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: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. Human alveolar epithelial cells stimulated with three different concentractions of CSE (1%, 5% and 10%) and for 1, 3 and 5 weeks were used for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Cigarette smoke is the most relevant risk factor for the development of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Many of its more than 4500 chemicals are highly reactive, thereby altering protein structure and function. Here, we used subcellular fractionation coupled to label-free quantitative MS to globally assess alterations in the proteome of different compartments of lung epithelial cells upon exposure to cigarette smoke extract. Proteomic profiling of the human alveolar derived cell line A549 revealed the most pronounced changes within the cellular secretome with preferential downregulation of proteins involved in wound healing and extracellular matrix organization. In particular, secretion of secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine, a matricellular protein that functions in tissue response to injury, was consistently diminished by cigarette smoke extract in various pulmonary epithelial cell lines and primary cells of human and mouse origin as well as in mouse ex vivo lung tissue cultures. Our study reveals a previously unrecognized acute response of lung epithelial cells to cigarette smoke that includes altered secretion of proteins involved in extracellular matrix organization and wound healing. This may contribute to sustained alterations in tissue remodeling as observed in lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Project description:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is currently the third cause of death worldwide with still increasing mortality and morbidity. Primary etiology of COPD is cigarette smoking. However, in clinic, not all smokers develop COPD. The underlying mechanism remains unclear. A549 cells, which are widely used in vitro as a model of alveolar type II pulmonary epithelium, were subjected to step-wise increasing cigarette smoke extract (CSE) treatments. Those cigarette smoke extract resistant (SER) cells were cultured and used for further experiments. The aim of this study is to investigate the differentially expressed genes in SER group with or without CSE treatment and identify potential genes or pathways which could play a role in COPD pathogenesis.
Project description:The current study was performed for analysis of the biological effects of vapor from novel tobacco vapor product in comparison with 3R4F cigarette smoke. This study was performed using a three-dimensional culture system composed of an air-liquid interface culture of primary normal human bronchial epithelial cells (MucilAir). The MucilAir tissues were subjected to 17 days of exposure to the aqueous extract of novel tobacco product vapor or 3R4F cigarette smoke. The number of differentially expressed genes increased in MucilAir tissues exposed to aqueous extract of each test product dependent on exposure duration. The number of differentially expressed genes was lower in the tissues exposed to aqueous extract of novel tobacco product vapor compared to the tissues exposed to aqueous extract of 3R4F cigarette smoke.
Project description:This study was performed to test the hypothesis that cigarette smoke extract would alter the responses of primary cultures of human bronchial epithelial cells to infection with purified human rhinovirus 16. The data show marked alterations in rhinovirus-induced expression profiles of a number of genes in the presence of cigarette smoke extract (CSE).
Project description:This study was performed to test the hypothesis that cigarette smoke extract would alter the responses of primary cultures of human bronchial epithelial cells to infection with purified human rhinovirus 16. The data show marked alterations in rhinovirus-induced expression profiles of a number of genes in the presence of cigarette smoke extract (CSE). Cultured epithelial cells from each of 4 donors were exposed to medium alone, rhinovirus 16 (RV16) alone, CSE alone, or RV16 in the presence of CSE. After a 24 h incubation gene expression was assessed.
Project description:We performed bulk transcriptomic profiling of induced human pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-derived type 2 alveolar epithelial cells (iAT2). iPSCs stably expressed CRISPRi (dCas9-KRAB) under the control of doxycyline. iAT2s were transduced with a lentivirus expressing gRNA targeting the transcriptional start site of ADGRG6. Cells were treated with or without doxycyline to intiate CRISPRi-knockdown. Cells were plated at an air-liquid interface, then subsequently exposed to air or 5% cigarette smoke using a VitroCell smoke robot. Cells were harvested for bulk RNA sequencing 8 hours post cigarette smoke exposure