Project description:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by devastating and progressive lung parenchymal fibrosis with poor prognosis. An aberrant recapitulation of lung developmental genes including transforming growth factor (TGF)-β and WNT has been widely implicated in the abnormal wound healing process following repetitive alveolar epithelial injury during IPF pathogenesis. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) including exosomes and microvesicles have been shown to carry various bioactive molecules and are involved in a variety of physiological and pathological processes. Here, we demonstrate that human bronchial epithelial cell-derived EVs (HBEC EVs) inhibited TGF-β-induced both myofibroblast differentiation and lung epithelial cellular senescence through attenuating WNT signaling. To ask how HBEC-EVs inhibited TGF-β-induced both myofibroblast differentiation and lung epithelial cellular senescence through attenuating WNT signaling, miRNA RNA-seq of HBEC-EVs was performed.
Project description:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by devastating and progressive lung parenchymal fibrosis with poor prognosis. An aberrant recapitulation of lung developmental genes including transforming growth factor (TGF)-β and WNT has been widely implicated in the abnormal wound healing process following repetitive alveolar epithelial injury during IPF pathogenesis. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) including exosomes and microvesicles have been shown to carry various bioactive molecules and are involved in a variety of physiological and pathological processes. Here, we demonstrate that human bronchial epithelial cell-derived EVs (HBEC EVs) inhibited TGF-β-induced both myofibroblast differentiation and lung epithelial cellular senescence through attenuating WNT signaling. To ask how HBEC-EVs inhibited TGF-β-induced both myofibroblast differentiation and lung epithelial cellular senescence through attenuating WNT signaling, miRNA RNA-seq of HBEC-EVs was performed.
Project description:To identify exosomal miRNAs that regulate smoking-induced lung myofibroblast differentiation, we conducted a miRNA microarray between smoking-induced HBEC-derived EVs and non-treated HBEC-derived EVs.
Project description:Identification of transcriptional profile of several genes involved in diabetes in islet-derived extracellular vesicles (Evs). Recently, EVs are identified as a new mechanism in cell-to-cell communication by transfer of protein and genic information (mRNA, microRNA). Their role is under investigation in immunology, stem cell and cancer, but not in islets and diabetes. The aim of this experiment is to identify mRNA transcripts (in particular, mRNA transcripts involved in diabetes pathophysiology) present in islet Evs.
Project description:Transcriptional comparison of B16F10 cells with B16F10 cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) to identify transcripts enriched or de-enriched in EVs compared to their donor cells.
Project description:In this study, we address mRNA composition of hepatocyte-like derived extracellular vesicles (EVs), using as cellular model the mouse liver derived cell line MLP29, and primary cell culture of rat hepatocyte (RH) obtained by in vivo liver perfusion. The study shows qualitative characterization of RNA, identification of transcripts and its functional characterization through gene expression array technique. To reach a deeper nowledge in the biology of EVs, we perform RNase protection assay, density gradients matching RNA with typical exosomal protein markers, and capture assays to probe that mRNA was internalized. Aim of the project: To identify transcripts present in extracellular vesicles secreted by Rat hepatocytes primary cell culture and to identify extracellular vesicles secreted by mouse hepatocyte cell line MLP29, and in this case, compare the enrichment of transcripts respect to the cell, to know if the composition in the extracellular vesicles is similar to the cell, or if their composition is not directly determined by the abundance of transcripts in the cell.
Project description:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process by which epithelial cells lose cell-cell contact and gain cancer malignancy such as invasion, stemness, chemoresistance and metastasis. Reverse precess, mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) is also important for colonization. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted from cancer cells are also important for cancer malignancy. To analyze RNAs from cells and EVs during EMT and MET, RNA sequencing was performed using E-cadherin-RFP/Py2T reporter system.
Project description:Under physiological conditions, extracellular vesicles (EVs) are present simultaneously in the extracellular compartment together with cytokines. Thus, we hypothesized that EVs in combination with cytokines induce different responses of monocyte cells compared to EVs or cytokines alone. Human monocyte U937 cells were incubated with EV-containing or EV-free CCRF human T-cell supernatant, with or without the addition of TNF. U937 cells cultured in EV-free supernatant, supernatant containing CCRF t-cell derived EVs, TNF or both. Each treatment option was measured in 3 replicates.
Project description:Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers. Since prognosis ameliorates with early detection, it is a challenge to develop techniques that could replace or complement the current diagnosis protocols. The study of extracellular vesicles (EVs) that are present in urine samples has become an attractive alternative. The present study describes the mRNA content of vesicles isolated from voided urine samples within bladder cancer context. To discover a genetic signature of cancer, RNA associated to EVs was analyzed by microarray technique. Total RNA isolated from Extracellular Vesicles obtained from urine of bladder cancer patients was compared with RNA isolated from urinary vesicles of non-cancer patients.
Project description:EGCG, one of the major catechins in green tea, exerts an antifibrotic property, although its mechanism remains unclear. Recently, it has been reported that microRNA (miRNA) transported by extracellular vesicles (EVs) from vascular endothelial cells (VECs) are involved in PF. In this study, we assessed the effects of EGCG on miRNAs’ expression in EVs derived from HUVECs.
