Project description:Candida albicans, as an opportunistic pathogen, exhibits aberrant changes in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and dominate the colonic mucosal immune response. However, the causative agent in Candida albicans is not clear. We found that Candida albicans in IBD patients had characteristic gene expression, and PMA1 was significantly increased, compared with that in healthy controls. We used a Crispr-Cas9-based fungal strain editing system to knock out the PMA1 gene and demonstrated the important role of PMA1 in Candida albicans-aggravating colitis. Proteomic analysis showed that PMA1 is carried by extracellular vesicles of Candida albicans. Then we found PMA1-containing EVs modulated the migration of cDC2 from the lamina propria to mesenteric lymph nodes, and induced TH17 cell differentiation during colitis. Our results showed that PMA1-containing EVs promote maturation, cytokine secretion and migration of cDC2, thus promoting TH17 differentiation. Moreover, we suggested that the CARD9 expression in DCs is required for recognition of PMA1 within EVs, CARD9 deletion in DCs abrogates cytokine secretion induction by PMA1. Metabolite sequencing analysis results showed that CARD9 can activates glycolysis in DCs. As an adaptor protein, CARD9 can combined with G3P aa2-146 domain through its CARD region. These findings reveal the specific pathogenic factor of Candida albicans–host interactions in colitis progression and highlight new diagnostic and therapeutic targets for diseases of inflammatory origin.
Project description:Activation of inflammatory pathways in human IBD. Leukocyte recruitment pathways including those for eosiniphils are activated in the affected colon in IBD. However, the functional implications of this are not known. We hypothesized that pro-inflammatory eotaxin (CCL11) dependent networks would be up regulated in the colon of pediatric patients with Ulcerative Colitis (UC), and that these would regulate eosinophil recruitment to the gut. These experiments tested differential colon gene expression relative to these pathways in healthy and UC samples. Colon biopsy samples were obtained from UC patients at diagnosis, and healthy controls. The global pattern of gene expression was determined using GeneSpring software, and biological networks were identified using Ingenuity software. Data suggested that a leukocyte recruitment network which includeds CCL11 is up regulated in pediatric UC at diagnosis. The degree of up regulation of these genes compared to healthy controls was remarkably conserved within the UC patient group, suggesting common mechanisms of mucosal inflammation. These experiments tested differential colon gene expression relative to these pathways in healthy and UC samples. Keywords: Single time point in UC and healthy controls.
Project description:Activation of inflammatory pathways in human IBD. Leukocyte recruitment pathways including those for eosiniphils are activated in the affected colon in IBD. However, the functional implications of this are not known. We hypothesized that pro-inflammatory eotaxin (CCL11) dependent networks would be up regulated in the colon of pediatric patients with Ulcerative Colitis (UC), and that these would regulate eosinophil recruitment to the gut. These experiments tested differential colon gene expression relative to these pathways in healthy and UC samples. Colon biopsy samples were obtained from UC patients at diagnosis, and healthy controls. The global pattern of gene expression was determined using GeneSpring software, and biological networks were identified using Ingenuity software. Data suggested that a leukocyte recruitment network which includeds CCL11 is up regulated in pediatric UC at diagnosis. The degree of up regulation of these genes compared to healthy controls was remarkably conserved within the UC patient group, suggesting common mechanisms of mucosal inflammation. These experiments tested differential colon gene expression relative to these pathways in healthy and UC samples. Keywords: Single time point in UC and healthy controls. Colon RNA was isolated from biopsies obtained from UC at diagnosis and healthy controls. Samples were obtained from the most proximal affected segment of colon. Microarray experiments were performed as described in the CCHMC microarray core, and data was analyzed as described above in the summary. The '107' internal control CEL files (for batches 1,2,4,5) used for ormalization of the Sample VALUEs are also contained within this data set.
Project description:Exploring differentially expressed miRNAs (DEmiRNAs) in plasma sample between lung adenocarcinoma patients and healthy people using a small RNA (sRNA) sequencing,results showed that we could used these DEmiRNAs identified could discriminate healthy peoples from lung adenocarcinoma patients. In present study, we applied an RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) approach to explore the differentially expressed miRNAs (DEmiRNAs) in plasma sample between 6 lung adenocarcinoma patients and 4 healthy people.
