Project description:The endothelial transcription factor Erg (Ets Related Gene) plays an important role in homeostasis and angiogenesis by regulating many endothelial functions including survival and junction stability. Here we show that Erg regulates endothelial cell migration. Transcriptome profiling of Erg-deficient endothelial cells (EC) identified 80 genes involved in cell migration as candidate Erg targets, including regulators of the Rho GTPases. Inhibition of Erg expression in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) resulted in decreased migration in vitro, whilst Erg over-expression using adenovirus caused increased migration. Live-cell imaging of Erg-deficient HUVEC showed a reduction in lamellipodia, in line with decreased motility. Both actin and tubulin cytoskeletons were disrupted in Erg-deficient EC, with a dramatic increase in tubulin acetylation. Amongst the most significant microarray hit was the cytosolic histone deacetylase (HDAC)-6, a regulator of cell migration. Rescue experiments confirmed that HDAC6 mediates the Erg-dependent regulation of tubulin acetylation and actin localization. The functional role of Erg in EC was studied by gene expressing profiling using three separate HUVEC isolates treated with either control antisense or Erg-specific antisense for 24 or 48 hours.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVEC) comparing untreated control cells with IL-1-treated cells with or without pre-treatment with DHA.
Project description:LncRNA Hypoxia-inducible factor 1α-antisense 1 (HIF1α-AS1) is located on the antisense strand of the important Hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF1α) gene, but being transcribed in antisense direction along the HIF1α promoter. Here we used the 3’end biotinylated HIF1a-AS1 RNA and a control RNA for RNA Pulldown and searched for interacting proteins in nuclear extracts of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC).
Project description:Endothelial cell secretomes were analyzed using culture medium derived from control young and premature senescent human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC).
Project description:The endothelial transcription factor Erg (Ets Related Gene) plays an important role in homeostasis and angiogenesis by regulating many endothelial functions including survival and junction stability. Here we show that Erg regulates endothelial cell migration. Transcriptome profiling of Erg-deficient endothelial cells (EC) identified 80 genes involved in cell migration as candidate Erg targets, including regulators of the Rho GTPases. Inhibition of Erg expression in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) resulted in decreased migration in vitro, whilst Erg over-expression using adenovirus caused increased migration. Live-cell imaging of Erg-deficient HUVEC showed a reduction in lamellipodia, in line with decreased motility. Both actin and tubulin cytoskeletons were disrupted in Erg-deficient EC, with a dramatic increase in tubulin acetylation. Amongst the most significant microarray hit was the cytosolic histone deacetylase (HDAC)-6, a regulator of cell migration. Rescue experiments confirmed that HDAC6 mediates the Erg-dependent regulation of tubulin acetylation and actin localization.
Project description:Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) expressing vPK (HUVEC-vPK) have a survival advantage over control HUVEC under conditions of extrinsic- and intrinsic-mediated apoptosis.
Project description:To investigate sex differences in endothelial cell response to AngII, male and female human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) were treated with AngII for 24 hours. RNA seq was run, and demonstrated that female HUVEC had elevated genes associated with oxidative stress and inflammatory responses compared to male HUVEC following AngII treatment.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVEC) comparing untreated control cells with IL-1-treated cells with or without pre-treatment with DHA. Three condition experiment: DHA treated HUVEC cells (25 µmol/L DHA for 48 hours) vs control; IL-1 treated HUVEC cells (5ng/ml for 3 hours) vs control; HUVEC treated with 25 µmol/L DHA for 48 hours and then stimulated with 5 ng/mL IL-1? for 3 hours. For each condition, 3 replicates
Project description:Whole transcriptome gene expression profiling of Normal -(HUVEC) Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells The HUVEC gene expression results analyzed in this study are further described in Kustermann S. et al. (2014) A real-time impedance based screening assay for drug induced vascular leakage.
Project description:To investigate new health functions by blackcurrant extract (BCE), we compare altered of the genes expression before and after BCE (2.0μg/ml) treatment in Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVEC).
