Project description:The goal of the study is to perform unbiased transcriptome analysis on spinal cord samples of immunized GA-CFP mice to configure the effect of OVA-GA(10) vaccination in a C9orf72 mouse model.
Project description:The aim of the project was the identification of the transcriptional signature of effector T cells and Tfh cells that emerge following immunization with different adjuvants. For this purpose OVA-specific TCR-transgenic cells (from DO11.10 or OT-II mice) were adoptively transferred into congenic BALB/c or C57Bl/6 mice, subsequently immunized with OVA-IFA or OVA-CpG. At day 11, the OVA-specific T effector and Tfh cells were FACS sorted from the draining lymph nodes for RNA sequencing.
Project description:The aim of the project was the identification of the transcriptional signature of Tfh cells that emerge following immunization with different adjuvants. For this purpose C57Bl/6 mice, bearing a Foxp3-GFP reporter system, were immunized with OVA-IFA or OVA-CpG. At day 11 post-immunization, Foxp3 negative Tfh cells were FACS-sorted from the draining lymph nodes and processed for single cell RNA sequencing.
Project description:To identify factors associated with the immunosuppressor activity of IL-10+ DC, these cells were obtained from VertX mice immunized with OVA+imiquimod and compared with IL-10- DCs from the same mice and from VertX mice, either untreated or vaccinated with OVA+poly(I:C).
Project description:There remains a need for analysis of CD4 helper T cells differentiation in vivo. To this end ovalbumin (OVA)-specific CD4 (OTII) T cells transferred into congenic mice were studied. Live attenuated OVA-expressing Salmonella (SalOVA) induce T-bet and IFN-g in OTII cells, while alum-precipitated OVA (alumOVA) induces GATA-3 and IL-4. Although 70% of alumOVA-responding OTII cells express GATA-3, only 7% produce IL-4. Thus Th2-polarization defined solely by IL-4 production does not recognize the diversity of GATA-3-expressing effectors. Low-density arrays were designed to assess the expression of 384 genes by real-time RT-PCR. Extensive early diversification occurred in both responses. SalOVA selectively induced many chemokines and pro-inflammatory cytokines, while alumOVA induced few Th2-associated cytokines. Several cytokines and molecules associated with Th17 cells and follicular helper cells were also induced by both antigens. The transcription factor Helios was exclusively induced in alumOVA-responding OTII cells, and critically not in standard in vitro Th2-polarization systems. Early synchronous up-regulation of Helios and GATA-3 mRNA is paralleled at protein level with largely coincident localization in specific nuclear foci of OTII cells responding to alumOVA. This appears to be consistent with a key role for both transcription regulators in the direction of Th2 responses in vivo. Keywords: In vivo T cell polarization Ovalbumin (OVA)-specific CD4 (OTII) T cells were transferred into C57BL/6 mice that were immunized either with live attenuated OVA-expressing Salmonella (Sal) or with alum-precipitated OVA (alum), or not (Naïve). Gene expression assay was performed on FACS sorted OTII cells (Naïve, Sal, Alum). OTII cells were purified from three independent groups of ten naïve, or SalOVA-immunized or alumOVA-immunized mice.
Project description:Vibrio cholerae is a Gram negative, motile, facultative anaerobic bacterium, and the causative agent of cholera, a severe diarrhoeal disease, which untreated can rapidly lead to dehydration, hypotensive shock, and death. Cholera is a significant human disease that is estimated to affect 3-5 million people each year. The mechanism by which V. cholerae regulates virulence gene expression in vivo is unknown, but a number of studies have suggested that low molecular weight signally molecules may be important in modulating gene expression. cFP is a low molecular weight cyclic dipeptide produced by multiple Vibrio species. Evidence previously generated in our laboratory showed that cFP inhibited the production of the virulence factors cholera toxin (CT) and the toxin coregulated pilus (TCP) in O1 El Tor V. cholerae strain N16961 during growth under virulence gene inducing conditions. cFP inhibition of CT and TCP production correlated with reduced transcription of several regulators that belong to the ToxR regulon. To identify additional cFP-responsive genes we performed microarray experiments with the O1 El Tor V. cholerae strain N16961. In these experiments N16961 was grown under virulence gene inducing conditions in the presence and absence of cFP before RNA was extracted and hybridized to microarrays. The results showed that cFP positively affected the expression of the LysR-family regulatory protein LeuO. This finding suggests the possibility that LeuO may be mediating cFP-dependent regulation of gene expression in response to environmental cFP. V. cholerae N16961 was grown under AKI growth condition in the presence or absence of 1 mM cFP for 2.5 or 3 hours when total RNA was extracted, differentially labelled and hybridized to microarrays. Four independent experiments were performed.
