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Indian Hedgehog Suppresses a Stromal Cell-Driven Intestinal Immune Response.
Specimen part, Time
View SamplesWe recently reported that carbon monoxide (CO) has bactericidal activity. To understand its mode of action we analysed the gene expression changes occurring when Escherichia coli, grown aerobically and anaerobically, is treated with the carbon monoxide releasing molecule, CORM-2. The E. coli microarray analysis shows that E. coli CORM-2 response is multifaceted with a high number of differentially regulated genes spread through several functional categories, namely genes involved in inorganic ion transport and metabolism, regulators, and genes implicated in posttranslational modification, such as chaperones. CORM-2 has higher impact in E. coli cells grown anaerobically, as judged by the existence of repressed genes belonging to eight functional classes which are absent in aerobically CORM-2 treated cells. In spite of the relatively stable nature of the CO molecule, our results show that CO is able to trigger a significant alteration in the transcriptome of E. coli which necessarily has effects in several key metabolic pathways.
Exploring the antimicrobial action of a carbon monoxide-releasing compound through whole-genome transcription profiling of Escherichia coli.
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View SamplesThyroid hormones, thyroxine and triiodothyronine (T3) are crucial for cerebral cortex development acting through regulation of gene expression. To define the transcriptional program under T3 regulation we have performed RNA-Seq of T3-treated and untreated primary mouse cerebrocortical cells. The expression of 1,145 genes or 7.7% of expressed genes was changed upon T3 addition, of which 371 responded to T3 in the presence of cycloheximide indicating direct transcriptional regulation. The results were compared with available transcriptomic datasets of defined cellular types. In this way we could identify genomic targets of T3 in astrocytes and neurons, and in neuron subtypes, such as layer-specific neurons, and neurons expressing specific markers such as prepronociceptin, cholecystokinin, or cortistatin. T3 up-regulates mostly genes related to cell membrane events, such as G-protein signaling, neurotransmission, and ion transport, and down-regulates genes involved in nuclear events, such as cell division, M phase of cell cycle, and chromosome organization and segregation. Remarkably the transcriptomic changes induced by T3 sustain the transition from embryonic to adult patterns of gene expression. The results allowed us to define in molecular terms the elusive role of thyroid hormones on neocortical development. Overall design: Pregnant dams were euthanized on gestational day 17.5, and the fetuses were extracted and euthanized by decapitation. The cerebral cortices were dissected, disaggregated and finally the cells were suspended in culture medium. After 9 days incubation cells were incubated for 24 hours before adding T3 at a final concentration of 10 nM. The cells were harvested 24 hours later. Cells without T3 were incubated in parallel. Cerebral cortices from individual fetuses originated two replicas for the cell culture, one with T3 and another without T3. Number of samples: 6.
Global Transcriptome Analysis of Primary Cerebrocortical Cells: Identification of Genes Regulated by Triiodothyronine in Specific Cell Types.
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View SamplesWe have investigated the genomic response of Arabidopsis cell suspension culture under high light. Our main goal has been twofold: first, to establish whether chloroplasts in Arabidopsis cell suspension culture are functional and, as such, can act as sensors of adverse external stimuli leading to the activation of genomic defence responses in a manner similar to that described in whole plants exposed to a wide range of environmental stresses and; second, to distinguish which of the ROS that would be probably generated in the chloroplasts is predominant.
Early transcriptional defense responses in Arabidopsis cell suspension culture under high-light conditions.
Disease
View SamplesExpression of DREAM in dorsal root ganglia and spinal cord is related to endogenous control mechanisms of acute and chronic pain. In primary sensory trigeminal neurons high levels of endogenous DREAM protein are preferentially localized in the nucleus, suggesting a major transcriptional role. Here, we show that DREAM participates in the control of trigeminal pain perception through the regulation of prodynorphin and BDNF. Furthermore, genome-wide analysis of trigeminal neurons in daDREAM transgenic mice revealed that cathepsin L (CTSL) and the monoglyceride lipase (MGLL) are new DREAM downstream targets and have a role in the regulation of trigeminal nociception.
Transcriptional repressor DREAM regulates trigeminal noxious perception.
Specimen part
View SamplesAnalysis of gene-expression profiles by microarrays can be very useful to characterize new potential candidate genes, key regulatory networks, and to define phenotypes or molecular signatures to improve the diagnosis or classification of the disease. We have used this approach in the study of one of the major causes of allergic diseases in Mediterranean countries, the olive pollen response, in order to find differential molecular markers among five clinical groups, Non-allergic, Asymptomatic, Allergic but not to olive pollen, Non-treated, olive pollen allergic patients and Olive pollen allergic patients (under specific-immunotherapy). The results of gene-expression by principal components analysis (PCA) clearly showed five clusters of samples that correlated with the five clinical groups. Analysis of differential gene-expression by multiple testing, and functional analysis by KEGG and Gene-Ontology revealed differential genes and pathways among the 5 clinical groups.
Differential gene-expression analysis defines a molecular pattern related to olive pollen allergy.
