Project description:Wnt1 has major anabolic functions in bone metabolism. We investigated the effect of recombinant murine Wnt1/Sfrp1 complex on the mesenchymal cell line ST2. We used microarray analysis to detail the global gene expression of ST2 cells in response to 6 hour of treatment with 100 ng recombinant Wnt1/Sfrp1 complex.
Project description:Wnt1 has major anabolic functions in bone metabolism. We investigated the effect of of Wnt1 on the mesenchymal cell line ST2 by transfecting it with a pLNCX-Wnt1 expression plasmid. We used microarray analysis to detail the global gene expression of ST2 cells 5 days after transfection with 1 µg pLNCX-Wnt1.
Project description:In diabetics, methylglyoxal (MG), a glucose-derived metabolite, plays a noxious role by inducing oxidative stress, which causes and exacerbates a series of complications. With the use of microarray analysis, we comprehensively screened the gene expression profiles of ST2 cells, derived from a multipotent bone marrow stromal cell line, in the presence or absence of oxidative stress induced by100 M-NM-<M methylglyoxal (MG) treatment to charactrize genes related to diabetic complications. Mouse bone marrow stromal cell-line ST2 (RIKEN, Tsukuba, Japan) was cultured in M-NM-1-MEM (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) supplemented with 10% FBS (Sigma), 100 M-NM-<g/ ml penicillin/ streptomycin (ICN Biomedicals, Inc., Aurora, OH) and 100 M-NM-<M methylglyoxal (MG), and maintained at 37M-BM-0C in a humidified atmosphere with 5% CO2. Total RNA was isolated from ST2 cells treated with or without 100 M-NM-<M methylglyoxal (MG) or 1 M-NM-<M of 5-aza-2M-bM-^@M-^Y-deoxycytidine (5-aza-dC) by standard methods with the use of an RNeasy Protect Mini kit (Qiagen KK, Tokyo, Japan) according to the manufacturerM-bM-^@M-^Ys instructions. Cy3, Cy5 differential expression asasy by Mouse 32K Filgen array
Project description:Colorectal cancer (CRC) was induced in Foxp3/eGFP reporter mice by the azoxymethane/dextran sulphate sodium salt (AOM/DSS) protocol. Mice were injected i.p. with the procarcinogen AOM (12.5 mg/kg of body weight). After 1 week, mice received drinking water supplemented with 2.5% DSS for 5 to 7 days, followed by 2 weeks of regular water. The DSS administration was repeated twice with 2% DSS. Mice were sacrificed at week 11 and lamina propia lymphocytes (LPLs) from the colon were isolated. CD4+FOXP3+ (eGFP+) ST2+ or ST2- Tregs were separated from colonic LPLs of CRC induced mice using a FACSAria II cell sorter. Microarray analysis was performed to analyze if ST2+ FOXP3+ Tregs from the colon of CRC mice present a distinct transcription pattern compared to ST2- FOXP3+ Tregs. By this, the role of ST2 for Treg function during intestinal tumorigenesis should be characterized.
Project description:ST2 functions as a receptor for the cytokine IL-33. It has been implicated in carcinogenesis. In this study, we sought to mechanistically determine how ST2 and IL-33 function to support cancer stem cell (CSC) activity and drive gastric cancer (GC) pathogenesis. We used microarrays to detail the global program of gene expression among S1M ST2 high and low cells and to identify distinct classes of genes upregulated in this process.
Project description:Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) are critical mediators of peripheral tolerance and immune homeostasis. Tregs that express the IL-33 receptor ST2 are enriched in peripheral nonlymphoid tissues and can exert a variety of tissue-specific functions from metabolic regulation within adipose tissue to skeletal muscle repair. However, the relationship between ST2+ and ST2- Tregs within and across different tissues remains unclear. To compare murine ST2- and ST2+ Tregs within and across tissues, we performed RNA sequencing (RNAseq) of ST2-CD44hi and ST2+CD44hi Tregs from blood, spleen, lungs, visceral adipose tissue (VAT), colon, and skin. RNAseq was also performed on ST2- CD44lo CD62L+ Tregs from the spleen and lungs. We found that the tissue microenvironment was the major factor shaping the transcriptome of Tregs across tissues. Across the tissues studied, Treg transcriptomes displayed an ordered hierarchy that may represent graded levels of activation or differentiation across tissues. We also identified a core signature that distinguished ST2+ Tregs from ST2- Tregs across tissues and a large number of differentially expressed genes between ST2- and ST2+ Tregs within individual tissues that could support the tissue-specific adaptation and function of ST2+ Tregs. In summary, our work highlights the unique, tissue-specific phenotype of ST2+ Tregs and reveals a core ST2+ Treg transcriptional signature shared across tissues.
Project description:Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a serious genetic bone disorder characterized by congenital low bone mass, deformity and frequent fractures. Type XV OI is a moderate to severe form of skeletal dysplasia caused by WNT1 mutations. In this cohort study from southern China, we summarized the clinical phenotypes of patients with WNT1 mutations and found the proportion of type XV patients was around 10.3% (25 out of 243) with diverse phenotypic spectrums. Functional assays indicated that mutations of WNT1 significantly impaired its secretion and effective activity, leading to moderate to severe clinical manifestations, porous bone structure and enhanced osteoclastic activities. Analysis of proteomic data from human skeleton indicated that the expression of SOST was dramatically reduced in type XV patients. Single-cell transcriptome data generated from human tibia samples revealed aberrant differentiation trajectory of skeletal progenitors and impaired maturation of osteocytes, resulting in excessive CXCL12+ progenitors and abnormal cell populations with adipogenic characteristics. The integration of multi-omics data from human skeleton delineates how WNT1 regulates the differentiation and maturation of skeletal progenitors, which will provide a new direction for the treatment strategy of type XV osteogenesis imperfecta and relative low bone mass diseases such as early onset osteoporosis.
Project description:The effects of IL-33 on ST2+ Treg cells were not studied thouroughly. We FACS-sorted in vitro expanded ST2+ Treg cells from C57BL/6 Foxp3-IRES-mRFP (B6 FIR) mice. We next used RNA-seq techonology to define how recombinant IL-33 (rIL-33) may impact mouse Treg by to assessing the transcriptome of IL-33-stimulated ST2+ Treg cells compared to that of untreated ST2+ Treg cells. Our data revealed that ST2+ Treg stimulated with rIL-33 for 6 hours exhibited increased expression of Il10 and Il13 compared to unstimulated ST2+ Treg cells.