Project description:Ovarian follicular atresia is a natural physiological process, but its mechanism is not fully understood. In this study, a quantitative proteomic and phosphoproteomic of granulosa cell (GC) in the healthy (H), slightly atretic (SA), and atretic follicles (A) of porcine were performed by TMT labeling, enrichment of phosphopeptides and LC-MS/MS analysis. Altogether, 6,201 proteins were quantified, and 4,723 phosphorylation sites of 1,760 proteins were quantified. There are 24 (11 up, 13 down) and 50 (29 up, 21 down) proteins with FC>5 in H/SA and H/A, respectively. In addition, there are 20 (H/SA, up) and 39 (H/A, up) phosphosites with FC>7, which could serve as potential biomarkers to distinguish different quality categories of follicles. The results of western blotting and immunofluorescence indicated the reliability of the proteomic analysis. Further analysis of the differential expressed proteins (DEPs) and phosphorylated proteins (DEPPs) revealed some key proteins (e.g. MIF, beta catenin, integrin β2), key phosphosites (e.g. S76 of Caspase6, S22 and S636 of Lamin A/C), pathways (e.g. apoptosis, regulation of actin cytoskeleton pathway), transcription factors (e.g. STAT5A, FOXO1, BCLAF1), and kinases (e.g. PBK, CDK5, CDK12, AKT3) that involved in atresia process. Our proteomic and phosphoproteomic profiling and functional research comprehensively analyze the dynamic changes of protein expression and phosphorylation during follicular atresia, and gave a new explanation for the regulation of this process.
Project description:We performed a comparison of transcriptome between follicular CD8 T cells (CXCR5+CD8+CD3+) from 3 lymph nodes of patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) and 3 tonsils of healthy donors, discovering 67 differentially expressed genes that show immunoregulatory potential of CVID follicular CD8 T cells.
Project description:Cellular dedifferentiation signifies the withdrawal of cells from a specific differentiated state into a ‘stem cell’-like undifferentiated state. However, the mechanism of dedifferentiation remains obscure. We showed that follicular granulosa cells (GC), which have distinct functions in vivo, can dedifferentiate during culture in vitro and acquire multipotency. We investigated the dedifferentiation of GC using global gene expression analyses.
Project description:Study purpose: to explore the entire spectrum of proteomic and genomic changes (amongst others) involved in diseases and in healthy/control populations. The Study is designed to discover biomarkers, develop and validate diagnostic assays, instruments and therapeutics as well as other medical research. Specifically, researchers may analyze proteins, RNA, DNA copy number changes, including large and small (1,000-100,000 kb) scale rearrangements, transcription profiles, epigenetic modifications, sequence variation, and sequence in both diseased tissue and case-matched germline DNA from Subjects.
Project description:Cellular dedifferentiation signifies the withdrawal of cells from a specific differentiated state into a M-bM-^@M-^Xstem cellM-bM-^@M-^Y-like undifferentiated state. However, the mechanism of dedifferentiation remains obscure. We showed that follicular granulosa cells (GC), which have distinct functions in vivo, can dedifferentiate during culture in vitro and acquire multipotency. We investigated the dedifferentiation of GC using global gene expression analyses. Total RNA was isolated from GCs to DFOG cells at 5 time points during dedifferentiation (cultured in 0day, 1day, 2day, 4day and 7day). Each timepoint was performed in triplicate (ie, biological replicates). Using Affymetrix porcine genome array, we performed microarray time course experiments to analyze gene expression profiles during GC dedifferentiation.
