Project description:The Notch pathway plays a critical role in regulating the proliferation and differentiation of endothelial cells during liver homeostasis,so we used EC-specific Notch activation flox-Notch1-ICD mice, and compare the gene expression profiles of LSEC in wild type and NICeCA
Project description:This randomized phase I/II clinical trial is studying the side effects and best dose of gamma-secretase/notch signalling pathway inhibitor RO4929097 when given together with vismodegib and to see how well they work in treating patients with advanced or metastatic sarcoma. Vismodegib may slow the growth of tumor cells. Gamma-secretase/notch signalling pathway inhibitor RO4929097 may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Giving vismodegib together with gamma-secretase/notch signalling pathway inhibitor RO4929097 may be an effective treatment for sarcoma.
Project description:Differentiating agents have been proposed to overcome the impaired cellular differentiation in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, only the combinations of all-trans retinoic acid or arsenic trioxide with chemotherapy have been successful, and only in treating acute promyelocytic leukemia (also called AML3). Here we showed that iron homeostasis is an effective target in the treatment of AML. Iron chelating therapy induces the differentiation of leukemia blasts and normal bone marrow precursors into monocytes/macrophages in a manner involving modulation of reactive oxygen species expression and the activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK). Thirty percent of the genes most strongly induced by iron deprivation are also targeted by vitamin D3 (VD), a well-known differentiating agent. Iron chelating agents induce expression and phosphorylation of the VD receptor, and iron deprivation and VD act synergistically. VD magnifies activation of MAPK JNK and the induction of VD receptor target genes. When used to treat one AML patient refractory to chemotherapy, the combination of iron chelating agents and VD resulted in reversal of pancytopenia and blast differentiation. We propose that iron availability modulates myeloid cell commitment, and that targeting this cellular differentiation pathway together with conventional differentiating agents provides new therapeutic modalities for AML. This study presents 8 arrays 4x44K Agilent.
Project description:During hematopoiesis, Notch regulates both the emergence of stem and progenitor cells and the subsequent cell fate choices and differentiation. To investigate how Notch drives cells to differentiate we have used a genome-wide approach to identify direct Notch targets in Drosophila Kc cells. These data are the results from Su(H) ChIP-Chip experiments to identify genomic regions occupied by Su(H) after Notch activation in Kc cells. 3 replicates of Su(H) ChIP after 30 min. Notch activation..
Project description:Expression data from untreated or Dll4-Fc treated THP1 cell line. We used Dll4-Fc stimulation of AML cells to study whether Notch activation has an impact on AML. We analyzed THP1 cell line in vitro treated with Dll4-Fc or vehicle control to determine genes affected by Notch activation. THP1 cell line was cultured on plate coated with 30 nM Dll4-Fc or vehicle for 48 hours prior to RNA extraction and hybridization to Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Affymetrix arrays.
Project description:Airway basal cells (BC) function as progenitor cells capable of differentiating into ciliated and secretory cells to replenish the airway epithelium during physiological turnover and repair. The objective of this study was to define the role of Notch signaling in regulating human airway BC differentiation into a pseudostratified mucociliated epithelium. Notch inhibition with γ-secretase inhibitors demonstrated Notch activation is essential for BC differentiation into secre-tory cells and ciliated cells, but more so for the secretory lineage. Sustained Notch activation via lentivirus expression of the intracellular domain of each Notch receptor (NICD1-4) demonstrated that the Notch 2 and 4 pathways have little effect on BC differentiation, while activation of the Notch1 or 3 pathways has a major influence, with persistent expression of NICD1 or 3 resulting in a skewing toward secretory cell differentiation with a parallel decrease in ciliated cell differentiation. These observations provide insights into the control of the balance of BC differentiation into the secretory vs ciliated cell lineage, a balance that is critical for maintaining the normal function of the airway epithelium in barrier defense against the inhaled environment. Array-based expression profiling of the Notch signaling pathway genes specifically in human airway basal cells.
Project description:Cells of the osteoblast lineage affect homing, number of long term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) HSC mobilization and lineage determination and Blymphopoiesis . More recently osteoblasts were implicated in pre-leukemic conditions in mice. Yet, it has not been shown that a single genetic event taking place in osteoblastscan induce leukemogenesis. We show here that in mice, an activating mutation of β-catenin leading to development of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with common chromosomal aberrationsand cell autonomous progression. Activated β-catenin stimulates expression of the Notch ligand Jagged-1 in osteoblasts. Subsequent activation of Notch signaling in HSCprogenitors induces the malignant changes. Demonstrating the pathogenetic role of theNotch pathway, genetic or pharmacological inhibition of Notch signaling ameliorates AML. Nuclear accumulation and increased β-catenin signaling in osteoblasts was also identified in 38% ofpatients with MDS/AML. These patients showed increased Notch signaling in hematopoietic cells. These findings demonstrate that genetic alterations in osteoblasts can induce AML, identify molecular signals leading to this transformation and suggest a potential novel pharmacotherapeuticapproach to AML. The present entry describes a comparison of copy numbers of DNA from βcat(ex3)osb mice from the mouse spleen with that of WT (C57BL/J Mice) mice.
Project description:Expression data from untreated or Dll4-Fc treated THP1 cell line. We used Dll4-Fc stimulation of AML cells to study whether Notch activation has an impact on AML. We analyzed THP1 cell line in vitro treated with Dll4-Fc or vehicle control to determine genes affected by Notch activation.