Project description:Investigation of the role of FOXP3 in CD4+ T effector cells. FOXP3 is transiently upregulated in T effector cells under activation. This temporary expression in Teff cells is insufficient to suppress expression of reported targets of FOXP3 repressor activity. The role of FOXP3 in T effector cells remains unclear. We used microarray analysis to detail the differentially expressed genes between FOXP3 wild type and 2T>C(mut) clones and identified classes of up-regulated or down-regulated genes based upon FOXP3 expression. We used T effector cells from one IPEX disease carrier mother that consist of a mixed population ofFOXP3 wild type and 2T>C(mut) clones. We activated them using anti-CD3, anti-CD28. We compareFOXP3 wild type and 2T>Cl clones at different stages: resting phase and activated phase at 72hrs.
Project description:Arabidopsis thaliana plants from the genotypes Col-0 and abi2-2T (triple mutant abi1-2/abi2-2/hab1-1) were used. They were grown in a growth chamber for 5 weeks in short day (8/16 light/dark cycle) at 22 degrees, 150 umol*m2*s-1 (fluorescent lights) and 55% RH in 100-ml pots with Levingtons L2+S. On the day of the experiment, two hours after the lights turned on they were subjected to mild light stress (approx. 1500 umol*m-2*s-1, measured with a PAR light meter) for 30 min under an Isolight machine (white LED array), and immediately snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen. The outer leaves from four biological replicates were ground and RNA purified, and labelled RNA was produced with the Agilent Quick Amp kit. Labelled RNA was hybridized to Agilent Arabidopsis V4 microarray slides, and the fluorescence recorded with a Genepix scanner.
Project description:Investigation of the role of FOXP3 in CD4+ T effector cells. FOXP3 is transiently upregulated in T effector cells under activation. This temporary expression in Teff cells is insufficient to suppress expression of reported targets of FOXP3 repressor activity. The role of FOXP3 in T effector cells remains unclear. We used microarray analysis to detail the differentially expressed genes between FOXP3 wild type and 2T>C(mut) clones and identified classes of up-regulated or down-regulated genes based upon FOXP3 expression.