Project description:Total RNA was isolated from mouse lung harvested at different stages using TRIzol® Reagent (Ambion). mRNA was extracted with using Dynabeads® mRNA Purification Kit (Ambion) and subjected to TURBO™ DNase (Invitrogen) treatment at 37°C for 30 min and ethanol precipitation. Thus purified mRNA was used for RNA-BisSeq library construction. Around 200 ng mRNA premixed with the in vitro transcribed Dhfr mRNA at a ratio of 300:1 (Dhfr mRNA serves as methylation conversion control) was fragmented to ~100-nt fragments for 1 min at 90°C in 10× RNA Fragmentation Reagent (Ambion), then stopped by 10× RNA stop solution (Ambion), and precipitated with 100% ethanol. The RNA pellet was resuspended in 100 µl bisulfite solution (pH 5.1), which is a 100:1 mixture of 40% sodium bisulfite (Sigma) and 600 µM hydroquinone (Sigma) and subjected to heat incubation at 75°C for 4.5 h. The reaction mixture was desalted by passing through Nanosep with 3K Omega 500/pk columns (PALL Corporation) with centrifugation. After washed with nuclease-free water and centrifuged for five times, the RNA was finally disolved in 75 μl nuclease-free water and then desulfonated by incubation with an equal volume of 1 M Tris-HCl (pH 9.0) at 75 °C for 1 h. After ethanol precipitation, the RNA was resuspended in 11 µl of RNase-free water and subjected to library construction. Reverse transcription was carried out with superscript II Reverse Transcriptase (Invitrogen) and ACT random hexamers. The following procedures were performed with the KAPA Stranded mRNA-Seq Kit (KAPA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions.Libraries were sequenced using HiSeq2500 (Illumina) in paired-read mode, creating reads with a length of 125 bp.
Project description:Lung cancer cells exposed to PM2.5 for 90 days or overexpressed TMPRSS2 were employed as a cellular model to evaluate the effects of long-term exposure to PM2.5 on lung cancer progression.
Project description:Lung cancer cells exposed to PM2.5 for 90 days or overexpressed TMPRSS2 were employed as a cellular model to evaluate the effects of long-term exposure to PM2.5 on lung cancer progression.
Project description:To elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying lifespan reduction induced by PM2.5 exposure in Caenorhabditis elegans, we performed global gene expression profiling by RNA-sequencing technology, and compared the gene expression pattern change induced by PM2.5 exposure.
Project description:Yangyinqingfei Decoction (YYQFD), a traditional Chinese prescription, is well known in the treatment of diphtheria and lung-related diseases in clinic. However, the underlying mechanism how to treat lung-related diseases remains unclear. In the present study, the intervention effect of YYQFD on PM2.5-induced lung injury mice and its potential mechanism were investigated by metabolomics and proteomic techniques. The results showed that YYQFD could significantly improve pulmonary functions, relieve lung injury, as well as reduce IL-6, TNF-α and MDA, and increase SOD levels in serum and BALF of PM2.5-induced lung injury mice. Furthermore, the protein-metabolite joint analysis presented that YYQFD regulated the pathways of arachidonic acid metabolism, linoleic acid metabolism, and biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids with significantly down-regulating arachidonic acid, 20-HETE, prostaglandin E2, lecithin, linoleic acid, α-linolenic acid, eicosatetraenoic acid, and γ-linolenic acid, and up-regulating PTGES2, GPX2 and CBR3 protein expressions in lung tissue. A regulatory metabolic network map was further constructed, which provide us a better understanding about the role of YYQFD on PM2.5-induced lung injury mice and new insight into YYQFD application for the treatment of lung-related diseases.
Project description:Over the last years, evidence has grown that exposure to air pollution, in addition to impairing lung function and health in individuals of all age, can be linked to negative effects in newborn when present during pregnancy. Data suggests that intrauterine exposure of fetuses (exposure of the mother to air pollution during pregnancy) in fact exerts a negative impact on lung development. However, the means by which exposure during pregnancy affects lung development, have not been studied in depth yet. In this study, we investigated alterations of the transcriptome of the developing lung in a mouse model of gestational and early-life postnatal exposure to urban PM2.5 (from Sao Paulo, Brazil).