Project description:Nf-kB activity is associated with the key pathological features of chronic respiratory diseases including epithelial remodelling, excess mucous production, and submucosal gland hyperplasia. However, the role of Nf-kB activity in airway epithelial differentiation remains controversial. In the present study we demonstrate that Nf-kB adaptor protein Myd88 deficiency promotes increased airway submucosal gland abundance and abnormal epithelial differentiation in proximal adult airways. Abnormal airway differentiation was not developmentally determined, became exacerbated following acute lung injury, and did not involve altered epithelial proliferation or apoptosis. Instead, we demonstrate that tracheal Myd88 deficiency promotes upregulation of a unique gene expression profile that includes activation of alternate, Myd88-independent Nf-kB signalling. Finally, we show that these effects are not intrinsically maintained in vitro using an air-liquid interface epithelial culture. This finding indicates that Myd88 deficiency promotes adult airway remodelling by regulating non-epithelial, non-cell autonomous Nf-kB activity. 20 microarray samples of whole trachea RNA in total: 5 samples wildtype control tissue 5 samples Myd88 KO control tissue 5 samples wildtype 3 day polidocanol injury tissue 5 samples Myd88 KO 3 day polidocanol injury tissue
Project description:Comparison of gene expression in wildtype and MyD88-/- C57BL/6J mouse macrophages treated with 10 ng/mL LPS for 2 hours versus media treated control macrophages, and, wildtype and MyD88-/- C57BL/6J mouse macrophages treated with live E. coli bacteria (log phase; 1 bact per 1 macrophage) for 2 hours versus media treated control macrophages. Cells from 4 mice of each geneotype were used and each individual provided its own control. Hybridizations of treated and control samples from each mouse were dye swap replicated. Wildtype macrophages treated with LPS vs control (GSM22617-GSM22623,GSM22625), MyD88-/- macrophages treated with LPS vs control (GSM22626-GSM22632), wldtype macrophages treated with E. coli vs control (GSM22633-GSM22640, and MyD88-/- macrophages treated with E. coli vs control (GSM22641-GSM22648). Keywords: other
Project description:ATAC-seq profiling of Nfat5 KO and wild type macrophages derived from bone marrow (primary cells), treated or not with Lipopolysaccharide (LPS).
Project description:To understand the mechanisms through which JunB regulates Tregs-mediated immune regulation, we examined the global gene expression profiles in the JunB WT and KO Tregs by performing RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis.
