The overall study (Quinn et al. Cell Reports, 2018) aimed to understand why CD8 virtual memory T (TVM) cells become markedly less proliferative in response to TCR-driven signals with increasing age, whereas CD8 true naive (TN) cells maintain their proliferative capacity. Age-associated decreases in primary CD8+ T cell responses occur, in part, due to direct effects on naïve CD8++ T cells to reduce intrinsic functionality, but the precise nature of this defect remains undefined. Ageing also causes accumulation of antigen-naïve but semi-differentiated “virtual memory” (TVM) cells but their contribution to age-related functional decline is unclear. Here, we show that TVM cells are poorly proliferative in aged mice and humans, despite being highly proliferative in young individuals, while conventional naïve T cells (TN cells) retain proliferative capacity in both aged mice and humans. Adoptive transfer experiments in mice illustrated that naïve CD8 T cells can acquire a proliferative defect imposed by the aged environment but age-related proliferative dysfunction could not be rescued by a young environment. Molecular analyses demonstrate that aged TVM cells exhibit a profile consistent with senescence, marking the first description of senescence in an antigenically naïve T cell population. Overall design: In the RNA-Seq analysis uploaded here, we have sorted TN cells (CD44lo), TVM cells (CD49dlo CD44hi) and CD8 conventional memory T (TMEM) (CD49dhi CD44hi) cells from naive young mice (3 months old) or aged mice (18 months old). To sort enough cells of each type, we pooled 4 mice, so each replicate represents a pooled sample of 4 mice. Each replicate was split in half, with half the sample frozen in TRIzol immediately for our directly ex vivo or "unstim" sample and the other half of the sample stimulated with plate-bound anti-CD3 (10ug/mL), anti-CD8a (10ug/mL) and antiCD11a (5 ug/mL) and soluble recombinant human IL-2 (10U/mL) for 5 hours, before being frozen in TRIzol as our stimulated or "stim" samples. We therefore collected 2 replicates for each cell subsets (designated "1" and "2") and the "unstim" and "stim" samples are matched. Altogether, we had 24 samples (young (Y) and aged (A); replicate 1 and replicate 2, with cells pooled from 4 mice in each replicate; TN, TVM and TMEM cells; unstim and stim match across each replicate). Due to lane capacity limits for sequencing, we processed these samples for RNA and sequencing in two batches (Batch 1- Y1_Tn_Unstim, Y1_Tvm_Unstim, Y1_Tmem_Unstim, Y1_Tn_Stim, Y1_Tvm_Stim, Y1_Tmem_Stim, A1_Tn_Stim, A1_Tvm_Stim, A1_Tmem_Stim, A2_Tn_Stim, A2_Tvm_Stim, A2_Tmem_Stim. Batch 2- Y2_Tn_Unstim, Y2_Tvm_Unstim, Y2_Tmem_Unstim, Y2_Tn_Stim, Y2_Tvm_Stim, Y2_Tmem_Stim, A1_Tn_Unstim, A1_Tvm_Unstim, A1_Tmem_Unstim, A2_Tn_Unstim, A2_Tvm_Unstim, A2_Tmem_Unstim). Of note, in Batch 2 we ran a duplicate of Y1_Tn_Unstim (Y1_Tn_Unstim_norm) to test for any batch effect, but none was observed. Extracted RNA was treated with recombinant DNAse I (Roche) according to the manufacturer's instructions, purified using the RNeasy MinElute Cleanup columns (Qiagen) and analysed for RNA quality using the RNA 6000 Nano kit (Agilent) on an Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer. Samples were prepared with the Illumina TruSeq RNA v2 sample preparation protocol (cDNA synthesis, adapter ligation, PCR amplification) (Illumina) and run using 100 bp paired end sequencing on an Illumina Hi-Seq. Adapters were trimmed with Trim Galore and trimmed reads were aligned to mm10 genome with TopHat2 version 2.1.1 (Kim et al., 2013) keeping the strand information. Only concordantly aligned read pairs were retained, duplicate fragments were removed using MarkDuplicates from Picard tools and read pairs with mapping quality less than 5 were discarded. To generate a counts matrix, retained read pairs were assigned to genes using featureCounts function (Liao et al., 2014) from Bioconductor Rsubread package taking into account strand information.
Metabolic characteristics of CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell subsets in young and aged individuals are not predictive of functionality.
