Project description:Hematopoietic cell differentiation should be tightly regulated in accordance with environmental changes to keep homeostasis. Infection is one of the conditions that induce myelopoiesis to exclude pathogens and repress erythropoiesis, which might be beneficial for the restriction of nutritional iron for pathogens. While several transcription factors (TFs), including C/EBP family and Gata1, play central roles in erythro-myeloid differentiation, the precise mechanism which controls the differentiation for the adaptation to infection remains obscure. In this study, it was revealed that Bach factors induce erythropoiesis and repress myelopoiesis in the erythro-myeloid bifurcation step, and their expressions per se were suppressed by infectious stimuli. Hence, they work as balancers of the erythro-myeloid differentiation between steady state and infectious state. These findings give us new insight into the machinery which regulates the fate of hematopoietic cells by responding to surrounding environments.
Project description:The importance of unanchored Ub in innate immunity has been shown only for a limited number of unanchored Ub-interactors. We investigated what additional cellular factors interact with unanchored Ub and whether unanchored Ub plays a broader role in innate immunity. To identify unanchored Ub-interacting factors from murine lungs, we used His-tagged recombinant poly-Ub chains as bait. These chains were mixed with lung tissue lysates and protein complexes were isolated with Ni-NTA beads. Sample elutions were subjected to mass spectrometry (LC-MSMS) analysis.
