Project description:Lymphocytes are adversely affected during sepsis. Some CD4+ splenocytes undergo apoptosis while others become Th2 polarized. The molecular determinants of these phenotypic changes are not known. Here we compare the transcriptional response of septic CD4 splenocytes to CD4 splenocytes from sham-manipulated animals 6h after sepsis and identify an early transcriptional component to the septic CD4+ splenocyte phenotype. We used microarrays to detail the global program of gene expression underlying the sepsis-induced changes in CD4+ splenocyte phenotype. Keywords: disease state analysis
Project description:A shotgun microarray-based approach was used to identify candidate genes encoding the FOS utilization pathway in L. paracasei 1195. Differential expression profiles between cells grown on FOS and glucose provided a basis for identifying genes specifically induced by FOS. In addition, transcriptional analysis of cells grown on FOS or FOS + glucose allowed us to investigate the effect of catabolite repression on the expression of the FOS-induced genes. Keywords: gene identification
Project description:Mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPCs) have been proposed as cells of origin for sarcomas, while c-Fos and c-Jun transcription factors have been proposed has a oncogenes in sarcoma tumors. Here we study the effects of the induction of c-fos or c-Jun expression in immortalized hMPCs. C-Fos expression in these cells not only generated modifications in cell cycle, but also morphological changes, reduced mobility capacity and impaired adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation potentials. Even more interesting, c-Fos expressing immortalized hMPCs generated tumors with chondrogenic phenotype when implanted in immunodeficient mice. In accordance with these results, c-Fos is expressed at protein level in many human bone tumors, specifically in chondrosarcomas (76% c-fos positive samples) and osteosarcomas (49% c-fos positive samples). c-Jun expression in immortalized hMPCs induces increased proliferation and cell transformation and, once implanted in immunodeficient mice, these cells generate fibroblastic osteosarcomas. Doble c-jun and c-fos expression in immortalized hMPCs also induces cell transformation and yields high grade pleomorphic osteosarcoma tumors when implanted in immunodeficient mice.
Project description:FOS ChIP-chip performed on Human Hela S3 Cells for Nimblegen ENCODE arrays which comprise 50mer oligonucleotides spaces every 38bps (overlapping by 12nts). Goal was to identify FOS-binding sites. Keywords = Transcription Factor Binding, FOS, ChIP-chip, Human, Genome Tiling Arrays Keywords: ChIP-chip
Project description:To explore TNF-related genes in GPI-induced arthritis, we performed GeneChip analysis using arthritic splenocytes and control-immunized splenocytes. Among the arrayed TNFalpha-related genes, TIARP mRNA was highly expressed in arthritic splenocytes, with levels exceeding more than 20-times the control splenocytes
Project description:CD8αβ+ intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) are a subset of “effector-memory-like” T cells scattered along the intestinal epithelium. To investigate if CD8αβ+ IEL can function in ways other than the conventional cytotoxic effect of CD8αβ+ T cells,CD8αβ+ IELs were compared with CD8αβ+ splenocytes (SPL) by RNA-seq. We used microarrays to identify new functions of CD8αβ+ IELs .