Project description:To provide a snapshot of gene expression for the cancer models distributed by The Jackson Laboratory as assayed using the Affymetrix HU133 platform.
Project description:Atglflox/flox (B6N.129S-Pnpla2tm1Eek/J), S100A8-cre+/- (B6.Cg-Tg(S100A8-cre,-EGFP)1Ilw/J) mice were obtained from The Jackson Laboratory. Atglflox/flox mice were bred to S100A8-cre+/- mice to generate Atglflox/WTS100A8-cre+/- mice, which were backcrossed onto Atglflox/flox mice to generate Atglflox/floxS100A8-cre+/- mice (Atgl neutrophils-specific knock out, Atgl-cKO). Age-matched littermate Atglflox/flox mice were used as wild-type (WT) controls. To compare of the gene expression of the lung-infiltrating neutrophils isolated from Atgl-cKO mice and their WT littermates, AT3-g-csf cells were injected into the fourth mammary fat pads of female WT and Atgl-cKO mice (10-week-old, n = 4/group). The AT3-g-csf cell line is based on a murine breast cancer cell line (AT3) derived from MMTV-PyMT tumors in the C57BL/6 background, and further constructed to overexpress granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) for induction of the host inflammatory condition. At day 10 (pre-metastatic stage), the mice were euthanized and then Ly6G+ neutrophils were isolated from lung by using anti-Ly6G MicroBead Kit (Miltenyi Biotec) following manufacturer’s instructions. The isolated neutrophils were analyzed by flow cytometry and the cells with a > 95% purity were used for the next procedure. Total RNA was isolated from neutrophils using the miRNeasy Mini kit (Qiagen) and the transcriptional profiles of neutrophils were analyzed by RNA sequencing.
Project description:Generation of organ-infiltrating neutrophils occurs in hematopoietic tissues and organs, such as bone marrow and spleen, in response to tumor- and host-derived factors. The de novo expanded neutrophils then egress from hematopoietic sites, circulate through the blood vessels and infiltrate into the organ interstitia and parenchyma. During above trafficking process, neutrophils can undergo phenotypic and functional changes in response to tissue environments. To determine the difference among neutrophils residing in the hematopoietic site—BM, circulating in the blood, and those infiltrating in the metastatic organ, the transcriptional profiles of neutrophils were analyzed by RNA sequencing. 4T1 cells were injected into the fourth mammary fat pads of female syngeneic BALB/cJ mice (8-week-old, n = 3). At day 10 (pre-metastatic stage), the mice were euthanized and then CD45+CD11b+Ly6G<high>Ly6C<med> neutrophils from bone marrow (BM), peripheral blood (PB) and lung were isolated by fluorescence-activated cell sorting. Total RNA was isolated from neutrophils using the miRNeasy Mini kit (Qiagen) and the transcriptional profiles of neutrophils were analyzed by RNA sequencing
Project description:To comprehensively understand how dendritic cells (DCs) are reprogrammed by lung fibroblasts- and their derived COX-2/PGE2, we employed lung fibroblasts isolated from WT or Ptgs2-/- mice, and collect their conditioned medium (CM) to stimulate the ex vivo cultured bone marrow (BM)-derived DCs (BM-DCs), with the PGE2 treatment as a control. After the treatment, BM-DCs were harvested for RNA extraction and the transcriptional profiles were analyzed by RNA sequencing (RNA-seq).
Project description:Determination of differentially expressed genes from peripheral blood of Myelofibrosis patients with JAK2VF and JAK2VF and DNMT3A mutations