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View SamplesAnalysis of gene-expression profiles with microarrays can be very useful to dissect specific responses and to characterize with a global view, new elements for improving the diagnosis, treatment and understanding of allergic diseases. We have used this approach for studying the olive pollen response, taking advantage our previous results of T-cell epitope mapping on Ole e 1 molecule (the major allergen from olive pollen) in order to analyze the stimuli influence on the gene-expression of olive pollen allergic patients. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from 6 healthy controls and 6 allergic subjects were stimulated 24 hours with olive pollen stimuli: Ole e 1 molecule and two Ole e 1 peptides previously defined as P2+3 (aa10-31), mainly recognized by non-allergic subjects (possible immunoregulatory epitope) and P10+12+13 (aa90-130), immunodominant T-cell epitope. RNA extracted from basal and stimulated PBMCs was analyzed by HuGeU133 plus 2.0 GeneChip, Affymetrix (38.500genes). After assessment of data quality by standard quality checks and principal components analysis (PCA), differential gene-expression by experimental conditions was performed by multiple testing, using microarrays specific software. Differences in functional analysis were performed by KEGG, for pathways and Gene-Ontology for biological process. The results of gene-expression by PCA showed differential clusters that correlated with the experimental conditions from samples of allergic patients. Analysis of differential gene-expression by multiple testing, and functional analysis by KEGG and Gene-Ontology revealed differential genes and pathways among the 4 experimental conditions.
Therapeutic targets for olive pollen allergy defined by gene markers modulated by Ole e 1-derived peptides.
Specimen part, Disease
View SamplesInsulin like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) has a central role in mammalian hearing and hearing loss. The auditory and vestibular systems form the inner ear and have a common developmental origin. During chicken early development IGF-1 modulates neurogenesis of the cochleovestibular ganglion but no further studies have been conducted to explore the potential role of IGF-1 in the vestibular system.
Comparative gene expression study of the vestibular organ of the Igf1 deficient mouse using whole-transcript arrays.
Specimen part
View Sampleswe performed transcriptomic analysis of the RanBP9del1 mutant ovaries compared to wild type Overall design: explore the consequences of decreased nuclear actin on transcription
Nuclear Actin Is Required for Transcription during Drosophila Oogenesis.
Subject
View SamplesObjective: the objective of this work was to determine different gene expression patterns in small bowel grafts biopsies with “minimal changes” histology that could identify patients with high rejection risk Methods: 24 samples (17 stable and 7 non stable grafts) from 8 adult patients with small bowel transplantation were included for RNA-Sequencing.Total RNA extracted from intestinal biopsies was used with the TruSeq RNA Sample Preparation v2 Kit to construct index-tagged cDNA libraries. Libraries were sequenced on the Genome Analyzer IIx following the standard RNA sequencing protocol with the TruSeq SBS Kit v5. Fastq files containing reads for each library were extracted and demultiplexed using Casava v1.8.2 pipeline. Sequencing adapter contaminations were removed from reads using Cutadapt software v1.6 and the resulting reads were aligned to the reference human genome (Ensembl gene-build GRCh37.75) using TopHat2 v2.0.13. Gene expression values were calculated as counts using HTSeq v0.6.1. Only genes with at least 1 count per million in all samples were considered for statistical analysis. Data were then normalized and differential expression tested using the R Bioconductor package edgeR. We selected all biopsies from 4 of the patients (18 biopsies, 11 stable and 7 non stable) as the discovery set. The other 6 biopsies from 4 patients (all stable) were used as the test set. Differences in the discovery set were tested by generalized linear model analysis,and results were considered significant when the Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted p-value was < 0,05. Results: We obtained 816 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between stable and non stable biopsies in the discovery set: 369 upregulated and 447 downregulated in the non stable group. The classification and prediction with the Nearest Shrunken Centroids method identified 5 genes (ADH1C, CYP4F2, PDZK1, SLC39A4 and OPTN) from the 816 DEGs that could classify both groups with an error rate of 11% and classified correctly all samples from the test set. These results were confirmed by Supoprted Vector Machine (SVM), bagSVM and Random Forest methods, showing high accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. Conclusions: We identified 5 genes from the DEGs as possible biomarkers to classify patients with normal histology that could be however in a higher risk of rejection. In this way, gene expression assays are powerful tools with high sensitivity that allow more accurate diagnosis. Overall design: The study included 24 samples from 8 adult patients with small bowel transplantation. Samples correspond to RNA extracted from intestinal biopsies obtained at different post-transplantation time. All biopsies have an histological diagnosis of "minimal changes" and they were classified in two groups according their immunological stability (stable and non stable). Stable group comprised biopsies of patients that never rejected and biopsies obtained at least 15 days after rejection if no other rejection episode occurred in at least the next six months. Non stable group included biopsies obtained between rejection episodes (separated less than six months) and also those biopsies collected within the 15 days before the first rejection episode.
5-gene differential expression predicts stability of human intestinal allografts.
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