Project description:We examine the global effect of hBD3 on transcription in TLR4-stimulated macrophages and for the first time show that hBD3 inhibits the transcription of critical pro-inflammatory genes. Among the repressed genes we detect significant enrichment of groups involved in the positive regulation of NFkappaB including components of Toll-like receptor signaling pathways. Total RNA obtained from bone marrow derived macrophages (BMDM) that have been subjected to 6 hour treatment with KLA, KLA&hBD3, hBD3 or untreated. There are 3 biological replicates per group.
Project description:We performed a phase I clinical trial to assess the safety and feasibility of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) and re-induction of anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in patients with anti-PD-1-refractory metastatic melanoma. FMT donors were two metastatic melanoma patients who achieved a durable complete response. FMT recipient patients were metastatic melanoma patients who failed at least one anti-PD-1 line of treatment. Each recipient patient received FMT implants from only one of the two donors. FMT was conducted by both colonoscopy and oral ingestion of stool capsules, followed by anti-PD-1 re-treatment (Nivolumab, BMS). Recipient patients underwent pre- and post-treatment stool sampling, tissue biopsy of both gut and tumor, and total body imaging. Clinical responses were observed in three patients, including two partial responses and one complete response. Notably, treatment with FMT was associated with favorable changes in immune cell infiltrates and gene expression profiles in both the gut lamina propria and the tumor microenvironment.
Project description:Lysine lactylation (Kla) links metabolism and gene regulation and plays a key role in multiple biological processes. However, the regulatory mechanism and functional consequence of Kla remain to be explored. Here, we report that HBO1 functions as a lysine lactyltransferase to regulate transcription. Interestingly, CUT&Tag assays demonstrate that HBO1 is required for histone H3K9la on TSSs and the regulated Kla can facilitate in signaling pathways and progress of tumorigenesis. Our study reveals HBO1 serves as a lactyltransferase to mediate a histone Kla-dependent gene transcription.
Project description:Hypoxia promotes tumorigenesis and lactate accumulation in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Lactate can induce histone lysine lactylation (Kla, a recently-identified histone marks) to regulate transcription. However, the functional consequence of histone Kla under hypoxia in ESCC remains to be explored. Here, we reveal that hypoxia facilitates histone H3K9la to enhance LAMC2 transcription for proliferation of ESCC. We found that global level of Kla was elevated under hypoxia, and thus identified the landscape of histone Kla in ESCC by quantitative proteomics. Furthermore, we show a significant increase of H3K9la level induced by hypoxia. Next, MNseq ChIP-seq and RNA-seq analysis suggest that H3K9la is enriched at the promoter of cell junction genes. Finally, we demonstrate that the histone H3K9la facilitates the expression of LAMC2 for ESCC invasion by in vivo and in vitro experiments. Briefly, our study reveal a vital role of histone Kla triggered by hypoxia in cancer.
Project description:As a novel post-translational modification of histone derived from lactate, lysine lactylation (Kla) links lactate metabolism to epigenetic regulation, playing a role in modulation of gene expression in tumor and immune microenvironment. Evidence so far indicates that HDAC1-3 can catalyze the removal of Kla. However, the regulated targets of HDACs for Kla and functional consequence remain elusive. Herein, we used an antibody-based proximity labeling approach to identify SIRT3 binding to histone H3K9la and catalytic removal of the lactylationoup. The molecular docking results further revealed the mechanism of the binding of Kla peptide to SIRT3. More importantly, SIRT3 can specifically modulate the gene transcription by regulating H3K9la, inhibiting the progression of esophageal cancer cells (ESCC). In conclusion, our work identifies the delactylase of H3K9la and reveal an H3K9la-mediated molecular mechanism catalyzed by SIRT3 for gene transcription regulation in ESCC, and our findings provide an opportunity to investigate the physiological significance of Kla and shed light on the unknown cellular mechanisms controlled by SIRT3.
2024-08-18 | GSE274648 | GEO
Project description:FMT treatment of hyperuricaemic mice
Project description:In this randomised placebo-controlled trial, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients were treated with faecal material from a healthy donor (n=8, allogenic FMT) or with their own faecal microbiota (n=8, autologous FMT). The faecal transplant was administered by whole colonoscopy into the caecum (30 g of stool in 150 ml sterile saline). Two weeks before the FMT (baseline) as well as two and eight weeks after the FMT, the participants underwent a sigmoidoscopy, and biopsies were collected at a standardised location (20-25 cm from the anal verge at the crossing with the arteria iliaca communis) from an uncleansed sigmoid. In patients treated with allogenic FMT, predominantly immune response-related genes sets were induced, with the strongest response two weeks after FMT. In patients treated with autologous FMT, predominantly metabolism-related gene sets were affected.
Project description:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease in middle-aged and elderly people. The disorder of gut microbiota is involved in the pathophysiological process of various neurological diseases, and many studies have confirmed that gut microbiota is involved in the progression of PD. As one of the most effective methods to reconstruct gut microbiota, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been considered as an important treatment for PD. However, the mechanism of FMT treatment for PD is still lacking, which requires further exploration and can facilitate the application of FMT. As a model organism, Drosophila is highly conserved with mammalian system in maintaining intestinal homeostasis. In this study, there were significant differences in the gut microbiota of conventional Drosophila colonized from PD patients compared to those transplanted from normal controls. And we constructed rotenone-induced PD model in Drosophila followed by FMT in different groups, and investigated the impact of gut microbiome on transcriptome of the PD host. Microbial analysis by 16S rDNA sequencing showed that gut microbiota could affect bacterial structure of PD, which was confirmed by bacterial colonization results. In addition, transcriptome data suggested that gut microbiota can influence gene expression pattern of PD. Further experimental validations confirmed that lysosome and neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction are the most significantly influenced functional pathways by PD-derived gut microbiota. In summary, our data reveals the influence of PD-derived gut microbiota on host transcriptome and helps better understanding the interaction between gut microbiota and PD through gut-brain axis. The present study will facilitate the understanding of the mechanism underlying PD treatment with FMT in clinical practice.
Project description:L-lactate was reported as a precursor that can label and stimulate histone lysine-N-L-lactylation (Kla), which represents a new epigenetic mark affecting gene expression directly via histone PTMs under conditions of high glycolysis, such as the Warburg effect. To investigate the genome-wide targeting of H3K18la, we performed ChIP-seq in H1299 cells using anti-H3K18la antibody. 50.6% of the H3K18la binding sites displayed enrichment close to -1kb promoter of genes. More importantly, our ChIP-seq data showed that H3K18la is enriched in many genes that related with replication processes, highlighted the importance of histone Kla involved in DNA replication.
Project description:To investigate the enhancer/promoter activity in TLR4-regulated inflammatory genes, we used bone marrow-derived macrophages treated with or without KLA. We then analyzed open chromatin regions obtained from ATAC-seq data.