Project description:In order to distinguish difference between control and IPF, primary cell lines were used to extract mRNA and the RNAseq was conducted. Some genes related to fibrosis were higher in IPF samples.
Project description:Archived lung tissues of patients with IPF were obtained from the tissue bank of the Department of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh. The diagnosis of IPF was confirmed by open lung biopsy. All patients fulfilled the criteria of the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society for the diagnosis of IPF. Normal histology lung tissues resected from patients with lung cancer were used as controls. Keywords: parallel sample
Project description:Objectives: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a complex disease in which a multitude of proteins and networks are disrupted. Interrogation of genome-wide transcription through RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) enables the determination of genes whose differential expression is most significant in IPF, as well as the detection of alternative splicing events which are not easily observed with traditional microarray experiments. Methods: Messenger RNA extracted from 8 IPF lung samples and 7 healthy controls was sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq. Analysis of differential expression and exon usage was performed using Bioconductor packages. The gene periostin was selected for validation of alternative splicing by quantitative PCR, and pathway analysis was performed to determine enrichment for differentially expressed and spliced genes. Results: There were 873 genes differentially expressed in IPF (FDR 5%), and 440 unique genes had significant differential splicing events (FDR 5%). In particular, cassette exon 21 of the gene periostin was significantly more likely to be spliced out in IPF samples (adj pval = 2.06e-09), and this result was confirmed by qPCR (Wilcoxon pval = 3.11e-4). We also found that genes close to SNPs in the discovery set of a recent IPF GWAS were enriched for genes differentially expressed in our data, including genes like mucin5B and desmoplakin which have been previously associated with IPF. Conclusions: There is significant differential splicing and expression in IPF lung samples as compared with healthy controls. We found a strong signal of differential cassette exon usage in periostin, an extracellular matrix protein whose increased gene-level expression has been associated with IPF and its clinical progression, but for which differential splicing has not been studied in the context of IPF. Our results suggest that alternative splicing of periostin and other genes may be involved in the pathogenesis of IPF. mRNA sequencing of 8 IPF and 7 control lung tissue samples.
Project description:IPF (n=20) and control (n=19) samples were obtained through the LTRC and were sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq 2000 following TruSeq RNA Sample Prep Kit v2 library preparation.
Project description:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic progressive interstitial lung disease characterized by patchy scarring of the distal lung with limited therapeutic options and poor prognosis. Here, we show that conditional deletion of the ubiquitin ligase Nedd4-2 in lung epithelial cells in adult mice produces chronic lung disease that shares key features with IPF including progressive fibrosis and bronchiolization with increased expression of Muc5b in peripheral airways, honeycombing and characteristic alterations in the lung proteome
Project description:Background: Sarcoidosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are two most frequent forms of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). Cellular and biochemical composition of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALf) was shown to reflect the proliferative and fibrotic changes in the local environment in the lung. However, the usefulness of BALf cellular profile evaluation in the diagnosis of ILDs is limited. The aim of the study was a multivariate, molecular, comparative analysis of BALf cells from IPF and sarcoidosis patients. Methods: Transcriptomic measurements were carried out using Affymetrix Human Gene 2.1 ST ArrayStrip in 21 samples: 9 IPF and 12 sarcoidosis. The mRNA expression for the most significantly differentiating genes was evaluated by real time PCR in 32 samples (11 IPF and 21 sarcoidosis). Results: The number of genes differentially expressed between IPF and sarcoidosis groups were 4832 (13359 probesets). Our cluster analysis indicated that sarcoidosis BALf cells are characterized by increased mRNA expression of genes associated with ribosome biogenesis, transcription machinery. Clusters formed by genes with changed mRNA expression in IPF samples were implicated in the processes of cell adhesion and migration, metalloproteinase expression and negative regulation of cell proliferation. PCR verification showed higher expression of ANK3 in the sarcoidosis compared to the IPF group, and higher expression of MMP7 and PPBP in patients with IPF. The GO analysis indicated that predominant biological processes associated with the differential mRNA gene expression of BALf cells were upregulation of neutrophils in IPF and lymphocytes in sarcoidosis. Conclusions: Analysis of BALf from sarcoidosis and IPF showed highly different mRNA profile of cells present in bronchoalveolar compartment and provided new data on the pathobiology of these ILDs. The changes of most important biological processes observed at the molecular level in BALf cells were associated with ribosome biogenesis and proteasome apparatus in sarcoidosis and neutrophilic dysfunction in IPF.
Project description:To investigate the comprehensive mRNA expression profile of ILC2s from IPF patients, we performed bulk RNA-sequencing analysis of ILC2s sorted from IPF patients and healthy controls.
Project description:Visium (10x Genomics) spatially resolved transcriptomics data generated from normal and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) lung parenchyma tissues collected from human donors. The fresh-frozen tissues that were analyzed were from four healthy control (HC) subjects and from four IPF patients. For each IPF patient, three different tissues were selected representing areas of mild (“B1”), moderate (“B2\") or severe (“B3”) fibrosis within the same donor, as determined by histological inspection of Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E)-stained samples. Data from a total of 25 tissue sections, from 16 unique lung tissue blocks. The lung tissues were collected post-mortem (HC donors) or during lung transplant/resection (IPF patients) after obtaining informed consent. The study protocols were approved by the local human research ethics committee (HC: Lund, permit number Dnr 2016/317; IPF: Gothenburg, permit number 1026-15) and the samples are anonymized and cannot/should not be traced back to individual donors.