Project description:We have identified mouse Ninj1 as a protein responsible for plasma membrane integrity following cell death stimuli. Ninj1 KO BMDMs have a distinct bubble morphology wherein cell cytoplasmic contents fail to be released following cell death. To determine contributing factors to Ninj1 KO morphology, we performed RNAseq in WT and Ninj1 KO murine BMDMs with or without priming.
Project description:Lactic acid (LA) has emerged as an important modulator of immune cell function. We performed ATAC-seq to profile the chromatin landscape of bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) upon lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation with or without LA. Additionally, we also report the genome-wide RNA sequencing analysis in bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) where LA effect in macrophage inflammatory response was examined in BMDMs upon lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation in the presence or absence of LA. To further examine LA effect due to low pH, hydrochloric acid (HCl) was used to adjust similar pH conditions (i.e. pH 6.5) as in media with LA.
Project description:Mtb appears to have developed specialized biomolecular infrastructure to survive and persist within granulomas, where it is subjected to a diverse set of stress conditions. One of these stress conditions is hypoxia. We hypothesized that host cell response is radically altered with hypoxia stressed Mtb and designed in-vitro experiments to study this phenomenon. Hypoxia-stressed as well as aerobically grown Mtb were used to infect rhesus macaque bone marrow derived macrophages (Rh-BMDMs) and the host global transcriptional response compared. Using 4 x44 k Agilent arrays specific for rhesus macaque genome, we tested in biological duplicate the effect of aerogically grown Mtb on rhesus macaque BMDMs and compared this to the corresponding effect of the hypoxia-conditioned Mtb on rhesus macaque BMDMs
Project description:We report the genome-wide RNA sequencing analysis in Il10-/- bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) stimulated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) where IL-10 effect in macrophage inflammatory response was examined in IL-10-deficient BMDMs upon LPS stimulation with addition of exogenous IL-10.
Project description:Plant volatiles can mediate plant-plant communication in the sense that plants attacked by herbivores can signal their unattacked neighbors of danger by emitting HIPVs. We call this the priming effect. Since the plant defense response is a systematic process involving numerous pathways and genes,to characterize the priming process, a time course study using a genome-wide microarray may provide more accurate information about the priming process. Furthermore, to what extent do the priming process and direct defense share similar gene expression profiles or pathways are also not clear. We used microarray to detect the priming effect of plant volatiles to healthy Arabidopsis thaliana, and the effect of direct leafminer feeding to Arabidopsis thalianas. A system using Lima bean plants, from which HIPVs can be effectively induced by leafminer feeding, as emitters and Arabidopsis thaliana as receivers is used to track the priming process between neighbor plants. The Arabisopsis thaliana seedlings were treated by volatiles from leafminer fed lima bean for 24h or 48h for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. The Arabisopsis thaliana seedlings fed by leafminer directly were also collected The for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix micorarrays. We want to explore the response of Arabidopsis thaliana to priming volatiles during a 24h-48h time course. We also want to compare the effect of priming and direct leafminer feeding.
Project description:We characterized the CDK9 and Hes1 occupancy on gene loci in conditions of unstimuated and LPS stimualtion in BMDMs BMDMs were left untreated or stimulated with LPS for 1 hour. CDK9 or Hes1 ChIP was performed and the DNA products were subject to ChIPseq
Project description:We characterized the RNA polymerase II occupancy on gene loci in WT and Hes1 KO BMDMs under untreated and LPS-stimulated conditions WT and Hes1 KO BMDMs were left untreated or stimulated with LPS for 1 hour. Pol II ChIP was performed and the DNA products were subject to ChIPseq
Project description:Plant volatiles can mediate plant-plant communication in the sense that plants attacked by herbivores can signal their unattacked neighbors of danger by emitting HIPVs. We call this the priming effect. Since the plant defense response is a systematic process involving numerous pathways and genes,to characterize the priming process, a time course study using a genome-wide microarray may provide more accurate information about the priming process. Furthermore, to what extent do the priming process and direct defense share similar gene expression profiles or pathways are also not clear. We used microarray to detect the priming effect of plant volatiles to healthy Arabidopsis thaliana, and the effect of direct leafminer feeding to Arabidopsis thalianas.