Project description:Alterations of metabolic and biological processes occur in ferroptotic cells. We analyzed transcriptional responses of murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) exposed to a ferroptosis inducer erastin. We found that a set of genes related to protection against oxidative stress was induced upon ferroptosis and Bach1 promoted ferroptosis by repressing a set of these genes involved in synthesis of glutathione or metabolism of intracellular labile iron. Our findings suggests that ferroptosis is programmed at transcriptional level and Bach1 works as a controller in setting a threshold of ferroptosis.
Project description:Expression profiles for isogenic (129SvJae x C57BL/6) murine embryonic stem (ES) cells, neural precursors (NPC) obtained through in vitro differentiation of the ES cells, and embryonic fibroblasts (MEF) obtained at day 13.5. Keywords: cell type comparison
Project description:We provide an original multi-stage approach identifying a gene signature to assess the fibroblast polarization. Prototypic polarizations (inflammatory/fibrotic) were induced by seeded mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) with TNFα or TGFß1, respectively. The transcriptomic and proteomic profiles were obtained by RNA microarray and LC/MS-MS. Gene Ontology and pathways analysis were performed among the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and proteins (DEPs). Balb/c mice underwent daily intradermal injections of HOCl (or PBS) as an experimental murine model of inflammation-mediated fibrosis in a time-dependent manner. As results, 1,456 and 2,215 DEGs, and 289 and 233 DEPs were respectively found in MEFs in response to TNFα or TGFß1, respectively. Among the most significant pathways, we combined 26 representative genes to encompass the proinflammatory and profibrotic polarizations of fibroblasts. Based on principal component analysis, this signature deciphered baseline state, proinflammatory polarization, and profibrotic polarization as accurately as did RNA microarray and LC/MS-MS. Then, we assessed the gene signature on dermal fibroblasts isolated from the experimental murine model. We observed a proinflammatory polarization at day 7, and a mixture of a proinflammatory and profibrotic polarizations at day 42 in line with histological findings. Our approach provides a small-size and convenient gene signature to assess murine fibroblast polarization.
Project description:MyD88 may play a direct role in STING-dependent signaling, or alternatively that STING-dependent pro-inflammatory cytokines may require downstream MyD88-dependent signaling to exert their effect. To determine this, we treated STING or MyD88-deficient murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), bone marrow derived macrophages (BMDM) or dendritic cells (BMDC) with exogenous CDN’s or cytosolic dsDNA (ISD) which triggers STING-signaling and type I IFN production.
Project description:FAP+ cells had been reported to be present only in healing wounds and at sites of tissue remodelling. We have found FAP+ cells in many normal tissues and aimed to investigate whether these cells were related or whether FAP is upregulated in response to an external stimulus on a variety of cells. Furthermore we wanted to investigate whether FAP+ cells are simply fibroblasts and so compared their transcriptomic profiles to that of a typical fibroblastic population, the murine embryonic fibroblast. FAP+ cells were sorted from two mesenchymal tissues, visceral adipose and skeletal muscle, and from an epithelial organ, the pancreas. These were compared to MEFs. Cells were isolated in duplicate experiments and these were analysed separately. These were compared to previously published publically available CD4+ T-cell subset data.