Project description:The effects of demycarosyl-3D-M-NM-2-D-digitoxosyl-mithramycin SK (DIG-MSK; EC-8042), a novel analogue of the antitumor antibiotic mithramycin A, on gene transcription were examined in human A2780 ovarian carcinoma cells. DIG-MSK down-regulated a different set of genes depending on the drug concentration. Moreover, several genes were significantly up-regulated. These results are rationalized in terms of DIG-MSK competition with Sp1 transcription factor for binding to consensus C/G-rich tracts encompassed in gene promoters. Human A2780 ovarian carcinoma cells were treated with either 8 nM or 80 nM DIG-MSK for 24 h, and RNA was extracted from treated cells as well as from untreated (control) cells.
Project description:The effects of demycarosyl-3D-β-D-digitoxosyl-mithramycin SK (DIG-MSK; EC-8042), a novel analogue of the antitumor antibiotic mithramycin A, on gene transcription were examined in human A2780 ovarian carcinoma cells. DIG-MSK down-regulated a different set of genes depending on the drug concentration. Moreover, several genes were significantly up-regulated. These results are rationalized in terms of DIG-MSK competition with Sp1 transcription factor for binding to consensus C/G-rich tracts encompassed in gene promoters.
Project description:Using CD133 as a pan-ependymal cell marker, we wished to understand whether CD133+ DNGR-1 traced cells constituted a distinct subset of ependymal cells by comparing these at the single cell level with CD133+ non-traced cells purified from spinal cords of DNGR-1 lineage tracer mice.
Project description:Stem cells are defined by two cardinal properties: limitless self-renewal and multipotency. We have serendipitously found that non-haematopoietic DNGR-1 lineage traced cells residing in the ependymal cell layer of the central nervous system display the two cardinal properties of stem cells, both in vitro and in vivo. However, whether these properties were a feature of all DNGR-1-traced cells or were confined to a particular subset of these is unclear. To address the potential heterogeneity of DNGR-1-traced ependymal cells and caractherise their putative stem cell compartment we conducted single-cell RNA sequencing of DNGR-1-traced cells isolated from uninjured spinal cords.
Project description:VSMCs expressing SCA1 have increased proliferative capacity (Dobnikar et al, 2018; Worssam et al, 2022; Pan et al, 2020). We therefore, mapped chromatin accessibility changes using bulk ATAC-seq for SCA1+ and SCA1- lineage traced VSMCs.
Project description:In order to determine the full breath of C5aR and TLR crosstalk in human DC, RNA sequencing analysis on human moDC stimulated in the absence or presence of C5a and TLR4 ligand lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was performed. To minimize interference of induced positive and negative feedback loops, we analyzed gene expression after two hours of DC activation. The involvement of CREB signaling in C5aR and TLR crosstalk was investigated by including moDC stimulated in the presence of MSK inhibitor.