Project description:Reactive astrogliosis is characterized by a profound change in astrocyte phenotype in response to all CNS injuries and diseases. To better understand the reactive astrocyte state, we used Affymetrix GeneChip arrays to profile gene expression in populations of reactive astrocytes isolated at various time points after induction using two different mouse injury models, ischemic stroke and neuroinflammation. Young adult male mice underwent middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) to produce ischemic stroke or control sham surgery. Young adult mice were injected intraperitoneally with 5 mg/kg lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to produce neuroinflammation or saline for control. Astrocytes were acutely purified from control and injured brains at 1 day after injury for LPS/saline injection and 1, 3 days and 7 days after MCAO/sham surgeries.
Project description:We report the first RNA profiing of mammalian neural cells grown in vitro. About 50 million reads are generated by RNA-seq from rat astrocytes, neurons and oligodendrocyte precursor cells in primary culture. These data are compared with theose generated from the correponding mouse neural cells that are acutely purified from brains. Cross-species RNA-seq data analysis revealed hundreds of genes that are differentially expressed between cultured and acutely purified cells. Astrocytes have more such genes compared to neurons and oligodendrocyte precursor cells, indicating that signalling pathways are greatly perturbed in cultured astrocytes. mRNA profiles of rat astrocytes, neurons and oligodendrocyte precursor cells cultured in vitro
Project description:We report the first RNA profiing of mammalian neural cells grown in vitro. About 50 million reads are generated by RNA-seq from rat astrocytes, neurons and oligodendrocyte precursor cells in primary culture. These data are compared with theose generated from the correponding mouse neural cells that are acutely purified from brains. Cross-species RNA-seq data analysis revealed hundreds of genes that are differentially expressed between cultured and acutely purified cells. Astrocytes have more such genes compared to neurons and oligodendrocyte precursor cells, indicating that signalling pathways are greatly perturbed in cultured astrocytes.
Project description:Astrocytes were purified from mouse cortices and human cortex tissue by immunopanning with HepaCAM. All treatments were proceeded on 3DIV in serum-free medium. Astrocytes were treated by TNFα for 48hr, by Poly I:C for 72hr, or by hypoxia for 72hr. Acutely purified atrocytes RNA was harvest immediately after HepaCAM immunopanning. Serum selected astrocytes RNA was collected after 4-6 days culturing in serum medium. Serum-free cultured astrocytes RNA was collected on 5-6 DIV. Serum-selection purified human astrocytes were transplanted into P2-11 Rag2 immunodeficient mouse brains, and after about 8 months, transplanted human and host mouse astocytes RNA was collected acutely on HepaCAM immunopanning dish.
Project description:We aimed to investigate whether reduction of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mROS) in adult astrocytes altered the transcriptional profile in vivo. To do so, we used a genetic approach expressing a version of the catalase enzyme within the mitochondria of astrocytes. Astrocytes were acutely isolated from the brains of adult GFAP-mCAT and control mice by the immunomagnetic approach and subjected to a whole-genome transcriptomics array analysis. We used microarrays to detail the whole genome changes modulated by mROS levels in astrocytes.
Project description:BACE1 role in reactive astrocytes are unknown. We used single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to analyze reactive astrocytes in mice with and without germline Bace1. We also examine reactive astrocytes in the case of adult Bace1 conditional knockout on a 5xFAD Alzheimer's disease mouse model.
Project description:Following CNS demyelination, adult oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) can differentiate into new myelin-forming oligodendrocytes in a regenerative process called remyelination. While remyelination is very efficient in young adults, its efficiency declines progressively with ageing. Here we performed proteomic analysis on OPCs isolated acutely from the brains of neonate, young and aged female rats. Approximately 60% of the proteins are expressed at different levels in OPCs from neonates compared to their adult counterparts. The amount of myelin-associated and cell adhesion proteins are increased with age, while cholesterol-biosynthesis, transcription factors and cell cycle proteins decreased. Our experiments provide the first ageing OPC rodent proteome, revealing the distinct features of neonatal and adult OPCs, and providing new insights into why remyelination efficiency declines with ageing and potential roles for aged OPCs in other neurodegenerative diseases.
Project description:Following CNS demyelination, adult oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) can differentiate into new myelin-forming oligodendrocytes in a regenerative process called remyelination. While remyelination is very efficient in young adults, its efficiency declines progressively with ageing. Here we performed proteomic analysis on OPCs isolated acutely from the brains of neonate, young and aged female rats. Approximately 60% of the proteins are expressed at different levels in OPCs from neonates compared to their adult counterparts. The amount of myelin-associated and cell adhesion proteins are increased with age, while cholesterol-biosynthesis, transcription factors and cell cycle proteins decreased. Our experiments provide the first ageing OPC rodent proteome, revealing the distinct features of neonatal and adult OPCs, and providing new insights into why remyelination efficiency declines with ageing and potential roles for aged OPCs in other neurodegenerative diseases.
Project description:Isolation of glia from Alzheimer's mice reveals inflammation and dysfunction. Reactive astrocytes and microglia are associated with amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Yet, not much is known about the molecular alterations underlying this reactive phenotype. To get an insight into the molecular changes underlying AD induced astrocyte and microglia reactivity, we performed a transcriptional analysis on acutely isolated astrocytes and microglia from the cortex of aged controls and APPswe/PS1dE9 AD mice. As expected, both cell types acquired a proinflammatory phenotype, which confirms the validity of our approach. Interestingly, we observed that the immune alteration in astrocytes was relatively more pronounced than in microglia. Concurrently, our data reveal that astrocytes display a reduced expression of neuronal support genes and genes involved in neuronal communication. The microglia showed a reduced expression of phagocytosis and/or endocytosis genes. Co-expression analysis of a human AD expression data set and the astrocyte and microglia data sets revealed that the inflammatory changes in astrocytes were remarkably comparable in mouse and human AD, whereas the microglia changes showed less similarity. Based on these findings we argue that chronically proinflammatory astrocyte and microglia phenotypes, showing a reduction of genes involved in neuronal support and neuronal signaling, are likely to contribute to the neuronal dysfunction and cognitive decline in AD. 2 cell types from 2 conditions: cortical microglia and cortical astrocytes from 15-18 month old APPswe/PS1dE9 mice compared to wildtype littermates. Biological replicates: microglia from APPswe/PS1dE9, N=7, microglia from WT, N=7, astrocytes from APPswe/PS1dE9, N=4, microglia from WT, N=4
Project description:Microglia isolation from adult mouse brains remains difficult in comparison to microglia isolation from brains from newborn mouse brains as connective tissue, extracellular matrix materials and thicker myelin sheaths substantially influence traditional isolation protocols used with newborn mouse brains. Since the introduction of magnetic activated cell sorting (MACS), it has been reported that it is possible to also obtain microglia cells from adult mouse brains with a very good purity. However, most studies only used flow cytometry and/or qPCR to determine microglia enrichment and enrichment of traditional microglia marker proteins. Therefore we wanted to characterize in an unbiased way the proteomes of with MACS isolated microglia cells (CD11b positive cells) in comparison to all non-CD11b positive cells (termed non-target cell fraction (NTCF)), which consist of primarily astrocytes, neurons and oligodendrocytes. Therefore, we isolated from three adult mouse brains via MACS CD11b positive cells as well as the remaining CD11b negative cells (NTCF) to characterize the proteome of both cell fractions. The obtained proteomes were compared to a dataset of proteomic signatures for all CNS cell types determined by Sharma et al., (2015, doi: 10.1038/nn.4160) to determine the amount of enrichment of microglia-specific proteins.