Project description:To better understand the role of the COX-2-dependent lung fibroblast program in modulating the lung immune microenvironment, we generated fibroblast-targeted Ptgs2 conditional knockout (cKO) mice by crossing Pdgfra-Cre mice with Ptgs2flox/flox mice. Then we determined how Ptgs2 deficiency in CD140a+ fibroblasts alters the lung immune microenvironment by performing single-cell RNA sequencing on lung CD45+ immune cells from WT and Ptgs2-cKO mice.
Project description:To investigate the role of the COX-2-dependent lung fibroblast program in reprogramming lung myeloid cells, we generated fibroblast-targeted Ptgs2 conditional knockout mice by crossing Pdgfra-Cre mice with Ptgs2flox/flox mice. Then we isolated two primary types of lung resident DCs-CD103+ conventional DC (cDC1) and CD11b+ conventional DC (cDC2), and lung monocytes from WT and Ptgs2 cKO mice by fluorescence-activated cell sorting and performed RNA sequencing.
Project description:Exploration of proteome differences between CD45+ and CD45- cell types in renal cell carcinoma tumors and normal adjacent tissue patient samples.
Project description:Atglflox/flox (B6N.129S-Pnpla2tm1Eek/J), S100A8-cre+/- (B6.Cg-Tg(S100A8-cre,-EGFP)1Ilw/J) mice were obtained from The Jackson Laboratory. Atglflox/flox mice were bred to S100A8-cre+/- mice to generate Atglflox/WTS100A8-cre+/- mice, which were backcrossed onto Atglflox/flox mice to generate Atglflox/floxS100A8-cre+/- mice (Atgl neutrophils-specific knock out, Atgl-cKO). Age-matched littermate Atglflox/flox mice were used as wild-type (WT) controls. To compare of the gene expression of the lung-infiltrating neutrophils isolated from Atgl-cKO mice and their WT littermates, AT3-g-csf cells were injected into the fourth mammary fat pads of female WT and Atgl-cKO mice (10-week-old, n = 4/group). The AT3-g-csf cell line is based on a murine breast cancer cell line (AT3) derived from MMTV-PyMT tumors in the C57BL/6 background, and further constructed to overexpress granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) for induction of the host inflammatory condition. At day 10 (pre-metastatic stage), the mice were euthanized and then Ly6G+ neutrophils were isolated from lung by using anti-Ly6G MicroBead Kit (Miltenyi Biotec) following manufacturer’s instructions. The isolated neutrophils were analyzed by flow cytometry and the cells with a > 95% purity were used for the next procedure. Total RNA was isolated from neutrophils using the miRNeasy Mini kit (Qiagen) and the transcriptional profiles of neutrophils were analyzed by RNA sequencing.
Project description:scRNAseq of small intestine-derived lamina propria CD45+ cells from untreated wild type (WT), untreated intestinal epithelial specific LSD1 knockout (cKO), antibiotic-treated WT mice and antibiotic-treated cKO mice
Project description:CCP1 is a deglutamylase responsible for protranslational modification of proteins. CCP1 cKO interneurons show impaired acto-myosin contraction and increased invasion of the cortex. Transcriptome analysis of Wt and cKO interneurones aimes at uncovering secondary disregulation of gene expression.
Project description:We isolated and cultured BMDC from WT and FAM21 cKO mice and analyzed transcriptional profiling of the cellular genes between WT and FAM21 cKO mice.
Project description:Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is a powerful immunomodulator synthesized by the COX2 enzyme, coded by human gene PTGS2. PGE2 is known to possess angiogenic, protumor and immunosuppressive functionality in the microenviornment of oropharyngeal carcinomas (OPC). Differential induction of PTGS2 in infiltrating myeloid-derived immunocytes has been observed with media conditioned by cultured OPC biopsies and OPC-derived cell lines alike. To identify PTGS2-inducing, OPC-derived gene products, we utilized bluk RNA sequencing on 4 OPC-derived cell lines to compare expression profiles of PTGS2-inducing (SCC154, SCC25) with that of PTGS2-non-inducing (2A3, SCC152) cell lines. Interleukin-1α (IL-1α) was among the differentially expressed candidates between cell lines.