Project description:The Moutan Cortex Radicis (MCR) has been used as an analgesic, sedative and anti-inflammatory agent. This study investigated the changes in gene expression by MCR treatment when stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in cultured human gingival fibroblasts (HGFs) and the gene expression changes by the MCR when challenged with LPS using a microarray chip.
Project description:We tested orphan TCR autoreactivity using the peptide MHC-TCR chimeric receptor (MCR) co-culture system. In this system, cognate antigen recognition leads to TCR specific NFAT activation in MCR reporter cells expressing a mouse I-Ab MHC class II extracellular domain covalently linked to candidate peptides and an intracellular TCR signaling domain. We used mixed autoimmune bone marrow chimera spleens and kidneys as sources of cDNA to generate a transcriptome-wide library of natural autoantigen peptides . We cloned this cDNA-derived peptide (CDP) autoantigen library into the MCR retroviral backbone and transduced NFAT reporter cells to make a murine autoantigen MCR reporter library (MCR-Lib). We then used this library to screen orphan TCRs identified by scTCR-seq for autoreactivity.
Project description:<p>This genomic landscape of Burkitt lymphoma represents a multimodal sequencing of tumors and control tissues and individuals to better understand the etiology, and molecular pathogenesis of Burkitt lymphoma including the roles of the associated Plasmodium falciparum malaria and EBV infections. Comprehensive sequencing set includes genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic datasets in concert with variable clinical phenotypes and outcome information such as anatomical presentation site, in-hospital survival rates, and EBV genome type. The initial deposit represents polyA RNA-seq from tumor specimens from 28 cases of endemic BL and 2 cases of sporadic BL.</p> <p><b>For initial transcriptome analysis see: Kaymaz et al.</b> Comprehensive Transcriptome and Mutational Profiling of Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma Reveals EBV Type-specific Difference. Molecular Cancer Research: MCR, January. doi:10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-16-0305.<br/> <b>For general overview of cohort study see:</b> Buckle et al. Factors influencing survival among Kenyan children diagnosed with endemic Burkitt lymphoma between 2003 and 2011: A historical cohort study. Int J Cancer. 15:1231, 2016.</p>