Project description:To characterize the epigenomes during early ILC progenitor differentiation, we did DNase-seq, CUT&RUN and scMNase-seq assays in all-lymphoid progenitor (ALP), early innate lymphoid progenitor (EILP), and innate lymphoid cell progenitor (ILCP) cells.
Project description:We identified a new type of bone marrow progenitors termed early innate lymphoid cell progenitor (EILP) using TCF-1 GFP reporter mice. We compared the transcriptomes of early innate lymphoid cell progenitors (EILP) with other early progenitors, including HSC, LMPP, CMP, CLP, ETP and DN3.
Project description:The importance of unanchored Ub in innate immunity has been shown only for a limited number of unanchored Ub-interactors. We investigated what additional cellular factors interact with unanchored Ub and whether unanchored Ub plays a broader role in innate immunity. To identify unanchored Ub-interacting factors from murine lungs, we used His-tagged recombinant poly-Ub chains as bait. These chains were mixed with lung tissue lysates and protein complexes were isolated with Ni-NTA beads. Sample elutions were subjected to mass spectrometry (LC-MSMS) analysis.
Project description:Cellular binary fate decisions require the progeny to silence genes associated with the alternative fate. The major subsets of alpha:beta T cells have been extensively studied as a model system for fate decisions. While the transcription factor RUNX3 is required for the initiation of Cd4 silencing in CD8 T cell progenitors, it is not required to maintain the silencing of Cd4 and other helper T lineage genes. The other runt domain containing protein, RUNX1, silences Cd4 in an earlier T cell progenitor, but this silencing is reversed whereas the gene silencing after RUNX3 expression is not reverse. Therefore, we hypothesized that RUNX3 and not RUNX1 recruits other factors that maintains the silencing of helper T lineage genes in CD8 T cells. To this end, we performed a proteomics screen of RUNX1 and RUNX3 to determine candidate silencing factors.