Project description:Cellular binary fate decisions require the progeny to silence genes associated with the alternative fate. The major subsets of alpha:beta T cells have been extensively studied as a model system for fate decisions. While the transcription factor RUNX3 is required for the initiation of Cd4 silencing in CD8 T cell progenitors, it is not required to maintain the silencing of Cd4 and other helper T lineage genes. The other runt domain containing protein, RUNX1, silences Cd4 in an earlier T cell progenitor, but this silencing is reversed whereas the gene silencing after RUNX3 expression is not reverse. Therefore, we hypothesized that RUNX3 and not RUNX1 recruits other factors that maintains the silencing of helper T lineage genes in CD8 T cells. To this end, we performed a proteomics screen of RUNX1 and RUNX3 to determine candidate silencing factors.
Project description:CD4+ dendritic cells are part of the innate immunity essential for priming and activating of CD4+ T cells To identify Runx3 responsive genes CD4+ dendritic cells were sorted from freshly isolated macs enriched splenic DCs taken from 6 weeks old mice. Six samples from six mice were sorted and analyzed where in each littermates pair consisted of a control and Runx3 KO.
Project description:Esam/CD4+ dendritic cells are part of the innate immunity essential for priming and activating of CD4+ T cells To identify Runx3 responsive genes Esam dendritic cells were freshly sorted from macs enriched splenic DCs taken from 6 weeks old mice. Four samples from four mice were sorted and analyzed where in each littermates pair consisted of a control and Runx3 conditional KO. Mice lacking Runx3 specifically in the DC compartment were produced by crossing Runx3fl/fl mice onto CD11c-Cre mice. This mating scheme generated Runx3fl/fl/CD11c:Cre (CD11c-DC-Runx3Δ) mice.
