Project description:We describe new optimised skin tissue dissociation protocol to digest ex vivo cultured and fresh human skin samples. Using scRNAseq analysis we created skin atlas composition of fresh and cultured skin samples and integrate it with other publicly available skin tissue scRNAdata to compare the quality and outputs of our new skin digestion protocol.
Project description:Comparison of rat freshly-isolated alveolar epithelial type I cells, freshly-isolated type II cells, and type II cells cultured for 7 days
Project description:Non-mammalian vertebrates have a robust ability to regenerate injured retinal neurons from Müller glia cells (MG) that activate the proneural factor Achaete-scute homolog 1 (Ascl1/Mash1) and de-differentiate into progenitors cells. In contrast, mammalian MG have a limited regenerative response and fail to upregulate Ascl1 after injury. To test whether Ascl1 could restore a neurogenic potential to mammalian MG, we over-expressed Ascl1 in dissociated mouse MG cultures and intact retinal explants. Ascl1-infected MG upregulate retinal progenitor-specific genes, while downregulating glial genes. Furthermore, Ascl1 remodeled the chromatin at its targets from a repressive to active configuration. MG-derived progenitors differentiated into cells that exhibited neuronal morphologies, expressed retinal subtype-specific neuronal markers, and displayed neuron-like physiological responses. These results indicate that a single transcription factor, Ascl1, can produce a neurogenic state in mature Muller glia. Expresssion profiling was used to determine the genes that were changed after Ascl1 infection of P12 cultured Müller glia compared with those present in P0 progenitors and P7-P21 Müller glia Retinas were dissociated and FAC-sorted from Hes5-GFP mice at P0, P7, P10, P14 or P21 and submitted for profiling. WT Retinas were dissociated at P12, grown for 1 week in culture, and infected with lentiviruses expressing Ascl1 or GFP for four days. Total RNA was extracted and submitted for profiling.
Project description:Purpose: Determine new therapeutic targets for a refractory drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome/DRESS using single cell transcriptomic analysis. Methods: Skin cells were dissociated from skin biopsies of a patient with DRESS and 5 healthy volunteers using enzymatic digestion, then viable skin cells were sorted using flow cytometry. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated from peripheral blood using Ficoll-paque density separation. PBMCs were cultured with or without medications for 4 days. In detail, 200,000 PBMCs were cultivated in 200ul of RPMI-1640 supplemented with 10% human AB serum with (PBMC_T4_BACT) or without (PBMC_T4_CTRL) 48 ug/mL sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (SMX-TMP). For the in vitro therapeutic experiments, PBMCs were cultured in the presence of SMX-TMP with (DRESS_Day4_TOFA) or without (DRESS_Day4_BACT) tofacitinib. The patient was treated with 10mg/d of tofacitinib, a JAK3 inhibitor. The freshly isolated PBMCs were collected again two weeks after initiation of intervention (PBMC_POST2W). Single cells from the skin, freshly isolated PBMCs, and culture PBMCs were captured using droplet based single-cell approach (10x Genomics) and library were prepared. Results: The lymphocytes in skin and PBMCs exhibited upregulation of skin-homing chemokine receptors, CCR4 and CCR10, and JAK3 and STAT1. Treatment with tofacitinib dramatically extinguished skin inflammation in a chronic refractory case of DiHS/DRESS. Conclusions: A successful intervention with tofacitinib in a refractory case of DiHS/DRESS was guided by the use of scRNAseq, which demonstrated aberrant activity in the JAK-STAT pathway.
Project description:RNA-seq analysis was performed to compare differentially expressed genes in freshly isolated and ex-vivo cultured human cord blood CD34+ cells. Mitochondrion related genes are upregulated in CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells upon ex vivo culture. In vivo transplantation experiments demonstrate that stemness of CD34+ cells is significantly decreased due to oxidative stress induced by ex vivo culture.
Project description:To comprehensively capture changes in retinal transcriptome for the LCA7 organoids compared to control, we performed single cell RNA-sequencing (scRNAseq) using the 10X Genomics platform. Retinal organoids at D150 of differentiation were dissociated for scRNAseq analysis. scRNAseq data revealed significant dysregulation of specific photoreceptor genes between control and LCA7 organoids, as well as mutation-specific differences in various genes, including CRX, RCVRN, ARR3, and AIPL1.
Project description:Non-mammalian vertebrates have a robust ability to regenerate injured retinal neurons from Müller glia cells (MG) that activate the proneural factor Achaete-scute homolog 1 (Ascl1/Mash1) and de-differentiate into progenitors cells. In contrast, mammalian MG have a limited regenerative response and fail to upregulate Ascl1 after injury. To test whether Ascl1 could restore a neurogenic potential to mammalian MG, we over-expressed Ascl1 in dissociated mouse MG cultures and intact retinal explants. Ascl1-infected MG upregulate retinal progenitor-specific genes, while downregulating glial genes. Furthermore, Ascl1 remodeled the chromatin at its targets from a repressive to active configuration. MG-derived progenitors differentiated into cells that exhibited neuronal morphologies, expressed retinal subtype-specific neuronal markers, and displayed neuron-like physiological responses. These results indicate that a single transcription factor, Ascl1, can produce a neurogenic state in mature Muller glia. Expresssion profiling was used to determine the genes that were changed after Ascl1 infection of P12 cultured Müller glia compared with those present in P0 progenitors and P7-P21 Müller glia
Project description:In order to assess whether culturing adipose-derived adult stem cells (ADASCs) affect their gene expression (see Sample Growth Condition Protocol), we wanted to identify possible genes that were differentially expressed between cultured polyclonal CD31- ADASCs and freshly isolated (uncultured) polyclonal CD31- ADASCs. To that end, RNA was isolated from cultured and uncultured ADASCs from three different donors and analyzed using the Affymetrix Microarray HG-U133A. Then, using the Affymetrix program MAS 5.0 we performed three comparisons and could identify differentially expressed transcripts common between the three donors, using the Affymetrix program DMT 3.0.
Project description:ILC3s from the spleen (SP) and small intestine (SI) have been shown to be phenotypically and functional different. Intestinal factors are likely to regulate transcriptional profiles and thereby function of ILC3s. The goal of this study is to analyze if SI ILC3s acquire a SP-similar transcriptional profile after in vitro culture. Therefore transcriptional profiles of cultured SI ILC3s were compared to freshly isolated ILC3s of the murine SP and the SI by RNA seq technology. Cell suspension were generated from both organs and ILC3s (CD117+, Thy1.2+, KLRG1-, lin- (CD3, CD8, CD11b, CD11c, CD19, B220, Gr-1, TCRβ, TCRγδ, TER-119, NK1.1)) were sort purified. SI ILC3 were cultured for 7 days in vitro with IL-2, IL-7 and SCF. RNA was isolated and RNA sequencing was done using Ilumina Hiseq 2500 system and NuGEN Ovation RNA Seq System V2, with biological replicates. We show that intestinal ILC3 acquire a splenic-similar transcriptional profile after in vitro culture.