Project description:Klinefelter’s Syndrome (KS) is one of the common chromosome aneuploidy diseases in males with unexplained physiological mechanism. iPSCs, are similar to ESCs in terms of indefinitive self-renewal and pluripotency, provided an alternative choice for modeling disease to facilitate the disease research in vitro. We used microarray to detect the global reprogramming of KS and normal fibroblast cells to iPSCs. Also we used microarray to explore the possible molecular varieties between KS patient and normal person in the early development. Fibroblast cells from both normal person and KS patient were reprogrammed into iPSCs by ectopic expression of OCT4, SOX2, KLF4 and C-MYC. The expression profiles of normal and KS fibroblast cells, a line of normal iPSCs and two lines of KS iPSCs as well as a line of human ESCs were detected.
Project description:Klinefelter’s Syndrome (KS) is one of the common chromosome aneuploidy diseases in males with unexplained physiological mechanism. iPSCs, are similar to ESCs in terms of indefinitive self-renewal and pluripotency, provided an alternative choice for modeling disease to facilitate the disease research in vitro. We used microarray to detect the global reprogramming of KS and normal fibroblast cells to iPSCs. Also we used microarray to explore the possible molecular varieties between KS patient and normal person in the early development.
Project description:Patient-derived prostate fibroblast primary cultures PCF-54 and PCF-55 were established from two specimens of PC tissues. EVs were isolated from urine samples of 3 patients with PC and 2 healthy males and used for the treatment of prostate fibroblast primary cultures and normal foreskin fibroblasts. The EV-treated fibroblasts were subjected to RNA sequencing analysis.
Project description:Patient-derived prostate fibroblast primary cultures PCF-54 and PCF-55 were established from two specimens of PC tissues. Urinary EVs were isolated from urine samples of 3 patients with PC and 2 healthy males and used for the treatment of prostate fibroblast primary cultures and normal foreskin fibroblasts. Normoxic and hypoxic EVs were isolated from cell culture medium of PC3 and LNCaP prostate cancer cell lines, cultivated in normoxic and hypoxic conditions respectively. The EV-treated fibroblasts were subjected to RNA sequencing analysis.
Project description:Klinefelter syndrome (KS) is the most prevalent aneuploidy in males and is characterized by an extra copy of the X chromosome,while the non-mosaic form of KS with 47,XXY karyotype is the most frequent (80-90%), less common non-disjunction events during the early mitotic division of the zygote result in mosaic forms of KS (47,XXY/46,XY). Here, using a paradigmatic cohort of KS-inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) carrying 47,XXY karyotypes we present the first iPSC-based disease-modeling study performed on KS patients from Saudi Arabia. We profiled the transcriptome of these Saudi KS-iPSCs, virtually characterized by subduedcgenetic backgrounds. Moreover, we performed a comparative transcriptomic analysis to assess the aberrant gene expression profile due to X dosage imbalance in four Saudi and five European and North American 47,XXY patients-derived iPSCs from our previously published study on KS and high-grade sex chromosome aneuploidies (SCAs). We identified a transcriptomic signature including ten PAR1 genes and thirteen non-PAR escape genes consistently upregulated in KS compared to 46,XY controls in both groups, as well as 193 consistenty disregulated autosomal genes. Our results indicate that the global transcriptional impact of X chromosome overdosage in KS is largely attributable to X-linked genes escaping X inactivation, regardless of the geographical area of origin, ethnicity, and genetic background.
Project description:We generated iPSCs from imatinib-sensitive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) patient samples. We used microarrays tc ompare the gene expression pattern among CML-iPSCs and normal cord blood (CB) iPSCs. Two CML derived iPS cells and one CB derived iPS cells were selected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Exhaustion of antigen-specific T cells represents a major challenge to adoptive immunotherapy against many types of cancer and viral infection. In an effort to overcome this problem, we reprogrammed clonally expanded antigen-specific CD8+ T cells from an HIV-1-infected patient to pluripotency. The T cell-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (T-iPSCs) were then redifferentiated into CD8+ T cells that had high proliferative capacity and elongated telomeres. To confirm that T-iPSCs were compatible to other embryonic stem cells (ESCs) but different from T cells, and that redifferentiated T cells were compatible to T cells but different from natural killer (NK) cells, we analyzed and compared the gene expression profiles of the samples by cDNA microarray. These analyses revealed that our T-iPSCs and redifferentiated T cells were essentially the same as their counterpart pluripotent stem cells and T cells, respectively. We generated human T-iPSC lines from peripheral blood T cells of healthy donors. To confirm that established T-iPSCs were typical iPSCs, the gene expression profile of one T-iPSC clone derived from a healthy person (TkT3V1-7) was compared to those of peripheral blood T cells (CD4+ T cell and CD8+ T cell) and ESCs (KhES3). We also established T-iPSCs (H254SeVT-3) from a T-cell clone (H25-#4) which was derived from an HIV-1-infected patient. H254SeVT-3 was redifferentitated into functional T cells (reT-1 and reT-2.1) in vitro. The gene expression profiles of reT-1 and reT-2.1 were compared to those of H25-#4 and peripheral blood NK cells to clarify that the redifferentiated T cells carried the same characteristics as the original T-cell clone.