Project description:Background: Tonsillectomy improves or cures symptoms in patients with palmoplantar pustulosis (PPP) and suppresses disease progression in patients with pustulotic arthro-osteitis (PAO), highlighting the important role of tonsils in the pathogenesis of PPP/PAO. Objective: To identify active inflammatory pathways in the tonsil tissue of patients with PPP/PAO, and to clarify the characteristics of tonsillar microbiota. Methods: We assessed gene expression in tonsil tissue removed from Japanese adults with PPP/PAO or recurrent tonsillitis (RT)/sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) using microarray and quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction analysis. We also performed a comprehensive analysis of the tonsillar microbiota (tonsillar crypts) using next-generation sequencing. Potential associations between tonsillar gene expression and bacterial composition were evaluated. Results: Twenty-five tonsils from patients with PPP/PAO and 15 tonsils from patients with RT/SAS were included. The gene expression of inflammatory cytokines and molecules involved in the Th17, Th2, and Treg pathways was significantly higher in the tonsillar tissue of patients with PPP/PAO than in patients with RT/SAS. There were no significant differences in genus-level tonsillar microbiota between the two groups. Correlation analysis revealed a significant positive correlation between Streptococcus spp. and the expression of Th17 and Th2 pathway genes. Correlation patterns were similar between the PPP/PAO and RT/SAS groups for Streptococcus spp. but differed for the other genera. Conclusion: The tonsils of patients with PPP/PAO are in a complex inflammatory state, with enhanced Th17, Th2, and Treg responses. Members of the Streptococcus genus may be involved in the induction of inflammatory characteristics in PPP/PAO.
Project description:Myeloid antigen presenting cells are a heterogeneous population, and their identity is greatly influenced by niche specific cues. We used single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to analyze the diversity of myeloid antigen presenting cells in tonsillar cancer tissue and paired contralateral healthy tissue.
Project description:Whole transcriptome analysis of in vitro TFH versus naïve CD4 T cells, tonsillar TFH (CXCR5hiPD1hiCD25-TNFR2-) and TFR (CXCR5hiPD1+CD25hiTNFR2+) We used microarray analysis to compare naïve CD4 T cells to in vitro differentiated TFH, which we then compared to ex vivo Tonsillar TFH and TFR.
Project description:Purpose: The goals of this study are to understand the transcriptional changes of human tonsillar epithelial cells UT-SCC-60B in response to EV71 infection and determine the differential expressed genes Methods: Transcriptional profiles of human tonsillar epithelial cells UT-SCC-60B and human tonsillar epithelial cells infected with EV71 were generated by next generation sequencing, in triplicate, using Illumina X-ten/NovaSeq. The sequence reads that passed quality filters were analyzed abundance of mRNA using StringTie, the FPKM values of genes and transcripts were calculated by Ballgown of R software, alternative splicing events were determined by rMATS Results: Using an optimized data analysis workflow, we mapped more than 36 million sequence reads per sample. Total 11137 gene counts and 26860 transcript counts were identified in human tonsillar epithelial cells, 11347 gene counts and 27994 transcript counts were identified in EV71-infected human tonsillar epithelial cells. Total 96 genes and 499 transcripts were down-regulated, 105 genes and 550 transcripts were up-regulated according the criteria that fold changes are more than 1.5, p value less is than 0.05 and mean of FPKM value is more than 0.5 to defined as the differential expressed genes or differential expressed transcripts. Total 11563 novel genes and 14927 novel transcripts were identified and 3266 novel transcripts had the potential coding probabilities. Finally, total 5742 genes occurred alternative splicing events. Conclusions: Our study represents the first detailed analysis of the transcriptional changes of human tonsillar epithelial cells UT-SCC-60B in response to EV71 infection, this results will provide novel insight into the interaction between human tonsillar epithelial cells and EV71
Project description:Tumor-infiltrating regulatory T cells contribute to an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. We applied single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) , TCR sequencing combined with cellular indexing of transcriptomes and epitopes (CITE-seq) on CD4 T cells to decipher the heterogeneity of intratumoral Tregs in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and follicular lymphoma (FL), compared with non-malignant tonsillar tissue.