Objective: In idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) infiltration of immune cells into muscle and upregulation of MHC-I expression implies increased antigen presentation and involvement of the proteasome system. To decipher the role of immunoproteasomes in myositis, we investigated individual cell types and muscle tissues and focused on possible immune triggers. Methods: Expression of constitutive (PSMB5, -6, -7) and corresponding immunoproteasomal subunits (PSMB8, -9, -10) was analyzed by real-time RT-PCR in muscle biopsies and sorted peripheral blood cells of patients with IIM, non-inflammatory myopathies (NIM) and healthy donors (HD). Protein analysis in muscle biopsies was performed by western blot. Affymetrix HG-U133 platform derived transcriptome data from biopsies of different muscle diseases and from immune cell types as well as monocyte stimulation experiments were used for validation, coregulation and coexpression analyses. Results: Real-time RT-PCR revealed significantly increased expression of immunoproteasomal subunits (PSMB8/-9/-10) in DC, monocytes and CD8+ T-cells in IIM. In muscle biopsies, the immunosubunits were elevated in IIM compared to NIM and exceeded levels of matched blood samples. Proteins of PSMB8 and -9 were found only in IIM but not NIM muscle biopsies. Reanalysis of 78 myositis and 20 healthy muscle transcriptomes confirmed these results and revealed involvement of the antigen processing and presentation pathway. Comparison with reference profiles of sorted immune cells and healthy muscle confirmed upregulation of PSMB8 and -9 in myositis biopsies beyond infiltration related changes. This upregulation correlated highest with STAT1, IRF1 and IFN expression. Elevation of T-cell specific transcripts in active IIM muscles was accompanied by increased expression of DC and monocyte marker genes and thus reflects the cell type specific involvement observed in peripheral blood. Conclusions: Immunoproteasomes seem to indicate IIM activity and suggest that dominant involvement of antigen processing and presentation may qualify these diseases exemplarily for the evolving therapeutic concepts of immunoproteasome specific inhibition.
Upregulation of immunoproteasome subunits in myositis indicates active inflammation with involvement of antigen presenting cells, CD8 T-cells and IFNΓ.
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View SamplesInterferon (IFN) is a unique type I IFN that is not induced by pattern-recognition response elements. IFN is constitutively expressed in mucosal tissues including the female genital mucosa. We show here that IFN induces an antiviral state in human macrophages that blocks HIV-1 replication.
IFN-<b>ε</b> protects primary macrophages against HIV infection.
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View SamplesGenome-wide alternative splice analysis of RNA from lupus and its severe form lupus nephritis
Genome-wide peripheral blood transcriptome analysis of Arab female lupus and lupus nephritis.
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View SamplesThe growth factor interleukin-3 (IL-3) promotes the survival and growth of multipotent hematopoietic progenitors and stimulates myelopoiesis. It has also been reported to oppose terminal granulopoiesis and to support leukemic cell growth through autocrine or paracrine mechanisms. We used kinetic microarray, Northern Blotting and bioinformatics analysis of IL-3 dependent myeloblasts to determine whether IL-3 acts in part by regulating the rate of turnover of mRNA transcripts in specific functional pathways. Our results indicate that exposure of myeloblasts to IL-3 causes immediate early stabilization of hundreds of transcripts in pathways relevant to myeloblast function. Examples include transcripts associated with proliferation and leukemic transformation (pik3cd, myb, pim-1), hematopoietic development (cited2), differentiation control (cdkn1a) and RNA processing (BRF1, BRF2). A domain in the 3-utr of IL-6 that mediates IL-3 responsiveness contains AU-rich elements that bind proteins known to modulate mRNA stability, however a known destabilizing protein (AUF1) is shown not to mediate degradation in the absence of IL-3. These findings support a model of IL-3 action through mRNA stability control and suggest that aberrant stabilization of this network of transcripts could contribute to growth patterns observed in leukemia.
IL-3 and oncogenic Abl regulate the myeloblast transcriptome by altering mRNA stability.
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Cytomegalovirus Immediate-Early Proteins Promote Stemness Properties in Glioblastoma.
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View SamplesWe introduced the HCMV IE1 gene into a mouse model of spontaneous glioma driven by p53KD and overexpression of Ras and PDGF and compared the transcriptomes of mouse gliomas +/- IE1. The following plasmids were utilized for glioma induction in equal parts: pT2/C-Luc/PGK-SB100, pT2/Cag-NrasV12, pT2/shP53/GFP4/mPDGF, and pT2/Cag-IE1 or pT2/C-Neo.
Cytomegalovirus Immediate-Early Proteins Promote Stemness Properties in Glioblastoma.
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View SamplesPrimary human GBM stem like cells were infected with HCMV TR strain (MOI=1) and treated with IE siRNA (a combination of oligos targeting IE1 and IE2 HCMV genes)
Cytomegalovirus Immediate-Early Proteins Promote Stemness Properties in Glioblastoma.
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View SamplesHuman erythroblasts purified from cord blood were cultured in vitro and FACS-sorted into five highly purified populations representing distinct differentiation stages: proerythroblasts, early basophilic erythroblasts, late basophilic erythroblasts, polychromatophilic erythroblasts, and orthochromatophilic erythroblasts. The methods for culture and sorting experiments are given in Hu et al. 2013. For each RNA-seq library, RNA was isolated from 1x 106 sorted human erythroblasts using RNeasy Plus Mini kits (Qiagen). Libraries were then prepared using Illumina TruSeqTM RNA kits to obtain 50 nt reads. Collaborators at the New Your Blood Center were responsible for erythroblast culture, FACS purification of erythroblast populations, and acquisition of RNA-seq data. Collaborators at U.C. Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory performed data analysis and experimental validation of alternative splicing in erythroblasts. Results: Differentiating erythroblasts execute a dynamic alternative splicing program that is enriched in genes affecting cell cycle, organelle organization, chromatin function, and RNA processing. Alternative splicing plays a major role in regulating gene expression to ensure synthesis of appropriate proteome at each stage as the cells remodel in preparation for production of mature red cells. Overall design: Erythroid differentiation stage-specific transcriptome analysis was performed by RNA-seq analysis of highly purified erythroblast populations
A dynamic alternative splicing program regulates gene expression during terminal erythropoiesis.
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View SamplesFat intake is an important determinant in the development of obesity. The small intestine is the principal site of digestion and absorption of nutrients, and these short-term circulating nutrients and hormones as well as neural signals derived from the peripheral tissues in responses to a meal act at multiple central nervous system sites where food intake is controlled.
Identification of the principal transcriptional regulators for low-fat and high-fat meal responsive genes in small intestine.
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View SamplesUsing RNA-Seq, we compared the transcriptomes of muscle from wild type C57BL/6J or Zp407 transgenic mice. Overall design: Biceps femoris were stored in RNAlater from 5-week-old overnight-fasted male mice. 5 mice were used per group for wild type and Zp407 transgenic mice.
Zinc finger protein 407 overexpression upregulates PPAR target gene expression and improves glucose homeostasis in mice.
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