Project description:The proper response to shear stress involves multiple cell components of the vascular wall including endothelial cells (ECs), smooth muscle cells (SMCs), and the intercellular communications between them. Mounting evidence indicates that retinoid acid receptor-related orphan receptor-α (RORα) mediates many biological activities of melatonin including transactivation of transcriptional factors, and anti-inflammation. In this study we investigated the effect of melatonin on endothelial cells-derived exosomal miRNA expression. We used microarrays to detail the global program of gene expression underlying melatonin treatment and identified distinct classes of dys-regulated genes during this process.
Project description:To investigate whether IDO1 participated in OS malignant progression through miRNA, we selected non-metastatic OS cell line (MG63), metastatic OS cell line (143B) and non-tumorigenic immortalized osteoblastic hFOB1.19 cell line as the research object. Over Expression cell lines are contructed and exosomal miRNAs from both control and OE cell lines are sequenced to find out the differences in expression in the exosomes secreted from IDO1 overexpressing and WT cells.
Project description:Melatonin is a well-known agent that plays multiple roles in animals. Its possible function in plants is less clear. In the present study, we tested the effect of melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) on soybean growth and development. Both spraying of leaves and seed-coating with melatonin significantly promoted soybean growth as judged from leaf size and plant height. This enhancement was also observed in soybean production and their fatty acid content. Melatonin increased pod number, seed number and seed weight. However, the 100-seed weight was not influenced by melatonin application. Melatonin also improved soybean tolerance to salt and drought stresses. Transcriptome analysis revealed that melatonin up-regulated the expression of many genes and alleviated the inhibitory effects of salt stress on gene expressions. Further detailed analysis of the affected pathways documents that melatonin likely achieved its promotional roles in soybean through enhancement of genes involved in cell division, photosynthesis, carbohydrate metabolism, fatty acid biosynthesis and ascorbate metabolism. Our results demonstrate that melatonin has significant potential for improving of soybean growth and seed production. Further study should uncover more about the molecular mechanisms of melatoninM-bM-^@M-^Ys function in soybeans and other crops. Four different treatments were chosen, water, salt, 100M-BM-5M melatonin and salt plus 100M-BM-5M melatonin. The comparison of salt/melatonin-treated sample versus water-treated sample reveals salt or melatonin induced transcriptome changes. The comparison of melatonin plus salt treated sample versus salt-treated sample reveals melatonin induced changes when salt exists.
Project description:Exosomes were isolared from saliva od healthy individuals and head and neck cancer (HNSCC) patients.miRNA profiling of saliva-derived exosomes was perfomred using nCounter SPRINT system. Samples were grouped according to Healthy and Tumor based on their saliva-derived exosomal miRNA profile.
Project description:In this study, we implemented RNA sequencing to identify melatonin sensitive transcripts during culture maturation. This work demonstrates that majority of melatonin sensitive genes are growth stage specific. Melatonin caused differential gene expression of 81 transcripts during the exponential growth and 30 during early stationary phase. This indole molecule affects genes related to the biofilm formation, fimbria biogenesis, transcriptional regulators, carbohydrate transport and metabolism, phosphotransferase system (PTS), stress response, metal ion binding and transport. It is likely that differential expression of biofilm and fimbria related genes is responsible for differences in macrocolony area. Additionally, melatonin potentially helps Klebsiella aerogenes in host colonization.
Project description:Preeclampsia is a common complication of pregnancy that affects 4-5% of pregnant women around the world. At present, there is a lack of early identification of high-risk patients of preeclampsia in clinical practice, which restricts the development of disease prevention and treatment. Previous studies have indicated that plasma exosomal miRNAs in pregnant women could serve as biomarkers of preeclampsia, but few is focused on exosomal miRNAs from preeclampsia pregnancy with severe features(sPE). Therefore, we detected and compared the plasma exosomal miRNA profiles between normal pregancy and sPE to explore potential biomarkers and pathogenic mechanisms of sPE.
Project description:Exosomes were isolated from plasma and saliva of healthy individuals and head and neck cancer (HNSCC) patients. miRNA profiling of plasma- and saliva-derived exosomes was performed using nCounter SPRINT system. Diagnostic panels were selected from the exosomal miRNA profile.
