Project description:In 2019, our group performed small RNA-sequencing on keratinocytes isolated from lesional and non-lesional psoriasis skin as well as from healthy skin, and identified miRNAs with altered levels in psoriasis keratinocytes (Srivastava et al., 2019). One of the miRNAs we identified to be overexpressed in psoriasis keratinocytes was miR-378a-3p. In this study, we aimed to explore the regulation and function of miR-378a in keratinocytes and its potential role in psoriasis. We used microarrays to identify differentially expressed genes upon miR-378a overexpression in primary human keratinocytes as part of the study and gain insights about the modulation of specific pathways.
Project description:We report the high-throughput profiling of human primary keratinocytes transfected with either miR-378 mimic or miR-378 inhibitor at 24 or 48 hours. Our study focused on the dysregulation of microRNAs that might partially be a fundamental mechanism leading to psoriasis development. We knock-in and knock-out a specific miR-378 and see the cellular responses. As expected, overexpression of miR-378a inhibited the proliferation, enhanced the apoptosis and disturbed the cell cycle. Regarding to the confirm experiment, our results suggested that the expression of miR-378a associated with the psoriasis pathogenesis enhancing the severity of psoriatic lesion, and might useful for further development of therapeutic strategy for psoriasis.
Project description:In psoriasis lesions, a diverse mixture of cytokines is upregulated which influence each other generating a complex inflammatory situation. Although this is the case, the inhibition of Interleukin-17A (IL-17A) alone showed unprecedented clinical results in patients, indicating that IL-17A is a critical inducer of psoriasis pathogenesis. To elucidate IL-17A-driven keratinocyte-intrinsic signaling pathways, we treated monolayers of normal human epidermal keratinocytes in vitro with a mixture of 6 cytokines (IL-17A, TNF-a, IL-17C, IL-22, IL-36g and IFN-g) involved in psoriasis, to mimic the inflammatory milieu in psoriasis lesions. Microarray and gene set enrichment analysis revealed that this cytokine mixture induced similar gene expression changes with the previous transcriptome studies using psoriasis lesions. Importantly, we identified a set of IL-17A-regulated genes in keratinocytes, which recapitulate typical psoriasis genes exemplified by DEFB4A, S100A7, IL19 and CSF3, based on differences in the expression profiles of cells stimulated with 6 cytokines versus cells stimulated with only 5 cytokines lacking IL-17A. Furthermore a specific IL-17A-induced gene, NFKBIZ, which encodes IkappaB-zeta, a transcriptional regulator for NF-kappaB, was demonstrated to have a significant role for IL-17A-induced gene expression. Thus, we present novel in vitro data from normal human keratinocytes that would help elucidating the IL-17A-driven keratinocyte activation in psoriasis. Cytokine mixture-induced gene expression in primary normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEKs) was measured at 24 hours after exposure. NHEKs were exposed to the combination of selected six cytokines (IL-17A: 100 ng/ml, TNF-a: 10 ng/ml, IFN-g: 10 ng/ml, IL-17C: 100 ng/ml, IL-22: 100 ng/ml, IL-36g: 500 ng/ml) , or to the different combinations of five of the six cytokines (in total, 7 different treatments and one untreated control). No replicate experiments were conducted.
Project description:In psoriasis lesions, a diverse mixture of cytokines is upregulated which influence each other generating a complex inflammatory situation. Although this is the case, the inhibition of Interleukin-17A (IL-17A) alone showed unprecedented clinical results in patients, indicating that IL-17A is a critical inducer of psoriasis pathogenesis. To elucidate IL-17A-driven keratinocyte-intrinsic signaling pathways, we treated monolayers of normal human epidermal keratinocytes in vitro with a mixture of 6 cytokines (IL-17A, TNF-a, IL-17C, IL-22, IL-36g and IFN-g) involved in psoriasis, to mimic the inflammatory milieu in psoriasis lesions. Microarray and gene set enrichment analysis revealed that this cytokine mixture induced similar gene expression changes with the previous transcriptome studies using psoriasis lesions. Importantly, we identified a set of IL-17A-regulated genes in keratinocytes, which recapitulate typical psoriasis genes exemplified by DEFB4A, S100A7, IL19 and CSF3, based on differences in the expression profiles of cells stimulated with 6 cytokines versus cells stimulated with only 5 cytokines lacking IL-17A. Furthermore a specific IL-17A-induced gene, NFKBIZ, which encodes IkappaB-zeta, a transcriptional regulator for NF-kappaB, was demonstrated to have a significant role for IL-17A-induced gene expression. Thus, we present novel in vitro data from normal human keratinocytes that would help elucidating the IL-17A-driven keratinocyte activation in psoriasis.
