CD70TG mice are a model for sterile chronic immune activation and develop Anemia of Inflammation, which is dependent on the production of Ifng by effector CD4 and CD8 T cells.
Chronic IFN-γ production in mice induces anemia by reducing erythrocyte life span and inhibiting erythropoiesis through an IRF-1/PU.1 axis.
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View SamplesExpression analysis of migrating and non-migrating mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) in fetal bone marrow
Nuclear receptors Nur77 and Nurr1 modulate mesenchymal stromal cell migration.
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View SamplesExpression analysis of adult and fetal derived MSCs
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View SamplesExpression of the RNA-binding protein is increased upon megakaryocyte commitment, and may coordinate with mRNA stability and translation during megakaryopoiesis. Reduced expression of ATXN2 in human megakaryocytic cells decreased protein synthesis and total protein content despite equal mRNA expression. Genome-wide comparision of subpolysomal versus polysomal mRNA showed that both protein synthesis and protein degradation are derailed in absence of ATXN2. Furthermore, ATXN2 was associated with PABP and DDX6, proteins that control mRNA stability through the polyA-tail. These findings indicate that ATXN2 is involved in protein metabolism in megakaryocytes and platelet function.
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View SamplesThe goal of this study is to identify deferentially expressed genes among three groups of individuals of the same family. These groups are : affected, unaffected wild, unaffected carrier.
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View SamplesThe scientific rationale for the clinical advancement of Lm-based immunotherapies is in part due to hallmark observations in the mouse infection model where a single immunization with sublethal doses of WT Lm confers lifelong protection against lethal WT Lm challenge. Protection is entirely dependent upon potent bacterial-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cell immunity. While our previous investigations have demonstrated the antitumor potency of therapeutic immunization with LADD-Ag , here we describe for the first time, the immunologic correlates of this antitumor efficacy.
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View SamplesGrain yield and protein content were determined for six wheat cultivars grown over three years at multiple sites and at multiple N-fertilizer inputs. Although grain protein was negatively correlated with yield, some grain samples had higher protein contents than expected based on their yields, a trait referred to as grain protein deviation (GPD). We used novel statistical approaches to calculate GPD across environment and to correlate gene expression in the developing caryopsis with this trait. The yield and protein content were initially adjusted for nitrogen fertilizer inputs, and then adjusted for yield (to remove the negative correlation) resulting in environmental corrected GPD. The transcriptome data for all samples were subjected to Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and ANOVA to identify individual Principal Components (PCs) correlating with GPD alone. Scores of the selected PCs significantly related to cultivar differences and GPD but not to the yield or protein content were identified as reflecting a multivariate pattern of gene expression related to genetic variation in GPD. Sets of genes significant for these PCs and hence GPD were identified as candidate genes determining cultivar differences in GPD.
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View SamplesAn important but largely unmet challenge in understanding the mechanisms that govern formation of specific organs is to decipher the complex and dynamic genetic programs exhibited by the diversity of cell types within the tissue of interest. Here, we use an integrated genetic, genomic and computational strategy to comprehensively determine the molecular identities of distinct myoblast subpopulations within the Drosophila embryonic mesoderm at the time that cell fates are initially specified. A compendium of gene expression profiles was generated for primary mesodermal cells purified by flow cytometry from appropriately staged wild-type embryos and from twelve genotypes in which myogenesis was selectively and predictably perturbed. A statistical meta-analysis of these pooled datasetsbased on expected trends in gene expression and on the relative contribution of each genotype to the detection of known muscle genesprovisionally assigned hundreds of differentially expressed genes to particular myoblast subtypes. Whole embryo in situ hybridizations were then used to validate the majority of these predictions, thereby enabling true positive detection rates to be estimated for the microarray data. This combined analysis reveals that myoblasts exhibit much greater gene expression heterogeneity and overall complexity than was previously appreciated. Moreover, it implicates the involvement of large numbers of uncharacterized, differentially expressed genes in myogenic specification and subsequent morphogenesis. These findings also underscore a requirement for considerable regulatory specificity for generating diverse myoblast identities. Finally, to illustrate how the developmental functions of newly identified myoblast genes can be efficiently surveyed, a rapid RNA interference assay that can be scored in living embryos was developed and applied to selected genes. This integrated strategy for examining embryonic gene expression and function provides a substantially expanded framework for further studies of this model developmental system.
An integrated strategy for analyzing the unique developmental programs of different myoblast subtypes.
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View SamplesLevels of C/EBP are low in myeloid blast crisis (BC) of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and its expression in p210BCR/ABL-expressing hematopoietic cells induces granulocytic differentiation, inhibits proliferation and suppresses leukemogenesis. To assess the mechanisms involved in these effects, C/EBP targets were identified by microarray analyses. Upon C/EBP activation, expression of c-Myb and GATA-2 was repressed in 32D-BCR/ABL, K562 and CML-BC primary cells but only c-Myb levels decreased slightly in CD34+ normal progenitors. The role of these two genes for the biological effects of C/EBP was assessed by perturbing their expression in K562 cells. Expression of c-Myb blocked the proliferation inhibition and differentiation-inducing effects of C/EBP while c-Myb siRNA treatment enhanced C/EBP-mediated proliferation inhibition and induced changes in gene expression indicative of monocytic differentiation. GATA-2 expression suppressed the proliferation inhibitory effect of C/EBP but blocked in part the effect on differentiation; GATA-2 siRNA treatment had no effects on C/EBP induction of differentiation but inhibited proliferation of K562 cells, alone or upon C/EBP activation. In summary, the effects of C/EBP in p210BCR/ABL -expressing cells depend, in part, on transcriptional repression of c-Myb and GATA-2. Since perturbation of c-Myb and GATA-2 expression has non identical consequences for proliferation and differentiation of K562 cells, the effects of C/EBP appear to involve different transcription-regulated targets.
Transcriptional repression of c-Myb and GATA-2 is involved in the biologic effects of C/EBPalpha in p210BCR/ABL-expressing cells.
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View SamplesThis SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
ATOH1 Promotes Leptomeningeal Dissemination and Metastasis of Sonic Hedgehog Subgroup Medulloblastomas.
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