Gene expression data from HEY cells

ABSTRACT: The innate immune system is vital to rapidly responding to pathogens and Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a critical component of this response. Nanovesicular exosomes play a role in immunity, but to date their exact contribution to the dissemination of the TLR response is unknown. To understand the effect of exosomal cargo released from locally stimulated cells on distal cell expression, we collected exosomes from local ovarian adenocarcinoma (HEY) cells that were either unstimulated (control-exosomes), stimulated with pIC (pIC-exosomes), or lipopolysaccharide (LPS-exosomes) for 48 hours. The three groups of exosomes were added to naïve (distal) cells and the gene expression profiles were compared between local TLR stimulation (for 6 hours) and distal stimulation mediated by exosomes at the 48-hour time point The goal of the study was to delineate the differential effector function of TLR-exosomes based on the innate immune activation state (control-, LPS-, pIC-stimulation) of the cell of origin in vitro. We used microarrays to understand the changes in gene expression in 2 samples of local hey cells either unstimulated(control) or stimulated with poly(I:C) or LPS each. We also profiled 2 samples of distal naïve cells that were exposed to either control, LPS or poly(I:C) exosomes from local cells. Here we show that exosomes from TLR stimulated cells (TLR-exosomes) can largely recapitulate TLR activation in distal cells in vitro. We can abrogate the action-at-a-distance signaling of exosomes by UV irradiation, demonstrating that RNA is crucial for their effector function. This work definitively establishes the differential effector function for TLR-exosomes in communicating the activation state of the cell of origin.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE81248 | GEO | 2016/05/17

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA321812

REPOSITORIES: GEO