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GSE33649
Homo sapiens
48 Downloadable Samples
Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are steroid hormones widely used as pharmaceutical interventions, which act mainly by regulating gene expression levels. A large fraction of patients (~30%), especially those of African descent, show a weak response to treatment. To interrogate the contribution of variable transcriptional response to inter-ethnic differences, we measured in vitro lymphocyte GC sensitivity (LGS) and transcriptome-wide response to GCs in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from African-American and European-American healthy donors. We found that transcriptional response after 8hrs treatment was significantly correlated with variation in LGS within and between populations. We found that NFKB1, a gene previously found to predict LGS within populations, was more strongly downregulated in European-Americans on average. NFKB1 could not completely explain population differences, however, and we found an additional 177 genes with population differences in the average log2 fold change (FDR<0.05), most of which also showed a weaker transcriptional response in AfricanAmericans. These results suggest that inter-ethnic differences in GC sensitivity reflect variation in transcriptional response at many genes, including regulators with large effects (e.g. NFKB1) and numerous other genes with smaller effects.
Publication Title
Inter-ethnic differences in lymphocyte sensitivity to glucocorticoids reflect variation in transcriptional response.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Treatment
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 72 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
Glucocorticoids (GC) and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2 D3) are steroid hormones with anti-inflammatory properties with enhanced effects when combined. We previously showed that transcriptional response to GCs was correlated with inter-individual and inter-ethnic cellular response. Here, we profiled cellular and transcriptional responses to 1,25(OH)2 D3 from the same donors. We studied cellular response to combined treatment with GCs and 1,25(OH)2 D3 in a subset of individuals least responsive to GCs. We found that combination treatment had significantly greater inhibition of proliferation than with either steroid hormone alone. Overlapping differentially expressed (DE) genes between the two hormones were enriched for adaptive and innate immune processes. Non-overlapping differentially expressed genes with 1,25(OH)2 D3 treatment were enriched for pathways involving the electron transport chain, while with GC treatment, non-overlapping genes were enriched for RNA-related processes. These results suggest that 1,25(OH)2 D3 enhances GC anti-inflammatory properties through a number of shared and non-shared transcriptionally-mediated pathways.
Publication Title
Comparison of cellular and transcriptional responses to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin d3 and glucocorticoids in peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Treatment
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 82 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V3.0 expression beadchip
Description
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Publication Title
Genetic, functional and molecular features of glucocorticoid receptor binding.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment, Time
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 82 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V3.0 expression beadchip
Description
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are key mediators of stress response and are widely used as pharmacological agents to treat immune diseases, such as asthma and inflammatory bowel disease, and certain types of cancer. GCs act mainly by activating the GC receptor (GR), which interacts with other transcription factors to regulate gene expression. Here, we combined different functional genomics approaches to gain molecular insights into the mechanisms of action of GC. By profiling the transcriptional response to GC over time in 4 Yoruba (YRI) and 4 Tuscans (TSI) lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs), we suggest that the transcriptional response to GC is variable not only in time, but also in direction (positive or negative) depending on the presence of specific interacting TFs. Accordingly, when we performed ChIP-seq for GR and NF-kB in two YRI LCLs treated with GC or with vehicle control, we observed that features of GR binding sites differ for up- and down-regulated genes. Finally, we show that eQTLs that affect expression patterns only in the presence of GC are 1.9-fold more likely to occur in GR binding sites, compared to eQTLs that affect expression only in its absence. Our results indicate that genetic variation at GR and interacting transcription factors binding sites influences variability in gene expression, and attest to the power of combining different functional genomic approaches.
Publication Title
Genetic, functional and molecular features of glucocorticoid receptor binding.
Sample Metadata Fields
Cell line, Treatment, Time
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 480 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V3.0 expression beadchip
Description
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are steroid hormones produced by the human body in response to environmental stressors. Despite their key role as physiological regulators and widely administered pharmaceuticals, little is known about the genetic basis of inter-individual and inter-ethnic variation in GC response. As GC action is mediated by the regulation of gene expression, we profiled transcript abundance and protein secretion in EBV-transformed B lymphocytes from a panel of 114 individuals, including those of both African and European ancestry. Combining these molecular traits with genome-wide genetic data, we found that genotype-treatment interactions at polymorphisms near genes affected GC-regulation of expression for 26 genes and of secretion for IL6. A novel statistical approach revealed that these interactions could be distinguished into distinct types, with some showing genotypic effects only in GC-treated samples and others showing genotypic effects only in control-treated samples, with differing phenotypic and molecular interpretations. The insights into the genetic basis of variation in GC response and the statistical tools for identifying gene-treatment interactions that we provide will aid future efforts to identify genetic predictors of response to this and other treatments.
Publication Title
Interactions between glucocorticoid treatment and cis-regulatory polymorphisms contribute to cellular response phenotypes.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Treatment
View Samples- Arabidopsis thaliana
- 20 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Arabidopsis ATH1 Genome Array (ath1121501)
Description
Tissues of Arabidopsis plants overexpressing artificial microRNAs were compared to wild_type and respective target gene mutants (duplicate arrays)
Publication Title
Highly specific gene silencing by artificial microRNAs in Arabidopsis.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 5 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
The pre-synaptic protein -synuclein is a key player in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. Together with accumulation and missfolding of -synuclein protofibrils serve as seed structures for the aggregation of numerous proteins in the cytoplasm of neuronal cells, the so-called Lewy bodies. Furthermore, missense mutations in the SNCA gene and gene multiplications lead to autosomal dominant forms of familiar PD. However, so far the exact biological role of -synuclein in normal brain is elusive. To gain more insights into the biological function of this protein we monitored whole genome expression changes in dopaminergic neuroblastoma cells (SH-SY5Y) caused by a 90% reduction of -synuclein by RNA interference.
Publication Title
Microarray expression analysis of human dopaminergic neuroblastoma cells after RNA interference of SNCA--a key player in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Danio rerio
- 415 Downloadable Samples
Illumina HiSeq 2500
Description
SMART-seq2 was performed on single cells isolated from visually staged zebrafish embryos. Overall design: Samples were all sequenced in one batch. Some were generated with a 5'' UMI-tagged method, and others are full-length SMART-seq2.
Publication Title
Single-cell reconstruction of developmental trajectories during zebrafish embryogenesis.
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Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus, Homo sapiens
- 30 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Publication Title
Characterisation of cisplatin-induced transcriptomics responses in primary mouse hepatocytes, HepG2 cells and mouse embryonic stem cells shows conservation of regulating transcription factor networks.
Sample Metadata Fields
Cell line, Treatment, Time
View Samples- Danio rerio
- 28 Downloadable Samples
- NextSeq 500
Description
Wild-type zebrafish embryos were mechanically dissociated and profiled using Drop-seq Overall design: Drop-seq was performed on 28 groups of 20-40 visually staged, mechanically dissociated embryos. Samples were combined and sequenced in batches DS2-DS5.
Publication Title
Single-cell reconstruction of developmental trajectories during zebrafish embryogenesis.
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Subject
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