Project description:Cyclosporin A (CsA) is a potent immunosuppressive agent used clinically in organ transplantation. In this study, we examined that CsA exerts anti-tumor activity against prostate cancer. We performed microarray experiments to investigate the effect of CsA on the transcriptome of prostate cancer cells. CsA potently induced transcriptome change and primarily affected cell cycle-related gene signatures. These results suggest that CsA can be used as a potential therapeutic agent or an intriguing tool for exploring prostate cancer biology and identifying novel therapeutic targets.
Project description:We analyzed the gene expression at the onset of hair growth induced by cyclosporin A (CsA), a well-known hair growth inducer, with DNA microarray, and unveiled the step-by-step progression of hair growth. KEYWORDS: Cyclosporin A, Cyclosporine A, Ciclosporin A
Project description:Nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) comprises a family of transcription factors that regulate T cell development, activation and differentiation. NFAT signaling can also mediate granulocyte and DC activation, but it is unknown whether NFAT influences their development from progenitors. Here we report a novel role for calcineurin/NFAT signaling as a negative regulator of myeloid hematopoiesis. Reconstituting lethally-irradiated mice with hematopoietic stem cells expressing an NFAT-inhibitory peptide resulted in enhanced development of the myeloid compartment. Culturing bone marrow cells with Flt3-L and Cyclosporin A, which inhibits NFAT signaling, increased numbers of differentiated DC. Global gene expression analysis of untreated DC and NFAT-inhibited DC revealed differential expression of transcripts that regulate cell cycle and apoptosis. Thus, calcineurin/NFAT signaling negatively regulates myeloid lineage development. The finding that NFAT acts as a negative regulator of myeloid development provides novel insight in understanding immune responses during treatment with calcineurin/NFAT inhibitors as Cyclosporin A. bone marrow cells from C57B/6 mice were stimulated in Flt3-L suplemented media in presence or absence of calcineurin/NFAT inhibitor Cyclosporin A, samples in 3 biological replicates