Single-cell transcriptional changes of spinal cord immune cells associated with Reg1-MO treatment during EAE neuroinflammation
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ABSTRACT: Regnase-1 plays essential roles in restricting inflammation by acting as a RNase degrading mRNAs involved in immune reactions via the recognition of stem-loop structures in the 3'UTRs. Here we developed a novel therapeutic strategy to suppress inflammatory responses by upregulating Regnase-1 expression, which was enabled by the simultaneous use of two antisense morpholino oligonucleotides (MOs) to alter the stem-loop structures present in the Regnase-1 3'UTR and inhibit its auto-regulation. Intracranial Reg1-MO treatment successfully altenuated the disease severity of EAE, with significant delay in disease onset and lower incidence of paralysis. To clarify the cell types responsible for the suppression of autoimmune responses by Reg1-MOs in the CNS, we performed single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) using the 10X Chromium platform using the spinal cord CD45+ cells derived from control and Reg1-MO groups collected at the peak of disease (D16). We found that Reg1-MO treatment not only stalled the microglial activation, but also increased the suppressive fucntion of regulatory T cells.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE182646 | GEO | 2022/03/28
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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