Project description:This study aimed to investigate the mechanism of C2S-induced macrophagic inflammation and its’ effect on osteogenic differentiation of precursor cells. This study used the C2S (75-150 μg/ml) extract to induce macrophagic inflammation in RAW264.7 murine macrophages. RNA sequencing was preformed for analyzing mechanism of mitochondrial function and autophagy.
Project description:Toxoplasma strains are known to inhibit the expression of several interferon-gamma induced genes, and a type II strain was shown to dysregulate genome-wide responses to interferon-gamma in human fibroblasts (Kim et al., 2007, J Immunol.). In this study we aimed to determine the effect of infection with three clonal lineages of Toxoplasma, type I, II, and III strains on genome-wide interferon-gamma induced transcription in murine macrophages. We also assessed the effect of the two main Toxoplasma modulators of mouse macrophage transcription, ROP16 and GRA15 (Jensen et al., 2011, Cell Host Microbe). We used Affymetrix microarrays to analyze host cell transcription after Toxoplasma infection and interferon-gamma stimulation. RAW264.7 murine macrophages were left uninfected or infected with type I (RH), type I ?rop16 (RH ?rop16), type II (Pru), type II ?gra15 (Pru ?gra15), or type II (CEP) parasites at an MOI ~5 for 18 hours and subsequently stimulated with murine IFN-? for six hours. Plaque assays were done to assess parasite viability. Total RNA was isolated and hybridized to Affymetrix Mouse 430A 2.0 gene chips.
Project description:To identify novel LXR target genes, we conducted transcriptional profiling studies using RAW264.7 cells ectopically expressing LXRalpha Total RNA was isolated from RAW264.7 macrophages ectopically expressing LXRalpha as described in Venkateswaran et al. (2000); PNAS 97, 12097-12102. Cells were cultured with DMSO or GW3965 (1 μM) and LG268 (100 nM). Transcriptional profiling was performed at the UCLA microarray core facility using murine Affymetrix 430 2.0 microarrays.