Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE11944: Mucosal Glycan Foraging Enhances the Fitness and Transmission of a Saccharolytic Human Distal Gut Symbiont GSE11953: Mucosal Glycan Foraging Enhances the Fitness and Transmission of a Saccharolytic Human Distal Gut Symbiont: ECF mutant GSE11962: Growth of B. thetaiotaomicron on purified host mucosal glycans and glycan fragments Refer to individual Series
Project description:Human antibody responses to AM/LAM are heterogenous and knowledge of reactivity to specific glycan epitopes at the monoclonal level is limited. Using novel glycan arrays, we characterized very high affinity monoclonal antibodies to AM/LAM, determined these mAbs are non-competing, and recognized distinct glycan epitopes. distinct from other anti-AM/LAM mAbs reported.
Project description:Analysis of expression of genes involved in glycan and glycan-binding molecule synthesis in dendritic cells. Gene expression patterns for unstimulated dendritic cells, macrophages, and monocytes were compared. Also, gene expression patterns for dendritic cells and macrophages stimulated with LPS for 4 and 18 hours were compared to unstimulated cells. Three replicate samples of RNA were taken from human cells, one sample per donor. Samples were prepared and hybridized to the GLYCOv3 array.
Project description:Increasing evidence suggests that antibodies (Abs) can have protective roles in M. tuberculosis (Mtb) infection but knowledge of the most relevant protective antigens and epitopes in humans is limited. Using novel glycan arrays, we establish that human serum IgG induced against the M. tuberculosis (Mtb) capsular polysacharide arabinomannan (AM) in natural Mtb infection is highly heterogeneous in its binding specificity and differs in both its reactivity to oligosaccharide (OS) motifs within AM and its functions between BCG vaccination and/or controlled (latent) versus uncontrolled (TB) M. tuberculosis infection. We show that anti-AM IgG from asymptomatic but not diseased individuals is protective, and provide data suggesting a role of IgG2 and specific AM oligosaccharides. Filling a gap in the current knowledge of protective antigens in humans, our human data support the key role of the M. tuberculosis surface glycan AM and suggest the importance of targeting specific glycan epitopes within AM in antibody-mediated immunity against TB.
Project description:Purpose: This study uses a high-throughput glycan microarray to develop a novel method to assign ABO blood type. The method will then be applied to samples from patients treated with PROSTVAC to determine if blood type correlates with survival Results: Many blood group A and B antigens correlate with blood type. Blood typing is best achieved using a combination of 10 signals Conclusion: ABO blood type can be determined with greater than 97% accuracy using only 4 microliters of serum.
Project description:Gene expression changes in normal pancreatic ductal organoids were isolated from mice with inducible expression of the glycan, CA19-9.
Project description:To determine the effect of insulin deficiency on global changes to expression of glycan related genes in the liver. See: Joseph R. Bishop,‡ Erin Foley,‡§ Roger Lawrence,‡ and Jeffrey D. Esko‡1 (2010) Insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus in Mice Does Not Alter Liver Heparan Sulfate* J Biol Chem. 2010 May 7; 285(19): 14658–14662. We are studying the glycan changes caused by insulin-deficient diabetes in the mouse liver. We would like to determine whether insulin-deficiency causes global changes to expression of glycan-related genes in the liver. Male C57BL/6 mice (4 weeks of age) were purchased from Jackson Laboratory and maintained in a temperature-controlled (25 °C) facility with a 12-h light/dark cycle. The derivation and genotyping of Ndst1f/fAlbCre+ mice have been described previously (16). Mice were fed laboratory rodent chow (Harlan-Teklad) ad libitum except when fasting blood specimens were obtained. Mice were made diabetic by administering 50 mg/kg body weight of streptozotocin (STZ; Sigma) intraperitoneally for 5 consecutive days. Because of variations in plasma triglycerides in females, only male mice were used in this study. Our preliminary results suggest glycosaminoglycan enzymes may be down-regulated, which may affect the turnover of lipids in the plasma. Liver RNA samples from 3 diabetic mice will be compared to 3 wildtype samples for properly controlled analysis.
Project description:Purpose: There is evidence that therapeutic cancer vaccines can lengthen survival for some cancer patients, but responses vary widely from one person to another. Methods to predict clinical outcomes will advance the field and provide new insights into critical determinants of in vivo efficacy. This study uses a high-throughput glycan microarray to assess correlations between a subject's overall survival after receiving PROSTVAC-VF and his anti-glycan humoral responses occuring in the first months after treatment with PROSTVAC-VF. Results: Humoral responses to the terminal Forssman disaccharide (Fsdi) were found to have a statistically significant correlation with survival. Long-term survival was approximately doubled in subjects with four-fold or larger anti-Fsdi responses relative to subjects with little or no anti-Fsdi response. This survival correlation was specific to vaccine treatment, as no correlation was observed in control patients immunized with wild-type poxviruses lacking the key tumor antigen, prostate specific antigen (PSA). Moreover, anti-Fsdi humoral responses were not correlated with general measures of disease severity, such as PSA levels, Gleason score, or Halabi predicted survival. Conclusion: In addition to reporting a new biomarker for monitoring benefical responses to PROSTVAC-VF, this study highlights the potential of glycan microarray technology for personalized medicine. The overall study was a retrospective analysis of 141 subjects from phase II trials of PROSTVAC-VF, a poxvirus based cancer vaccine currently in phase III clinical trials for advanced prostate cancer. The subjects were divided into a training set (n=28) and a validation set (n=113). A glycan microarray was used to profile pre-vaccination and post-vaccination anti-glycan antibody populations in sera as potential biomarkers for PROSTVAC-VF. For both the training set and validation set, the anti-glycan profiles were measured using four variations of serum dilution and isotype specific secondary antibody (IgM at 1:50, IgG at 1:50, total Ig at 1:50, and total Ig at 1:200). IgM levels for the validation set measured at serum dilution of 1:50 are detailed here. The screen for response biomarkers identified anti-glycan humoral responses that consistently stratified subjects into groups with different Kaplan Meier survival estimates. Raw data on SuperSeries GSE50410 record.
Project description:People living with HIV (PLWH) experience increased vulnerability to premature aging and inflammation-associated comorbidities, even when HIV replication is suppressed by antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, the factors associated with this vulnerability remain uncertain. In the general population, alterations in the N-glycans on IgGs trigger inflammation and precede the onset of aging-associated diseases. Here, we investigate the IgG N-glycans in cross-sectional and longitudinal samples from 1,214 women and men, living with and without HIV. PLWH exhibit an accelerated accumulation of pro-aging-associated glycan alterations and heightened expression of senescence-associated glycan-degrading enzymes compared to controls. These alterations correlate with elevated markers of inflammation and the severity of comorbidities, potentially preceding the development of such comorbidities. Mechanistically, HIV-specific antibodies glycoengineered with these alterations exhibit a reduced ability to elicit anti-HIV Fc-mediated immune activities. These findings hold potential for the development of biomarkers and tools to identify and prevent premature aging and comorbidities in PLWH.