Project description:Spheroid cells derived from colon cancer patients was treated with Y-27632, a ROCK inhibitor, and we have performed whole genome microarray expression assay.
Project description:Microarray expression data from three different cell lines of human embrionic stem cells (Hs181, Hs293, Hs420), grown under feeder and feeder-free conditions (matrigel) with the addition of Y-27632 (ROCK Inhibitor) We assessed the difference between cell lines and the impact of feeder-free vs matrigel conditions upon the addition of the ROCK Inhibitor Y-27632
Project description:Cen3tel cells, obtained by telomerase immortalization of human fibroblasts, gradually underwent neoplastic transformation and became metastatic in immunocompromised mice. Neoplastic transformation was associated with a change in cell morphology (from fibroblastic to polygonal). Tumorigenic cells acquired a clear-cut membrane localization of adhesion molecules, a reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton, increased cell motility and invasiveness. In a 3-dimensional environment, tumorigenic cells showed a spherical morphology with cortical actin rings, suggesting a switch from a mesenchymal to an amoeboid ROCK-dependent movement. Accordingly, cell invasion decreased upon treatment with the ROCK inhibitor Y27632, but not with the matrix protease inhibitor Ro28-2653. The increased invasiveness of tumorigenic cen3tel cells was associated with a reduced expression of RhoE, a cellular inhibitor of ROCK. Ectopic RhoE expression decreased cen3tel invasion capability. These results point to RhoE and ROCK as regulators of invasiveness of mesenchymal tumor cells and indicate ROCK as a possible therapeutic target. The cen3tel telomerase immortalized cell line was obtained from primary cen3 fibroblasts, derived from a centenarian individual, by infection with an hTERT-containing retrovirus (Mondello et al., 2003). Cen3tel cells were used at different steps of propagation, reflecting different phases of transformation (Zongaro et al., 2005) to study variations in the migratory and invasive potential accompanying human fibroblast neoplastic transformation. Raw data files: *NORM.txt test is Cy5 and *DS.txt test is Cy3.
Project description:Cen3tel cells, obtained by telomerase immortalization of human fibroblasts, gradually underwent neoplastic transformation and became metastatic in immunocompromised mice. Neoplastic transformation was associated with a change in cell morphology (from fibroblastic to polygonal). Tumorigenic cells acquired a clear-cut membrane localization of adhesion molecules, a reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton, increased cell motility and invasiveness. In a 3-dimensional environment, tumorigenic cells showed a spherical morphology with cortical actin rings, suggesting a switch from a mesenchymal to an amoeboid ROCK-dependent movement. Accordingly, cell invasion decreased upon treatment with the ROCK inhibitor Y27632, but not with the matrix protease inhibitor Ro28-2653. The increased invasiveness of tumorigenic cen3tel cells was associated with a reduced expression of RhoE, a cellular inhibitor of ROCK. Ectopic RhoE expression decreased cen3tel invasion capability. These results point to RhoE and ROCK as regulators of invasiveness of mesenchymal tumor cells and indicate ROCK as a possible therapeutic target.
Project description:Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) remains the leading cause of non-relapse mortality after allogeneic stem cell transplantation for haematological malignancies. Manifestations of GVHD in the central nervous system (CNS) present as neurocognitive dysfunction in up to 60% of patients, however, the mechanisms driving chronic GVHD in the CNS are yet to be elucidated. Our studies of murine chronic GVHD revealed a spatial learning and memory deficit associated with inflammation in the hippocampus underlain by persistent Ifng upregulation. By flow cytometry, we observed a proportional shift in the donor-derived T-cell population in the chronic GVHD brain from early CD8 dominance to later CD4 sequestration. Hippocampal RNA sequencing identified perturbations to structural and functional synapse-related gene expression, together with the upregulation of genes associated with IFN-γ responses and antigen presentation. Neuroinflammation in the cortex of mice and humans during acute GVHD was recently shown to be mediated by resident microglia-derived TNF. In contrast, infiltration of pro-inflammatory MHC class II+ donor bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM) was identified as a distinguishing feature of CNS chronic GVHD. Donor BMDM, which comprised up to 50% of the CNS myeloid population, exhibited a transcriptional signature distinct from resident microglia. Recipients of MHC class II knockout bone marrow grafts exhibited attenuated neuroinflammation, suggestive of a critical role for donor BMDM in chronic CNS GVHD. Our identification of disease mediators distinct from those in the acute phase indicates the necessity to pursue alternative therapeutic targets for late-stage neurological manifestations.
Project description:Understanding the role of myeloid cells in GvHD of CNS. Microglia are the major immune cells of the CNS. We intend to understand if microglia play a role in GvHD of the CNS.
Project description:After thawing, the mechanism of apoptosis advancing in human ES cells was invesitigated mainly by Gene conpath analysis. As time passed after thawing, nuclear fragmented cells increased more and more in cR-/mR- and cR+/mR-, but in cR+/mR+ and cR-/mR+, thawed cells formed cluster markedly, which was seen among three cell lines. Flow cytometry using TUNEL assay supported final colony formation ratio, which defined that such cell death was due to apoptosis. Gene map analysis 12 hours later after thawing of cR-/mR- showed activation of IL-1? & its receptor IL-1R and TGF-? & its receptor ACVR1C required for activation of caspase-8, initiation of caspase-8 and 10 and marked activation of ARHGDIB promoting actin reorganization comparing to cR+/mR+. Recovered cell lines in any condition did not lose proliferation and pluripotency regardless of ROCK inhibitor treatment.?These results showed apoptotic events after thawing were more marked in cR- and advanced through autoenhanced cascaded mechanism followed by initiation of self-cytokain activity, and were suppressed by ROCK inhibitor Y-27632. To investigate the protective mechanism caused by a novel cryo-technique of human embryonic stem (hES) cells using ROCK inhibitor Y-27632 against the cell death due to cryopreservation and thawing with Gene map analysis in addition to estimations of survival rate, apoptosis, undifferentiated states and pluripotency, the dissociated hES cells were cryopreserved in a freezing container in the following four conditions: addition of 10µM of Y-27632 to 1: cryoprotection solution and post-thawing medium (cR+/mR+), 2: only addition to cryoprotection (cR+/mR-), 3: only addition to post-thawing medium (cR-/mR+), 4: no addition to any medium (cR-/mR-).