Project description:Immortalized keratinocytes HaCaT is popular model for skin research (toxicity, irritation, allergic reactions or interaction of cells). They maintain stable keratinocyte phenotype and respond to keratinocyte differentiation stimuli. However, the programs of stratification and expression of differentiation markers in HaCaT keratinocytes are aberrant. HaCaT cells bear two mutant p53 alleles (R282Q and H179Y) which contain Gain-of-Function (GOV) mutations acquired as a result of spontaneous immortalization (mutp53). At the same time, mutp53 acts as a transcription factor, and also affects interaction of p63 protein with its transcription targets. It is known that proteins of the P53 family play an important role in regulating processes of proliferation and differentiation of human keratinocytes.At the same time, the role of mutp53 in these processes is not fully clear. We present data sets obtained as a result of high-performance proteomic analysis of immortalized HaCaT keratinocytes with p53 knockout in two different states: sub-confluent and confluent, which are characterized by different intensity of cell differentiation processes. As a protocol for proteomic profiling of cells, we used the approach of obtaining LC-MS/MS measurements followed by their processing with Progenesis LC-MS software (Nonlinear Dynamics Ltd.)
Project description:The p53 protein is encoded by TP53 gene and plays the key role in significant number of cellular processes including proliferation, apoptosis and regulation of many stress response pathways. P53 acts like a direct transcription activator of numerous genes regulating cell cycle arrest, DNA repair, growth inhibition and many others (Mollereau and Ma, 2014). The canonical biological function of p53 is maintaining genome integrity via elimination of damaged or exposed to genotoxic stress cells. Immortalized HaCaT cells are widely used for keratinocyte research, since they maintain stable keratinocyte phenotype, have nearly unlimited proliferative potential, do not require specific growth and differentiation factors (Colombo et al., 2017). Also, HaCaT cells produce typical differentiation markers such as cytokeratins K14 and K10, involucrin (Colombo et al., 2017) and respond to keratinocyte differentiation stimuli. Taking together, HaCaT cells have similar to normal human keratinocytes (NHK) properties, however, as many of spontaneously immortalized cell lines HaCaT cells bear two mutant p53 alleles - R282Q and H179Y (Lehman et al., 1993). Mutp53 in HaCaT has an increased affinity to other p53 family members (p63, p73), which significantly expands p53 properties. Moreover, mutp53 indirectly affects specific target genes via protein-protein interactions with other transcription factors (NF-Y, E2F1, NF-KB) or by tethering p63 to new promotor locations. For more detailed investigation of mutp53 impact on various processes in HaCaT cells we performed a shRNA mediated knockdown of mutp53. For generation of stable TP53 knockdown we employed plasmid vector pLKO-p53-shRNA-941 (Addgene # #25637) followed by puromycin selection of transduced cells. Here we present proteomic dataset obtained from wild type HaCaT cells and p53 knock down HaCaT keratinocytes.
Project description:UVB plays a key role in inflammation and DNA damage in human skin. Human keratinocyte HaCaT cells were utilized to determine the up- and down-regulated miRNA after UVB exposure. We used microarrays to identify the miRNA affected after UVB (15 mJ/cm^2) exposure to HaCaT cells
Project description:New alkyl-phospholipids (APLs) that are structurally derived from the platelet-activating factor are promising candidates for anticancer treatment. After the incorporation into cell membranes, APLs are able to interfere with a wide variety of key enzymes implicated in cell growth, motility, invasion and apoptosis. Besides the prototype edelfosine, we presented a novel group of APLs, glycosidated phospholipids that efficiently inhibit cell proliferation. Two members of this group, Ino-C2-PAF and Glc-PAF, display high efficacy and low cytotoxicity in immortalized non-tumorigenic skin keratinocyte cell line HaCaT. However, the influence of APLs on the transcription of the whole genome is still unknown. Here, using Agilent cDNA microarray technology, we compared global gene expression profiles of HaCaT cells treated with edelfosine, Ino-C2-PAF or Glc-PAF with the profile of control cells. The influence of APLs on the transcriptional profile of immortalized keratinocytes (HaCaT) was analyzed treating HaCaT cells with respectively 5 M-BM-5M Ino-C2-PAF, Glc-PAF and edelfosine for 24 h. Control cells were left untreated. Three independent experiments were performed for each condition.
