Project description:To test whether Tregs that were newly recruited to tumor-bearing omentum had similar properties to those of adipose resident Tregs, we surgically joined tumor-bearing mice with congenic naive mice, sorted partner-derived Tregs from the omenta and spleens of tumor-bearing (CD45.1+) parabionts on day 14 and performed RNAseq analysis
Project description:Transcriptomic profile of recovered exogenous Tregs from injured bone, muscle, and skin of mice that were locally treated with Tregs, as well as heart, mediastinal lymph nodes (MLN) and spleen from mice with myocardial infarcts (MI) that were systemically treated with Tregs. Mice with tissue injuries were treated with exogenous Tregs that were sorted from spleens of Foxp3(IRES-mRFP) mice - C57BL6/J mice with bone, muscle and skin injuries were treated via hydrogel-mediated local delivery of Tregs soon after injury, while mice with myocardial infarcts (MI) were treated with systemic (intravenous) delivery of Tregs one day post-MI. Three days after Treg-delivery, the injured bone, muscle, and skin tissues, as well as heart, mediastinal lymph nodes and spleens from mice with MI were harvested, and the exogenous (delivered) Tregs were recovered by FACS sorting. These sorted exogenous Tregs recovered at day 3 post-Treg delivery (Day 3 recovered Tregs) were then used for mini-bulk RNA sequencing along with spleen Tregs before delivery as a control (Day 0 Spleen Tregs).
Project description:TIGIT+ Tregs suppress Th1 and Th17 responses while sparing Th2 responses. Analysis of global gene expression of TIGIT+ vs. TIGIT- Tregs from naive mice reveled that TIGIT+ Tregs display an activated phenotype and are enriched for Treg signature genes including the Treg effector molecule Fgl2 which enables them to selectively spare Th2 responses. TIGIT+ and TIGIT- Tregs were sorted from naïve Foxp3-GFP KI mice (pooled spleen and lymph nodes) TIGIT: T cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains
Project description:We report the gene expreesion changes that occur in regulatory T cells (Tregs) isolated from the spleen and visceral adipose tissue of mice that were either WT orI d2-deficient
Project description:We aimed to identify the changes in gene expression profile of Tregs isolated from the injured bone, muscle, skin and heart, compared to healthy (uninjured) spleen Tregs. The bone injury consisted of calvarial bone defects, the muscle injury involved volumetric muscle loss defect in the quadriceps and the skin injury involved full-thickness punch-biopsy wounds. The heart injury was performed using the left coronary artery ligation to induce myocardial infarction (MI). The Tregs accumulating within the injured tissues were isolated and purified by fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS), at 7 days post-injury (which is the peak of Treg accumulation within these tissues post-injury).
Project description:Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) are critical mediators of peripheral tolerance and immune homeostasis. Tregs that express the IL-33 receptor ST2 are enriched in peripheral nonlymphoid tissues and can exert a variety of tissue-specific functions from metabolic regulation within adipose tissue to skeletal muscle repair. However, the relationship between ST2+ and ST2- Tregs within and across different tissues remains unclear. To compare murine ST2- and ST2+ Tregs within and across tissues, we performed RNA sequencing (RNAseq) of ST2-CD44hi and ST2+CD44hi Tregs from blood, spleen, lungs, visceral adipose tissue (VAT), colon, and skin. RNAseq was also performed on ST2- CD44lo CD62L+ Tregs from the spleen and lungs. We found that the tissue microenvironment was the major factor shaping the transcriptome of Tregs across tissues. Across the tissues studied, Treg transcriptomes displayed an ordered hierarchy that may represent graded levels of activation or differentiation across tissues. We also identified a core signature that distinguished ST2+ Tregs from ST2- Tregs across tissues and a large number of differentially expressed genes between ST2- and ST2+ Tregs within individual tissues that could support the tissue-specific adaptation and function of ST2+ Tregs. In summary, our work highlights the unique, tissue-specific phenotype of ST2+ Tregs and reveals a core ST2+ Treg transcriptional signature shared across tissues.
Project description:We profile the transcriptome of over 4000 murine single cells from the stromal non-endothelial fraction of the omentum. We uncover that the omentum is composed of 2 populations of fibroblasts which differentially express Ccl11 and Ccl19 and three populations of mesothelial cells. One of these mesothelial populations were distinguised by the expression of inflammatory genes and the other one by the expression of anti-viral genes. This study unveil the complexcity of the stromal niche in the omentum and revealed the adaptation of the mesothelium to FALCs function.
Project description:The objective of this study was to determine if a subset of regulatory T cells (Tregs) expressing the transcription factor, Zbtb20, played a unique role in the function of the immune system. Genetic reporter mice were used to isolate Zbtb20-expressing Tregs as well as activated (CD62Llo) and naive (CD62Lhi) Tregs. The gene expression in these cells was determined with RNA-seq.
Project description:Tregs from spleen and thymus of naive Wild-type mice and mice lacking Dendritic Cells (deltaDC) were analyzed. Thymus derived Tregs of both strains show similar expression patterns, peripheral splenic Tregs from deltaDC mice differ from Tregs of WT mice.