Project description:We performed PRO-Seq to measure the Pol II elongation rate by measruing the distance of Pol II travels at viarous time points after relased from DRB induced pausing. We compared DMSO/DRB or THZ531/DRB co-treated sample to assess the effect of CDK12 and CDK13 inhibtion by THZ531 on transcriptional elongation rate.
Project description:Immune tolerance to allografts has been pursued for decades as an important goal in transplantation. Administration of apoptotic donor splenocytes effectively induces antigen-specific tolerance to allografts in murine studies. Here we show that two peritransplant infusions of apoptotic donor leukocytes under short-term immunotherapy with antagonistic anti-CD40 antibody 2C10R4, rapamycin, soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor and anti-interleukin 6 receptor antibody induce long-term (≥1 year) tolerance to islet allografts in 5 of 5 nonsensitized, MHC class I-disparate, and 1 MHC class II DRB allele-matched rhesus macaques. Tolerance in our preclinical model is associated with a regulatory network, involving antigen-specific Tr1 cells exhibiting a distinct transcriptome and indirect specificity for matched MHC class II and mismatched class I peptides. Apoptotic donor leukocyte infusions warrant continued investigation as a cellular, nonchimeric and translatable method for inducing antigen- specific tolerance in transplantation.
Project description:We report our results of RNA-seq analysis on flow sorted Tr1 cells Immune tolerance to allografts has been pursued as an important goal in transplantation for decades. Administration of apoptotic donor splenocytes effectively induced antigen-specific tolerance to allografts in murine studies. Here we show that two peritransplant infusions of apoptotic donor leukocytes under short-term immunotherapy with antagonistic anti-CD40 antibody 2C10R4, rapamycin, soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor, and anti-interleukin 6 receptor antibody induce long-term (≥1 year) tolerance to islet allografts in 5 of 5 nonsensitized, MHC class I-disparate, and 1 MHC class II DRB allele- matched rhesus macaques. Tolerance in our preclinical model is associated with a regulatory network, involving antigen-specific Tr1 cells exhibiting a distinct transcriptome and indirect specificity for matched MHC class II and mismatched class I peptides. Apoptotic donor leukocyte infusions warrant continued investigation as a cellular, nonchimeric, and translatable method for inducing antigen- specific tolerance in transplantation.
Project description:We performed PRO-Seq to determine Pol II elongation rates by measruing the distance of Pol II travels during 25 minutes after Pol II being relased from DRB induced pausing. We allowed Pol II to release in the presence of 1-NM-PP1 or DMSO after DRB being wahsed out in order to assess the effects of CDK12 and/or CDK13 inhibtion on transcriptional elongation rates.
Project description:Genome wide association studies of schizophrenia encompassing the major histocompatibility locus (MHC) were highly significant following genome wide correction. This broad region implicates many genes including the MHC complex class II. Within this interval we examined the expression of two MHC II genes (HLA-DPA1 and HLA-DRB1) in brain from individual subjects with schizophrenia (SZ), bipolar disorder (BD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and controls by differential gene expression methods. A third MHC II mRNA, CD74, was studied outside of the MHC II locus, as it interacts within the same immune complex. HLA-DPA1 and CD74 were both reduced in hippocampus, amygdala, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex regions in SZ and BD compared to controls by specific qPCR assay. We found several novel HLA-DPA1 mRNA variants spanning HLA-DPA1 exons 2-3-4 as suggested by an exon microarray study. The intronic rs9277341 SNP was a significant cis expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) that was associated with the total expression of HLA-DPA1 in five brain regions. A biomarker study of MHC II mRNAs was conducted in SZ, BD, MDD, and control lymphoblastic cell lines (LCL) by qPCR assay of 87 subjects. There was significantly decreased expression of HLA-DPA1 and CD74 in BD, and trends for reductions in SZ in LCLs. The discovery of multiple splicing variants in brain for HLA-DPA1 is important as the HLA-DPA1 gene is highly conserved, there are no reported splicing variants, and the functions in brain are unknown. Future work on the function and localization of MHC Class II proteins in brain will help to understand the role of alterations in neuropsychiatric disorders. The HLA-DPA1 eQTL is located within a large linkage disequilibrium block that has an irrefutable association with schizophrenia. Future tests in a larger cohort are needed to determine the significance of this eQTL association with schizophrenia. Our findings support the long held hypothesis that alterations in immune function are associated with the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders. There were 20 anterior cingulate postmortem brain samples that were extracted for total RNA, and analyzed using Affymetrix Exon Array (bipolar disorder subjects n = 9, controls n = 11).
Project description:We report the CRY1 ChIPseq data. Mice were intraperitoneally (I.P.) injected with DRB at CT02 (CT: circadian time). DRB (5,6-dichlorobenzimidazone-1-β-D-ribofuranoside) is a well-known inhibitor of the transcription factor CDK9 which has crucial roles in the RNA polymerase II transcriptional pausing. The mouse liver was collected at 0, 2 and 4hr after treatment. Then, the samples were processed as we previously reported (Koike et al, 2012, Science). This study provides the evidence that DRB regulates the CRY1 binding dynamics.