Project description:Activation of inflammatory pathways in human IBD IL-6:STAT3 pathways are activated in the affected colon in IBD. However, the functional implications of this are not known. We hypothesized that pro-inflammatory IL-6:STAT3 dependent networks would be up regulated in the colon of pediatric patients with Crohn Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), and that these would regulate leukocyte survival, proliferation, and recruitment to the gut. These experiments tested differential colon gene expression relative to these pathways in healthy, CD, and UC samples. Colon biopsy samples were obtained from CD and UC patients at diagnosis, CD patients during therapy, and healthy controls. The global pattern of gene expression was determined using GeneSpring software, and biological networks were identified using Ingenuity software. Data suggested that two IL-6:STAT3 dependent networks are up regulated in pediatric IBD both at diagnosis and during therapy which regulate leukocyte recruitment and survival. The degree of up regulation of these genes compared to healthy controls was remarkably conserved across the two CD groups and the UC groups, suggesting common mechanisms of mucosal inflammation. Keywords: Single time point in CD, UC, and healthy controls.
Project description:Activation of inflammatory pathways in human IBD IL-6:STAT3 pathways are activated in the affected colon in IBD. However, the functional implications of this are not known. We hypothesized that pro-inflammatory IL-6:STAT3 dependent networks would be up regulated in the colon of pediatric patients with Crohn Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), and that these would regulate leukocyte survival, proliferation, and recruitment to the gut. These experiments tested differential colon gene expression relative to these pathways in healthy, CD, and UC samples. Colon biopsy samples were obtained from CD and UC patients at diagnosis, CD patients during therapy, and healthy controls. The global pattern of gene expression was determined using GeneSpring software, and biological networks were identified using Ingenuity software. Data suggested that two IL-6:STAT3 dependent networks are up regulated in pediatric IBD both at diagnosis and during therapy which regulate leukocyte recruitment and survival. The degree of up regulation of these genes compared to healthy controls was remarkably conserved across the two CD groups and the UC groups, suggesting common mechanisms of mucosal inflammation. Colon RNA was isolated from biopsies obtained from CD at diagnosis and during therapy, UC at diagnosis, and healthy controls. Samples were obtained from the most proximal affected segment of colon. Microarray experiments were performed as described in the CCHMC microarray core, and data was analyzed as described above in the summary. The '107' internal control CEL files (for batches 1-4) used for normalization of the Sample VALUEs are linked below as supplementary files.
Project description:Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon with preiods of active disease followed by remission. We performed a whole-genome transcriptional analysis of colonic biopsies from patients with histologically active and inactive UC, as well as non-inflammatory controls. Ulcerative colitis patients and non-inflammatory controls were collected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. Inclusion criteria for UC patients were: age between 18 and 65, diagnosis of UC established at least 6 months before inclusion and exclusion of concomitant infection. Active disease was defined by endoscopic and histologic score: Mayo sub score >=2 and MATTS >=3 respectively . Inactive disease was also defined by endoscopic and histologic score: Mayo sub score =0 and MATTS <=2 respectively, and a remission state for a minimum of 5 month prior to biopsy collection, and remained inactive for at least 6 months after. Uninvolved mucosa from patients with active UC was defined as a colonic segment with completely normal endoscopic appearance, normal histology, and absence of any previous evidence of active disease. Finally, a total of 43 biopsies were analyzed: 13 healthy controls, 8 inactive UC, 7 non-involved active UC and 15 involved active UC.
Project description:Dysbiosis is linked to the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Although there is a lot of interest in restoring the balance, we do not understand the effects of dysbiosis, especially on epithelial cells. In addition, we know that epithelial cells from IBD patients maintain intrinsic defects. For that reason, we aimed to unravel if epithelial cells of UC patients are more sensitive towards microbiota stimulation, compared to non-IBD controls. In addition, we analyzed the effect of UC microbiota or microbiota of healthy donors towards epithelial cells. Confluent organoid derived monolayers of 8 UC patients and 8 non-IBD controls were co-cultured for 6 hours with microbiota (3.10^8 cells) , derived of a healthy donor (HD) or UC patients. If applicable, epithelial cells were first cultured for 24 hours with an inflammatory mix (100 ng/mL TNFα, 20 ng/mL IL1β, 1 µg/mL Flagellin). The inflammatory stimulation was continued in the 6 hours co-culture.Transcriptomic expression of epithelial cells was evaluated after 6 hours co-culture by Truseq for Illumina.
Project description:To investigate the differentially expressed genes in the plasma of pneumonia-induced sepsis patients compared to pneumonia patients without sepsis and healthy people, we performed gene expression profiling analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq.