The proinflammatory cytokine, TNFalpha is critical in maintaining liver homeostasis since it is a major determiner of hepatocyte life and death. Considering this, gene transcription profiling was examined in control and TNFalpha treated HepG2 cells. Results indicated that TNFalpha could significantly alter the expression of a significant number of genes; most of them were functionally distributed among molecular functions like catalytic activity, binding, molecular transducer activity, transporter activity, translation and transcription regulator activities or enzyme regulator activity. Also, within genes up-regulated by TNFalpha, several GO terms related to lipid and fat metabolism were significantly overrepresented indicating global dysregulation of fat metabolism within the hepatocyte and those within the down-regulated dataset included genes involved in immunoglobulin receptor activity and IgE binding thereby indicating a compromise in immune defense mechanism(s) apart from those involved the DNA binding and protein binding categories. The interacting network of lipid metabolism, small molecule biochemistry was derived to be significantly affected that correlated well with the top canonical pathway of biosynthesis of steroids and molecular and cellular function of lipid metabolism. All these indicate TNFalpha to be significantly altering the transcriptome profiling within HepG2 cells with genes involved in lipid and steroid metabolism being the most favoured. This study suitably addresses the genes that determine TNFalpha mediated alterations within the hepatocyte mainly the phenotypes of hepatic steatosis and fatty liver that are associated with several hepatic pathological states.
Gene expression profiling and network analysis reveals lipid and steroid metabolism to be the most favored by TNFalpha in HepG2 cells.
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View SamplesHsp90 is critical for regulation of the phenotype and functional activity of human T lymphocytes and natural killer (NK) cells.
Heat shock protein 90 is critical for regulation of phenotype and functional activity of human T lymphocytes and NK cells.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesRoom temperature whole blood mRNA stabilization procedures, such as the PAX gene system, are critical for the application of transcriptional analysis to population-based clinical studies. Global transcriptome analysis of whole blood RNA using microarrays has proven to be challenging due to the high abundance of globin transcripts that constitute 70% of whole blood mRNA in the blood. This is a particular problem in patients with sickle-cell disease, secondary to the high abundance of globin-expressing nucleated red blood cells and reticulocytes in the circulation . In order to more accurately measure the steady state whole blood transcriptome in sickle-cell patients, we evaluated the efficacy of reducing globin transcripts in PAXgene stabilized RNA samples for genome-wide transcriptome analyses using oligonucleotide arrays. We demonstrate here by both microarrays and Q-PCR that the globin mRNA depletion method resulted in 55-65 fold reduction in globin transcripts in whole blood collected from healthy volunteers and sickle-cell disease patients. This led to an improvement in microarray data quality with increased detection rate of expressed genes and improved overlap with the expression signatures of isolated peripheral blood mononuclear (PBMC) preparations. The differentially modulated genes from the globin depleted samples had a higher correlation coefficient to the 112 genes identified to be significantly altered in our previous study on sickle-cell disease using PBMC preparations. Additionally, the analysis of differences between the whole blood transcriptome and PBMC transcriptome reveals important erythrocyte genes that participate in sickle-cell pathogenesis and compensation. The combination of globin mRNA reduction after whole-blood RNA stabilization represents a robust clinical research methodology for the discovery of biomarkers for hematologic diseases and in multicenter clinical trials investigating a wide range of nonhematologic disorders where fractionation of cell types is impracticable.
Characterization of whole blood gene expression profiles as a sequel to globin mRNA reduction in patients with sickle cell disease.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesReprogram-Seq leverages organ-specific cell atlas data with single-cell perturbation and computational analysis to predict, evaluate, and optimize TF combinations that reprogram a cell type of interest. Overall design: Focusing on the cardiac system, we performed Reprogram-Seq on P0 mouse heart cells to generate a reference transcriptomic map. Based on the reference map, we selected TF candidates and tests 1000s of TF cocktails for direct lineage conversion by scRNA-Seq.
Rational Reprogramming of Cellular States by Combinatorial Perturbation.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesReprogram-Seq leverages organ-specific cell atlas data with single-cell perturbation and computational analysis to predict, evaluate, and optimize TF combinations that reprogram a cell type of interest. Overall design: Focusing on the cardiac system, we performed Reprogram-Seq on P0 mouse heart cells to generate a reference transcriptomic map. Based on the reference map, we selected TF candidates and tests 1000s of TF cocktails for direct lineage conversion by scRNA-Seq.
Rational Reprogramming of Cellular States by Combinatorial Perturbation.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesReprogram-Seq leverages organ-specific cell atlas data with single-cell perturbation and computational analysis to predict, evaluate, and optimize TF combinations that reprogram a cell type of interest. Overall design: Focusing on the cardiac system, we performed Reprogram-Seq on P0 mouse heart cells to generate a reference transcriptomic map. Based on the reference map, we selected TF candidates and tests 1000s of TF cocktails for direct lineage conversion by scRNA-Seq. This series includes uninfected, non-transformed MEFs.
Rational Reprogramming of Cellular States by Combinatorial Perturbation.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesTo study effects of IFNalpha treatment on monocyte-derived macrophages which may influence susceptibility or resistance to HIV.
Interleukin-27 inhibition of HIV-1 involves an intermediate induction of type I interferon.
Specimen part
View SamplesReprogram-Seq leverages organ-specific cell atlas data with single-cell perturbation and computational analysis to predict, evaluate, and optimize TF combinations that reprogram a cell type of interest. Overall design: Focusing on the cardiac system, we performed Reprogram-Seq on P0 mouse heart cells to generate a reference transcriptomic map. Based on the reference map, we selected TF candidates and tests 1000s of TF cocktails for direct lineage conversion by scRNA-Seq.
Rational Reprogramming of Cellular States by Combinatorial Perturbation.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesReprogram-Seq leverages organ-specific cell atlas data with single-cell perturbation and computational analysis to predict, evaluate, and optimize TF combinations that reprogram a cell type of interest. Overall design: Focusing on the cardiac system, we performed Reprogram-Seq on P0 mouse heart cells to generate a reference transcriptomic map. Based on the reference map, we selected TF candidates and tests 1000s of TF cocktails for direct lineage conversion by scRNA-Seq. This series includes reprogrammed MEFs with Myod1, day 7.
Rational Reprogramming of Cellular States by Combinatorial Perturbation.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesReprogram-Seq leverages organ-specific cell atlas data with single-cell perturbation and computational analysis to predict, evaluate, and optimize TF combinations that reprogram a cell type of interest. Overall design: Focusing on the cardiac system, we performed Reprogram-Seq on P0 mouse heart cells to generate a reference transcriptomic map. Based on the reference map, we selected TF candidates and tests 1000s of TF cocktails for direct lineage conversion by scRNA-Seq.
Rational Reprogramming of Cellular States by Combinatorial Perturbation.
Specimen part, Subject
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