Project description:Tthis study is aimed to explore how C1qbp deficiency affects the mRNA expressing profiling during the differentiation stage of CD8+ T cells.Naïve WT and C1qbp KO P14 cells and transferred WT and C1qbp KO P14 cells sorted from the spleen of donor mice on day 3, 5, 7 post-infection with LCMV Armstrong were collected and treated for RNA-seq. RNA-Seq analysis revealed transcriptomic changes between WT and C1qbp KO CD8+ T cells. Naïve WT and C1qbp KO CD8+ T cells showed similar gene expressing profiling. On day 3, 5, 7 post-infection with LCMV Armstrong, WT and C1qbp KO CD8+ T cells showed 341, 1,164 and 437 differentially expressed genes respectively.
Project description:This study is aimed to explore whether C1qbp deficiency affects the DNA methylation status during the differentiation stage of CD8+ T cells. Transferred WT and C1qbp KO P14 cells sorted from the spleen of donor mice on day 5 post-infection with LCMV Armstrong were collected. Genomic DNA was isolated for mRRBS. mRRBS analysis provided evidence of DNA methylation changes between WT and C1qbp KO CD8+ T cells. Our study have shown that, on day 5 post-infection with LCMV Armstrong, C1qbp KO CD8+ T cells have increased level of Global DNA methylation. Moreover, C1qbp KO CD8+ T cells show hegher DNA methylation at some effector cells-signature genes.
Project description:This study is aimed to explore whether C1qbp deficiency affects the epigenetic modification during the differentiation stage of CD8+ T cells. Transferred WT and C1qbp KO P14 cells sorted from the spleen of donor mice on day 5 post-infection with LCMV Armstrong were collected and treated for ATAC-seq. ATAC-Seq analysis provided sufficient but not necessary evidence of epigenetic changes between WT and C1qbp KO CD8+ T cells. Our study have shown that, on day 5 post-infection with LCMV Armstrong, even WT and C1qbp KO CD8+ T cells have different mRNA expressing profiling, the ATAC-seq shows slight changes in chromatin accessibility of indicated genes.
Project description:This study is aimed to Investigate whether C1qbp deficiency affects the histone modification during the differentiation stage of CD8+ T cells. Transferred WT and C1qbp KO P14 cells sorted from the spleen of donor mice on day 5 post-infection with LCMV Armstrong were collected and treated for CUT-tag. CUT-tag-Seq analysis provided evidence of histone modification changes between WT and C1qbp KO CD8+ T cells. Our study shows that on day 5 post-infection with LCMV Armstrong, along with mRNA expressing profiling, the CUT-tag-seq exhibits obvious changes in H3K27me3 and H3K27Ac modification of indicated genes of WT and C1qbp KO CD8+ T cells.
Project description:To investigate the roll of ARID1A in the regulation of effector CD8+ T cell responses, we crossed GzmB-Cre P14 Thy1.1 mice with Arid1a-fl/fl mice to generate Arid1a Het and KO mice. We then performed gene expression profiling analysis of WT, Het, and KO cells in vivo at d3, d5, and d8 post-LCMV Armstrong infection.
Project description:miRNA profiling of Db-GP33-41 specific murine CD8 T cells following infection with LCMV Armstrong Various in-vivo subsets of antigen-specific CD8 T cells were FACS sorted and analyzed for miRNA expression profiling. Samples were purified from either uninfected animals or after days 4.5, 9 and >60 post infection with LCMV Armstrong.
Project description:The PI3K/Akt signaling pathway impacts various aspects of CD8 T cell homeostasis, such as effect versus memory cell differentiation, during viral infection. We used microarrays to determine which downstream molecules were affected and what other signaling pathways were interconnected with the Akt pathway by constitutive activation of Akt in LCMV-infected CD8 T cells. Splenocytes from naive P14/WT or P14/Akt mice were stained with anti-CD8 and anti-Ly5.1, and CD8 T cells were sorted using a FACSAria II instrument. Purified Ly5.1+ CD8 T cells from P14/WT or P14/Akt mice were transferred into B6 mice, which were subsequently infected with LCMV Armstrong. At day 8 post infection, splenocytes were stained with anti-CD8, anti-Ly5.1, anti-KLRG1, and anti-CD127. Following staining, short-lived effector cells (SLECs) and memory precursor effector cells (MPECs) were sorted using the FACSAria II instrument; the purity of the sorted cells was >95%. A total of 5 samples were analyzed, including WT naive, WT SLEC, WT MPEC, Akt naive and Akt SLEC.
Project description:To investigate the role of ARID1A in the regulation of effector CD8+ T cell responses, we crossed GzmB-Cre P14 Thy1.1 mice with Arid1a-fl/fl mice to generate Arid1a Het and KO mice. We then performed chromatin accessibility profiling analysis by ATAC-seq in WT, Het, and KO cells in vivo at d0, 48h in vitro activated, d3, d5, and d8 post-LCMV Armstrong infection.
Project description:To investigate the role of ARID1A in the regulation of transcription factor binding and histone modifications in effector CD8+ T cell responses, we crossed GzmB-Cre P14 Thy1.1 mice with Arid1a-fl/fl mice to generate Arid1a KO mice. We then performed CUT&RUN against ARID1A, BATF, ETS, Tbet, H3K27ac, H3K27me3 in WT, Arid1a KO, or Tbx21 (Tbet) KO cells in vivo at d0, 48h in vitro activated, d5, and d8 post-LCMV Armstrong infection.
Project description:Cytolytic activity by CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) is a powerful tactic in the elimination of intracellular pathogens and tumor cells. The destructive capacity of CTL is progressively dampened during chronic infection - yet the environmental cues and molecular pathways controlling immune “exhaustion” remain unclear. We find CTL immunity is regulated by the central transcriptional response to hypoxia, mediated by the von-Hippel-Lindau/Hypoxia-Inducible-Factor (VHL/HIF) pathway. Deletion of VHL, the primary negative regulator of HIF, leads to lethal CTL-mediated immunopathology during chronic infection, and VHL-deficient CTL display enhanced control of persistent viral infection and neoplastic growth. We find HIF and oxygen influence expression of pivotal CTL transcription, effector and costimulatory-inhibitory molecules, which is relevant to strategies to promote viral and tumor clearance. To understand the role of the VHL/HIF pathway in regulating T cell responses to acute and persistant antigen in vivo, a mixture of ~10^4 WT and Vhl KO virus-specific CD8+ T cells (P14s) was transferred iv into uninfected WT host mice. After infection with either LCMV-Armstrong (acute viral infection) or LCMV-clone13 (persistent viral infection) we double-FACS isolated the responding P14 donor cells from pooled spleens from two sets of host mice to obtain duplicates for microarray for the four conditions, resulting in eight samples (2 WT Arm, 2 VHL KO Arm; 2 WT cl13, 2 VHL KO cl13) at 6 to 7 days post-infection. All conditions were sorted on KRLG1lo P14 cells. Note this was a mixed P14 transfer, so WT and KO cells were responding to infection in the same WT host mice to aid in normalizing effects such as antigen load and cytokine environment.