclear about stem cells in mouse bladder epithelium. Here, we have established the cloning system of mouse stem cells from wild type and p63 knockout bladder. We isolated stem/progenitor cells from wild type and p63 knockout epithelium. From wild type bladder, we have cloned keratin 5-positive stem cells, and from p63 knockout epithelium, which loses basal cell fraction, we have cloned morphologically-distinct keratin 8 and claudin 3 positive stem cells, which may be reminiscent of intestinal metaplasia in bladder.
2015-10-01 | GSE68276 | GEO
Project description:In vitro and in vivo studies including single cell sequencing showed that LPAR6 and CAB39L play a major role in regulating basal to luminal urothelial differentiation. Their loss of function contributed to bladder carcinogenesis by dysregulating urothelial differentiation program and sensitizing the urothelium to N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine (BBN) induced cancers, which recapitulated luminal and basal subtypes of human bladder cancer.
2024-06-19 | GSE235455 | GEO
Project description:Distal airway stem cell (DASC) expressing basal cell restrictive transcription factor p63 and keratin-5 (Krt5) has a strong ability of regeneration after lung injury. Such cells are originated from primitive progenitors in distal airways and could expand/migrate to inflamed damaged lung parenchymal region to form ‘KRT5 pods’ once activated by various types of tissue injury. We isolated the mouse DASC and transplanted the GFP-labelled mDASC into the bleomycin-injured mouse lung by intratracheal instillation. Mice were sacrificed at 30 and 90 days post transplantation and their lung tissue were harvest to detect GFP signal by fluorescence stereomicroscope, the region of which was dissect for single cell-RNA-seq (scRNA-seq). We utilized scRNA-seq to trace the fate of transplanted mDASCs at 30 days and 90 days post transplantation, which revealed cell types differentiated from the transplanted DASCs.
2021-03-10 | GSE168573 | GEO
Project description:KRT5+P63+ progenitor cells located in the basal layer of the airway epithelium have been identified as a promising candidate for lung epithelium repair. To investigate P63+ progenitor cells in human, we cloned KRT5+P63+ progenitors from both healthy donors and patients with various lung diseases.
2024-12-19 | GSE260777 | GEO
Project description:We have discovered a previously uncharacterized tumor suppressor function of Numb in the homeostasis of the normal bladder mucosa. Targeted ablation of Numb in the basal layer of the urothelium drives spontaneous bladder tumorigenesis, driving progression from preneoplastic to preinvasive and overtly invasive tumors, and accelerates tumorigenesis in the presence of oncogenic insults. Using 3D-Matrigel organoid cultures to recapitulate bladder tumorigenesis in vitro, we found that Numb deficiency enhances the proliferative and invasive potential of both mouse and human bladder cancer cells. Integrative transcriptomic and functional analyses revealed that downregulation of the canonical Hippo pathway, resulting in enhanced YAP transcriptional activity, underlies the biological aggressiveness of Numb-deficient bladder cancer. These molecular events are dependent on the activation of RhoA/ROCK signaling subsequent to Numb loss. Thus, a dysfunctional Numb–RhoA/ROCK–Hippo/YAP regulatory network is at play in aggressive Numb-deficient bladder cancers, opening avenues for the development of targeted therapies. Furthermore, retrospective cohort studies revealed that a Numb-deficient status correlates with worse overall survival in post-cystectomy muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) patients and increased risk of progression to MIBC in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients. The Numb-deficient status was associated with a 27-gene prognostic signature that has the potential to identify high-risk NMIBC patients who are eligible for targeted RhoA/ROCK/YAP therapies.
2024-10-11 | GSE256272 | GEO