Project description:Synergism of Iraqi Sand/Cigarette Smoke Co-Exposure in Rats. 24 samples are used. A total of 102 rats will be separated into six exposure groups: each group consisting of 17 male CD Sprague-Dawley rats, 10 to 15 weeks old. The six exposure groups were each exposed via two routes: 1. nose-only inhalation exposures --- air or cigarette smoke; 2. whole-body inhalation exposures -- air or manufactured silica sand or Iraqi sand. The nose only exposures were conducted 3 hours per day, 5 days per week for 6 weeks. During the last two weeks of the nose - only exposures, whole-body exposure were also conducted 18-19 hours per day, 7 days per week.
Project description:normal human bronchial epithelial cultures from two cultures in parallel exposed to cigarette smoke (CS) or air (mock) at timepoints 4 hours and 24 hours. Keywords = cigarette smoke Keywords = microarray Keywords = bronchial cell Keywords = tobacco Keywords: time-course
Project description:Mycbacterium tuberculosis was exposed to cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) in 7H9 dextrose culture media. The transcriptional response to cigarette smoke condensate was compared to that of exposure to the CSC diluent, DMSO..
Project description:We have investigated the effects of cigarette smoke exposure in three different strains of mice. DBA/2 and C57Bl/6J are susceptible to smoke and develop different lung changes in response to chronic exposure, while ICR mice are resistant to smoke and do not develop emphysema. The present study was carried out to determine early changes in the gene expression profile of mice exposed to cigarette smoke with either a susceptible or resistant phenotype.
Project description:Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of non-small cell lung carcinoma. Studies involving acute exposure of smoke on lung cells revealed induction of pre- cancerous state in lung cells. Recently few studies have reported the chronic effect of cigarette smoke in inducing cellular transformation. Yet no systemic study has been performed to understand the molecular alterations in lung cells due to cigarette smoke. Hence it is both important and necessary to study the chronic effect of cigarette smoke in a temporal setting to understand the molecular alterations. In this study, we carried out TMT based proteomic profiling of lung cells which were exposed to cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) for upto 12 months. We identified 2621 proteins in total, of which 145, 114, 87, 169 and 671 proteins were differentially expressed (p<0.05, 1.5 fold) in 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and 12th month respectively. Pathway analysis revealed enrichment of xenobiotic metabolism signaling for the first 8 months of smoke treatment, where as continued exposure of smoke for 12 months revealed mitochondrial reprogramming in cells which includes dysregulation of oxidative phosphorylation machinery leading to enhanced reactive oxygen species and higher expression of enzymes involved in tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA). In addition, chronic exposure of smoke led to overexpression of enzymes involved in glutamine metabolism, fatty acid degradation and lactate synthesis. This could possibly explain the availability of alternative source of carbon in TCA cycle apart from glycolytic pyruvate. Our data indicates that chronic exposure to cigarette smoke induces mitochondrial metabolic transformation in cells to support growth and survival.
Project description:Gene expression patterns were assessed in normal human bronchial epithelial (NHBE) cells exposed to cigarette smoke from a reference cigarette (2R4F, University of Kentucky) and a typical American brand of "light" cigarettes ("Lights") in order to develop a better understanding of the genomic impact of tobacco exposure, which can ultimately define biomarkers that discriminate tobacco-related effects and outcomes in a clinical setting. NHBE cells were treated with whole cigarette smoke for 15 minutes and alterations to the transcriptome assessed at 2, 4, 8 and 24 hours post-exposure using high-density oligonucleotide microarrays. Keywords: time course, cigarette smoke exposure
Project description:hAEC cells were exposed to cigarette smoke extract (CSE) or PBS for 48h, and gene expression was evaluated by RNA-seq.In this study we explored the effect of cigarette smoke on the gene expression profile.
Project description:Human alveolar epithelial cells were exposed to cigarette smoke extract (CSE) for 1, 3 and 5 weeks at 1%, 5% and 10%, and gene expression was evaluated by complete transcriptome microarrays. In this study we explored the effect of cigarette smoke on the gene expression profile.
Project description:Proteasome dysfunction is emerging as a novel pathomechanism for the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a major leading cause of death in the world. Cigarette smoke is one of the main risk factors for COPD and has been shown to impair proteasome function in vitro and in vivo. Importantly, proteasome activity is inhibited in COPD lungs while expression levels of proteasome subunits are not altered. In the present study, we dissected the molecular changes induced by cigarette smoke on proteasome function in lung epithelial cells and mouse lungs. We analyzed the integrity, composition, and the interactome of isolated 26S proteasome complexes from smoke-exposed cells and mouse lungs. Moreover, we applied native MS analysis to investigate whether reactive compounds of cigarette smoke directly modify and inhibit the 20S proteasome complex. Our data reveal that the 20S proteasome is slightly destabilized in the absence of any dominant modification of proteasomal proteins. 26S pulldown and stoichiometry analysis indicated that 26S proteasome complexes become instable in response to cigarette smoke exposure. Of note, the interactome of the 26S was clearly altered in smoke-exposed mouse lungs possibly reflecting an altered cellular composition in the lungs of the smoke-exposed mice. Taken together, our results suggest that cigarette smoke induces minor but detectable changes in the stability and interactome of 20S and 26S proteasome complexes which might contribute in a chronic setting to imbalanced proteostasis as observed in chronic lung diseases associated with cigarette smoking.