The ability of high-risk neuroblastoma to survive unfavorable growth conditions and multimodal therapy is hypothesized to result from a phenomenon known as reversible adaptive plasticity (RAP). RAP is a novel phenomenon enabling neuroblastoma cells to transition between a proliferative anchorage dependent (AD) state and a slow growing anoikis-resistant anchorage independent (AI) state.
A mechanism linking Id2-TGFβ crosstalk to reversible adaptive plasticity in neuroblastoma.
Specimen part
View SamplesBone marrow macrophages were cultured from 16 week old apoE-deficient F2 mice from an AKRxDBA/2 intercross
Sex specific gene regulation and expression QTLs in mouse macrophages from a strain intercross.
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View SamplesBacillus anthracis is a gram-positive, aerobic, spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium which has recently been used as an agent of bioterrorism. Because there is a significant delay between the initial contact of the spore with the host and clinical evidence of disease, there appears to be temporary containment of the pathogen by the innate immune system. Contact with the human alveolar macrophage (HAM) plays a key role in the innate immune response to B. anthracis spores. Therefore, the early macrophage response to anthrax exposure is important in understanding the pathogenesis of this disease. The majority of genes modulated by spores were upregulated, and a lesser number were downregulated. The data was subjected to Ingenuity Pathway analysis, the Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) analysis, and the Promoter Analysis and Interaction Network Toolset (PAINT). Among the upregulated genes, we identified a group of chemokine ligands, apoptosis genes and, interestingly, keratin filament genes. Central hubs regulating the activated genes were TNF-alpha, NF-B and their ligands/receptors. Other activated genes included IL-1alpha and IL-18. RNA for these, and several additional cytokines including IL-6, IL-1gamma, IP-10 and GM-CSF, were differentially expressed from 1.6- to 27-fold. The microarray cytokine data is consistent with our previously published findings which demonstrated that there was 4- to 43-fold induction of these cytokines at the transcriptional and translational levels as determined by RNase protection assays and ELISA. The PAINT analysis revealed that the majority of the genes affected by spores contain the binding site for c-Rel, a member of the NF-B family of transcription factors. Other transcription regulatory elements contained in many of the upregulated genes were c-Myb, CP2, Barbie Box, E2F and CRE-BP1. This study is the first detailed microarray analysis to describe the HAM response to B. anthracis.
Gene expression profiling of human alveolar macrophages infected by B. anthracis spores demonstrates TNF-alpha and NF-kappab are key components of the innate immune response to the pathogen.
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View SamplesCoronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common cardiovascular disease and the leading cause of death worldwide. To date, the 9p21.3 locus is the most robust and frequently replicated risk locus of CAD among >90 CAD risk loci identified by GWAS. More than 50 CAD-associated genomic variants were identified at the 9p21.3 CAD locus and many of them are located within a long non-coding gene ANRIL, which was initially referred to as Antisense Non-coding RNA in INK4 Locus. The causal role of ANRIL in CAD and the underlying molecular mechanism are unknown.
Long noncoding RNA <i>ANRIL</i> regulates endothelial cell activities associated with coronary artery disease by up-regulating <i>CLIP1</i>, <i>EZR</i>, and <i>LYVE1</i> genes.
Cell line, Treatment
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Dynamic changes in global microRNAome and transcriptome reveal complex miRNA-mRNA regulated host response to Japanese Encephalitis Virus in microglial cells.
Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment, Time
View SamplesDetailed analysis of genome-wide transcriptome profiling in rice root is reported here, following Cr-plant interaction. Such studies are important for the identification of genes responsible for tolerance, accumulation and defense response in plants with respect to Cr stress. Rice root metabolome analysis was also carried out to relate differential transcriptome data to biological processes affected by Cr (VI) stress in rice.
Transcriptomic and metabolomic shifts in rice roots in response to Cr (VI) stress.
Age, Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesMicrobiome regulation of lipid metabolism
Transcriptomics-driven lipidomics (TDL) identifies the microbiome-regulated targets of ileal lipid metabolism.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesWe developed conditional knockout mice where the transcription factor Elf5 (also called ESE-2) is deleted in the mammary glands. Loss of Elf5 results in block in alveologenesis and epithelial differentiation defects. Mammary gland samples from Elf5 knockout and wild type animals were analyzed for global transcriptome changes.
Elf5 inhibits the epithelial-mesenchymal transition in mammary gland development and breast cancer metastasis by transcriptionally repressing Snail2.
Specimen part
View SamplesIn order to better understand signaling events following receptor dimerization involving HER2, we have generated an experimental system in which ErbB dimerization can be controlled.
Trastuzumab has preferential activity against breast cancers driven by HER2 homodimers.
Disease, Cell line, Treatment
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Hypomethylation of the IL17RC promoter associates with age-related macular degeneration.
Age, Specimen part, Disease, Cell line
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