Project description:We performed lineage tracing studies using various genetic models, and found that cardiac mesenchymal cells (MCs) contribute to CAs in postnatal development and adult homeostasis. We found that PDGFRb+ cells are heterogenous, and demonstrated that PDGFRb+ MCs, but not NG2+ coronary vascular mural cells, are the major source of intramyocardial adipocytes. We performed single cell RNA sequencing to compare the heterogeneity.
Project description:Purpose: Pericytes, the mural cells of blood microvessels, have come into focus as regulators of microvascular development and function, but due to paucity of defining markers, the identification and functional characterization of PC remain problematic, and reported data are often controversial. Here, we used a new approach for the isolation of mural cell from mouse brain in combination with RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) and previously published vascular transcriptome data to assemble a state-of-the-art catalogue of brain mural cell-enriched gene transcripts. Methods: We isolated double positive cells from the brain of Pdgfrb-eGFP/NG2-DsRed transgenic mice using FACS. Cells were lysed, RNA extracted and sequenced with next-generation sequencing (NGS). For comparison, we also determined the transcriptome of brain microvascular fragments (containing both endothelial cells and mural cells) isolated by mechanical tissue disintegration, collagenase digestion and immune-panning using anti-CD31 antibodies coupled to magnetic beads. The reads were aligned to the Ensembl mouse gene assembly (NCBIM37) using Tophat2 software (version 2.0.4). The duplicated reads were removed using the picard tool (version 1.92). To identify the genes significantly enriched in the pericyte samples as compared with microvascular samples, statistical tests were performed using the Cufflinks tool (version 2.2.1) Results: The result showed that mRNA transcripts representing 856 different genes were enriched more than two-fold in FACS isolated Pdgfrb-eGFP/NG2-DsRed double positive cells compared with whole microvascular fragments (False Discovery Rate < 0.05) The RNA from three FACS sorted brain mural cell samples and three whole brain microvascular samples isolated from three animals were processed and sequenced on the Illumina HiSeq 2500 platform in the sequencing facility in Uppsala University.
Project description:Various transgenic CreER;tdTomato mouse-lines (Pdgfrb-CreER, Col1a1-CreER, Gli1-CreER, Cdh5-CreER, Myh11-CreER, Ng2-CreER) were pulsed with tamoxifen and subjected to either Sham or TAC surgery at 21 days after tamoxifen induction. Two and four weeks later, tdTomato-positive cells were isolated from hearts by FACS sorting and 10x Genomics scRNA 3'RNA sequencing pipeline was applied. We identified fibroblast, endothelial cells, mural cells and Schwann cells as major cardiac cell types in our samples. Gene expression changes between subtypes of the major cell types point towards a general upregulation of extra cellular matrix related genes, with fibroblasts being the highest producer.
2022-04-14 | GSE166403 | GEO
Project description:Postnatal Mouse Mesenchymal Cells Contribute to Cardiac Fat
Project description:Purpose: Pericytes, the mural cells of blood microvessels, have come into focus as regulators of microvascular development and function, but due to paucity of defining markers, the identification and functional characterization of PC remain problematic, and reported data are often controversial. Here, we used a new approach for the isolation of mural cell from mouse brain in combination with RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) and previously published vascular transcriptome data to assemble a state-of-the-art catalogue of brain mural cell-enriched gene transcripts. Methods: We isolated double positive cells from the brain of Pdgfrb-eGFP/NG2-DsRed transgenic mice using FACS. Cells were lysed, RNA extracted and sequenced with next-generation sequencing (NGS). For comparison, we also determined the transcriptome of brain microvascular fragments (containing both endothelial cells and mural cells) isolated by mechanical tissue disintegration, collagenase digestion and immune-panning using anti-CD31 antibodies coupled to magnetic beads. The reads were aligned to the Ensembl mouse gene assembly (NCBIM37) using Tophat2 software (version 2.0.4). The duplicated reads were removed using the picard tool (version 1.92). To identify the genes significantly enriched in the pericyte samples as compared with microvascular samples, statistical tests were performed using the Cufflinks tool (version 2.2.1) Results: The result showed that mRNA transcripts representing 856 different genes were enriched more than two-fold in FACS isolated Pdgfrb-eGFP/NG2-DsRed double positive cells compared with whole microvascular fragments (False Discovery Rate < 0.05)
Project description:Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) signaling regulates perivascular cell or mural cell association with the blood-vessel endothelial cells. Mural cells express the receptor of the signaling, pdgfrb. Besides mural cells the outer epithelial layer of the heart, epicardium and epicardial derived cells express pdgfrb. In this dataset we characterized pdgfrb expressing cells in adult zebrafish heart ventricles in AB wildtype fish, pdgfrb loss-of-function mutant fish. Since pdgfrb is activated in injured zebrafish heart, we aslo compared pdgfrb expressing cells in injured (amputated, 7 days post amputation) heart ventricle with similar cells in uninjured hearts.
Project description:Pericytes(PCs) are mural cells embedded in the capillary basal lamina. Some PC populations exhibit multipotency, similar to mesenchymal stem cells. Here, the the process of adaptation was investigated by determining changes in transcript profiles when NG2 positive PCs were deleted. PC-deletion was induced by using NG2CreER(+/-)/diphtheria toxin flagment A(DTA) transgenic mice. Cre recombinase was induced by tamoxifen(Tam) treatment(intraperitoneally, 100mg/kg body weight per day) for 5days. Samples were collected at 1month after Tam treatment.
Project description:Chronic low-grade visceral white adipose tissue (WAT) inflammation is a hallmark of metabolic syndrome in obesity. Here, we demonstrate that a specific subpopulation of adipose tissue perivascular (PDGFRb+) stromal cells, termed “fibro-inflammatory progenitors” (FIPs), activate pro-inflammatory signaling cascades shortly after the onset of high-fat diet feeding of mice and control the accumulation of pro-inflammatory macrophages in WAT. The activation of FIPs is mediated by the downregulation of ZFP423, identified here as a transcriptional co-regulator of NFkB. Biochemical analysis of ZFP423-protein complexes and ChIP-seq analysis reveal that ZFP423 suppresses the DNA-binding capacity of the p65 subunit of NFkB by inducing a co-regulator switch. Doxycycline-inducible expression of Zfp423 in PDGFRb+ cells suppresses inflammatory signaling in FIPs and attenuates macrophage accumulation within visceral WAT of obese mice. Conversely, inducible inactivation of Zfp423 in PDGFRb+ cells increases FIP activity, exacerbates adipose macrophage accrual, and promotes WAT dysfunction in obese mice. These studies implicate mural cells as sentinels and gatekeepers of adipose tissue inflammation in obesity.