Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series:; GSE3993: Pac1+/+ versus Pac1-/- TG-macrophages_LPS 6h; GSE3994: Pac1+/+ versus Pac1-/- BMMCs_IgE-DNP 2 h Experiment Overall Design: Refer to individual Series
Project description:LPS-stimulated macrophages from Pac1+/+ and Pac1-/- mice were compared to assess gene expression changes in the absence of PAC-1 (also known as Dual specificity phosphatase 2). Experiment Overall Design: Age matched Pac1+/+ and Pac1-/- littermates were used to obtain equal numbers of thiolycollate-elicited macrophages. Pure populations of macrophages were stimulated with 100 ng/ml of LPS for 6 hours. 6 hours was chosen to assess mainly inflammatory gene expression.
Project description:LPS-stimulated macrophages from Pac1+/+ and Pac1-/- mice were compared to assess gene expression changes in the absence of PAC-1 (also known as Dual specificity phosphatase 2). Keywords: Comparison of Pac1+/+ with Pac1-/- activated macrophages
Project description:Bone marrow-derived mast cells were differentiated over 4-6 weeks using bone marrow from Pac-1+/+ and Pac1-/- littermate mice. Cell purity was 99% c-kit and Fc epsilon receptor positive as assessed by flow cytometry. Cells were stimulated by Fc epsilon receptor crosslinking using IgE-DNP/HSA for sensitization for 18 hours and DNP-HSA antigen for crosslinking for 2 hours. Gene transcript abundance was determined and scaled to 150 using alogorithms in MicroArray Analysis Suite Software 5.0 (Affymetrix). Keywords: Cpmparison of Pac-1+/+ and Pac-1-/- activated BMMCs
Project description:Bone marrow-derived mast cells were differentiated over 4-6 weeks using bone marrow from Pac-1+/+ and Pac1-/- littermate mice. Cell purity was 99% c-kit and Fc epsilon receptor positive as assessed by flow cytometry. Cells were stimulated by Fc epsilon receptor crosslinking using IgE-DNP/HSA for sensitization for 18 hours and DNP-HSA antigen for crosslinking for 2 hours. Gene transcript abundance was determined and scaled to 150 using alogorithms in MicroArray Analysis Suite Software 5.0 (Affymetrix). Experiment Overall Design: Two genechips on independent mBMMC cultures was performed. The signal data of the .CEL files for the four Affymetrix 430A chips (2 Pac1+/+ and 2 Pac1â/â) were normalised using the RMA method 49. The ebayes function implemented in the version 1.3.12 of the Limma package (2003) of Bioconductor was used to analyse the data and P-values were adjusted for multiple testing. After conversion from logged values to the original intensities, the data was filtered to remove probe sets with mean, non-logged, intensities below 100. Transcripts with p-values less than 0.05 were considered different from Pac1+/+.
Project description:To examine the molecular mechanisms by which PAC1 suppresses T cell response to antigen, we conducted immunoprecipitation followed by mass spectrometry to characterize PAC1-associated proteins in activated T cells
Project description:Investigation of RBPMS role in post-transcriptional control of mRNAs in rat PAC1 pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (SMCs). PolyA mRNA-Seq was carried out after RBPMS knockdown in differentiated PAC1 cells and after inducible RBPMS-A overexpression in dedifferentiated (proliferative) PAC1 cells.
Project description:Exosomes are vesicles of endocytic origin released by many types of cells into the extracellular environment. In an attempt to further examine the exosome-mediated cellular communication, we show that exosomes from a mouse mast cell line (MC/9), exosomes from primary bone marrow derived mast cells, and exosomes from a human mast cell line (HMC-1) contain RNA but not DNA. Microarray assessments of exosome-derived RNA revealed that these vesicles contain mRNA from approximately 1200 genes, many of which are unique and not present in the cytoplasmic RNA pool in the donor cell. Keywords: Exosomal RNA versus their parental cells, MC/9
Project description:We investigated antigen-specific avoidance behavior in mice, and found that is critically dependent on mast cells. We analyzed gene expression comparing naive versus immunized wild type mice, and versus mast cell-deficient mice at different times following antigen exposure