Project description:ATAC-seq profiling of Nfat5 KO and wild type macrophages derived from bone marrow (primary cells), treated or not with Lipopolysaccharide (LPS).
Project description:To comprehensively understand how dendritic cells (DCs) are reprogrammed by lung fibroblasts- and their derived COX-2/PGE2, we employed lung fibroblasts isolated from WT or Ptgs2-/- mice, and collect their conditioned medium (CM) to stimulate the ex vivo cultured bone marrow (BM)-derived DCs (BM-DCs), with the PGE2 treatment as a control. After the treatment, BM-DCs were harvested for RNA extraction and the transcriptional profiles were analyzed by RNA sequencing (RNA-seq).
Project description:We cultured bone marrow derived dendritic cells from WT and CD11c KO mice. Then, a group of bone marrow dendritic cells were stimulated with LPS overnight. We obtained bone marrow derived dendritic cells with or without LPS stimulation and analyzed proteomics profiles.
Project description:The goal of this study is to investigate the involvement of inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and to clarify the signaling pathways involved in the presence of beta-amyloidosis, a hallmark of AD pathogenesis, to help identifying potential targets for therapy. To do that, we isolated bone marrow-derived progenitor cells from femurs, tibiae and hip bones of non-transgenic C57BL/6 mice according to established protocols , and we maturated them with LPS. To obtain an unbiased view of gene regulation in mouse bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (BM-DCs) exposed to pre-aggregated beta-amyloid peptide (Aβ) oligomers, we analyzed the transcriptome of untreated immature control BM-DCs (‘Ctrl’), LPS-treated BM-DCs (’LPS’), Aβ1-42 oligomer-treated BM-DCs (‘Aβ‘) and BM-DCs treated with Aβ1-42 oligomers and LPS (‘Aβ+LPS‘) via explorative RNA-sequencing.
Project description:DCs treated with PTX (PTX-DC) is able to induce EAE like PTX as adjuvant whereas neither LPS nor DCs treated with LPS (LPS-DC) fails to induce EAE. We want to identify genes that are responsible for EAE induction in DCs and genes that are able to toloerize EAE in DCs through the microarray. Bone marrow derived dendritic cells are either unstimulated or stimulated with LPS and PTX for 24h respectively. Cells are harveseted for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Siglec-E is a murine CD33-related siglec that functions as an inhibitory receptor and is expressed mainly on neutrophils and macrophage populations. Recent studies have suggested that siglec-E is an important negative regulator of LPS-TLR4 signalling and one report (Wu et al 2016) claimed that siglec-E is required for TLR4 endocytosis following uptake of Escherichia coli by macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs). Our attempts to reproduce these observations using cells from wildtype (WT) and siglec E deficient mice were unsuccessful. We used a variety of assays to determine if siglec-E expressed by different macrophage populations can regulate TLR-4 signalling in response to LPS, but found no consistent differences in cytokine secretion in vitro and in vivo, comparing 3 different strains of siglec-E-deficient mice with matched WT controls. No evidence was found that the siglec-E deficiency was compensated by expression of siglecs-F and –G, the other murine inhibitory CD33-related siglecs. Quantitative proteomics was used as an unbiased approach and provided additional evidence that siglec-E does not suppress inflammatory TLR4 signaling. Interestingly, proteomics revealed a siglec E dependent alteration in macrophage phenotype that could be relevant to functional responses in host defence. In support of this, siglec-E-deficient mice exhibited enhanced growth of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in the liver following intravenous infection, but macrophages lacking siglec-E did not show altered uptake or killing of bacteria in vitro. Using various cell types including bone marrow derived DCs (BMDC), splenic DCs and macrophages from WT and siglec-E-deficient mice, we showed that siglec-E is not required for TLR4 endocytosis following E.coli uptake or LPS challenge. We failed to see expression of siglec-E by BMDC even after LPS-induced maturation, but confirmed previous studies that splenic DCs express low levels of siglec-E. Taken together, our findings do not support a major role of siglec-E in regulation of TLR4 signalling functions or TLR4 endocytosis in macrophages or DCs. Instead, they reveal that induction of siglec-E by LPS can modulate the phenotype of macrophages, the functional significance of which is currently unclear.
