Project description:Although BMP5 belongs to BMPs(TGF-β)/Smad signaling pathway, the downstream network induced by BMP5 is far from clear. Our transcriptome sequencing results discovered a novel pathway BMP5 transduces through, the Jak-STAT signaling.
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This model shows the control mechanism of Jak-Stat pathway, here SOCS1 (Suppressor of cytokine signaling-I) was identified as the negative regulator of Jak and STAT signal transduction pathway. This is the knockout version of Jak-Stat pathway in this model the SOCS1 has been knocked out i.e it formation is not shown. The graphs are almost similar to the graphs as shown in the paper but STAT1n graph has some ambiguities. Thanks to Dr Satoshi Yamada for clarifying some of those ambiguities and providing the values used in simulations.
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The model reproduces the figures 2 (B,D,F,H,J,L,N) corresponding to JAK/STAT activation in SOCS1 knock out cells. The model was successfully tested on MathSBML
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Project description:JAK/STAT pathway plays important roles in controlling Drosophila intestinal homeostasis and regulating the ISC proliferation and differentiation. However,the downstream targets of its transcription factor-STAT92E remain largely unknown.To further identify the regualtory mechanisms of the JAK/STAT pathway in controlling intestinal homeostasis,we performed the ChIP-Seq assay with mouse raised STAT92E antibody using JAK/STAT signaling highly activated adult intestines.Through the ChIP assay, we have identified over 1000 significant peaks (p<0.01) around the putative targets.The well-characterized JAK/STAT downstream targets including Domeless,Socs36E,STAT92E and chinmo were identified in our ChIP assay,indicating that our experiment is workable to identify novel JAK/STAT downstream targets in adult intestines.This work will provide insights into our understanding of regulatory mechanisms of JAK/STAT signaling during Drosophila intestinal development. Identify the ChIP peaks of STAT92E antibody using JAK/STAT signaling highly actived Drosophila adult intestines, compared with input libaray as the control
Project description:Adult stem cells are essential for maintaining tissue homeostasis. We employ Drosophila tracheal progenitors to understand the mechanism controlling the polarity of stem cell migration. Here, we show that polarity of tracheal progenitors depends on the function of fat body. Cytokine, Upd2, produced by fat body, signals to tracheal progenitors and activation JAK/STAT signal transduction. Perturbation of Upd2 production or loss-of-function of JAK/STAT signaling in the trachea cause aberrant bidirectional migration of tracheal progenitors. JAK/STAT signaling promotes the expression of a series of genes involved in planar cell polarity, which generates asymmetric localization of Fat and Pod1. Furthermore, the transport of Upd2 requires Rab5-, Rab7-mediated endocytic sorting and Lbm-dependent vesicle trafficking, where vesicular Upd2 functionally interacts with Rabs, Tetraspanin and Grasp65. These results reveal an inter-organ communication in which cytokines from fat body direct the polarity of ectodermal origin tracheal progenitors and suggest that Upd2-dependent JAK/STAT signaling regulates anterior-posterior polarity of tracheal progenitor movement.
Project description:Maier2022 - Stochastic Dynamics of Type I Interferon Responses
Our study aims to determine whether and how biochemical noise affects the information transduced in the JAK-STAT signaling pathway and investigate the transition between basal and activated state. To this end, we studied the stochastic responses of MxA and IFIT1 expression in Huh7.5 cells stimulated with IFN-$\alpha$. Using fluorescent reporters under the control of the authentic promoter/enhancer region of IFIT1 and MxA we collected data displaying the differences between expressing and non-expressing cells for the marker genes in a time-course experiment. We hypothesize that the JAK-STAT signaling pathway efficiently transmits information under stochastic environments. To test our working hypothesis, we developed a detailed mathematical model using the obtained time-resolved flow cytometry data to describe the elements in the JAK-STAT signaling pathway at single-cell resolution. This model allowed us to systematically test the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic noise in the IFN response.