Project description:In mammals, the capacity of the female germ cell, the oocyte, to develop into embryo is acquired throughout meiotic maturation. Immature oocyte cannot be fertilized while mature oocyte is apt to accept spermatozoa and to develop an embryo. In a follicle, the oocyte is surrounded by mural granulosa cells (GC) and is physically and metabolically coupled with specialized granulosa cumulus cells (CC) which play an important role in oocyte maturation and fertilization. Factors expressing in GC and CC during maturation may reflect the oocyte quality, i.e. its capacity to be fertilized and assure early embryo development. However, the modifications of the content and the amount of peptide/proteins in the oocyte and the surrounding CC during oocyte maturation are mostly unknown and so there is not an accurate way of evaluating/monitoring how different in vitro maturation (IVM) protocols being in use in assisted reproduction technologies, can affect the process. In this context, Intact Cell MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry (ICM-MS) was applied to bovine follicular cells (bovine single oocytes, cumulus cells and granulosa cells) in order to characterize proteomic changes that occur in the follicle during female gamete development. In order to characterize finely endogenous molecular species observed on ICM-MS profiles and to identify markers of interest with their post-translational modifications, we carried out top-down proteomic on the different follicular cells from oocyte, oocyte-cumulus complexes, cumulus cells and granulosa cells protein extracts. Prior to top-down MS using a dual linear ion trap Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer LTQ Orbitrap Velos, depending on the amount of available biological material, we employed three analytic strategies as a direct infusion, a mono-dimensional liquid chromatography (µLC-1D-MS/MS) and an off-line multi-dimensional liquid chromatography combining four fractionations (based on reverse phase or gel filtration LC) to µLC-MS/MS. Here, we deposited our dataset from µLC-1D-MS/MS (analyses of oocytes, oocyte-cumulus complexes, cumulus cells and granulosa cells protein extracts) and MDLC-MS/MS (analyses of granulosa cells protein extract).
Project description:Cellular dedifferentiation signifies the withdrawal of cells from a specific differentiated state into a ‘stem cell’-like undifferentiated state. However, the mechanism of dedifferentiation remains obscure. We showed that mature adipocytes (MA) and follicular granulosa cells (GC), which have distinct functions in vivo, can dedifferentiate during culture in vitro and acquire multipotency. We investigated the dedifferentiation mechanism of MA and GC using global gene expression analyses.
Project description:Goal:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are thought to play important roles in multiple biological processes including apoptosis. In the ovary granulosa cell apoptosis plays an essential role in the follicular phase of the estrous cycle as it determines if the selected follicles will degenerate or escape this fate and ovulate. Whether circRNAs play a role in granulosa cell apoptosis is at present unknown. By investigating the potential role of circRNAs in the granulosa cell apoptotic cascade we hope to gain novel information regarding the regulation of antral follicular apoptosis using the porcine ovary as a model. Method: Ribosomal-depleted RNA-sequencing was performed to generate circRNA expression profiles from isolated mural porcine granulosa cells of healthy antral (HA) and atretic antral (AA) follicles, respectively. Results:In total, more than 9,632 circRNAs were identified, of which 62 circRNAs were differentially expressed (DE-circRNAs). GO and KEGG analysis of DE-circRNAs showed that apoptosis, cellular responses to stress and cell cycle pathways, were significantly enriched. Next the characteristics of DE-circRNAs, including back-splicing, RNase R resistance and stability were validated, and miRNA binding sites of DE-circRNAs were predicted. Conclusion: Based on these observations, we conclude that aberrantly expressed circRNAs and their targeted genes seem to be associated with granulosa cell apoptosis and thus antral follicular atresia.
Project description:Cellular dedifferentiation signifies the withdrawal of cells from a specific differentiated state into a M-bM-^@M-^Xstem cellM-bM-^@M-^Y-like undifferentiated state. However, the mechanism of dedifferentiation remains obscure. We showed that mature adipocytes (MA) and follicular granulosa cells (GC), which have distinct functions in vivo, can dedifferentiate during culture in vitro and acquire multipotency. We investigated the dedifferentiation mechanism of MA and GC using global gene expression analyses. Using Affymetrix porcine genome array, we compared global gene expression profiles during dedifferentiation to search for particular biological functions in genes of which expression intensities were increased or decreased by MA and GC dedifferentiation.