Gene expression analysis of effects of Met on BMDMs co-cultured with COM-TECs.
Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT: Microarray analysis was used to assess the expression levels of mRNAs in bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) pretreated with metformin (Met) or PBS and co-cultured with renal tubular epithelial cells (TECs) or COM-TECs (NC vs. COM, COM vs. COM + Met).BMDMs and TECs were isolated from wild-type (WT) C57BL/6J mice. To developed a BMDM-COM-stimulated TECs co-culture system, BMDMs were plated in the upper chamber of 6-well Transwell plates with a pore size of 0.4 μm (Corning, USA), while TECs were plated in the lower chamber. In the COM and COM + Met groups, TECs were treated with COM (100 μg/mL) for 24 h and BMDMs were treated with Met (5.0mM) for 24 h.
Project description:To assess the effect of Furin ablation on TEC development and heterogeneity, we detected the transcriptional profiles of 2-week-old WT and Furin KO TECs using single-cell RNA-seq. Employing an unsupervised graph-based clustering strategy, 20 clusters of TECs and 5 clusters of non-TEC contaminants were identified. After removing contaminants, 4301 WT TECs and 4086 Furin KO TECs were obtained. UMAP visualization revealed that the proportion of mTECs decreased significantly and the proportion of cTECs increased significantly in TEC-specific Furin knockout mice in comparison with WT mice. Further analysis showed that Furin ablation did not affect the proportion of mTEC I, II and III subsets, but reduced the proportion of mTEC IV subsets markedly.
Project description:Influence of irradiation on heterogeneity of thymic epithelial cells remains elusive. We performeds single cell RNA-seq of TECs from mice 15 days after irradiation.
Project description:To assess the impact of protrusion induction on the proteome of mesenchymal-like migratory cells, MDA-MB231 breast cancer cells were seeded on top of collagen-I coated 3 micron transwell filters (corning). No media was added to the bottom chamber and cells were allowed to adhere to filter overnight. The next day, the media on top of cells was refreshed, and the filters were either left with no media in the bottom chamber (closed pores), or with media also added to the bottom chamber (open pores) in order to allow formation of protrusions. Cells were allowed to form protrusions for 2 or 24 hrs, before being lysed and analysed by mass spectrometry, using TMT mediated quantitative proteomics.
Project description:Tumor endothelial cells (TECs) and corresponding normal endothelial cells (NECs) were isolated from 12 different human colocrectal carcinoma (CRC) patients with different prognostic tumor microenvironments (TME: Th1-TME vs Control-TME).
Project description:the molecular mechanisms behind the turnover of medullry thymic epithelial cells remain unclear. We performeds single cell RNA-seq of TECs from mice 15 days after depleting cytokine RANKL and CD40L signaling.
Project description:Methylation analysis of 12 corresponding pairs of tumor endothelial cells (TECs) and normal endothelial cells (NECs) isolated from human colorectal carcinoma (CRC) patients with different prognostic tumor microenvironments (TMEs: Th1-TME vs Control-TME): High and low GBP-1 expression in the tumors detected by IHC was used to categorize the patient-derived cells into Th1-TME and Control-TME (compare Naschberger et al, J Clin Invest 2016 and Naschberger et al, Int J Cancer 2008). Isolation of the samples was done according to Naschberger et al, JoVE 2018. The analysis is paralleled by omics-analysis of the same cell cultures at the transcriptome (E-MTAB-10465) and genome level (E-MEXP-3993).
Project description:To assess if LARP6 is required for upregulation of ribosomal proteins upon protrusion induction, MDA-MB231 breast cancer cells were treated with non-targeting (NT) or LARP6 siRNA for 48 hrs, before being seeded on top of collagen-I coated 3 micron transwell filters (corning). No media was added to the bottom chamber and cells were allowed to adhere to filter overnight. The next day, the media on top of cells was refreshed, and the filters were either left with no media in the bottom chamber (closed pores), or with media also added to the bottom chamber (open pores) in order to allow formation of protrusions. Cells were allowed to form protrusions for 12 hrs before being lysed and analysed by mass spectrometry.