Dataset Information

Transcriptome analysis of senescent and reactive human fetal astrocytes

ABSTRACT: Senescence was recently linked to neurodegeneration. Senescent as well as reactive astrocytes were detected in Parkinson’s disease postmortem brains. This study aimed to determine differences and similarities between senescent and reactive astrocytes. Astrocytes were treated with the stressors hydrogen peroxide or rotenone to induce senescence or with the cytokines TNFa+IL1a or with IL1b to induce reactivity in astrocytes. Comparing the transcriptome of senescent and reactive astrocytes revealed a set of genes specific to senescent astrocytes together with genes regulated in a similar way in both astrocyte states.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE126750 | GEO | 2021/06/09

REPOSITORIES: GEO

ACCESS DATA

Dataset's files

Source:

			Action	DRS
		Other

Items per page:

1 - 1 of 1

Similar Datasets

Project description:Astrocytes are instrumental in both maintaining CNS homeostasis and responding to tissue injury. While astrocyte activation may be a beneficial response to acute pathologies, prolonged reactive gliosis is thought to be injurious in neurodegenerative diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS). A major limitation of studying neurodegenerative diseases is lack of human pathological specimens obtained during the acute stages, thereby relegating research to post mortem specimens often obtained years after the initiation of pathology. Rodent reactive astrocytes have been shown to be cytotoxic to neurons and oligodendrocytes but may differ from human cells, especially in diseases with known genetic susceptibility. Herein, we purified human CD49f+ astrocytes from differentiated induced pluripotent stem cells derived from individual patient and control peripheral white blood cell samples. We compared TNF and IL1a stimulated human reactive astrocytes from 7 persons with MS and 6 non-MS controls and show their specific astrocyte transcriptomic profiles are remarkably similar to those described in rodents. The functional effect of astrocyte conditioned media (ACM) was examined in a human oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPC) line differentiation assay using a transgenic secreted reporter of myelin basic protein (MBP) expression. ACM was not cytotoxic to the OPCs but robustly inhibited the MBP reporter. No differences were seen between MS and control stimulated astrocytes at either the transcript level or in functional OPC suppression assays. We next used RNAseq to interrogate differentially expressed genes in the OPC lines that had suppressed differentiation from the human ACM. Remarkably, not only was OPC differentiation and myelin gene expression suppressed, but we observed induction of several immune pathways and Nf-κB signaling in OPCs exposed to the ACM. These data support the notion that reactive astrocytes can inhibit OPC differentiation thereby limiting their remyelination capacity, and that OPCs take on an immune profile in the context of inflammatory cues.

Dataset Information

Transcriptome analysis of senescent and reactive human fetal astrocytes

Dataset's files

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure

Tweets