Project description:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an untreatable fibrotic lung disease characterized by fibroblast proliferation and epithelial mesenchymal transition.miRNA let-7d and mir30b were found to be signifcantly down regulated in IPF. Compared to control we over expressed these miRNAs in Human Fetal Lung Fibroblast cell line
Project description:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an untreatable fibrotic lung disease characterized by fibroblast proliferation and epithelial mesenchymal transition.miRNA let-7d and mir30b were found to be signifcantly down regulated in IPF. Compared to control we over expressed these miRNAs in Human Fetal Lung Fibroblast cell line Fetal lung tissues were collected through the University of Pittsburgh Tissue Bank through approved IRB protocol 0506140. The samples were de-identified using an honest broker system and immediately transferred to the IRB exempt protocol PRO09040459 (PI: D. Carlisle). Total RNA was labeled with Cy3 and hybridized on Agilent 8X44K gene expression array (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA). After 17 hours hybridization, arrays were washed and scanned according to the manufacturer’s protocol.
Project description:To understand the cellular composition and transcriptional phenotype of fibrotic lung tissue we performed single-cell RNA-seq on stromal, immune, epithelial, and endothelial cell populations from human lung explants. Tissue was collected from normal control lungs, patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), and patients with systemic sclerosis associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD). Using the 10X Genomics Chromium platform, we generated transcriptional profiles of approximately 200,500 cells across 4 IPF, 3 SSc-ILD and 3 normal control lungs.
Project description:The lung mesenchyme plays important roles in lung development and is affected in many respiratory diseases, yet relatively little is known about the biology of lung mesenchymal progenitors. We sought to establish an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-based model to study lung mesenchyme development and epithelial-mesenchymal interactions. We generated a mouse iPSC line carrying a lung mesenchyme-specific reporter/tracer to establish a protocol for differentiation into lung mesenchymal progenitors. We derived lung mesenchyme from iPSCs both by directed differentiation via a lateral plate mesodermal progenitor state (induced lung mesenchyme, iLM), and by co-development during lung epithelial differentiation (co-developed lung mesenchyme, cLM). We found that directed differentiation via a lateral plate mesoderm progenitor was not only more efficient, but also yielded engineered lung mesenchymal cells that were more similar to primary lung mesenchyme from day 12.5 mouse embryos, as determined by single cell RNAseq. Our iPSC-derived population will provide an inexhaustible source of cells for studying lung development, modeling diseases, and developing therapeutics.
Project description:Single cell lung suspensions of explanted healthy and IPF donor lung tissue were generated. scRNA-seq was performed on EPCAM negative live cells sorted by FACS. Puried mesenchymal cells were clustered to evaluate the mesenchymal cell sub-clusters
Project description:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a lethal fibrotic lung disease characterized by enhanced fibroblast proliferation, collagen synthesis, extracellular matrix deposition. We obtained 28 IPF patient lung tissue samples from the Lung Tissue Research Consortium (LTRC). Here we determined the miRNA expression profiles in these IPF lung samples.
Project description:Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a common and severe congential malformation characterized by defects in diaphragm, lung, and pulmonary vascular developent. Despite the frequency and severity of CDH, the underlying developmental mechanisms are not understood. We identified SIN3A loss of function sequence variants in two patients with CDH. To understand the genetic and developmental mechanisms of CDH, we generated Sin3a conditional knockout mice that lack Sin3a expression in the lung mesenchyme. SIN3A has been shown to play a critcal role during development, directing cell lineage specification and cell cycling. We found that loss of SIN3A resulted in impaired mesenchymal cell differentiation from bulk lung transcriptomic analysis in Sin3a CKO mice. To investigate the impact of loss of SIN3A in mesenchymal cell differentation, we performed fluorescent activated cell sorting (FACS) to isolate cells that underwent recombination of Sin3a. We then performed single-cell transcriptomic analysis on sorted mesenchymal cells from embryonic day 16 (E16) Sin3a CKO and control lungs. In this dataset are expression data from FACS-isolated recombined lung mesenchymal cells of Sin3a CKO and control mice. Sin3a CKO mice have conditional deletion of Sin3a in the lung mesenchyme directed by Tbx4rtta; tetocre (Tbx4rtta; tetocre; Sin3a flox/flox CKO). Control mice are heterozygous for Sin3a in the lung mesenchyme (Tbx4rtta; tetocre; Sin3a flox/WT). These data were used to identify transcriptional changes due to loss of Sin3a in the lung mesenchyme.
Project description:We performed single-cell RNAseq for adult mouse fibrotic kidney to characheterize how epithelial to mesenchymal transition program is implemented at single tubular cells resolution during the course of renal intrestitial fibrosis