Project description:Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated skin condition influenced by genetics and environmental factors. γδ T cells, as the main sources of IL-17A, play pivotal roles in the inflammatory processes of psoriasis. During psoriasis pathogenesis, inhibiting the secretion of IL-17A has emerged as a novel therapeutic approach for treating psoriasis. Double-negative T (DNT) cells is a novel type of immunosuppressive cells. Our preliminary research has unveiled that DNT cells play a significant immunoregulatory role in autoimmune and allergic diseases. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the protection of DNT cells and explore its underlying mechanism.
Project description:Durable psoriasis improvement has been reported in a subset of psoriasis patients after treatment withdrawal of biologics blocking IL-23/Type 17 T-cell (T17) autoimmune axis. However, it is not well understood if systemic blockade of the IL-23/T17 axis promotes immune tolerance in psoriasis skin. The purpose of the study was to find translational evidence that systemic IL-17A blockade promotes regulatory transcriptome modification in human psoriasis skin immune cell subsets. We analyzed human psoriasis lesional skin 6 mm punch biopsy tissues before and after systemic IL-17A blockade using the muti-genomics approach integrating immune cell-enriched scRNA-seq (n = 18), microarray (n = 61), and immunohistochemistry (n = 61) with repository normal control skin immune cell-enriched scRNA-seq (n = 10) and microarray (n = 8) data. For the T17 axis transcriptome, systemic IL-17A blockade depleted 100% of IL17A + T-cells and 95% of IL17F + T-cells in psoriasis skin. The expression of IL23A in DC subsets was also downregulated by IL-17A blockade. The expression of IL-17-driven inflammatory mediators (IL36G, S100A8, DEFB4A, and DEFB4B) in suprabasal keratinocytes was correlated with psoriasis severity and was downregulated by IL-17A blockade. For the regulatory DC transcriptome, the proportion of regulatory semimature DCs expressing regulatory DC markers of BDCA-3 (THBD) and DCIR (CLEC4A) was increased in posttreatment psoriasis lesional skin compared to pretreatment psoriasis lesional skin. In addition, IL-17A blockade induced higher expression of CD1C and CD14, which are markers of CD1c+ CD14+ dendritic cell (DC) subset that suppresses antigen-specific T-cell responses, in posttreatment regulatory semimature DCs compared to pretreatment regulatory semimature DCs. In conclusion, systemic IL-17A inhibition not only blocks the entire IL-23/T17 cell axis but also promotes regulatory gene expression in regulatory DCs in human psoriasis skin.
Project description:To understand the overall function of IL-17RD and IL-17RC in IL-17A signaling, RNAseq was performed with WT, Il17rc KO, and Il17rd KO primary mouse keratinocytes following IL-17A treatment along with untreated WT control. Keratinocyte from neonatal WT, Il17rd KO, and Il17rc KO mice were cultured and stimulated with IL-17A (100 ng/mL, PeproTech) for 8h.
Project description:This study aims to define the interactions that SA or SP may have with IL-17A and TNF-α in human keratinocytes, as well as the similarity to psoriasis vulgaris
Project description:Wild-type (WT) miR-378a-3p or edited miR-378a-3p were expressed in SB2 KD-ADAR1 cells to identify the genes regulated by edited miR-378a-3p vs WT miR-378a-3p. PARVA was one of the genes identified to be regulated by edited miR-378a-3p. We demonstrate that this regulation of PARVA is lost in highly metastatic melanoma cells. Microarray analysis was used to evaluate the robustness and reproducibility of the method used to generate the ex vivo tumor tissue model and confirm its ability to recapitulate the essential features of the original tumor.