Project description:Hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HS/PCs) were transduced with lentiviral vectors overexpressing OFP and either miR-511-3p or a control, mutated miRNA sequence (miR-511-3p-mut). The transduced HS/PCs were then transplanted in recipient C57BL/6 mice. Tumors (Lewis lung carcinomas, LLC) were injected s.c. 4 weeks after HS/PC transplant. Lentiviral vector-transduced (OFP+), tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) were isolated 4 weeks after LLC injection by fluorescence-activated cell sorting. Gene expression profiles of TAMs overexpressing either miR-511-3p or miR-511-3p-mut were obtained from 3 independent biological samples/each. Gene expression profiles of miRNA-overexpressing TAMs were then compared with the gene expression profiles of wild-type TAMs isolated from LLCs grown in nontransplanted C57BL/6 mice; the latter TAMs were subfractioned into MRC1+CD11c(low) or CD11c+MRC1(low) subsets before RNA isolation and analysis. Comparison of gene expression profiles of TAMs revealed that miR-511-3p overexpression tunes down the expression of multiple genes that are classically upregulated in protumoral MRC1+CD11c(low) TAMs. TAMs were isolated from Lewis lung carcinomas grown s.c. in C57BL/6 mice.
Project description:Hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HS/PCs) were transduced with lentiviral vectors overexpressing OFP and either miR-511-3p or a control, mutated miRNA sequence (miR-511-3p-mut). The transduced HS/PCs were then transplanted in recipient C57BL/6 mice. Tumors (Lewis lung carcinomas, LLC) were injected s.c. 4 weeks after HS/PC transplant. Lentiviral vector-transduced (OFP+), tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) were isolated 4 weeks after LLC injection by fluorescence-activated cell sorting. Gene expression profiles of TAMs overexpressing either miR-511-3p or miR-511-3p-mut were obtained from 3 independent biological samples/each. Gene expression profiles of miRNA-overexpressing TAMs were then compared with the gene expression profiles of wild-type TAMs isolated from LLCs grown in nontransplanted C57BL/6 mice; the latter TAMs were subfractioned into MRC1+CD11c(low) or CD11c+MRC1(low) subsets before RNA isolation and analysis. Comparison of gene expression profiles of TAMs revealed that miR-511-3p overexpression tunes down the expression of multiple genes that are classically upregulated in protumoral MRC1+CD11c(low) TAMs.
Project description:Compare the gene expression profile among armored IL-12 secreting CAR T cells and second-generation CAR T cells and TAMs recovered from both groups
Project description:Active immunotherapy is a promising strategy for anti-angiogenic cancer therapy. Recently, we have reported that a vaccine using human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) induced specific anti-endothelial immune responses in the most of immunized patients, and resulted in tumor regression in some patients with recurrent malignant brain tumors, whereas not in colorectal cancer patients. In this study, we hypothesized that non-hypoxic perivascular tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) in colorectal cancer, but not in glioblastoma, might negatively alter the therapeutic efficacy of anti-angiogenic active immunotherapy. To test this hypothesis, we examined global gene expression profiles of non-hypoxic macrophages stimulated in vitro by soluble factors released from tumor cells of human glioblastoma U-87MG (‘brain TAMs’) or colorectal adenocarcinoma HT-29 (‘colon TAMs’). Murine non-hypoxic TAMs were induced in vitro by incubation with soluble factors released from human cancer cell lines U-87MG ('brain TAMs') or HT-29 ('colon TAMs'), for RNA extraction and subsequent hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. To evaluate homogeneous macrophage populations at different tumour developmental stages, RNA aliquots of control macrophages and TAMs obtained at five different time-points, i.e. 8h, 16h, 24h, 32h and 40h, were pooled and used for screening of differentially expressed genes. The experiments for TAMs as well as for control unstimulated macrophages were performed in triplicates.
Project description:To understand the underlying cause for reduced lung metastasis, we compared global gene expression profiles of F4/80+ FACS sorted tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) PyMT;E2f3 f/f (control) and PyMT;Lys Cre:E2f3 f/f (experimental) mice. We compared gene expression profile between TAMs isolated from mammary tumors of PyMT;E2f3 f/f and PyMT;Lys Cre:E2f3 f/f mice
Project description:TAMs play an important role in MM drug resistance and progression. To determine the mechanisms about how tumor microenvironment regulate the generation of TAMs from normal MΦs in vitro and in vivo. We generated TAMs in vitro by tumor cells-MΦs coculture from CD36 WT and KO mice bone marrow cells. Total RNAs of 2 x 106 MΦs and TAMs were extracted by RNeasy Mini Kit (Qiagen). 5-10 µg RNA samples were sent to Gene Expression and Genotyping Facility at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) for RNA-seq followed by data analysis. We use microarray data to determine differential expression of genes in between normal MΦs and TAMs.
Project description:The gene expression profile of TAMs sorted from vehicle control tumors in GIST mice (Sommer et al, PNAS 2003) was compared to TAMs sorted from mice after 2 weeks of imatinib therapy The Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430A 2.0 platform was used Each treatment group had 8 mice. After 2 weeks of treatment, mice were sacrificed and tumors digested with collagenase. TAMs were then FACS sorted and pooled by group. Pooled groups were run in duplicate for the gene expression array.
Project description:Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are a major component of the leukocyte and a heterogenous population in tumors. Recent reports have increasingly suggested that manipulating the function of TAMs may serve as a promising therapeutic strategy against advanced tumors. Our present work indicates that CSF-1R+ TAMs are abundantly found in a significant proportion of COAD specimens. Therefore,to determine the role of the CSF-1Rhigh TAMs in COAD, we sorted the CSF-1Rhigh TAMs and the CSF-1R low TAMs from the colon adenocarcinomas for Smart-seq2. We found that CSF-1Rhigh TAM infiltration involved in multiple tumor immune signaling pathways. CSF-1Rhigh TAMs mostly exhibited a immunosuppressive phenotypes, and were associated with enhanced levels of Treg cells. CSF-1R high TAMs promotes COAD progression by modulating tumor immunity environment