Project description:Despite recent improvements in management of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, mortality remains high. Understanding the alterations in the transcriptome–phenotype of the key lung cells involved could provide insight into the drivers of pathogenesis. In this study, we examined differential gene expression of cell types implicated in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension from lung explants of patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension compared to control lungs. After tissue digestion, we analyzed all cells from three idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension and six control lungs using droplet-based single cell RNA-sequencing. After dimensional reduction by t-stochastic neighbor embedding, we compared the transcriptomes of endothelial cells, pericyte/smooth muscle cells, fibroblasts, and macrophage clusters, examining differential gene expression and pathways implicated by analysis of Gene Ontology Enrichment. We found that endothelial cells and pericyte/smooth muscle cells had the most differentially expressed gene profile compared to other cell types. Top differentially upregulated genes in endothelial cells included novel genes: ROBO4, APCDD1, NDST1, MMRN2, NOTCH4, and DOCK6, as well as previously reported genes: ENG, ORAI2, TFDP1, KDR, AMOTL2, PDGFB, FGFR1, EDN1, and NOTCH1. Several transcription factors were also found to be upregulated in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension endothelial cells including SOX18, STRA13, LYL1, and ELK, which have known roles in regulating endothelial cell phenotype. In particular, SOX18 was implicated through bioinformatics analyses in regulating the idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension endothelial cell transcriptome. Furthermore, idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension endothelial cells upregulated expression of FAM60A and HDAC7, potentially affecting epigenetic changes in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension endothelial cells. Pericyte/smooth muscle cells expressed genes implicated in regulation of cellular apoptosis and extracellular matrix organization, and several ligands for genes showing increased expression in endothelial cells. In conclusion, our study represents the first detailed look at the transcriptomic landscape across idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension lung cells and provides robust insight into alterations that occur in vivo in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension lungs.
2021-03-24 | GSE169471 | GEO
Project description:Whole exome sequencing in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Project description:Gene expression in the right ventricle is different in control patients as compared to either idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy or pulmonary arterial hypertension Two human hearts obtained at autopsy from each of control, pulmonary hypertension, and dilated cardiomyopathy
Project description:We performed RNA-seq to analyze gene expression in human PASMCs (Pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells) isolated from subjects without disease and from subjects with IPAH (idiopathic pulmonary hypertension)
Project description:Gene expression in the right ventricle is different in control patients as compared to either idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy or pulmonary arterial hypertension
2015-04-02 | GSE67492 | GEO
Project description:Whole exome sequencing of patients with heritable and idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension in central Taiwan
Project description:The hypothesis tested in this study was that chronic exposure of PBMCs to a hypertensive environment in remodeled pulmonary vessels would be reflected by specific transcriptional changes in these cells. The transcript profiles of PBMCs from 30 idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension patients (IPAH), 19 patients with systemic sclerosis without pulmonary hypertension (SSc), 42 scleroderma-associated PAH patients (SSc-PAH), and 8 patients with SSc complicated by interstitial lung disease and PH (SSC-PH-ILD) were compared to the gene expression profiles of PBMCs from 41 healthy individuals. Gene expression is compared at a global level using total RNA from BPMC for pateints and controls using the Illumina microarray platform.
Project description:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive pulmonary vascular disease that culminates in right heart failure. Vascular pathology in PH is characterized by pulmonary vasoconstriction and progressive vascular remodeling processes that affects all layers of the vascular wall (intima, media and adventitia). Our objective was to profile and analyze the differential gene expression signatures between the cells isolated from normal and idiopathic PAH patients. We generated vascular cell-specific transcriptome profiles from the adventitial fibroblasts (PAAF) isolated ex vivo from the dissected human pulmonary arteries of normal donor and PAH lungs using paired-end RNA-sequencing.
Project description:Altered levels of circulating extracellular miRNA in plasma and serum have shown promise as non-invasive biomarkers of disease. However, unlike the assessment of cellular miRNA levels for which there are accepted housekeeping genes, analogous reference controls for normalization of circulating miRNA are lacking. The objective of this study was to devise an approach to both identify and validate circulating miRNA reference controls on a de novo basis, and evaluate the relative performance of these customized internal reference controls versus other strategies. As a case example, 1066 different miRNAs were screened in plasma from pulmonary arterial hypertension patients and control subjects to identify an initial pool of miRNA candidates. PCR array profiling was performed on 4 treatment-naïve idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients, 3 healthy control subjects and 1 non-PAH control subject