Project description:Purpose: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized systems-based analysis of cellular pathways. The goals of this study are to compare transcriptome profiling of control of P. aeruginosa PAO1 (RNA-seq) to transcriptome profiling of DAS-treated and DAE-treated P. aeruginosa PAO1 and to evaluate protocols for optimal high-throughput data analysis. Results: The transcriptome sequencing data of control, DAS-treated and DAE-treated groups were compared and analyzed in the form of the following: DAE vs DAS, control vs DAS, and control vs DAE. The details of the differentially expressed genes among the three groups showed that the amount of differential expressed genes between DAE-treated group and DAS-treated group was high (total 2195, up-regulated 1608, down-regulated 587). There were many differentially expressed genes in the PAO1 strain after DAS treatment (total 2771, up-regulated 1905, down-regulated 866), while the amount of differentially expressed genes after DAE treatment was relatively small (total 770, up-regulated 349, down-regulated 421).
Project description:Prolactinomas are the most common functional pituitary adenomas, with dopamine receptor agonists (DAs) as the first-line therapy. However, 10–30% of patients develop DA resistance, and the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely elucidated.Clinical samples were collected to analyze p300 expression. Experiments including immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry, gene editing, Western blot, co-immunoprecipitation, ChIP-qPCR, RNA/CUT&Tag sequencing, flow cytometry, Seahorse assay, and mass spectrometry were performed to explore the synergistic anti-tumor mechanism of upregulating/activating p300 combined with DAs. DAs downregulated p300 by inhibiting the cAMP-PKA-CREB pathway. Upregulating/activating p300 synergized with DAs to promote mitochondrial ROS elevation and cell apoptosis, which depends on p300’s histone acetyltransferase (HAT) domain mediating histone H3 lysine 18 lactylation (H3K18la). p300-mediated H3K18la significantly promoted intracellular ROS accumulation by upregulating Ndufs7 (promoting mitochondrial ROS production) and Washc1 (inhibiting mitophagy). YF-2, a p300 HAT domain activator, exhibited synergistic anti-tumor activity with DAs.This study reveals the p300-H3K18la- mitophagy-ROS regulatory axis, providing a new target and strategy for treating DA-resistant prolactinomas.
Project description:Graphene has been selected as a candidate for synthetic feeder-free culture substrate guiding human/mouse multipotent stem cell lineage specification, and culturing pluripotent stem cells in a number of studies. However, conventional graphene is not an ideal biomaterial to maintain the pluripotency of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) including hESCs/hiPSCs due to its intrinsic hydrophobicity and relatively flat surface topography. Here, we applied morphology-controlled nanocrystalline graphene (NG) coating onto the culture substrates via diffusion-associated synthesis (DAS) process and cultivated hPSCs. It is found that enhanced hydrophilicity and controlled surface roughness of DAS-NG enabled tight focal adhesion of hPSCs onto the DAS-NG coated culture substrate and retained pluripotency for over 2 weeks. It is also found hPSCs grown on DAS-NG shared comparable global gene expression profile with hPSCs grown on mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF). Importantly, the similarities in cell adhesion gene expression between hPSCs grown on DAS-NG and hPSCs on MEF suggest DAS-NG may provide comparable physical cues with MEF for sustaining pluripotency. Taken together, our findings show a new reliable method for culturing hPSCs in feeder-free condition using DAS-graphene. Human iPSCs and human ESC H9 were seeded onto DAS-NG coated glass, ITO or QU, CVD-grown graphene coated glass, uncoated glass and mitomycin-C treated CF1. Human pluripotent stem cells seeded on each culture substrate were cultured in human embryonic stem cell medium composed of knockout DMEM (GIBCO-10829) supplemented with 20% knockout serum replacement (GIBCO-10828), 1mM L-glutamine, 1% penicillin/streptomycin (PAA-P11-010), 1% MEM-non essential amino acid (PAA-M11-003), 0.1mM beta-mercaptoethanol, and 5ng/ml human basic fibroblast growth factor.
Project description:Aristolochic acid nephropathy (AAN) is characterised by rapidly progressive tubulointerstitial nephritis culminating in end stage renal failure and urothelial malignancy. microRNAs (miRs) are small endogenous post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression implicated in numerous physiological and pathological processes. We aimed to characterise the mechanism of AA induced cell cycle arrest and its regulation by miRs. The microarray experiment was performed to identify differentially regulated microRNAs in human proximal tubulal epithelial cells treated with aristolochic acid (AA).
Project description:Prolactinomas are the most common functional pituitary adenomas, with dopamine receptor agonists (DAs) as the first-line therapy. However, 10–30% of patients develop DA resistance, and the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely elucidated.Clinical samples were collected to analyze p300 expression. Experiments including immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry, gene editing, Western blot, co-immunoprecipitation, ChIP-qPCR, RNA/CUT&Tag sequencing, flow cytometry, Seahorse assay, and mass spectrometry were performed to explore the synergistic anti-tumor mechanism of upregulating/activating p300 combined with DAs. DAs downregulated p300 by inhibiting the cAMP-PKA-CREB pathway. Upregulating/activating p300 synergized with DAs to promote mitochondrial ROS elevation and cell apoptosis, which depends on p300’s histone acetyltransferase (HAT) domain mediating histone H3 lysine 18 lactylation (H3K18la). p300-mediated H3K18la significantly promoted intracellular ROS accumulation by upregulating Ndufs7 (promoting mitochondrial ROS production) and Washc1 (inhibiting mitophagy). YF-2, a p300 HAT domain activator, exhibited synergistic anti-tumor activity with DAs.This study reveals the p300-H3K18la- mitophagy-ROS regulatory axis, providing a new target and strategy for treating DA-resistant prolactinomas.
Project description:Arabidopsis thaliana shows hybrid vigour (heterosis) in progeny of crosses between Col and C24 accessions (1). Hybrid vigour was evident as early as the mature seeds and in the seedlings 3 days after sowing (DAS). At 3 DAS genes encoding chloroplast-located proteins were significantly overrepresented (187) among the 724 genes which have greater than mid parent values of expression in the hybrid. Many of these genes are involved in chlorophyll biosynthesis and photosynthesis. The rate of photosynthesis was constant per unit leaf area in parents and hybrids. Larger cell sizes in the hybrids were associated with more chloroplasts per cell, more total chlorophyll and more photosynthesis. The increased transcription of the chloroplast-targeted genes was restricted to the 3 to 7 DAS period. At 10 DAS only 118 genes had expression levels different from the expected mid parent value in the hybrid and only 12 of these genes were differentially expressed at 3 DAS. The early increase in activity of genes involved in photosynthesis and the associated phenomena of increase in cell size and number through development, leading to larger leaf areas of all leaves in the hybrid, suggest a central role for increased photosynthesis in the production of the heterotic biomass. In support of this correlation we found that an inhibitor of photosynthesis eliminated heterosis and higher light intensities enhanced both photosynthesis and heterosis. In hybrids with low level heterosis (Ler x Col) chloroplast-targeted genes were not upregulated and leaf areas were only marginally increased.