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Mus musculus
10 Downloadable Samples
Illumina HiSeq 2500
Description
Retinoic acid (RA) is a potent inducer of cell differentiation and plays an essential role in sex-specific germ cell development in the mammalian gonad. RA is essential for male gametogenesis and hence fertility. However, RA can also disrupt sexual cell fate in somatic cells of the testis, promoting transdifferentiation of male Sertoli cells to female granulosa-like cells when the male sexual regulator Dmrt1 is absent. The feminizing ability of RA in the somatic testis suggests that RA might normally play a role in somatic cell differentiation or cell fate maintenance in the ovary. To test for this possibility we disrupted RA signaling in somatic cells of the early fetal ovary using three genetic strategies and one pharmaceutical approach. We found that deleting all three RA receptors (RARs) in the XX somatic gonad at the time of sex determination did not significantly affect ovarian differentiation, follicle development, or female fertility. Transcriptome analysis of adult triple mutant ovaries revealed remarkably little effect on gene expression in the absence of somatic RAR function. Likewise, deletion of three RA synthesis enzymes (Aldha1-3) at the time of sex determination did not masculinize the ovary. A dominant-negative RAR transgene altered granulosa cell proliferation, likely due to interference with a non-RA signaling pathway, but did not affect granulosa cell specification or fertility. Finally, culture of fetal XX gonads with an RAR antagonist blocked germ cell meiotic initiation but did not disrupt sex-biased gene expression. We conclude that RA signaling, although crucial in the ovary for meiotic initiation, is not required for granulosa cell specification, differentiation, or reproductive function. Overall design: Ovaries from six week old mice with five replicates in each of two genotypes were analyzed by RNA-Seq
Publication Title
Retinoic acid signaling is dispensable for somatic development and function in the mammalian ovary.
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Age, Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 17 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
CD4(+)Foxp3(+) regulatory T (Treg) cells originate primarily from thymic differentiation, but conversion of mature T lymphocytes to Foxp3 positivity can be elicited by several means, including in vitro activation in the presence of TGF-beta. Retinoic acid (RA) increases TGF-beta-induced expression of Foxp3, through unknown molecular mechanisms. We showed here that, rather than enhancing TGF-beta signaling directly in naive CD4(+) T cells, RA negatively regulated an accompanying population of CD4(+) T cells with a CD44(hi) memory and effector phenotype. These memory cells actively inhibited the TGF-beta-induced conversion of naive CD4(+) T cells through the synthesis of a set of cytokines (IL-4, IL-21, IFN-gamma) whose expression was coordinately curtailed by RA. This indirect effect was evident in vivo and required the expression of the RA receptor alpha. Thus, cytokine-producing CD44(hi) cells actively restrain TGF-beta-mediated Foxp3 expression in naive T cells, and this balance can be shifted or fine-tuned by RA.
Publication Title
Retinoic acid enhances Foxp3 induction indirectly by relieving inhibition from CD4+CD44hi Cells.
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Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 10 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Clariom S Array (clariomsmouse)
Description
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most frequent form of secondary arterial hypertension. Mutations in different genes increase aldosterone production in PA, but additional mechanisms may contribute to increased cell proliferation and aldosterone producing adenoma (APA) development. We performed transcriptome analysis in APA and identified retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARα) signaling as a central molecular network involved in nodule formation. To understand how RARα modulates adrenal structure and function, we explored the adrenal phenotype of male and female Rarα knockout mice. Inactivation of Rarα in mice led to major structural disorganization of the adrenal cortex in both sexes, with increased adrenal cortex size in female mice and increased cell proliferation in males. Abnormalities of vessel architecture and extracellular matrix were due to decreased Vegfa expression and modifications in extracellular matrix components. On the molecular level, Rarα inactivation leads to inhibition of non-canonical Wnt signaling, without affecting the canonical Wnt pathway nor PKA signaling. Our study suggests that Rarα contributes to the maintenance of normal adrenal cortex structure and cell proliferation, by modulating Wnt signaling. Dysregulation of this interaction may contribute to abnormal cell proliferation, creating a propitious environment for the emergence of specific driver mutations in PA.
Publication Title
Retinoic acid receptor α as a novel contributor to adrenal cortex structure and function through interactions with Wnt and Vegfa signalling.
