To investigate the mechanism through which miR-203 inhibited the breast cancer cell invasion, we overpression miR-203 in MDA-MB-231 cell line and performed a microarray to examine the genes which maybe targeted and down-regulated by miR-203.
Signaling between transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) and transcription factor SNAI2 represses expression of microRNA miR-203 to promote epithelial-mesenchymal transition and tumor metastasis.
Cell line
View SamplesIrradiation induced bone marrow ablation ultimately enhanced PTH anabolic effects in bone.
An irradiation-altered bone marrow microenvironment impacts anabolic actions of PTH.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesIt has been postulated that during human fetal development all cells of the lung epithelium derive from an embryonic endodermal NKX2-1+ precursor, however, this hypothesis has not been formally tested due to an inability to purify or track this theorized cell for detailed characterization. Here we engineer and developmentally differentiate NKX2-1GFP reporter pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) in vitro to generate and isolate a human primordial lung progenitor that expresses NKX2-1 but is initially devoid of markers of differentiated lung lineages. As these progenitors move through the earliest moments of lung lineage specification from definitive endoderm they can be imaged in real time or isolated for time-series global transcriptomic profiling. We performed microarray analysis of 5 timepoints of human iPSC to lung directed differentiation compared to week 21 human fetal lung and Neural NKX2-1+ cell controls. These profiles indicate that evolutionarily conserved, stage-dependent developmental gene signatures are expressed in primordial human lung progenitors.
Efficient Derivation of Functional Human Airway Epithelium from Pluripotent Stem Cells via Temporal Regulation of Wnt Signaling.
Time
View SamplesThe aim of this study was to identify differentially-expressed genes in CCR4hi/CXCR3- and CCR4lo CXCR3+ CCR6+ human Th17 cell subsets
Pro-inflammatory human Th17 cells selectively express P-glycoprotein and are refractory to glucocorticoids.
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View SamplesThe aim of this study was to characterize the transcriptional signature of MDR1+ human memory T cells isolated from clinically inflamed gut tissue, and compare it to local MDR1- memory T cells
Pro-inflammatory human Th17 cells selectively express P-glycoprotein and are refractory to glucocorticoids.
Specimen part
View SamplesIdentification of the counterpart protein of Nef during HIV infection
HIV-1 Nef promotes infection by excluding SERINC5 from virion incorporation.
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View SamplesThe in vitro directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) through stimulation of developmental signaling pathways can generate mature somatic cell types for basic laboratory studies or regenerative therapies.
Pluripotent stem cell differentiation reveals distinct developmental pathways regulating lung- versus thyroid-lineage specification.
Treatment
View SamplesWe used human Affymetrix microarrays to identify the up- or down-regulated gene expressions from MDA-MB-231 cells infected with control vector or Flag-SR-IkBa
NF-kappaB in breast cancer cells promotes osteolytic bone metastasis by inducing osteoclastogenesis via GM-CSF.
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View SamplesThe unprecedented magnitude of the 2013-2016 Makona Ebola virus (M-EBOV) epidemic likely resulted from multiple epidemiologic factors that set it apart from previous outbreaks. Nonetheless, genetic adaptations that distinguish M-EBOV from previous isolates may also have contributed to the scale of the epidemic. Of particular interest is a M-EBOV glycoprotein (GP) variant, GP-A82V, that was first detected at the inflection point of the 2013-2016 outbreak - when the number of cases increased exponentially - and which completely supplanted the earlier M-EBOV sequence. We found that, as compared with the earlier strain, GP-A82V increased the ability of M-EBOV to fuse with and infect cells of primate origin, including human blood dendritic cells, without altering innate immune signaling in target cells. Residue 82 is located at the NPC1-binding site on M-EBOV GP and the increased infectivity of GP-A82V was restricted to cells from species in which the NPC1 orthologue bears primate-defining residues at the critical interface. We utilized HIV-derived lentiviral vectors pseudotyped with founder and A82V containing M-EBOV GPs to explore the potential that this modification alters how human monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MDDCs) respond to EBOV GP stimulation. Overall design: We generated stocks of lentiviral vector bearing one the following three M-EBOV GPs: founder, A82V, and A82V/T230A. These viral stocks were used to challenge MDDCs from two healthy, anonymous human donors. Stimulated MDDCs were harvested at 1, 2, 4, and 6 hours after viral addition. Gene expression in M-EBOV GP challenged MDDCs was compared to a unstimulated control.
Ebola Virus Glycoprotein with Increased Infectivity Dominated the 2013-2016 Epidemic.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesOne of our new major finding among the genes that contributes to MS susceptibility is ICSBP1. The so called disease modifying therapies like interferon-beta (IFN-), possibly acting on the peripheral T-cells, reduce the disease activity and the clinical progression, with a MRI-detectable effect in preventing lesion burden and cerebral atrophy development in RR-MS. It suggests a critical role of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) immune response and modulation in developing inflammation in the brain. We tested the hypothesis that the genetic effect of the susceptible allele ICSBP1 can impact the gene expression profile of molecules belonging to the interferon pathway. We therefore interrogated the PBMC for changes in gene expression profile. We correlate those changes with the minor allele frequency for ICSBP1, performing independent quantitative trait analysis for each treatment category. Expression Quantitative Trait Loci Association with a p value < 0.05 have been used in follow up analysis. The regression coefficient of the Quantitative trait association represents the degree of correlation between the gene expression for each interrogated target gene and the minor allele frequency of the SNP for our gene of interest. This coefficient has been used as input in the subsequent Gene Set Enrichment Analysis performed in a pre-ranked approach. The resulting GSEA-SNP method rests on the assumption that SNPs underlying a disease phenotype might affect genes constituting a signaling pathway or genes with a common regulation. Therefore, GSEA-SNP can facilitate the identification of pathways or of underlying biological mechanisms.
Meta-analysis of genome scans and replication identify CD6, IRF8 and TNFRSF1A as new multiple sclerosis susceptibility loci.
Specimen part
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