A549 cells were grown at air liquid interphase (ALI) and exposed to airborne formaldehyde for three days. An exposure platform was developed for this purpose, which provided the volatile analyte in a humidified atmosphere. The platform was composed of a reference and an exposure chamber.
Cellular reactions to long-term volatile organic compound (VOC) exposures.
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View SamplesA systems biology approach was used to analyze the blood transcriptomes of adults acutely infected with Chikungunya Virus. There were identified gene signatures and pathways that were associated to viral RNA amounts and to the onset of symptoms that characterize the adults' acute infection.
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View SamplesA Single Cell Analysis of Myogenic Dedifferentiation Induced by Small Molecules An important direction in chemical biology is the derivation of compounds that affect cellular differentiation or its reversal. The fragmentation of multinucleate myofibers into viable mononucleates (called cellularisation) occurs during limb regeneration in urodele amphibians and the isolation of myoseverin, a tri-substituted purine that could apparently activate this pathway of myogenic dedifferentiation in mammalian cells, generated considerable interest. We have explored the mechanism and outcome of cellularisation at a single cell level, and report findings that significantly extend the previous work with myoseverin. Using a panel of compounds, including a novel triazine compound called 109 with structural similarity and comparable activity to myoseverin, we have identified microtubule disruption as critical for activation of the response. Our analysis has included the related control triazine compound 401, and the microtubule disrupting agent nocodazole. Time-lapse microscopy has enabled us to analyse the fate of identified mononucleate progeny, and directly assess the extent of dedifferentiation.
A single-cell analysis of myogenic dedifferentiation induced by small molecules.
Specimen part, Cell line, Compound, Time
View Samples4 week old Arabidopsis plants, of ecotype Columbia, SALK_084897 or SAIL_303_D08 were either grown under normal conditions or grown under normal conditions for before having a moderate light and drought treatment applied. Light and drought treatment was applied by withholding water for 5 days prior to transfer to 300 uE m-2 s-1 light conditions. Samples were collected after 3 days of treatment or for the same age plants grown under normal conditions.
The absence of ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE1a in Arabidopsis results in acute sensitivity to combined light and drought stress.
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View SamplesWe recently mapped 605 chromosomal breakpoints in 61 ATL cases by spectral karyotyping and identified chromosome 14q11 as one of the most common chromosomal breakpoint regions. To map the precise location of chromosomal breakpoints at 14q11, we performed single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based comparative genomic hybridization on leukemia cells from acute-type ATL patients. The breakpoints accumulated frequently adjacent to the T cell receptor alpha/delta chain locus (TCR/) with chromosomal deletions at 14q11 and a recurrent 0.9 Mb interstitial deletion was identified at a region including part of the TCR/ locus. Because leukemia-associated genes are frequently located near the breakpoint cluster regions, we then analyzed the gene expression profiles of ATL cells and identified N-myc downstream regulated gene 2 (NDRG2) as one of the genes that are down-regulated in ATLL cells among the 25 genes mapped to the region adjacent to the recurrently deleted regions at 14q11.
Loss of NDRG2 expression activates PI3K-AKT signalling via PTEN phosphorylation in ATLL and other cancers.
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View SamplesCellular antiviral programs can efficiently inhibit viral infection. These programs are often initiated through signaling cascades induced by secreted proteins such as type I interferons, IL-6 or TNF-a. Here, we generated an arrayed library of 756 human secreted proteins to perform a secretome screen focused on the discovery of novel modulators of viral entry and/or replication. The individual secreted proteins were tested for their capacity to inhibit infection by two replication-competent recombinant vesicular stomatitis viruses (VSV) with distinct glycoproteins utilizing different entry pathways. Fibroblast growth factor 16 (FGF16) was identified and confirmed as the most prominent novel inhibitor of both VSVs and therefore of viral replication and not entry. Importantly, an antiviral interferon signature was completely absent in FGF16-treated cells.
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View SamplesRNA sequencing data of the mouse thyroid which has deleted insulin receptor and IGF-1 receptor
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View SamplesThe Swedish mutation (K595N/M596L) of amyloid precursor protein (APP-sw) has been known to increase abnormal cleavage of cellular APP by Beta-secretase (BACE), which causes tau protein hyperphosphorylation and early-onset Alzheimer''s disease (AD). Here, we analyzed the effect of APP-sw in global gene expression using deep transcriptome sequencing technique. We found 283 genes were down-regulated and 348 genes were up-regulated in APP-sw expressing H4-sw cells compared to H4 wild-type cells from a total of approximately 74 million reads of 38 base pairs from each transcriptome. Two independent mechanisms such as kinase and phosphatase signaling cascades leading hyperphosphorylation of tau protein were regulated by the expression of APP-sw. Expressions of catalytic subunit as well as several regulatory subunits of protein phosphatases 2A were decreased. In contrast, expressions of tau-phosphorylating glycogen synthase kinase 3ß (GSK-3ß), cyclin dependent kinase 5 (CDK5), and cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) catalytic subunit were increased. Moreover, the expression of AD-relatedAquaporin 1 and presenilin 2 expression was regulated by APP-sw. Taken together, we propose that the expression of APP-sw modulates global gene expression directed to AD pathogenesis.
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View SamplesRNA Seq A549A cells treated with 100 nM dexamethasone
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