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Project description:Mechanical Stiffness Controls Dendritic Cell Metabolism and Function
| PRJNA680482 | ENA
Project description:Address the effect of mechanical stimulation by confinement on the status of activation of dendritic cells and the role of cPLA2 in orchestrating this response. We performed gene expression analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq of 3 independent experiment of DCs from WT and KO of cPLA2.
2024-04-08 | GSE207653 | GEO
Project description:Tissue mechanical homeostasis, the concept that cells sense mechanical properties and alter rates of ECM synthesis, assembly and degradation, is of broad interest in biology and medicine, but there is little direct support or insight into mechanisms. Tissue mechanical properties such as elasticity and stiffness are determined primarily by the extracellular matrix (ECM). We therefore set out to test the mechanical homeostasis hypothesis by developing mutations in the mechanosensitive protein talin1 that alter cells’ sensing of ECM stiffness. We identified the side-to-side interaction between talin1 rod domain helix bundles 1 and 2 (R1 and R2) as a novel mechanosensitive site. Mutations that decrease the affinity of the interaction result in a leftward shift in cellular stiffness sensing curves, enabling cells to spread and exert tension on softer substrates. Opening of the R1-R2 interface promotes binding of the Arp2/3 subunit ArpC5L, which is required for the altered stiffness sensing. Introduction of these talin mutations into mice resulted in softer tissue in the ascending aorta with less fibrillar collagen and rupture under lower pressure ex vivo. Together, these results demonstrate that altering cellular stiffness sensing results in altered ECM deposition, tissue stiffness and strength, thus providing direct support for the mechanical homeostasis hypothesis. These results also identify a novel mechanosensitive interaction in the talin rod domain that contributes to this mechanism.
2024-07-16 | PXD041630 | Pride
Project description:Effect of mechanical stimulation on immune function of dendritic cells (DCs)
| PRJNA856627 | ENA
Project description:The renewing human epidermis constantly senses and adapts to a wide range of mechanical cues that are ubiquitous throughout life. The mechanisms of how mechanical forces are responded by interfollicular epidermal stem cells (IFESCs) and are transmitted directly into nucleus to modify gene expression remain incompletely defined. In vitro, human IFESCs were cultured on the collagen I coated silicon rubber membrane and then subjected to the mechanical stretched. Cyclic mechanical tension at 0.5 Hz sinusoidal curve at 10% elongation was applied using an FX-5000T™ Flexercell® Tension Plus™ unit (Flexcell International Corporation). In mechanical unloading groups, cells were cultured on the same plates in the same incubator with the mechanical stretched groups but not subjected to stretch. Combining genome-wide microarray and functional analyses, we made transcriptome analysis of samples from the mechanical unstretched or stretched isolated human IFESCs.
2018-07-26 | GSE71391 | GEO
Project description:The mechanical microenvironment of primary breast tumors plays a substantial role in promoting tumor progression. While the transitory response of cancer cells to pathological stiffness in their native microenvironment has been well described, it is unclear whether mechanical stimuli in the primary tumor influence distant, late-stage metastatic phenotypes in absentia. Here, we show that primary tumor stiffness promotes stable yet non-genetically heritable phenotypes in breast cancer cells. This “mechanical memory” instructs cancer cells to adopt and maintain increased cytoskeletal dynamics, traction force, and 3D invasion in vitro, in addition to promoting osteolytic bone metastasis in vivo. We established a “mechanical conditioning score” comprised of mechanically-regulated genes as a proxy measurement of tumor stiffness response, and we show that it is associated with bone metastasis in patients. Using a discovery approach, we mechanistically traced mechanical memory in part to ERK-mediated mechanotransductive activation of RUNX2, an osteogenic gene bookmarker and bone metastasis driver. This combination of traits allows for the stable transactivation of osteolytic target genes which persists after cancer cells disseminate from their activating microenvironment. Using genetic, epigenetic, and functional approaches, RUNX2-mediated mechanical memory can be stimulated, repressed, selected, or extended. In concert with previous studies detailing how biochemical properties of the primary tumor stroma influence distinct metastatic phenotypes, the impact of local biomechanical properties we present here support a generalized model of cancer progression in which the integrated properties of the primary tumor microenvironment govern cell behavior in the metastatic microenvironment.