Project description:Vibrio cholerae is a Gram negative, motile, facultative anaerobic bacterium, and the causative agent of cholera, a severe diarrhoeal disease, which untreated can rapidly lead to dehydration, hypotensive shock, and death. Cholera is a significant human disease that is estimated to affect 3-5 million people each year. The mechanism by which V. cholerae regulates virulence gene expression in vivo is unknown, but a number of studies have suggested that low molecular weight signally molecules may be important in modulating gene expression. cFP is a low molecular weight cyclic dipeptide produced by multiple Vibrio species. Evidence previously generated in our laboratory showed that cFP inhibited the production of the virulence factors cholera toxin (CT) and the toxin coregulated pilus (TCP) in O1 El Tor V. cholerae strain N16961 during growth under virulence gene inducing conditions. cFP inhibition of CT and TCP production correlated with reduced transcription of several regulators that belong to the ToxR regulon. To identify additional cFP-responsive genes we performed microarray experiments with the O1 El Tor V. cholerae strain N16961. In these experiments N16961 was grown under virulence gene inducing conditions in the presence and absence of cFP before RNA was extracted and hybridized to microarrays. The results showed that cFP positively affected the expression of the LysR-family regulatory protein LeuO. This finding suggests the possibility that LeuO may be mediating cFP-dependent regulation of gene expression in response to environmental cFP.
Project description:An unresolved issue in immunology is the extent to which inflammatory effects are needed for robust T cell responses. In this study, mice were immunized by iv injection using either high toxicity lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or low toxicity monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL) as adjuvant. Six hours after iv immunization, whole spleens were harvested and gene expression was measured in unfractionated splenic populations of cells. The analysis indicated that the low toxicity adjuvanticity of MPL was associated with TLR4-mediated signaling that was biased to the TRIF branch of TLR4, while LPS generated balanced MyD88 and TRIF-associated outcomes. Experiment Overall Design: B6.SJL mice adoptively transferred with T cells from B6.OTI and OTII transgenic TCR transgenic were immunized via intravenous injection with ova peptides alone ("Ova"), or with LPS ("OvaLPS") or MPL as adjuvant ("OvaMPL"). Six hours after immunization, the mice were euthanized by cervical dislocation, the spleens were removed and immediately lysed in guanidium chloride, and kept frozen until being used to extract total cellular RNA. Three mice each were given the indicated treatments, with independent processing and analysis of nine samples total.
Project description:ChIP-chip analyses of H3K9me2 (in WT, erh1â??, mmi1â?? and ccr4â??), Erh1-GFP (in WT and mmi1â??) and CFP-Mmi1 (in WT) H3K9me2: WT vs erh1â??, WT vs mmi1â?? and WT vs ccr4â??; Erh1-GFP: WT vs mmi1â??; CFP-Mmi1 in WT, Biological replicates: 2
Project description:Purpose: The molecular circuits which govern CD8 T cell fate after alloimmunization by transplantation or pregnancy are unknown. The goals of this study are to perform whole transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) of antigen-experienced CD8 T cells in parous and grafted mice to determine whether these cells become memory or exhausted T cells. Methods: mRNA profiles of OT-1 T cells recovered fom naive,OVA-skin grafted and OVA-parous mice were generated by bulk RNA-sequencing. OT-1 cells were FACS sorted from 10 individual mice per each of the three groups and then pooled together into three replicate samples per group. The sequence reads that passed quality filters were analyzed after aligning (STAR) with EdgeR. Results: Comparison of OT-1 T cells from OVA-grafted and OVA-parous mice revealed 400 differentially expressed genes. Conclusions: Skin grafting promotes the differentiation of canonical memory CD8 T cells whereas pregnancy promotes the differentiation of exhausted CD8 T cells with diminished recall capacity.