Project description:Small intestinal innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are known to regulate intestinal epithelial cell homeostasis and to help prevent pathogenic bacterial infections, by producing IL-22. However, other functions of these cells and the lineal relationship between ILCs and lymphoid or myeloid cells have not been clear. We performed a global gene expression analysis to examine which genes are highly expressed by small intestinal ILCs (Lin-c-Kit+Sca-1- cells) compared with non-ILCs (Lin-c-Kit-Sca-1- cells). To examine the gene expression profiles of ILCs within the small intestinal lamina propria (LP), we isolated Lingeage (Lin)-c-Kit+Sca-1- cells [consisting of NKp46+ ILC22 (Lin-c-Kit+Sca-1-NKp46+ cells) and LTi-like ILC (Lin-c-Kit+Sca-1-CD4+ cells)] as the ILC population, and Lin-c-Kit-Sca-1- cells as the non-ILC population, from the small intestinal LP of 8 week-old mice by FACS, then compared the gene expression profiles between these two populations by microarray analysis.
Project description:Small intestinal innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are known to regulate intestinal epithelial cell homeostasis and to help prevent pathogenic bacterial infections, by producing IL-22. However, other functions of these cells and the lineal relationship between ILCs and lymphoid or myeloid cells have not been clear. We performed a global gene expression analysis to examine which genes are highly expressed by small intestinal ILCs (Lin-c-Kit+Sca-1- cells) compared with non-ILCs (Lin-c-Kit-Sca-1- cells).
Project description:To understand the underlying mechanism by which the Hif1a gene is required by hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), we performed a comparative DNA microarray analysis using total RNA isolated from wild type Lin-Sca-1+c-Kit+ cells and Hif1a-/- Lin-Sca-1+c-Kit+ cells. The result was validated by quantitative real-time PCR analysis of wild type Lin-Sca-1+c-Kit+ and Hif1a-/- Lin-Sca-1+c-Kit+ cells.
Project description:To detect the role of OP9 stromal cells in our optimized 3D self-assembling peptide induction system followed by the OP9 coculture system. First, we used RNA-seq to analyze mouse pluripotent stem cells derived total cells at day5 between the 3D+OP9 and 3D+0.1% group in our hematopoietic differentiation system. In addition, to further evaluate hematopoietic transcriptome differences between Lin-Sca-1+c-kit+CD201+ cells and Lin-Sca-1+c-kit+CD201- cells, we used RNA-seq to analyze mouse pluripotent stem cells derived Lin-Sca-1+c-kit+CD201+ and Lin-Sca-1+c-kit+CD201- cells at day5 in our 3D+OP9 hematopoietic differentiation system.Meanwhile,we used the mouse embryonic stem cell(mESC) as negative control and bone marrow derived Lin-Sca-1+c-kit+CD201+ and fetal liver derived Lin-Sca-1+c-kit+CD201+ as positive control.
Project description:We discovered that mice that lack Lsd1 in hematopoietic cells were exhibited increased frequencies of CD150+ CD48- lin- c-Kit+ Sca-1+ LT-HSCs, but completely lacked the lin- c-Kit+ Sca-1- myeloid progenitor compartment. To determine the genes altered by Lsd1-loss, CD150+ CD48- lin- c-Kit+ Sca-1+ LT-HSCs from Lsd1fl/fl and Lsd1fl/fl Mx1Cre mice were FACS-purified to be analyzed by gene expression profiling.