2021-07-01 | GSE127887 | GEO
Project description:It has been a long-standing challenge to maintain the functions of hepatocytes in vitro. In the present study, we found that mechanical tension-induced yes-associated protein (Yap) activation triggered hepatocyte dedifferentiation. Alleviation of mechanical tension by confinement of cell spreading was sufficient to inhibit hepatocyte dedifferentiation. Based on this finding, we identified a small molecular cocktail LBDXL through reiterative chemical screening that could maintain hepatocyte functions over the long term and in vivo repopulation capacity by targeting actin polymerization and actomyosin contraction.
2019-10-30 | GSE138158 | GEO
Project description:Purpose: Intimal hyperplasia is the leading cause of graft failure in aortocoronary bypass grafts performed using human saphenous vein (SV). The long-term consequences of the altered pulsatile stress on the cells that populate the vein wall remain elusive, in particular onto saphenous vein progenitors (SVPs), adult cell phenotype of the human adventitia that upholds differentiation capacity. In the present study, we performed global transcriptomic profiling of SVPs that underwent in vitro uniaxial cyclic strain, a type of mechanical stimulation that we recently found to be involved in the pathology of the SV. Methods: To investigate the effect of mechanical strain on cultured cells, SVPs were subjected to cyclic strain using the FlexCell Tension Plus FX-5000T system. Cells were subjected to uniaxial cyclic deformation protocol (0-10% deformation, 1 Hz frequency), for 24 and 72 hours, while static controls were provided by seeding an equal amount of cells, under the same atmospheric conditions, but without mechanical stimulation. For RNA-Seq analysis, total RNA was extracted from 5 different donors of SVPs using TRIzol, treated with DNase I, and quantified by using NanoDrop-1000 spectrophotometer before integrity assessment with Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer (RNA Integrity Number values >8). Results: Results showed a consistent stretch-dependent gene regulation in cyclically strained SVPs vs. controls, especially at 72hrs. We also observed a robust mechanically related overexpression of Adhesion Molecule with Ig Like Domain 2 (AMIGO2), a cell surface type I transmembrane protein involved in cell adhesion. The overexpression of AMIGO2 in stretched SVPs was associated with the activation of the transforming growth factor β pathway and modulation of cell signalling, cell-cell, and cell-matrix interactions. Conclusions: These results show that mechanical stress promotes SVPs' molecular phenotypic switching and increases their responsiveness to extracellular environment alterations, thus prompting the targeting of new molecular effectors to improve the outcome of bypass graft procedure.
2022-01-10 | GSE192712 | GEO
Project description:The mechanical effect of raised intraocular pressure is a recognised stimulus for optic neuropathy in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). Characteristic extra-cellular matrix (ECM) remodelling accompanies axonal damage in the lamina cribrosa (LC) of the optic nerve head in POAG. Glial cells in the lamina cribrosa may play a role in this process but the precise cellular responses to mechanical forces in this region are unknown. The authors examined global gene expression profiles in lamina cribrosa cells exposed to cyclical mechanical stretch, with an emphasis on ECM genes. Experiment Overall Design: n=3 stretch and static control experiments. Experiment Overall Design: RNA pooled from each experiment and hybridised to individual experiment and control arrays.
2008-06-12 | E-GEOD-3166 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:To understand the mechanism of Pikfyve inhibition in dendritic cells, we cultured conventional dendritic cells isolated from the bone marrow of wild-type mice and performed transcriptome profiling on RNA extracted from cells treated with DMSO or apilimod for 3 or 8 hours on Day 6 in culture. Taken together, these data demonstrate the PIKfyve mediates suppression of DC transcriptional maturation programs through the alternate/non-canonical NF-κB regulatory pathway.
2023-06-26 | GSE235599 | GEO