Project description:Klinefelter’s Syndrome (KS) is one of the common chromosome aneuploidy diseases in males with unexplained physiological mechanism. iPSCs, are similar to ESCs in terms of indefinitive self-renewal and pluripotency, provided an alternative choice for modeling disease to facilitate the disease research in vitro. We used microarray to detect the global reprogramming of KS and normal fibroblast cells to iPSCs. Also we used microarray to explore the possible molecular varieties between KS patient and normal person in the early development. Fibroblast cells from both normal person and KS patient were reprogrammed into iPSCs by ectopic expression of OCT4, SOX2, KLF4 and C-MYC. The expression profiles of normal and KS fibroblast cells, a line of normal iPSCs and two lines of KS iPSCs as well as a line of human ESCs were detected.
Project description:Klinefelter’s Syndrome (KS) is one of the common chromosome aneuploidy diseases in males with unexplained physiological mechanism. iPSCs, are similar to ESCs in terms of indefinitive self-renewal and pluripotency, provided an alternative choice for modeling disease to facilitate the disease research in vitro. We used microarray to detect the global reprogramming of KS and normal fibroblast cells to iPSCs. Also we used microarray to explore the possible molecular varieties between KS patient and normal person in the early development.
Project description:Patient-derived prostate fibroblast primary cultures PCF-54 and PCF-55 were established from two specimens of PC tissues. EVs were isolated from urine samples of 3 patients with PC and 2 healthy males and used for the treatment of prostate fibroblast primary cultures and normal foreskin fibroblasts. The EV-treated fibroblasts were subjected to RNA sequencing analysis.
Project description:Patient-derived prostate fibroblast primary cultures PCF-54 and PCF-55 were established from two specimens of PC tissues. Urinary EVs were isolated from urine samples of 3 patients with PC and 2 healthy males and used for the treatment of prostate fibroblast primary cultures and normal foreskin fibroblasts. Normoxic and hypoxic EVs were isolated from cell culture medium of PC3 and LNCaP prostate cancer cell lines, cultivated in normoxic and hypoxic conditions respectively. The EV-treated fibroblasts were subjected to RNA sequencing analysis.
Project description:In this study, we reprogrammed fibroblasts from two azoospermic Klinefelter syndrome (KS) patients, and two healthy male and one healthy female donor with an efficient integration-free method using episomal plasmids and laminin-521 (LN521). Whole genome transcriptomics analysis showed differentially expressed genes between KS and healthy male donors with enrichment in gene ontology (GO) terms associated with fertility, cardiovascular development, ossification and brain development, for both KS hiPSCs and fibroblasts, correlating with the KS clinical phenotype. Thorough XCI analysis combining transcriptomics data, RNA FISH and H3K27me3 staining, revealed skewed XCI in one KS fibroblast line and variability in XCI state of KS hiPSCs similar to female hiPSCs, showing either XaXi or XaXe status. Furthermore, we found up-regulated X-linked genes involved in nervous system development, synaptic transmission as well as metabolic processes supporting the potential use of KS derived hiPSC as an in vitro model for KS.
Project description:Klinefelter syndrome (KS) is the most prevalent aneuploidy in males and is characterized by an extra copy of the X chromosome,while the non-mosaic form of KS with 47,XXY karyotype is the most frequent (80-90%), less common non-disjunction events during the early mitotic division of the zygote result in mosaic forms of KS (47,XXY/46,XY). Here, using a paradigmatic cohort of KS-inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) carrying 47,XXY karyotypes we present the first iPSC-based disease-modeling study performed on KS patients from Saudi Arabia. We profiled the transcriptome of these Saudi KS-iPSCs, virtually characterized by subduedcgenetic backgrounds. Moreover, we performed a comparative transcriptomic analysis to assess the aberrant gene expression profile due to X dosage imbalance in four Saudi and five European and North American 47,XXY patients-derived iPSCs from our previously published study on KS and high-grade sex chromosome aneuploidies (SCAs). We identified a transcriptomic signature including ten PAR1 genes and thirteen non-PAR escape genes consistently upregulated in KS compared to 46,XY controls in both groups, as well as 193 consistenty disregulated autosomal genes. Our results indicate that the global transcriptional impact of X chromosome overdosage in KS is largely attributable to X-linked genes escaping X inactivation, regardless of the geographical area of origin, ethnicity, and genetic background.