Project description:Specific regulation of target genes by transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) in a given cellular context is determined in part by transcription factors and cofactors that interact with the Smad complex. In the present study, we determined Smad2 and Smad3 (Smad2/3) binding regions in the promoters of known genes in HepG2 hepatoblastoma cells, and compared them to those in HaCaT epidermal keratinocytes to elucidate the mechanisms of cell type- and context-dependent regulation of transcription induced by TGF-β. Our results show that 81% of the Smad2/3 binding regions in HepG2 cells were not shared with those found in HaCaT cells. Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4α (HNF4α) is expressed in HepG2 cells, but not in HaCaT cells, and the HNF4α binding motif was identified as an enriched motif in the HepG2-specific Smad2/3 binding regions. ChIP-sequencing analysis of HNF4A binding regions under TGF-β stimulation revealed that 32.5% of the Smad2/3 binding regions overlapped HNF4A bindings. MIXL1 was identified as a new combinatorial target of HNF4A and Smad2/3, and both the HNF4A protein and its binding motif were required for the induction of MIXL1 by TGF-β in HepG2 cells. These findings generalize the importance of binding of HNF4A on Smad2/3 binding genomic regions for HepG2-specific regulation of transcription by TGF-β, and suggest that certain transcription factors expressed in a cell-type-specific manner play important roles in the transcription regulated by the TGF-β-Smad signaling pathway. HepG2 cells were treated with TGF-beta for 1.5 h or left untreated. anti-HNF4A ChIP-seq was performed. One lane was used for each sample.
Project description:Atopic dermatitis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease with increasing prevalance, is closely associated with skin barrier defects. A cytokine related to disease severity and inhibition of keratinocyte differentiation is IL-31. To identify its molecular targets, IL-31-dependent gene expression was determined in 3-dimensional organotypic skin models. In this data set we include expression data from human 3D skin models treated with or without IL-31 for 2, 8, 24 and 48 hours. As a source of keratinocytes HaCaT cells were used. These are immortalized primary keratinocytes. Human dermal fibroblasts were derived from a skin biopsy. A total of 8 samples were analyzed. We compared the control vs the IL-31 treated sample for each time point.
Project description:Atopic dermatitis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease with increasing prevalance, is closely associated with skin barrier defects. A cytokine related to disease severity and inhibition of keratinocyte differentiation is IL-31. To identify its molecular targets, IL-31-dependent gene expression was determined in 3-dimensional organotypic skin models. In this data set we include expression data from human 3D skin models treated with or without IL-31 for 2, 8, 24 and 48 hours. As a source of keratinocytes HaCaT cells were used. These are immortalized primary keratinocytes. Human dermal fibroblasts were derived from a skin biopsy.
Project description:HaCaT cell line is a kind of keratinocyte from human skin. We used single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to analyze the influnce of fractionated 2 Gy or single 20 Gy irradiation on HaCaT cells.
Project description:Advanced ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy in the United States. Ovarian cancer cells are known to have diminished response to TGF-beta, but it remains unclear whether TGF-beta can modulate ovarian cancer cell growth in an indirect manner through cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs). Using transcriptome profiling analyses on TGF-beta-treated ovarian fibroblasts, we identified a TGF-beta-responsive gene signature in ovarian fibroblasts. Identifying TGF-beta-regulated genes in the ovarian microenvironment helps in understanding the role of TGF-beta in ovarian cancer progression. The human telomerase-immortalized ovarian fibroblast line NOF151 was treated with 5ng/mL of either TGF-beta-1 or TGF-beta-2. Total RNA was isolated from control samples and TGF-beta-treated fibroblasts samples at 48 hours post-treatment, followed by cDNA synthesis, IVT and biotin labeling. Samples were then hybridized onto Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 microarrays. For each treatment group, three independent samples were prepared for the microarray experiment.
Project description:In this project we evaluated the proteomic profiling with TGF-β stimuli at 24h in a CRISPR-Cas9 model for ALMS1 gene in hTERT-BJ-5ta cells. Proteomic results showed a majority inhibition of downstream regulated pathways by the TGF-β, associating the protein coding genes (PCG) with processes like TGF- β matrix regulation, epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT), PI3K/AKT or P53. In conclusion, seems that the depletion of ALMS1 could be inhibiting the signals transduction through the TGF -β and the routes regulated downstream.