Background. The human airway epithelium consists of 4 major cell types: ciliated, secretory, columnar and basal cells. During natural turnover and in response to injury, the airway basal cells function as stem / progenitor cells for the other airway cell types. The objective of this study is to better understand basal cell biology by defining the subset of expressed genes that characterize the signature of human airway epithelial basal cells.
The human airway epithelial basal cell transcriptome.
Specimen part, Time
View SamplesActivation of the human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-signature genes has been observed in various epithelial cancers. In this study, we found that the hESC signature is selectively induced in the airway basal stem/progenitor cell population of healthy smokers (BC-S), with a pat-tern similar to that activated in all major types of human lung cancer. We further identified a subset of 6 BC-S hESC genes, whose coherent overexpression in lung AdCa was associated with reduced lung function, poorer differentiation grade, more advanced tumor stage, remarkably shorter survival and higher frequency of TP53 mutations. BC-S shared with hESC and a consid-erable subset of lung carcinomas a common TP53 inactivation molecular pattern which strongly correlated with the BC-S hESC gene expression. These data provide transcriptome-based evi-dence that smoking-induced reprogramming of airway BC towards the hESC-like phenotype might represent a common early molecular event in the development of aggressive lung carci-nomas in humans.
Airway basal cells of healthy smokers express an embryonic stem cell signature relevant to lung cancer.
Sex, Age
View SamplesAPs were isolated from naïve skin and day 5wounds from dorsal skin wound beds of 7-9 weeks old using FACS. This experiment describes changes in AP gene expression associated with injury and subsequent tissue repair. Overall design: APs were isolated by FACS.
Myofibroblast proliferation and heterogeneity are supported by macrophages during skin repair.
Sex, Age, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesCells were isolated from day 5wounds from dorsal skin wound beds of 7-9 weeks old using FACS. This experiment describes the gene expression profile associated with different immune cell subsets during tissue repair. Overall design: Cells were isolated by FACS.
Myofibroblast proliferation and heterogeneity are supported by macrophages during skin repair.
Sex, Age, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesEmbolism and the refilling of xylem vessels are intrinsic to the ability of plants to handle the transport of water under tension. While the formation of an embolized vessel is an abiotic process, refilling against the pressure gradient requires biological activity to provide both the energy and the water needed to restore xylem transport capacity.
Transcriptome response to embolism formation in stems of Populus trichocarpa provides insight into signaling and the biology of refilling.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesAnopheles gambiae antennal and palpal transcriptome expression profiles (male and female)
Transcriptome profiling of chemosensory appendages in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae reveals tissue- and sex-specific signatures of odor coding.
Sex, Specimen part, Cell line
View SamplesRNAseq from male testes
Odorant receptor-mediated sperm activation in disease vector mosquitoes.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesThe transcription factor OTX2 has been implicated as an oncogene in medulloblastoma, which is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. It is highly expressed in most medulloblastomas and amplified in a subset of them. The role of OTX2 in medulloblastoma and its downstream targets are unclear. Therefore, we generated D425 medulloblastoma cells in which we can silence endogenous OTX2 by inducible shRNA. Silencing of OTX2 strongly inhibited cell proliferation and resulted in a neuronal-like differentiation. Expression profiling of time courses after silencing showed a progressive change in gene expression for many cellular processes. Down regulated genes were highly enriched for cell cycle and visual perception genes, while up regulated genes were enriched for genes involved in development and differentiation. This shift in expression profiles is reminiscent to changes described to occur during normal cerebellum development. OTX2 is expressed in proliferating granular progenitor cells, but the expression diminishes when these cells exit the cell cycle and start differentiating. ChIP-on-chip analyses of OTX2 in D425 cells showed that cell cycle and perception genes were direct OTX2 targets, while regulation of most differentiation genes appears to be indirect. These analyses provide the first insight in the molecular network of OTX2, demonstrating that OTX2 is essential in medulloblastoma and directly drives proliferation by regulating the expression of cell cycle genes. Since many of these genes also correlate in expression with OTX2 in primary tumors, they might be potential targets for therapy in medulloblastoma patients.
OTX2 directly activates cell cycle genes and inhibits differentiation in medulloblastoma cells.
Cell line, Time
View SamplesGene expression profiling in dopaminergic brain structures of rats self-administering cocaine. Effect of histone deacetylase inhibition
Inhibition of histone deacetylases in rats self-administering cocaine regulates lissencephaly gene-1 and reelin gene expression, as revealed by microarray technique.
Sex, Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesThe link between upper and lower airways in patients with both asthma and allergic rhinitis is still poorly understood. As the biological complexity of these disorders can be captured by gene expression profiling we hypothesized that the clinical expression of rhinitis and/or asthma is related to differential gene expression between upper and lower airways epithelium.
The impact of allergic rhinitis and asthma on human nasal and bronchial epithelial gene expression.
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