Project description:Lung myeloid dendritic cells isolated from emphysema but not healthy subjects induce Th1 and Th17 cells differentiation. The goal of this study is to identify the genes differentially expressed by lung myeloid dendritic cells from healthy or emphysema subjects. These genes may play crucial roles in directing Th1 and Th17 cells differentiation. Total mRNA was extracted from lung myeloid dendritic cells isolated from lungs of three healthy controls and three emphysema patients.
Project description:Lung myeloid dendritic cells isolated from emphysema but not healthy subjects induce Th1 and Th17 cells differentiation. The goal of this study is to identify the genes differentially expressed by lung myeloid dendritic cells from healthy or emphysema subjects. These genes may play crucial roles in directing Th1 and Th17 cells differentiation.
Project description:Analysis of lung CD11c+ antigen presenting cells (APCs) isolated from wildtype or Mir22-/- mice exposed to nanoparticulate carbon black (nCB) for one month. MiR-22 plays important roles in nCB induced experimental emphysema through regulating APC activation. Results provide insight into the biological role and target genes of miR-22. Smoking-related emphysema is a chronic inflammatory disease driven by T helper 17 (TH17) cells through molecular mechanisms that remain obscure. Here we have explored the role of microRNA-22 (miR-22) in emphysema. MiR-22 was upregulated in lung myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs) of smokers with emphysema and antigen-presenting cells (APCs) of mice exposed to smoke or nanoparticulate carbon black (nCB) through a mechanism involving NF-kappaB. MiR-22-deficient mice, but not wild-type, showed attenuated TH17 responses and failed to develop emphysema after exposure to either smoke or nCB. We further show that miR-22 controls APC activation and TH17 responses through activation of AP-1 transcription factor complexes and histone deacetylase (HDAC) 4. Thus, miR-22 is a critical regulator of both emphysema and TH17 responses. Lung APCs were isolated from PBS (reference groups) or nCB exposed wildtype or Mir22-/- mice, total four groups. There were three replicates in each group.
Project description:Analysis of lung CD11c+ antigen presenting cells (APCs) isolated from wildtype or Mir22-/- mice exposed to nanoparticulate carbon black (nCB) for one month. MiR-22 plays important roles in nCB induced experimental emphysema through regulating APC activation. Results provide insight into the biological role and target genes of miR-22. Smoking-related emphysema is a chronic inflammatory disease driven by T helper 17 (TH17) cells through molecular mechanisms that remain obscure. Here we have explored the role of microRNA-22 (miR-22) in emphysema. MiR-22 was upregulated in lung myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs) of smokers with emphysema and antigen-presenting cells (APCs) of mice exposed to smoke or nanoparticulate carbon black (nCB) through a mechanism involving NF-kappaB. MiR-22-deficient mice, but not wild-type, showed attenuated TH17 responses and failed to develop emphysema after exposure to either smoke or nCB. We further show that miR-22 controls APC activation and TH17 responses through activation of AP-1 transcription factor complexes and histone deacetylase (HDAC) 4. Thus, miR-22 is a critical regulator of both emphysema and TH17 responses.
Project description:Emphysema is a major pathological phenotype of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that is characterized by progressive and irreversible alveolar tissue destruction caused by several stressors, such as tobacco smoke and air pollution. It remains incurable in part due to an incomplete understanding of cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the failure of tissue repair. Here, we have generated a single cell RNA sequencing dataset of enriched epithelial cells from emphysematous parenchymal lung tissue of COPD patients and from healthy controls. Using this dataset, we performed high resolution analysis of 78,699 ATII cells and reveal novel ATII cell subsets in severe emphysema and health. These include two ATII sub-clusters expressing various secretoglobin mRNAs (SCGBpos) in COPD that present distinct transcriptomic profiles compared to healthy sub-clusters. These ATII sub-clusters that are present in human COPD are also found in a mouse emphysema model. Importantly, the COPD specific ATII cells from both species demonstrate airway origins and fail to undergo alveolar differentiation in organoid cultures, thereby suggesting that a common mechanism in emphysema pathogenesis.
Project description:Emphysema is a major pathological phenotype of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that is characterized by progressive and irreversible alveolar tissue destruction caused by several stressors, such as tobacco smoke and air pollution. It remains incurable in part due to an incomplete understanding of cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the failure of tissue repair. Here, we have generated a single cell RNA sequencing dataset of enriched epithelial cells from emphysematous parenchymal lung tissue of COPD patients and from healthy controls.Using this dataset, we performed high resolution analysis of 78,699 ATII cells and reveal novel ATII cell subsets in severe emphysema and health. These include two ATII sub-clusters expressing various secretoglobin mRNAs (SCGBpos) in COPD that present distinct transcriptomic profiles compared to healthy sub-clusters. These ATII sub-clusters that are present in human COPD are also found in a mouse emphysema model. Importantly, the COPD specific ATII cells from both species demonstrate airway origins and fail to undergo alveolar differentiation in organoid cultures, thereby suggesting that a common mechanism in emphysema pathogenesis.
Project description:Therapies based on PD-1/PD-L1 blockade fail in most cancer patients. Here we evaluated the capacities of oleuropein to reprogram tumor-associated immunosuppressive myeloid cells to increase the potency of immunotherapies. Oleuropein caused major global reprogramming of monocytic and granulocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells and tumor-associated macrophages towards immunostimulatory subsets. Differential quantitative proteomics uncovered activated and down-modulated pathways at high resolution for each subset which regulated major differentiation programs. Oleuropein significantly potentiated the capacities of myeloid cells to activate T-cells and enhanced antitumor properties of PD-1 blockade, either by systemic anti-PD-1 antibody administration, or locally by intratumor antibody delivery with a self-amplifying RNA vector based on Semliki Forest virus. Combination therapies decreased tumor infiltration by immunosuppressive myeloid cells and increased dendritic cell recruitment within draining lymph nodes, leading to systemic antitumor T-cell responses. Potent therapeutic activities were evident in lung cancer models resistant to immunotherapies and in colon cancer models.
Project description:Study of human monocytic Myeloid-Derived Suppressor cells Mo-MDSC (CD14+ HLA-DRneg/low) has been hampered by the lack of positive cell-surface markers. In order to identify positive markers for Mo-MDSC, we performed microarray analysis comparing Mo-MDSC cells from healthy subjects versus CD14+ HLA-DRhigh monocytes. We have identified the surface ectoenzyme Vanin-2(VNN2) protein as a novel biomarker highly-enriched in healthy subjects Mo-MDSC. Indeed, healthy subjects Mo-MDSC cells expressed 68% VNN2, whereas only 9% VNN2 expression was observed on CD14+ HLA-DRhigh cells (n=4 p<0.01). The top 10 percent positive VNN2 monocytes expressed CD33 and CD11b while being negative for HLA-DR, CD3, CD15, CD19 and CD56, consistent with a Mo-MDSC phenotype. CD14+VNN2high monocytes were able to inhibit CD8 T cell proliferation comparably to traditional Mo-MDSC at 51% and 48% respectively. However, VNN2 expression on CD14+ monocytes from glioma patients was inversely correlated to their grade. CD14+VNN2high monocytes thus appear to mark a monocytic population similar to Mo-MDSC only in healthy subjects, which may be useful for tumor diagnoses. Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells (MDSC) are identified by upregulated expression of the cell surface ectoenzyme Vanin-2 in healthy subjects