The developed model consists of 42 species and 62 reactions (reactions m1 to m62). To name the variables in the model we used the following conventions: 1) variables referring to mRNA are denoted by $m$ prefix. 2) Variables in phosphorylated use $p$ as prefix. 3) Gene promoters are represented by the gene's name in lowercase. 4) R1, R2, IR, AR and RC, represent the IFN receptor subunits, inactive, active and complex forms, respectively. 5) The compartment is superscripted to the species if the species exist in multiple compartments. A graphical representation of the interaction between variables in the model is given in Maier et. al 2022 (Fig. 1) and all reactions are listed in the Supplementary Information, Section S2.1.
Note that we publish the SBML model without the observables (e.g. exp_IRF9_n) as the change in the number of particles is defined in relation to the starting value in the COPASI model which is not supported in SBML format. In order to reproduce the parameter estimation without any extra worj, we recommend the direct download of the provided copasi model linked in the article.
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Stochastic Dynamics of Type I Interferon Responses
Benjamin D. Maier(*), Luis U. Aguilera(*), Sven Sahle, Pascal Mutz, Priyata Kalra, Christopher Dächert, Ralf Bartenschlager, Marco Binder, Ursula Kummer
PLOS Computational Biology, 2022
(*) Equally contributing authors
Abstract:
Interferon (IFN) activates the transcription of several hundred of IFN stimulated genes (ISGs) that constitute a highly effective antiviral defense program. Cell-to-cell variability in the induction of ISGs is well documented, but its source and effects are not completely understood. The molecular mechanisms behind this heterogeneity have been related to randomness in molecular events taking place during the JAK-STAT signaling pathway. Here, we study the sources of variability in the induction of the IFN-alpha response by using MxA and IFIT1 activation as read-out. To this end, we integrate time-resolved flow cytometry data and stochastic modeling of the JAK-STAT signaling pathway. The complexity of the IFN response was matched by fitting probability distributions to time-course flow cytometry snapshots. Both, experimental data and simulations confirmed that the MxA and IFIT1 induction circuits generate graded responses rather than all-or-none responses. Subsequently, we quantify the size of the intrinsic variability at different steps in the pathway. We found that stochastic effects are transiently strong during the ligand-receptor activation steps and the formation of the ISGF3 complex, but negligible for the final induction of the studied ISGs. We conclude that the JAK-STAT signaling pathway is a robust biological circuit that efficiently transmits information under stochastic environments.
Project description:Developing targeted therapy for cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL) patients still requires actionable mutated genes and deregulated pathways to be identified. There is increasing evidence that activating mutations in JAK genes and deregulated JAK/STAT signaling are important mechanisms involved in multiple B and T cell malignancies, including CTCL. Therefore, in this study we focused on studying the mutational status of JAK1, JAK2 and JAK3 genes in a series of human CTCL lesions and cell lines using next-generation sequencing (NGS). We found that 7 of 48 (14.7%) of the analyzed cases harbored mutations in the JAK1 and JAK3 genes that mainly affected the pseudokinase domain of the corresponding proteins. On the basis of these results, we used a specific JAK inhibitor (INCB018424) in a series of CTCL cell lines with deregulated JAK/STAT activity. Treatment of CTCL cells with INCB018424 resulted in dose-dependent reduction of activated STAT expression, diminished cell viability, and increased apoptosis. We also studied global changes in gene expression in cells with mutated JAK1 and JAK3 proteins treated with INCB018424 and identified multiple genes that were differentially regulated by JAK/STAT signaling, such as FGF20 (upregulated) and EGR1 (downregulated). Thus, our results show that the detection of deregulated JAK/STAT signaling in CTCL lesions via JAK mutations or other surrogate markers may serve to indicate the clinical use of JAK/STAT inhibitors. 3 replicates of cells treated with DMSO or JAKi during 30 min and 3h
