Project description:Small intestinal group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3) from ILC3-conditional BMAL1 knock out mice or littermate control mice were sort-purified for transcriptional analysis
Project description:To assess the role of LSD1 in mouse small intestinal epithelium, we isolated small intestinal crypts and villus from wild type (WT) (Villin-Cre -; Lsd1f/f) and intestinal-epithelial-specific knock-out (cKO) (Villin-Cre+; Lsd1f/f) mice. This experiment uses a new Cre strain with 100% recombination efficiency. RNA was directly isolated from the crypt and villus, and this was used for RNAseq. Gene expression analysis of cKO derived crypt and villus provides a spatially restricted outlook on the maturation status of the intestinal epithelium in the villi and the absence of Paneth cells in the crypt. Additionally, these mice were treated with antibiotics to study epithelium intrinsic changes related to LSD1 deletion but independent of the bacterial microbiome.
Project description:The rs58542926 C>T variant of the transmembrane 6 superfamily member 2 gene (TM6SF2), encoding an E167K amino acid substitution, is associated with liver disease and cardiovascular disease. Therefore, we determined the long-term effects of this coding variant of TM6SF2 on glucose metabolism in mice with CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-in of TM6SF2 E167K (Tm6sf2 KI) and compared to littermate wild-type mice.
Project description:We processed RNA-sequencing on splenic CD11b+ macrophages isolated from 10-week old Mettl3f/f-LysM-Cre KO and littermate WT mice. NO_4-1, NO_4-2 are Mettl3f/f-LysM-Cre KO. NO_5-2, NO_5-3 are WT littermate controls.
Project description:Gene expression from 2 livers and 2 hearts from mouse Mut-ko/ki (MUT p.M700K) described in Forny et al JBC 2016 and 3 livers, 2 hearts from littermate controls
Project description:Mucolipidosis type II (MLII) is a severe inherited multisystemic disorder caused by mutations in the GNPTAB gene. Skeletal abnormalities are a predominant feature of MLII. Here we investigate the gene expression in a knock-in mouse model for mucolipidosis type II, generated by the insertion of a cytosine in the murine Gnptab gene (c.3082insC) that is homologous to a homozygous mutation in an MLII patient. Since osteoblasts are critically involved in regulating bone development and remodeling, a genome-wide expression analysis was performed with RNA isolated from primary cultures of osteoblasts originating from MLII knock-in mice (KI) compared to RNA from wild-type (WT) osteoblasts to identify dysregulated genes involved in pathogenic mechanisms. Primary osteoblasts were isolated from calvaria of 5-day-old wild-type (WT) and MLII knock-in littermates (KI). RNA was extracted at day 10 of differentiation induced by ascorbic acid and beta-glycerophosphate and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. We used preparations of RNA from two individual primary cultures of osteoblasts for every genotype (WT_OB_I, WT_OB_II, KI_OB_I, KI_OB_II) and compared WT vs KI samples.
Project description:IgA+ Plasma Cells were sort-purified from the small intestinal lamina prorpia of mice with a B cell lineage-intrinsic deletion of Arntl (Mb1 Cre+/- x Arntl fl/fl) or Cre negative littermate controls (also deisgnated WT and KO), at two Zeitgeber time points (ZT0 and ZT12). RNA extracted from these samples was subjected to bulk RNA seq to identify time of day differences and to compare role of Arntl expression in this context.
Project description:In this project, we profiled small intestinal epithelium and lamina propria immune cells from 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-weeks old wild type (WT) littermate animals using 10X droplet based RNA sequencing of single cells. In the second part, we profiled small intestinal epithelium, lamina propria immune cells as well as intraepithelial immune cells from 5-weeks old WT mice derived from Jackson laboratories and littermate colonized with SFB (segmented filamentous bacteria) 2 weeks prior to analysis, using the same approach.
Project description:Immunoglobulin A (IgA) is the major secretory immunoglobulin isotype at mucosal surfaces where it regulates microbial commensalism and excludes luminal factors from contacting intestinal epithelial cells (IEC). IEC endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress induces a polyreactive IgA response which protects from small intestinal inflammation. IEC ER stress causes expansion and activation of peritoneal B1b cells independent of microbiota and T cells that culminates in increased lamina propria and luminal IgA. Xbp1dIEC mice exhibit IEC ER stress by conditional deletion of X-box-binding protein 1 (XBP1). Here we examine differentially expressed genes in peritoneal B1b cells of germ-free Xbp1dIEC mice compared to littermate (WT) controls.