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View SamplesCF's physiopathology is poorly explained by the mutation alone. The oxydative stress could be a major factor of this illness . Study its impact on transcriptome's CF cell line could be ameliorate our understanding of the evolution of cystic fibrosis.
Oxidative stress modulates the expression of genes involved in cell survival in ΔF508 cystic fibrosis airway epithelial cells.
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View SamplesIn response to viral pathogens, the host upregulates antiviral genes that suppress translation of viral mRNAs. However, induction of such antiviral responses may not be exclusive to viruses as the pathways lie at the intersection of broad inflammatory networks that can also be induced by bacterial pathogens. Using a model of Gram-negative sepsis, we show that propagation of kidney damage initiated by a bacterial origin ultimately involves antiviral responses that result in host translation shutdown. We determined that activation of the Eif2ak2-Eif2a axis is the key mediator of translation initiation block in late phase sepsis. Reversal of this axis mitigated kidney injury. Furthermore, temporal profiling of the kidney translatome revealed that multiple genes involved in formation of the initiation complex were translationally altered during bacterial sepsis. Collectively, our findings implicate that translation shutdown is indifferent to the specific initiating pathogen and is an important determinant of tissue injury in sepsis. Overall design: Bulk 20 um thickness specimens from cross-sectional human kidney biopsies embedded in OCT underwent RNA sequencing. All subjects had ATN, AIN, or a mix of both conditions.
Bacterial sepsis triggers an antiviral response that causes translation shutdown.
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View SamplesFibroblasts from patients with Type I bipolar disorder (BPD) and their unaffected siblings were obtained from an Old Order Amish pedigree with a high incidence of BPD and reprogrammed to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Established iPSCs were subsequently differentiated into neuroprogenitors (NPs) and then to neurons. Transcriptomic microarray analysis was conducted on RNA samples from iPSCs, NPs and neurons matured in culture for either 2 weeks (termed early neurons, E) or 4 weeks (termed late neurons, L). Global RNA profiling indicated that BPD and control iPSCs differentiated into NPs and neurons at a similar rate, enabling studies of differentially expressed genes in neurons from controls and BPD cases. Significant disease-associated differences in gene expression were observed only in L neurons. Specifically, 328 genes were differentially expressed between BPD and control L neurons including GAD1, glutamate decarboxylase 1 (2.5 fold) and SCN4B, the voltage gated type IV sodium channel beta subunit (-14.6 fold). Quantitative RT-PCR confirmed the up-regulation of GAD1 in BPD compared to control L neurons. Gene Ontology, GeneGo and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis of differentially regulated genes in L neurons suggest that alterations in RNA biosynthesis and metabolism, protein trafficking as well as receptor signaling pathways GSK3 signaling may play an important role in the pathophysiology of BPD.
Transcriptomic Analysis of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived from Patients with Bipolar Disorder from an Old Order Amish Pedigree.
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View SamplesBulk RNA Sequencing of Healthy Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cells Overall design: Using standard operating procedures, mononuclear cells from bone marrow aspirates were isolated using Ficoll density gradient separation and cryopreserved in 90% FBS/ 10% DMSO for storage in liquid nitrogen. RNA was harvested from thawed cell vials of BMMCs using AllPrep kits (QIAGEN). Libraries were prepared using TruSeq Stranded Total RNA Sample Preparation Kit (Illumina) with 1ug of RNA input. Sequencing was performed by paired-end 75 nt on Illumina HiSeq 3000.
Human bone marrow assessment by single-cell RNA sequencing, mass cytometry, and flow cytometry.
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View SamplesC.pn potentiated hyperlipidemia-induced inflammasome activity in cultured macrophages and in foam cells in atherosclerotic lesions of Ldlr/ mice. We discovered that C.pn-induced extracellular IL-1 triggers a negative feedback loop to inhibit GPR109a and ABCA1 expression and cholesterol efflux leading to accumulation of intracellular cholesterol and foam cell formation. Gpr109a and Abca1 were both upregulated in plaque lesions in Nlrp3/ mice in both hyperlipidemic and C.pn infection models.
Chlamydia pneumoniae Hijacks a Host Autoregulatory IL-1β Loop to Drive Foam Cell Formation and Accelerate Atherosclerosis.
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View SamplesEstrogens play an important role in breast cancer (BC) development and progression, where the two isoforms of the estrogen receptor (ERa and ERß) are generally co-expressed and mediate the effects of these hormones in cancer cells. ERß has been suggested to exert an antagonist role toward the oncogenic activities of ERa, and for this reason it is considered an oncosuppressor. As clinical evidence regarding a prognostic role for this receptor subtype in hormone-responsive BC is still limited and conflicting, more knowledge is required on the biological functions of ERß in cancer cells. We described previously the ERß and ERa interactomes of BC cells, identifying specific and distinct patterns of protein interactions for the two receptors. In particular, we identified factors involved in mRNA splicing and maturation as important components of both ERa and ERß pathways. Guided by these findings, we investigated here in depth the differences in the early transcriptional events and RNA splicing patterns induced in ERa vs ERa+ERß cells, by expressing ERß in ERa+ human BC MCF-7 cells. High-throughput mRNA sequencing was then performed in both cell lines after stimulation with 17b-estradiol, and the results obtained were compared. Overall design: We investigated here in depth the differences in the early transcriptional events and RNA splicing patterns induced in ERa vs ERa+ERß cells, by expressing ERß in ERa+ human BC MCF-7 cells. High-throughput mRNA sequencing was then performed in both cell lines after stimulation with 17b-estradiol, and the results obtained were compared.
Estrogen receptor beta impacts hormone-induced alternative mRNA splicing in breast cancer cells.
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View SamplesPreconditioning with a small dose of endotoxin confers unparalleled protection against otherwise lethal models of sepsis. The mechanisms of preconditioning have been investigated extensively in isolated immune cells such as macrophages. However, the role of tissue in mediating the protective response to preconditioning remains unknown. Using the kidney as a model organ, we identify the essential role of the renal epithelial cell in mediating the full expression of protective preconditioning. The protective phenotype is characterized by the clustering of macrophages around S1 segments of proximal tubules, which forms a functional unit mediating protection. To investigate the molecular pathways, we laser microdissected S1 segments from the following: 1) Non-preconditioned mice subjected to single-dose 5 mg/kg lipopolysaccharide (0111:B4, LPS) intraperitoneally for 24 hours. 2) Preconditioned mice subjected to 0.25 mg/kg LPS followed 24 hour later by 5 mg/kg LPS (LPS/LPS). 3) Control mice (saline vehicle).
Endotoxin Preconditioning Reprograms S1 Tubules and Macrophages to Protect the Kidney.
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View SamplesDemethyl fructiculin A is a diterpenoid quinone component of the exudates from Salvia corrugata (SCO-1) leafes. SCO-1 was recently reported to induce anoikis in mammalian cell lines via a molecular mechanism involving the presence of the membrane scavenging receptor CD36. However, experiments performed with cells lacking CD36, showed that SCO-1 was able to induce apoptosis also via alternate pathways. To contribute to a better characterization of the molecular mechanisms underlining the cytotoxic activity of SCO-1, we decided to pursue an unbiased pharmacogenomic approach by generating the gene expression profile of GBM TICs subjected to the administration of SCO-1 and comparing it with that of control cells exposed to the solvent. With this strategy we hypothesized to highlight those pathways and biological processes unlashed by SCO-1.
Demethyl fruticulin A (SCO-1) causes apoptosis by inducing reactive oxygen species in mitochondria.
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View SamplesTREM2 BAC transgenic mice with elevated expression of human TREM2 in microglia under its endogenous regulation without overexpression of other TREM-like genes on the BAC were generated and crossed with 5xFAD mice, an mouse model of AD. Transcriptome and gene coexpression analyses were performed to obtain chronical view of TREM gene dosage dependent changes in the context of amyloid pathology. The results confer strong evidence that increased TREM2 alters brain transcriptome network response only in the context of a disease state and with an overall rescuing effect in 5xFAD mice. Overall design: Brain cortical tissues were dissected from WT, BAC-TREM2, 5xFAD and 5xFAD/BAC-TREM2 at 2, 4 and 7 months of age. RNA was extracted using Qiagen RNeasy kit. Libraries prepared using the Illumina TruSeq RNA Library Prep Kit v2 and sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq4000 sequencer using strand-specific, paired-end, 69-mer sequencing protocols to a minimum read depth of 30 million reads per sample. Reads were aligned to mouse genome mm10 using the STAR aligner with default settings. Read counts for individual genes were obtained using HTSeq.
Elevated TREM2 Gene Dosage Reprograms Microglia Responsivity and Ameliorates Pathological Phenotypes in Alzheimer's Disease Models.
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