Project description:Cytokines signal through specific cell surface receptor dimeric pairings that have been selected over the course of evolution to activate canonical JAK/STAT signaling pathways and gene expression programs. However, the potential combinatorial diversity of JAK/STAT cytokine receptor pairings is much greater than what is utilized in nature, raising questions about the untapped biology of alternative 'non-natural' pairings. Here we exploited common γ chain (γc) receptor as a shared signaling hub on T cells and enforced the expression of both natural and non-natural heterodimeric JAK/STAT receptor pairings using an orthogonal cytokine receptor platform, followed by a comparative analysis of the resulting T cell phenotypes in vivo. We tested receptors from γc cytokines as well as interferon, IL-10, and other homodimeric receptor families that do not normally pair with γc or are not naturally expressed on T cells. These synthetic receptors induced unique gene expression programs, and led to distinct T cell fates in tumors, including naturally occurring states (type 2 cytotoxic T (Tc2) cell and type 2 helper T (Th2) cell differentiation driven by orthogonal IL-4R) and synthetic states (myeloid-like phagocytic T cells driven by orthogonal GSCFR). T cells armed with orthogonal IL-22R (o22R) and oGCSFR exhibited transcriptional, and chromatin landscapes associated with stemness and resistance to exhaustion, which enhanced anti-tumor properties. Non-native JAK/STAT signals open a path to diversifying T-cell states beyond those induced by the menu of natural cytokines.
Project description:Emerging evidence indicates that various cancers, including prostate, breast, melanoma and lung cancers, could gain resistance to targeted therapies by acquiring lineage plasticity. Although various genomic and transcriptomic aberrations correlate with lineage plasticity-driven resistance, the molecular mechanisms and kinetics of acquiring lineage plasticity are not fully elucidated. Through integrated transcriptomic and single cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) analysis of more than 80,000 cells, we show that the ectopic activation of Janus kinase (JAK)-signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) pathway drives lineage plasticity and Androgen Receptor (AR) targeted therapy resistance in PCa with TP53/RB1-deficiency. Ectopic activation of JAK-STAT signaling enables Heterogeneous and AR-independent subclones to emerge upon the selective pressure of AR targeted therapy, including subclones expressing multi-lineage, progenitor-like and epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT)-like lineage survival transcriptional programs. Both genetic and pharmaceutical inactivation of key components of the JAK-STAT signaling pathway significantly re-sensitizes resistant PCa tumors to AR targeted therapy. In summary, these results show for the first time that JAK-STAT signaling pathway is a key effector in driving lineage plasticity and represents a potential therapeutic target for overcoming AR targeted therapy resistance.
Project description:JAK/STAT pathway plays important roles in controlling Drosophila intestinal homeostasis and regulating the ISC proliferation and differentiation. However,the downstream targets of its transcription factor-STAT92E remain largely unknown.To further identify the regualtory mechanisms of the JAK/STAT pathway in controlling intestinal homeostasis,we performed the ChIP-Seq assay with mouse raised STAT92E antibody using JAK/STAT signaling highly activated adult intestines.Through the ChIP assay, we have identified over 1000 significant peaks (p<0.01) around the putative targets.The well-characterized JAK/STAT downstream targets including Domeless,Socs36E,STAT92E and chinmo were identified in our ChIP assay,indicating that our experiment is workable to identify novel JAK/STAT downstream targets in adult intestines.This work will provide insights into our understanding of regulatory mechanisms of JAK/STAT signaling during Drosophila intestinal development.
Project description:The study aims at understanding the global nature of the immune responses within the the lung tissue 28 days post infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Comparing the whole transcriptome of infected lungs to that of an uninfected lungs revealed a plethora of immune mechanisms driven by various cytokines. IFN-γ, IL-6, IL-2, TNFα were the major cytokines observed. We observed significant differential expression of gene involved in the JAK-STAT and the MAPK signalling pathways. We observed an interplay of the immune regulatory genes and various non-immune genes controlling the metabolism, apoptosis, cell growth, post translational modifications etc.