Neutrophils are short-lived innate immune cells. Upon encountering appropriate stimuli, neutrophils generate and release neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), primarily via NADPH oxidase (Nox)-dependent (~2 hours) or Nox-independent NETosis (~15-60 minutes). Ironically, DNA transcription in dying neutrophils remains an enigma. We hypothesized that transcriptional activation, regulated by NETosis-specific kinases, is important to drive the chromatin decondensation necessary for NETosis. For the first time, we show here that (i) the degree of NETosis corresponds to the degree of genome-wide transcription; (ii) kinase-specific transcriptional activation reflects transcriptional firing during different types of NETosis; and (iii) Transcriptomics suggests that NETosis could differentially regulate inflammation. Therefore, we propose that the initial steps of transcriptional firing, but neither transcription per se help to drive NETosis.
Transcriptional firing helps to drive NETosis.
Sex, Specimen part, Disease
View SamplesNon Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) causes the premature death of over 1 million people worldwide each year, but remains inadequately understood at the molecular level. To provide new insights for NSCLC treatment we performed a molecular characterisation of wild type and platinum drugs resistance in A549 cells. Transcriptome profiling revealed contrasting patterns of gene expression in sensitive and resistant cells and identified genes whose expression was highly correlated with the platinum drugs. Our results revealed a gene set of 15 transcripts whose expression was highly correlated with platinum-resistance in NSCLC A549 cell lines.
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Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Cell line, Subject, Compound
View SamplesMiR-138 has a variety of biological functions because of its capacity to act on different target genes in various cells and tissues; however, the targets of miR-138 in human non-small cell lung cancer cell line H1299 cannot be determined by bioinformatics alone. Thus, H1299 cells overexpressing miR-138 in H1299 cells were subjected to microarray analysis to analyse the differences of gene expression.
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View SamplesHuman tumor cell lines are important tools in tumor biological studies, here the authors report the establishment and characterization of 7 new ccRCC stable cell lines with complete clinical data. Gene expression and methylation were profiled with microarrays between the new cells and those had a finite in vitro life span, and the results prompt that genes such as SLC34A2 and VHL play key roles in the continuous in vitro growth and development of ccRCC.
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View SamplesCaloric restriction (CR) slows the ageing process in many orgamisms, including mice. Liver is an important metabolic organ with active RNA expression. CR reprogrammes hepatic metabolism as well as hepatic transcriptome.
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Genome-wide identification of Ikaros targets elucidates its contribution to mouse B-cell lineage specification and pre-B-cell differentiation.
Specimen part, Cell line
View SamplesIkaros family DNA binding proteins are critical regulators of B cell development. To identify Ikaros-regulated genes in pre-B cells we performed gene expression studies at enhanced temporal resolution.
Genome-wide identification of Ikaros targets elucidates its contribution to mouse B-cell lineage specification and pre-B-cell differentiation.
Specimen part, Cell line
View SamplesSenescence can be transmitted in a paracrine way from cells undergoing Oncogene Induced Senescence (OIS) to nave normal cells. We define this phenomenon as paracrine senescence
A complex secretory program orchestrated by the inflammasome controls paracrine senescence.
Specimen part, Cell line
View SamplesWe used IMR90 ER:RAS cells infected with an empty vector or an shRNA for ARID1B and induced senescence by addition of 4OHT. 6 days later RNA was collected for gene expression analysis. With a functional screen we previously identified ARID1B as a new regulator of cellular senescence. By performing gene expression analysis we confirmed this finding and showed that knockdown of ARID1B prevents the expression of genes induced during senescence.
SWI/SNF regulates a transcriptional program that induces senescence to prevent liver cancer.
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