Project description:Stroke places a huge burden on society today, and great of studies were devoted for seeking safe and effective therapeutic strategy to improve the prognosis of stroke. Plasma exosome has exhibited its therapeutic potential against ischemia and reperfusion injury via ameliorating inflammation. To enhance therapeutic potential in patients with ischemic injury, we isolated exosomes from melatonin pretreated rat plasma and assessed the neurological protective effect in a rat model of focal cerebral ischemia. Treatment with melatonin enhanced plasma exosome therapeutic effect against ischemia induced inflammatory response and inflammasome mediated pyroptosis. In addition, we confirmed ischemic stroke induced pyroptotic cell death mainly occurred in microglia, while administration of melatonin treated exosome further effectively decreased infract volume and improved function recovery via regulation of TLR-4/NF-κB signaling pathway. Finally, the altered miRNAs profile in melatonin treated plasma exosomes demonstrated the regulatory mechanisms. This study suggests plasma exosome with melatonin pretreatment might be a more effective strategy for patients with ischemic brain injury. Further exploration of key molecules in plasma exosome may devote more therapeutic value for cerebral ischemic injury.
Project description:Exososmes, potent intercellular communicators, are supposed to contribute to metastasis formation, which we confirmed for exosomes of the metastatic rat pancreatic adenocarcinoma line BSp73ASML that promote metastatic settlement in lymph nodes and lung of poorly metastatic BSp73ASML cells with a selective CD44v4-v7 (BSp73ASML-CD44vkd) knockdown. To define the molecular pathway(s), whereby exosomes contribute to premetastatic niche preparation, we profiled mRNA miRNA of BSp73ASMLwt and BSp73ASML-CD44vkd- exosomes and evaluated the impact on potential target cells. BSp73ASML exosomes are recovered in the draining lymph node after subcutaneous injection. In vitro, they preferentially bind and are taken-up by lymph node stroma cells (LnStr) and lung fibroblasts (LuFb) that were chosen as exosome targets. BSp73ASMLwt and BSp73ASML-CD44kd exosomes contain a restricted repertoire of mRNA and miRNA, hwere the lattter differe significantly between the two lines and even more pronounced, exosomes derived thereof with a not yet explored dominance of tumor-suppressor miRNA in ASML-CD44kd cells and exosomes. Both, exosomal mRNA and miRNA are recovered in target cells and exosome-uptake is accompanied by significant changes in gene expression. We didn't observe a correlation between exosomal mRNA and changes in target cell mRNA or proteins. Instead transferred miRNA significantly affected target cell mRNA translation as demonstrated for selected, most abundant ASML exosomal miRNA besides others, miR-494 known target MAL (myelin and lymphocytes protein)/cadherin17, and miR-542-3p which targets TRAF/cadherin17. Furthermore, MMP transcription suggested to accompany cadherin17 dwon-regulation was upregulated in miR-494 or miR542-3p transfected or exosome co-cultured LnStr. Taken together, tumor exosomes target in vivo non-transformed cells in premetastatic organs. Exosome uptake induced altered target celll gene expression is strongly promoted by exosomal miRNA where we demonstrate for the first time that exosomes/exosomal miRNA from a metastasizing tumor line can modulate stroma cells from premetastatic organs. Endothelial cells lines were treated with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (AS) derived exosomes or pancreatic adenocarcinoma derived exosomes expressing tetraspanin 8. Total RNA was isolated and used to perform the Agilent gene expression microarrays. In this assay a replicate of endothelial cell lines treated with ASTspan8 were also included. Moreover, total RNA from both base line expression of endothelial cells and rat endothelial fibroblasts were also used to perfrom gene expression microarrays. RNA isolated from Rat endothelial fibroblasts treated with the exosomes derived from rat pancreatic adenocarcinoma and exosomes derived from rat pancreatic adenocarcinoma expressing tetraspanin8 were individually used to perfrom gene expression microarrays. RNA isolated from exosomes derived from rat pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell lines expressing tetraspanin were used to peform gene expresiion to see the base line expression. Another replicate were also used. RNA isolated from base line or control of rat pancreatic adenocarcinoma wild type cells and also base line RNA isolated from rat pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells lines where CD44 was knock-down.