scholarly journals Transcriptional regulatory mechanisms of fibrosis development in mouse lung tissue exposed to carbon nanotubes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vadim Zhernovkov ◽  
Tapesh Santra ◽  
Hilary Cassidy ◽  
Oleksii Rukhlenko ◽  
David Matallanas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Nanotubes ◽  
Lung Tissue ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Expression Profiles ◽  
Cellular Stress ◽  
Interferon Response ◽  
Mouse Lung ◽  
M2 Macrophage ◽  
Cellular Stress Responses ◽  
Mouse Lung Tissue

AbstractBackgroundCarbon nanotubes (CNTs) usage has rapidly increased in the last few decades due to their unique properties, exploited in various industrial and commercial products. Certain types of CNTs cause adverse health effects, including chronic inflammation and fibrosis. Despite the large number of in vitro and in vivo studies evaluating these effects, many important questions remain unanswered due to a lack of mechanistic understanding of how CNTs induce cellular stress responses. In order to predict CNT toxicity, it is important to understand which transcriptional programs are specifically activated in response to CNTs, and what similarities and differences exist in relation to other toxic inducers exerting similar adverse effects.ResultsA systems biology approach was applied to reveal complex interactions at the molecular level in mouse lung tissue in response to different fibrosis inducers: two types of multi-walled CNTs, NM-401 and NRCWE-26, and bleomycin (BLM). Based on mRNA gene expression profiles, we inferred gene regulatory networks (GRNs) to capture functional hierarchical regulatory structures between genes and their regulators. We found that activities of the transcription factors (TFs) Myc, Arid5a and Mxd1 were associated with the regulation of cytokine transcription in response to CNTs, while in response to BLM treatment, Myc was associated with p53 signaling. TF Litaf was identified as the essential regulator for noncanonical signaling of TLR2/4 driven by CNTs. Despite the different nature of the lung injury caused by CNTs and BLM, we identified common stress response modules, that included DNA damage (TFs: E2f8, E2f1, Foxm1), M1/M2 macrophage polarization (TF: Mafb), Interferon response (TFs: Irf7, Stat2 and Irf9) for all agents.ConclusionsThese results suggest that the reconstruction and analysis of TF-centric gene interaction networks can reveal key targets and regulators of cellular stress responses to toxic agents.

Gene Expression Profiles in Mouse Lung Tissue after Administration of Two Cationic Polymers Used for Nonviral Gene Delivery

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Regnström ◽  
Eva G. E. Ragnarsson ◽  
Mårten Fryknäs ◽  
Magnus Köping-Höggård ◽  
Per Artursson
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Gene Delivery ◽  
Lung Tissue ◽  
Expression Profiles ◽  
Gene Expression Profiles ◽  
Nonviral Gene Delivery ◽  
Mouse Lung ◽  
Cationic Polymers ◽  
Mouse Lung Tissue

Expression profiles of long non-coding RNA in mouse lung tissue exposed to radon

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (15) ◽  
pp. 854-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihua Nie ◽  
Jing Wu ◽  
Zhihai Chen ◽  
Yang Jiao ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Tissue ◽  
Expression Profiles ◽  
Mouse Lung ◽  
Non Coding Rna ◽  
Mouse Lung Tissue ◽  
Long Non Coding Rna

scholarly journals FIB-SEM imaging of carbon nanotubes in mouse lung tissue

2014 ◽  
Vol 406 (16) ◽  
pp. 3863-3873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Købler ◽  
Anne Thoustrup Saber ◽  
Nicklas Raun Jacobsen ◽  
Håkan Wallin ◽  
Ulla Vogel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Nanotubes ◽  
Lung Tissue ◽  
Mouse Lung ◽  
Sem Imaging ◽  
Mouse Lung Tissue

scholarly journals Flavonoids: Potential Candidates for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders

Biomedicines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Shweta Devi ◽  
Vijay Kumar ◽  
Sandeep Kumar Singh ◽  
Ashish Kant Dubey ◽  
Jong-Joo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Stress Response ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Neurodegenerative Disorders ◽  
Cell Damage ◽  
Cellular Stress ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Cellular Stress Response ◽  
Dramatic Rise ◽  
Cellular Stress Responses

Neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease (PD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Huntington’s disease (HD), are the most concerning disorders due to the lack of effective therapy and dramatic rise in affected cases. Although these disorders have diverse clinical manifestations, they all share a common cellular stress response. These cellular stress responses including neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, proteotoxicity, and endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-stress, which combats with stress conditions. Environmental stress/toxicity weakened the cellular stress response which results in cell damage. Small molecules, such as flavonoids, could reduce cellular stress and have gained much attention in recent years. Evidence has shown the potential use of flavonoids in several ways, such as antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, and anti-apoptotic, yet their mechanism is still elusive. This review provides an insight into the potential role of flavonoids against cellular stress response that prevent the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders.

scholarly journals CRISPR-Mediated Endogenous Activation of Fibroin Heavy Chain Gene Triggers Cellular Stress Responses in Bombyx mori Embryonic Cells

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 552
Author(s):  
Wenbo Hu ◽  
Xiaogang Wang ◽  
Sanyuan Ma ◽  
Zhangchuan Peng ◽  
Yang Cao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bombyx Mori ◽  
Heavy Chain ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Cellular Stress ◽  
Silk Gland ◽  
Cellular Stress Response ◽  
Molar Ratio ◽  
Chain Gene ◽  
Gland Cells ◽  
Cellular Stress Responses

The silkworm Bombyx mori is an economically important insect, as it is the main producer of silk. Fibroin heavy chain (FibH) gene, encoding the core component of silk protein, is specifically and highly expressed in silk gland cells but not in the other cells. Although the silkworm FibH gene has been well studied in transcriptional regulation, its biological functions in the development of silk gland cells remain elusive. In this study, we constructed a CRISPRa system to activate the endogenous transcription of FibH in Bombyx mori embryonic (BmE) cells, and the mRNA expression of FibH was successfully activated. In addition, we found that FibH expression was increased to a maximum at 60 h after transient transfection of sgRNA/dCas9-VPR at a molar ratio of 9:1. The qRT-PCR analysis showed that the expression levels of cellular stress response-related genes were significantly up-regulated along with activated FibH gene. Moreover, the lyso-tracker red and monodansylcadaverine (MDC) staining assays revealed an apparent appearance of autophagy in FibH-activated BmE cells. Therefore, we conclude that the activation of FibH gene leads to up-regulation of cellular stress responses-related genes in BmE cells, which is essential for understanding silk gland development and the fibroin secretion process in B. mori.

scholarly journals Cellular Stress Responses: A Balancing Act

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Chen ◽  
Allyson Evans ◽  
John Pham ◽  
Brian Plosky
Keyword(s):  
Stress Responses ◽  
Cellular Stress ◽  
Cellular Stress Responses

scholarly journals The Phosphorylation-Dependent Regulation of Mitochondrial Proteins in Stress Responses

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuke Kanamaru ◽  
Shiori Sekine ◽  
Hidenori Ichijo ◽  
Kohsuke Takeda
Keyword(s):  
Stress Responses ◽  
Map Kinases ◽  
Mitochondrial Fission ◽  
Cellular Stress ◽  
Degradation Process ◽  
Mitochondrial Proteins ◽  
Phosphoglycerate Mutase ◽  
Mitogen Activated Protein ◽  
Cellular Stress Responses ◽  
Autophagic Degradation

To maintain cellular homeostasis, cells are equipped with precise systems that trigger the appropriate stress responses. Mitochondria not only provide cellular energy but also integrate stress response signaling pathways, including those regulating cell death. Several lines of evidence suggest that the mitochondrial proteins that function in this process, such as Bcl-2 family proteins in apoptosis and phosphoglycerate mutase family member 5 (PGAM5) in necroptosis, are regulated by several kinases. It has also been suggested that the phosphorylation-dependent regulation of mitochondrial fission machinery, dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1), facilitates appropriate cellular stress responses. However, mitochondria themselves are also damaged by various stresses. To avoid the deleterious effects exerted by damaged mitochondria, cells remove these mitochondria in a selective autophagic degradation process called mitophagy. Interestingly, several kinases, such as PTEN-induced putative kinase 1 (PINK1) in mammals and stress-responsive mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases in yeast, have recently been shown to be involved in mitophagy. In this paper, we focus on the phosphorylation-dependent regulation of mitochondrial proteins and discuss the roles of this regulation in the mitochondrial and cellular stress responses.

scholarly journals Differential regulation of cellular stress responses by the endoplasmic reticulum-resident Selenoprotein S (Seps1) in proliferating myoblasts versus myotubes

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (24) ◽  
pp. e13926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex B. Addinsall ◽  
Sheree D. Martin ◽  
Fiona Collier ◽  
Xavier A. Conlan ◽  
Victoria C. Foletta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Cellular Stress ◽  
Differential Regulation ◽  
Selenoprotein S ◽  
Cellular Stress Responses
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