Project description:Effect of phenobarbital on Sf9 cell cultures genes expression. RNA from phenobarbital treated Sf9 cell cultures were compared to control treated (DMSO) Sf9 cell
Project description:The human Adeno-Associated Virus serotype 2 (WT AAV2) is a common non-pathological virus and its recombinant form (rAAV) is widely used as gene therapy vector. However, it has been shown that WT AAV2 and recombinant AAV display significantly different characteristics, especially regarding infection rate, with a near perfect infectivity and better encapsidation rate of WT AAV2. Even though rAAVs are routinely produced in the Baculovirus/Sf9 cell system, WT AAV2 has never been produced in this context. To understand the infectivity and encapsidation rate differences between WT AAV2 and rAAV, we tried to produce WT AAV2 in baculovirus/Sf9 cells system hypothesizing that the WT AAV2 may be considered as a normal recombinant AAV transgene. Through our attempts to produce WT AAV2 in Baculovirus/Sf9, we found that WT AAV2 p5 promoter, which controls the expression of large Rep proteins in mammalian cells, was active in this system. p5 promoter activity in the baculovirus/Sf9 cell system led to the expression of Rep78 that finally excises WT AAV2 genome from the baculovirus genome during the earliest phase of baculovirus stock production. The p5 promoter expression kinetics and the specific strand RNA-Seq analysis of the WT AAV2, rAAV Rep2/Cap2 cassettes in the baculovirus context was performed. We demonstrate that the WT AAV2 native promoters, p5, p19 and p40 are all active and lead to the expression of different proteins and peptides. In addition, this study demonstrates that the baculovirus brings at least some of the helper functions needed in the AAV replication/life cycle.
Project description:Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNA) function in guiding 2'-O-methylation and pseudouridylation of ribosomal RNAs. But we found that knock down of a C/D box snoRNA, Bm-15, can induce apoptosis of insect Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 cells. For the genome sequence of Spodoptera frugiperda is incomplete, here with the de novo sequencing method, transcriptome of Spodoptera frugiperda cell line Sf9 were sequenced after being transfected with overexpression vector and repression probes of snoRNA Bm-15. Results showed that 21 apoptosis-related genes were up-regulated upon Bm-15 inhibition and down-regulated with Bm-15 overexpression.
Project description:The phosphorylation profile of Sgk3 protein expressed either in Sf9 insect cells or HEK 293T human cells was assessed by mass spectrometry.
Project description:We combined the Single-probe single cell MS(SCMS) experimental technique with a bioinformatics software package, SinCHet-MS (Single Cell Heterogeneity for Mass Spectrometry), to characterize changes of tumor heterogeneity, quantify cell subpopulations, and prioritize the metabolite biomarkers of each subpopulation.
Project description:With more than 130 clinical trials and eight approved gene therapy products, AAVs stand as one of the most popular vehicles to deliver therapeutic DNA in vivo. One critical quality attribute analyzed in AAV batches is the presence of residual DNA, as it could pose genotoxic risks or induce immune responses. Surprisingly, the presence of small cell‑derived RNAs, such as micro‑RNAs, has not been previously investigated. In this study, we examined the presence of miRNAs in purified AAV batches produced in mammalian or in insect cells. Our findings revealed that miRNAs were present in all batches, regardless of the production cell line or capsid serotype (2 and 8). Quantitative assays indicated that miRNAs were co‑purified with the rAAV particles in a proportion correlated with their abundance in the production cells. The level of residual miRNAs was reduced via an immunoaffinity chromatography purification process including a tangential flow filtration step or by RNase treatment, suggesting that most miRNA contaminants are likely non encapsidated into AAV particles. In summary, we demonstrate, for the first time, that miRNAs are co-purified with AAV particles. Further investigations are required to determine whether these miRNAs could interfere with the safety or efficacy of AAV-mediated gene therapy.
Project description:Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived dopamine neurons provide an opportunity to model Parkinson’s disease (PD) but neuronal cultures are confounded by cellular heterogeneity. By applying high-resolution single cell transcriptomic analyses to Parkinson’s iPSC-derived dopamine neurons carrying the GBA-N370S risk variant, we exploited intra-culture cellular heterogeneity to identify a progressive axis of gene expression variation leading to endoplasmic reticulum stress. Analysis of genes differentially-expressed (DE) along this axis identified the transcriptional repressor histone deacetylase 4 (HDAC4) as an upstream regulator of disease progression. HDAC4 was mislocalized to the nucleus in PD iPSC-derived dopamine neurons and repressed genes early in the disease axis, leading to late deficits in protein homeostasis. Treatment of iPSC-derived dopamine neurons with compounds known to modulate HDAC4 activity upregulated genes early in the DE axis, and corrected Parkinson’s-related cellular phenotypes. Our study demonstrates how single cell transcriptomics can exploit cellular heterogeneity to reveal disease mechanisms and identify therapeutic targets.
Project description:KKT23 is a kinetoplastid kinetochore protein that has structural similarity to the GCN5 acetyltransferase domain. We performed crosslinking mass spectrometry of the recombinant KKT3-KKT22-KKT23 complex purified from Sf9 insect cells.