Project description:Activation of the Mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade following Toll-like receptor (TLR) stimulation enables innate immune cells to rapidly activate cytokine gene expression. A balanced response to signals of infectious danger requires that cellular activation is transient. Here, we identify the MAPK phosphatase Dual specificity phosphatase-1 (DUSP1) as an essential endogenous regulator of the inflammatory response to LPS. DUSP1-deficient (DUSP1-/-) bone marrow derived macrophages showed selectively prolonged activation of p38 MAPK and increased cytokine production. Intraperitoneal challenge of DUSP1-/- mice with LPS caused increased lethality and overshooting production of IL-6 and TNF?. Transcriptional profiling revealed that DUSP1 controls a significant fraction of LPS-induced genes, that includes IL-6 and IL-10 as well as the chemokines CCL3, CCL4 and CXCL2. In contrast, the expression of the important mediators of endotoxin lethality, IFN? and IL-12, was not significantly altered by the absence of DUSP1. These data together demonstrate a specific regulatory role of DUSP1 in controlling a subset of LPS-induced genes that determines the outcome of endotoxin shock. Keywords: in vivo analysis of splenic mRNA expression
Project description:The goals of this study are to harvest adult-onset Rai1-deficient mouse brains from hypothalamus and compare the transcriptome with their wild-type littermates. Methods: mRNA profiles from Rai1 conditional knockouts and wild-type mice were generated by deep sequencing, in duplicate using Illumina system. Conclusions: Our study suggests that Rai1 preferentially regulate genes involved in cell communication
Project description:Activation of the Mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade following Toll-like receptor (TLR) stimulation enables innate immune cells to rapidly activate cytokine gene expression. A balanced response to signals of infectious danger requires that cellular activation is transient. Here, we identify the MAPK phosphatase Dual specificity phosphatase-1 (DUSP1) as an essential endogenous regulator of the inflammatory response to LPS. DUSP1-deficient (DUSP1-/-) bone marrow derived macrophages showed selectively prolonged activation of p38 MAPK and increased cytokine production. Intraperitoneal challenge of DUSP1-/- mice with LPS caused increased lethality and overshooting production of IL-6 and TNF. Transcriptional profiling revealed that DUSP1 controls a significant fraction of LPS-induced genes, that includes IL-6 and IL-10 as well as the chemokines CCL3, CCL4 and CXCL2. In contrast, the expression of the important mediators of endotoxin lethality, IFN? and IL-12, was not significantly altered by the absence of DUSP1. These data together demonstrate a specific regulatory role of DUSP1 in controlling a subset of LPS-induced genes that determines the outcome of endotoxin shock. Experiment Overall Design: Mice were injected intraperitoneally with E. coli LPS (10µg/g bodyweight) and sacrificed 6h later. Total spleen RNA (5 µg) was prepared, labeled and hybridized to Affymetrix MOE430A 2.0 GeneChips according to the manufacturer's instructions. Three biological replicates per condition were analysed. CEL Files were processed for global normalization and generation of expression values using the rma algorithm in the R affy package (www.bioconductor.org).
Project description:Leptin-responsive genes in the pathway of a leptin signal from the hypothalamus to the liver has not been detected. We used microarray to detailed the expression of gene in liver in the status of leptin deficiency, and leptin administration. As leptin deficient status, we use Lepmkyo/Lepmkyo rats or Lepob/Lepob mice and their wild type littermates.
Project description:Here we compare gene expression profiles between lungs and spleens following LPS in vivo injection into Wild type, lincRNA-Cox2 knockout and lincRNA-Cox2 mutant mice The aim of the experiment is to determine the cis and trans functions for lincRNA-Cox2 following in vivo LPS challenge within the spleen and lung
Project description:We compared gene expression profiles of lymphotoxin alpha- and lymphtoxin beta receptor-deficient thymic medullary epithelial cells with their wild-type littermates, as well as with Aire-deficient and wild-type littermates. This was done in order to determine whether there was overlap in the effects of lymphotoxin and aire. Keywords: genetic modification
Project description:Systemic acute inflammatory signals can cause profound anorexia by disrupting the physiological appetite regulation in the hypothalamic milieu. Conversely, obesity related chronic inflammation of the hypothalamus can disturb anorexigenic signals and promote abnormal body weight control. The aim of the present study was to compare the global hypothalamic endophenotype in C57/Bl6 mice exposed to a high-fat diet or with acute illness mediated by LPS. Ten-week old male C57/Bl6 mice (n=18) were randomly divided into four groups; the control 1 group (n =3) was fed a normal diet whereas the high-fat diet (HFD) group (n =6) was fed a high-fat diet for eight weeks. The control 2 group (n=3) received an intraperitoneal injection of saline whereas the LPS group (n=6) received an intraperitoneal injection of LPS. Mice were sacrificed 18-hr post-injection. Both control 2 and LPS groups were fed a normal diet for eight weeks before the injection. The hypothalamic regions were removed and analysed using a 2D LC-MS methodology. The proteomic analysis profiled 9,235 proteins (q<0.05) across all biological states, of which 522 proteins were found modulated in the HFD group and another 579 in the LPS group. The proteomic profiles demonstrated that the systemic acute inflammation linked with anorexia induced a negative feedback loop of appetite control in the hypothalamus, suggesting an effort to re-establish homeostasis. By contrast, the chronic inflammation associated with obesity initiated a “perpetual cycle” of positive feedback enhancement of appetite regulation further exacerbating positive energy balance.
Project description:Comparative analysis of renal gene expression between wild type and mice deficient in IL-17 receptor signaling following disseminated candidiasis. The hypothesis to be tested in the present study was that there should be a differential renal gene expresion in the absence of IL-17 receptor signaling following disseminated candidiasis. Wild type and IL-17RA-/- mice were systemically infected with Candida albicans and 48 hour post infection renal gene expression was analyzed.
Project description:RNA-seq analysis of kidney endothelium and whole kidney from mice 15 hours after an intraperitoneal challenge with 250 micrograms of LPS per mouse.