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Sex, Age, Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 10 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST Array (mogene10st)
Description
Transcriptome analyses of memory CDKN2A-/- CD8 T lymphocytes expressing an active form of the transcription factor Stat5.
Publication Title
Control of CD8 T cell proliferation and terminal differentiation by active STAT5 and CDKN2A/CDKN2B.
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Specimen part
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GSE2501- Mus musculus
- 10 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Murine Genome U74A Version 2 Array (mgu74av2)
Description
The experiment was to compare leukemic T cells from thymic lymphomas from homozygote mice for the IkL/L hypomorphic mutation and non-transformed thymocytes, either of WT or IkL/L genotype. The aim was to identify a gene expression signature specific to the IkL/L tumors.
Publication Title
Notch activation is an early and critical event during T-Cell leukemogenesis in Ikaros-deficient mice.
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No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 9 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
Activated NOTCH1 induces T-ALL in mice when transduced in bone marrow (BM) cells. T-ALL cells activate the calcineurin/NFAT pathway in vivo (Medyouf H. et al. Nat Med 2007 [PMID 17515895]).
Publication Title
Leukemia-initiating cell activity requires calcineurin in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Treatment
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 10 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST Array (hugene10st)
Description
Lymphotoxin-mediated activation of the lymphotoxin- receptor (LTR) has been implicated in several physiological and pathological processes, including lymphoid organ development, T-cell maturation, and solid and hematopoietic malignancies. Its role in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) or other T-cell malignancies has remained however to be investigated. Here we show that the genes encoding lymphotoxin (LT)- and LT were expressed in T-ALL patient samples, more abundantly in the TAL/LMO molecular subtype, and in the TEL-JAK2 mouse model of cortical/mature T-ALL. Surface LT12 protein was detected in primary mouse T-ALL cells, but only upon phorbol ester stimulation or absence of microenvironmental LTR interaction. Indeed, in contrast to leukemic cells collected from transplanted Ltbr/ mice or from co-cultures with Ltbr/ mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF), those collected from Ltbr+/+ mice or from Ltbr+/+ MEF co-cultures presented no surface LT expression. Supporting the notion that LT signaling plays a role in T-ALL, inactivation of the Ltbr gene in mice resulted in a statistically significant delay in TEL-JAK2-induced leukemia onset. Expression of the Lta and Ltb genes was found to be increased at the early asymtptomatic stages of TEL-JAK2 T-ALL, when only low proportions of malignant thymocytes are present in normal sized thymus. Interestingly, young asymptomatic TEL-JAK2;Ltbr/ mice presented significantly less leukemic thymocytes than TEL-JAK2;Ltbr+/+ mice. Together, these data indicate that early lymphotoxin expression by T-ALL cells activates LTR signaling in thymic stromal cells, thus promoting leukemogenesis.
Publication Title
Lymphotoxin-β receptor in microenvironmental cells promotes the development of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia with cortical/mature immunophenotype.
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Sex, Age, Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST Array (mogene10st)
Description
comparative expression between stromal MS5 cells treated with (MS5_PD18) or without (MS5_DMSO) MEKi
Publication Title
Interleukin-18 produced by bone marrow-derived stromal cells supports T-cell acute leukaemia progression.
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Cell line
View Samples- Gallus gallus
- 4 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2000
Description
Here we report a transcriptomic analysis of fate-restricted progenitor cells biased to produce cone photoreceptors and horizontal cells, marked by the THRB cis-regulatory element ThrbCRM1. Comparison to a control population enriched in multipotent progenitor cells identified several genes considered to be pan-progenitor, such as VSX2, LHX2, and PAX6, as downregulated in these fate-restricted retinal progenitor cells Overall design: Comparison of two FACS-sorted chick retinal progenitor cell populations after electroporation of reporter plasmids and 20hr culture.
Publication Title
Fate-restricted retinal progenitor cells adopt a molecular profile and spatial position distinct from multipotent progenitor cells.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 19 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Murine Genome U74A Version 2 Array (mgu74av2), Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
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Publication Title
Combined targeting of JAK2 and Bcl-2/Bcl-xL to cure mutant JAK2-driven malignancies and overcome acquired resistance to JAK2 inhibitors.
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Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage
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