Project description:Effects of SOCS3 on the transcriptional response of bone marrow-derived macrophages to IL-6. Fetal liver cells from SOCS3+/+ or SOCS3-/- embryos were used to reconstitute recipient mice. Donor derived bone marrow from these mice was differentiated to macrophages. Macrophages were either unstimulated, or stimulated for 100 or 400 minutes with 10 ng/ml IL-6. Keywords = macrophage, SOCS3, IL-6, interferon Keywords: repeat sample
Project description:Macrophages were derived from the bone-marrow of 3 x fl/+ Dicer LysCre +/- (wild-type) and 3 x fl/fl Dicer LysCre +/- mice and stimulated with IL-4 (50ng/mL) for 72h. Total RNA was isolated and analyzed by gene array. In this experiment, we derived Dicer deficient bone-marrow macrophages using Dicer fl/+ LysM-Cre by Dicer fl/+ crossed mice to obtain Dicer fl/fl LysM-cre progeny (and Dicer deficient macrophages). Next, we studied the effects of IL-4 stimulation in macrophage with a deficiency in Dicer/microRNAs.
Project description:Analysis of alternative activation of macrophages at gene expression level. The study forms part of a wider study where we compare the effects of IL-4 in different human and mouse macrophages. Our results support the notion that in vitro culture conditions greatly affect the macrophage response to IL-4. Total RNA obtained from bone marrow derived macrophages upon exposure to 20 ng/ml of IL-4 for 18 hours. Bone marrow derived macrophages were stimulated with the Th2 cytokine IL-4, for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Conditioned medium (CM) from bone marrow derived macrophages untreated or treated with LPS was collected and filtered through a 0.22-μm filter. The filtered CM was sequentially fractionated with 50-kDa and 100-kDa Amicon filters. The 50–100 kDa fraction of CM was analyzed by mass spectrometry.
Project description:Macrophages were derived from the bone-marrow of 3 x fl/+ Dicer LysCre +/- (wild-type) and 3 x fl/fl Dicer LysCre +/- mice and stimulated with IL-4 (50ng/mL) for 72h. Total RNA was isolated and analyzed by gene array.
Project description:Effects of SOCS3 on the transcriptional response of bone marrow-derived macrophages to IL-6. Fetal liver cells from SOCS3+/+ or SOCS3-/- embryos were used to reconstitute recipient mice. Donor derived bone marrow from these mice was differentiated to macrophages. Macrophages were either unstimulated, or stimulated for 100 or 400 minutes with 10 ng/ml IL-6. Keywords = macrophage, SOCS3, IL-6, interferon
Project description:Mast cells are tissue resident granulocytes which are most abundant at the interface between tissues and the external environment, such as around blood vessels, in the skin or mucosal surfaces in the lungs and gut. Pathologically they are involved in allergic reactions and anaphylaxis, however they may also play protective roles in responses to some infections, particularly to pathogenic helminths. Mast cells also express high levels of the IL-33 receptor, which like TLRs, activates Myd88 dependent signalling pathways to drive de novo cytokine production in mast cells.IL-33 is a member of the IL-1 family known to stimulate a number of immune cell types including mast cells. IL-33 is a strong activator of de novo cytokine production in mast cells without inducing degranulation, although it has also been shown to synergise with other signals to promote degranulation. Bone Marrow-Derived Mast cells (BMMCs) were cultured as described previously [27]. Briefly, bone marrow was flushed in PBS and the cells pelleted by centrifugation. Cells were cultured at 1 million cells per ml in RPMI 1640 supplemented with 10% FBS (Biosera/Labtech), 5 mM l‐Glutamine (GIBCO Life Technologies), 100 U/ml Penicillin (GIBCO Life Technologies), 100 μg/ml Streptomycin (GIBCO Life Technologies), 25 mM HEPES (Lonza), 1 mM sodium pyruvate (Lonza), 1X nonessential amino acids (Lonza), 50 μM 2‐mercaptoethanol and 30 ng/ml IL‐3 (PeproTech). Cells were passaged twice per week and used between passage 12 and 16. 4 independent BMMC cultures were either stimulated with 10 ng/ml IL-33 for 48 hours or left unstimulated, followed by single shot LC-MS analysis.
Project description:Alternative macrophages are critical in parasites defense, the resolution of inflammation and wound healing. RNA modifications, which are defined as post-transcriptional changes in the chemical composition of RNA molecules, are involved in the immune response.Among tRNA-modifying enzymes which target the tRNA anticodon, Elongator and Cytosolic thiouridylase (Ctu)-1/2 complexes exclusively modify the wobble uridine (U34) base in cytosolic tRNAs. However, the full picture of how mRNA translational factors maintain protein synthesis accuracy and co-translational protein folding are far from being fully understood.To address this question,we evaluated the role of Elp3 on protein in the IL4 induced alternative bone marrow derived macrophages (BMDMs). The BMDMs from widetype and Elp3 myeloid specific knockout mice were treated by IL-4 for 24h or not. Then the aggregates were isolated from these BMDMs and performed by MS.
Project description:To compare the expression profile of differentiated mouse bone marrow macrophages (BMM) in response to IL-4, we have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling. For this purpose, bone marrow cells were isolated from 8 to 12 weeks old C57BL6/J and Balb/cAnNCrl mice and cultured in the presence of the macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF). After seven days of culture, IL-4 was added for 4 and 18 hours. Keywords: Mice strain comparison; Gene expression profiling IL-4 induced gene expression was investigated in mouse bone marrow macrophages (BMM) of C57BL6/J and Balb/cAnNCrl mice. Differentiated BMM were incubated with mouse recombinant IL-4 for 4 or 18 hours or without for 18 hours. Two independent experiments were performed at each time (mock, 4 and 18 hours) using different mice littermates for each experiment.