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GSE107941
Mus musculus
21 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Mouse Gene 2.0 ST Array (mogene20st)
Description
An animals ability to cope with or succumb to deleterious effects of chronic psychological stress may be rooted in the brains immune responses manifested in microglial activity. Mice subjected to chronic social defeat (CSD) were categorized as susceptible (CSD-S) or resilient (CSD-R) based on behavioral phenotyping, and their microglial RNAs were isolated and analyzed by global gene expression microarrays. Microglia transcriptome from CSD-S mice was enriched for pathways that describe phases of CNS healing to sterile injury including, inflammation, oxidative stress, debris clearance, and wound resolution. Histochemical experiments confirmed the array predictions: CSD-S microglia showed elevated phagocytosis and oxidative stress, and the brains of CSD-S but not CSD-R or HC mice showed vascular leakage of intravenously injected fluorescent tracers. The results suggest that the inflammatory profile of CSD-S microglia may be precipitated by leakage of blood-born substances into brain parenchyma. We hypothesize that these CNS-centric responses contribute to the stress-susceptible behavioral phenotype.
Publication Title
Decoding microglia responses to psychosocial stress reveals blood-brain barrier breakdown that may drive stress susceptibility.
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Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 8 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Persistent colonization of the gastric mucosa by Helicobacter pylori (Hp) elicits chronic inflammation and aberrant epithelial cell proliferation, which increases the risk of gastric cancer. We examined the ability of microRNAs to modulate gastric cell proliferation in response to persistent Hp infection and found that epigenetic silencing of miR-210 plays a key role in gastric disease progression. Importantly, DNA methylation of the miR-210 gene was increased in Hp-positive human gastric biopsies as compared to Hp-negative controls. Moreover silencing of miR-210 in gastric epithelial cells promoted proliferation. We identified STMN1 and DIMT1 as miR-210 target genes and demonstrated that inhibition of miR-210 expression augmented cell proliferation by activating STMN1 and DIMT1. Together, our results highlight inflammation-induced epigenetic silencing of miR-210 as a mechanism of induction of chronic gastric diseases, including cancer, during Hp infection.
Publication Title
Epigenetic silencing of miR-210 increases the proliferation of gastric epithelium during chronic Helicobacter pylori infection.
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Cell line
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 18 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix HT HG-U133+ PM Array Plate (hthgu133pluspm)
Description
Maternal Embryonic Leucine Zipper Kinase (MELK), a Ser/Thr protein kinase, is highly over expressed in stem and cancer cells. The oncogenic role of MELK is attributed to its capacity to disable critical cell cycle checkpoints and to enhance replication. Most functional studies have relied on the use of siRNA/shRNA-mediated gene silencing, but this is often compromised by off target effects. Here we present the cellular validation of a novel, potent and selective small molecule MELK inhibitor, MELK-T1, which has enabled us to explore the biological function of MELK. Strikingly, the binding of MELK-T1 to endogenous MELK triggers a rapid and proteasome dependent degradation of the MELK protein. Treatment of MCF-7 breast adenocarcinoma cells with MELK-T1 leads to an accumulation of stalled replication forks and double strand breaks, followed by a replicative senescence phenotype. This phenotype correlates with a rapid and long-lasting ATM activation and phosphorylation of CHK2. Furthermore, MELK-T1 induces strong phosphorylation of p53 and prolonged up-regulation of p21.
Publication Title
MELK-T1, a small-molecule inhibitor of protein kinase MELK, decreases DNA-damage tolerance in proliferating cancer cells.
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Cell line, Treatment
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 44 Downloadable Samples
Illumina HiSeq 1500
Description
We report that Klebsiella pneumoniae promote Th1 cell induction in colon. To examine the influence of Klebsiella on colonic epithelial cells (ECs) and lamina propria CD11c+ dendritic cells (DCs), we performed RNA seq on them. Germ free mice were orally inoculated with Kp-2H7 or BAA-2552 and total RNA was isolated from colonic ECs and DCs 1 week after inoculation. Furthermore, we examined the involvement of TLRs in induction of Th1 cells using Myd88 KO, Trif KO, Myd88/Trif DKO mice. These deficient germ free mice were orally inoculated with Kp-2H7 and total RNA was isolated from colonic ECs 3 weeks after inoculation. Overall design: The gene expression of colonic ECs and DCs isolated from germ free mice, and GF mice inoculated with Kp-2H7 or BAA-2552, and colonic ECs isolated from GF Myd88 KO, Trif KO or Myd88/Trif DKO mice inoculated with Kp-2H7.
Publication Title
Ectopic colonization of oral bacteria in the intestine drives T<sub>H</sub>1 cell induction and inflammation.
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Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
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