Project description:Immune interferon beta and gamma are essential for mammalian host defence against intracellular pathogens. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression upon interferon-gamma or interferon-beta treatment and identified distinct classes of up-regulated genes.
Project description:To investigate the effect of Interferon-gamma signaling on gene expression in melanoma cells We performed gene expression analysis of mouse melanoma cell lines that have been treated with Interferon-gamma cytokine as compared with mock-treated controls.
Project description:Human fibroblasts were infected or not with Toxoplasma gondii (Pru strain) for 18 h at a nominal MOI of 3. Cells were subsequently treated with human recombinant interferon gamma (0.5 ng/ml = 30 pM) for 0, 2, 4 and 8 h before RNA was harvested for cDNA microarray experiments. Uninfected samples were named N0, N2, N4 and N8 (i.e., N2 indicated uninfected cells treated with interferon gamma for 2 h); infected samples were named P0, P2, P4 and P8. Duplicate cultures were analyzed for each condition (indicated as "a" and "b"). The reference channel (ch1, green) contained Universal Human Reference RNA. Using a genome-wide microarray analysis we show here a complete dysregulation of interferon-gamma-inducible gene expression in human fibroblasts infected with Toxoplasma. Notably, 46 of the 127 interferon-gamma-responsive genes were induced and 19 were suppressed in infected cells before they were exposed to interferon gamma, indicating that other stimuli produced during infection may also regulate these genes. Following interferon-gamma treatment, none of the 127 interferon-gamma-responsive genes could be significantly induced in infected cells.
Project description:We report the differences of gene expression pattern of 4 different human cancer cell lines responding to Interferon-gamma. 4 different human cancer cell lines were treated with 20ng/ml of Interferon-gamma for 72 hours and gathered for RNA seq. We found that in response to Interferon-gamma, cancer cell lines expressed increased amounts of RNA related to immune responses.
