Project description:The latent reservoir for HIV-1 in resting memory CD4+ T cells is the major barrier to curing HIV-1 infection. Studies of HIV-1 latency have focused on regulation of viral gene expression in cells in which latent infection is established. However, it remains unclear how infection initially becomes latent. Here we described a unique set of properties of CD4+ T cells undergoing effector-to-memory transition including temporary up-regulation of CCR5 expression and rapid down-regulation of cellular gene transcription. These cells allowed completion of steps in the HIV-1 life cycle through integration, but suppressed HIV-1 gene transcription, thus allowing the establishment of latency. CD4+ T cells in this stage were substantially more permissive for HIV-1 latent infection than other CD4+ T cells. Establishment of latent HIV-1 infection in CD4+ T could be inhibited by viral-specific CD8+ T cells, a result with implications for elimination of latent HIV-1 infection by T cell-based vaccines.
Project description:3 healthy donor PBMC samples were isolated from EDTA blood. Then CD4+ T cells were magnetically isolated, stained for CD3, 4, 8, 56, 62L, 197, and then naive (CD45RA+62L+CCR7+), transitioning (CD45RAmedCD45ROmed), as well as CM (CD45RO+CD62L+CCR7+) and EM (CD45RO+CD62L-CCR7-) cells were FACS-sorted. mRNA was isolated from these cells using Zymo RNA kits and subjected to an Affymetrix microarray.
Project description:Xenopus eggs can induce the reversal of differentiation processes of somatic cells. Yet, the egg is not fully efficient in reprogramming a differentiated nucleus, as certain genes retain a memory of gene expression of their somatic cell of origin. This is thought to be a reason for the low success rate of current cloning and reprogramming strategies. While previous studies addressed extensively the mechanisms that maintain an inactive state of genes (OFF-memory), we investigated the importance of memory of an active transcriptional state (ON-memory) in maintaining cell fate identity and on resistance to reprogramming. We find that donor cell-type specific ON-memory gene-expression in the wrong cell-type of nuclear transfer (NT)-embryos is as common as OFF-memory gene-expression. When compared to properly reprogrammed genes, we find that ON-memory genes show an elevated level of the active histone mark H3K4me3 in endoderm donor cells. Importantly, we show that a reduction of H3K4 methylation level in donor cells decreases the extent of ON-memory gene expression, globally improves transcriptional reprogramming, and enhances the development of NT-embryos. Therefore, our study reveals that H3K4 methylation safeguards endoderm cell identity and acts as a major barrier for efficient reprogramming in NT-embryos. Furthermore, our results suggest that efficient cell fate reprogramming not only relies on the erasure of epigenetic modifications conferring OFF-memory but also crucially depends on the removal of H3 lysine 4 methylation-mediated memory of an active state of gene expression.
Project description:Tuberculosis (TB) is responsible for the majority of mortality and morbidity associated with infectious diseases worldwide. The characterization of exact molecular components of immune response associated with protection against TB may help design more effective therapeutic interventions. In this study, we aimed to characterize the immune signature of memory T cells associated with active versus latent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Transcriptomic profiling using RNA sequencing was performed on memory CD4 T cells isolated from individuals with active TB (at diagnosis and 2 months post treatment), latent TB, as well as from TB negative healthy controls. Overall, we found specific gene signatures for each cohort that could successfully discriminate between individuals with active TB at diagnosis, treated active TB, latent TB and healthy controls.
Project description:Transcription profiling of naive and memory phenotype mouse CD4+ T cells extracted from GFP-Egr2 knockin (Egr2 Kin) and Egr2loxP/loxP hCD2-Cre Egr3-/- (Egr2/3 DKO) mice in the steady state
Project description:Differentiation of CD4+T-cells into effector subsets is a critical component of the adaptive immune system and an incorrect response can lead to autoimmunity or immune deficiency. Cellular differentiation including T-cell differentiation is accompanied by large-scale epigenetic remodeling, including changes in DNA methylation at key regulators of T-cell differentiation. The TET family of enzymes were recently shown to be able to catalyse methylated cytosine (5mC) into 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) enabling a pathway of active removal of DNA methylation. Here, we characterize 5hmC, 5mC and transcriptional dynamics during human CD4+T-cell polarisation in a time series approach and relate these changes to profiles in ex-vivo CD4+memory subsets. We observed large-scale remodelling during early CD4+T-cell differentiation which was predictive of subsequent changes during late time points, these changes were also related to disease associated regions which we show can act as functional regulatory elements. This dataset was designed to assess how DNA methylation differs between in-vivo derived CD4+memory T-cell subsets. DNA methylation was assessed in relationship to gene expression levels and changes (see data series), we observed anticorrelation between promoter DNA methylation levels and gene expression. This submission contains data from DNA methylation profiling of primary human CD4+T-cell memory subsets. This is part of a series, containing transcription and DNA methylation profiling of the same samples. See related experiments E-MTAB-4685, E-MTAB-4686, E-MTAB-4687, E-MTAB-4688
Project description:IFN -YFP reporter mice (Jax# 017580) were immunized intravenously with attenuated Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium intravenously. 45 days later, tissue resident memory CD4 T cells (CD69+ YFP+) in the liver, effector memory CD4 T cells (CD69- YFP+) in the liver, and effector memory CD4 T cells (CD69- YFP+) in the spleeen were sorted and RNA was sequenced