Project description:HTLV-1 is an onco-retrovirus that infects human T cells and causes poor prognosis leukaemia/lymphoma, ATL. The viral RNA binding protein, Rex, intervenes in host cell regulation of gene expression, splicing and translation mechanisms to promote viral particle replication, but the detailed mechanism of its function has not been elucidated. In the present study, we stably overexpressed HTLV-1 Rex in the human T-cell-derived cell line, CEM, and investigated effect of Rex on splicing patterns in CEM cells by exon microarray analysis.
Project description:HTLV-1 is an onco-retrovirus that infects human T cells and causes poor prognosis leukaemia/lymphoma, ATL. The viral RNA binding protein, Rex, intervenes in host cell regulation of gene expression, splicing and translation mechanisms to promote viral particle replication, but the detailed mechanism of its function has not been elucidated. In the present study, we stably overexpressed HTLV-1 Rex in the human T-cell-derived cell line, CEM, and investigated effect of Rex on gene expression profiles in CEM cells by gene expression microarray analysis.
Project description:A conditional and isogenic system for APOBEC3B (A3B) induction in T-REx-293 cells. Cells were engineered to express doxycycline-inducible A3B-eGFP or eGFP constructs and subjected to 10 rounds of A3B-eGFP exposure causing 80-90% cell death. Control pools (eGFP) were subjected to parallel rounds of non-toxic eGFP exposure, and dilutions were done each round to mimic A3B-eGFP induced population fluctuations. DNA was extracted and subjected to SNP analyses using the Human OmniExpress-24v1-0 BeadChip (Illumina, San Diego, CA). Genotyping was performed using the humanomniexpress_24v1-0_a cluster file.
Project description:The objective of this comparison was to identify the impact of rex deletion on the transcriptome of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39. This comparison showed that the transcriptional regulator, Rex acts as a transcriptional repressor of a number of genes/operons (adhB1, fba, hemH, rex, gapN, nirC, pncB, gap, adhE, and adhB2) involved in niacin uptake and biosynthesis in the presence of NADH. In this study, we investigated the transcriptomic response of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 to NADH. Transcriptome comparison of the D39 wild-type grown in chemically-defined medium (CDM) with 0 mg/ml NADH to 0.5 mg/ml NADH revealed elevated expression of various genes/operons (adhB1, fba, hemH, rex, gapN, nirC, pncB, gap, adhE, and adhB2) involved in the transport and biosynthesis of niacin. Microarray results were further confirmed by β-galactosidase assays. Promoter-lacZ fusions assays and microarray studies showed that the transcriptional regulator, Rex acts as a transcriptional repressor of a number of genes/operons (adhB1, fba, hemH, rex, gapN, nirC, pncB, gap, adhE, and adhB2) involved in niacin uptake and biosynthesis in the presence of NADH. The putative operator site of Rex in the promoter regions of Rex-regulated genes is predicted and confirmed by promoter mutational experiments.
Project description:The human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) is the cause of adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) and HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/tropical spatic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). Both diseases have a late onset, although ATL has a medium survivor of 7.7 months after the onset despise aggressive treatment. T CD4+ cells are the main target of HTLV-1, but other cells types are known to be infected as T CD8+, CD34+ progenitor, dendritic cells and immature lymphocytes. The thymus gland is a primary lymphoid organ, in which the lymphocytes undergo differentiation, where selected T cell ultimately being exported from the organ and going to peripheral lymphoid organs. This process occurs along with immature lymphocyte migration and interaction with thymic microenvironment. Thymic epithelial cells (TECs) are the main component of the thymic stroma and are responsible for the process of intrathymic T cell maturation. This process are dependent of T cell receptor (TCR)-mediated recognition of antigenic peptide fragments presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules in TEC and culminate in TCR repertoire formation. In this study, we show that TECs have the receptors for HTLV-1 entry and can be infected by cell-cell contact and cell-free virus. These cells change gene expression of anti-apoptosis, chemokine and adhesion molecules genes; however, there is no difference in antigen presentation molecules. Furthermore, HTLV-1 infected TECs can transmit the virus to a CD4 T cell lineage and CD4 T cells derived from peripheral blood of healthy donors after in vitro co-cultivation. Conjointly, our data points to the possibility that the human thymic epithelial cells must favor the HTLV-1 infection as a reservoir, transmitting the virus to maturing lymphocytes that cause the disease in the periphery.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of human CEM cells comparing control untreated CEM cells with either 2h or 4.5h cluvenone-treated CEM cells.
Project description:A conditional and isogenic system for APOBEC3B (A3B) induction in T-REx-293 cells. Cells were engineered to express doxycycline-inducible A3B-eGFP or eGFP constructs and subjected to 10 rounds of A3B-eGFP exposure causing 80-90% cell death. Control pools (eGFP) were subjected to parallel rounds of non-toxic eGFP exposure, and dilutions were done each round to mimic A3B-eGFP induced population fluctuations. DNA was extracted and subjected to SNP analyses using the Human OmniExpress-24v1-0 BeadChip (Illumina, San Diego, CA). Genotyping was performed using the humanomniexpress_24v1-0_a cluster file. SNP data is avaiable for a total of 16 samples, all derived from single cells mother lines A and C. For each series, each consisting of 8 samples, A3B-eGFP and eGFP daugther clones were processed on the SNP microarray, as well as 3 A3B-eGFP and 3 eGFP grand-daugther clones.