Project description:To annotate the regulatory elements in the renal tubule epithelial cells, we profiled 6 histone ChIP-seq in the human kidney epithelical cells (HKC8). We pulled down the DNA with specific antibodies of interests against histone tail modifications in the human rebal tubule epithelial cells. The result can be interpretated with ChromHMM for different states.
Project description:To annotate the regulatory elements in the renal tubule epithelial cells, we profiled 6 histone ChIP-seq in the human kidney epithelical cells (HKC8).
Project description:We performed bulk RNA-seq on primary and immortalized human renal proximal tubule epithelial cells (RPTECs) subjected to siRNA mediated TNIK silencing.
Project description:Confluent cultures of a human renal fibroblast cell line (TK-173) and a human renal proximal tubule epithelial cell line (RPTEC/TERT1) were treated with 10 micromolar tacrolimus (FK-506) for one and three days.
Project description:Aim of the study was to characterize the transcriptional response of human primary renal proximal tubule epithelial cells (RPTEC) to low oxygen stress.
Project description:Aim of the study was to characterize the transcriptional response of human primary renal proximal tubule endothelial cells (RPTEC) to low oxygen stress. Experiment Overall Design: Passage 4 renal proximal tubule epithelial cells were exposed to a humidified atmosphere consisting of either 5% CO2 and 95% air (20% O2, normoxia) or 5% CO2, 1% oxygen and 95% nitrogen (hypoxia) for 24 hours. Total RNA was extracted immediately after exposure. Three independent biological replicates were performed, resulting in 6 samples (3 control and 3 low oxygen).
Project description:Epidemiological studies indicate that adverse intrauterine and postnatal environment has a long-lasting role in chronic kidney disease (CKD) development. Epigenetic information can represent a plausible carrier for mediating this programming effect. Here we demonstrate that genome-wide cytosine methylation patterns of healthy and CKD tubule samples obtained from patients show significant differences. Cytosine methylation changes showed high concordance (98%) with a large (n=87) replication dataset. We rarely observed differentially methylated regions (DMR) on promoters. Histone modification-based kidney specific genome-wide gene regulatory region annotation maps (promoters, enhancers, transcribed and repressed regions) were generated. DMRs mostly overlapped with putative enhancer regions and were enriched in consensus binding sequences for important renal transcription factors, indicating their importance in gene expression regulation. A core set of genes, including transforming growth factors and collagens, showed cytosine methylation changes correlating with downstream transcript levels. Our report raises the possibility that epigenetic dysregulation plays a role in CKD development via influencing core profibrotic pathways. We used microarrays to detail the differences of gene expression of human tubule epithelial cells between chronic kidney disease and normal. We sought to decrease the cell type heterogeneity of kidney tissues to increase the resolution of expression profiles. To that end, microdissected human kidney tissue from both chronic kidney disease patient and normal are used for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Epidemiological studies indicate that adverse intrauterine and postnatal environment has a long-lasting role in chronic kidney disease (CKD) development. Epigenetic information can represent a plausible carrier for mediating this "programming" effect. Here we demonstrate that genome-wide cytosine methylation patterns of healthy and CKD tubule samples obtained from patients show significant differences. We rarely observed differentially methylated regions (DMR) on promoters. Histone modification-based kidney specific genome-wide gene regulatory region annotation maps (promoters, enhancers, transcribed and repressed regions) were generated. DMRs mostly overlapped with putative enhancer regions and were enriched in consensus binding sequences for important renal transcription factors, indicating their importance in gene expression regulation. A core set of genes, including transforming growth factors and collagens, showed cytosine methylation changes correlating with downstream transcript levels. Our report raises the possibility that epigenetic dysregulation plays a role in CKD development via influencing core profibrotic pathways. HG18_HELP array We used custom-commercial array to detail the differences of methylation regions of human tubule epithelial cells between chronic kidney disease and normal. We sought to decrease the cell type heterogeneity of kidney tissues to increase the resolution of methylation profiles. To that end, microdissected human kidney tissue from both chronic kidney disease patient and normal are used for the HELP-assay (HpaII tiny fragment Enrichment by Ligation-mediated PCR) and hybridization on Roche NimbleGen microarrays.
Project description:Here we investigated the transcriptomic changes induced by PPFIBP1 or PLEKHA1 siRNA treatments on human Primary Renal Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cells (RPTECs) with RNA-seq.
Project description:We evaluated the modulation of mRNA upon human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection in renal proximal tubule epithelial cell line (RPTEC).