Bunaciu RP and Yen A (MAR 2011)
Cancer research 71 6 2371--80
Activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor AhR Promotes retinoic acid-induced differentiation of myeloblastic leukemia cells by restricting expression of the stem cell transcription factor Oct4.
Retinoic acid (RA) is used to treat leukemia and other cancers through its ability to promote cancer cell differentiation. Strategies to enhance the anticancer effects of RA could deepen and broaden its beneficial therapeutic applications. In this study,we describe a receptor cross-talk system that addresses this issue. RA effects are mediated by RAR/RXR receptors that we show are modified by interactions with the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR),a protein functioning both as a transcription factor and a ligand-dependent adaptor in an ubiquitin ligase complex. RAR/RXR and AhR pathways cross-talk at the levels of ligand-receptor and also receptor-promoter interactions. Here,we assessed the role of AhR during RA-induced differentiation and a hypothesized convergence at Oct4,a transcription factor believed to maintain stem cell characteristics. RA upregulated AhR and downregulated Oct4 during differentiation of HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells. AhR overexpression in stable transfectants downregulated Oct4 and also decreased ALDH1 activity,another stem cell-associated factor,enhancing RA-induced differentiation as indicated by cell differentiation markers associated with early (CD38 and CD11b) and late (neutrophilic respiratory burst) responses. AhR overexpression also increased levels of activated Raf1,which is known to help propel RA-induced differentiation. RNA interference-mediated knockdown of Oct4 enhanced RA-induced differentiation and G(0) cell-cycle arrest relative to parental cells. Consistent with the hypothesized importance of Oct4 downregulation for differentiation,parental cells rendered resistant to RA by biweekly high RA exposure displayed elevated Oct4 levels that failed to be downregulated. Together,our results suggested that therapeutic effects of RA-induced leukemia differentiation depend on AhR and its ability to downregulate the stem cell factor Oct4.
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ALDEFLUOR™ 试剂盒
ALDEFLUOR™ DEAB试剂, 1.5 mM, 1 mL
ALDEFLUOR™检测缓冲液
胶原酶/透明质酸酶
Pond AC et al. ( 2013)
Stem cells (Dayton,Ohio) 31 1 10.1002/stem.1266
Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Signaling Is Essential for Normal Mammary Gland Development and Stem Cell Function
Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling plays an important role in embryonic stem cells and adult tissue homeostasis,but the function of FGFs in mammary gland stem cells is less well defined. Both FGFR1 and FGFR2 are expressed in basal and luminal mammary epithelial cells (MECs),suggesting that together they might play a role in mammary gland development and stem cell dynamics. Previous studies have demonstrated that the deletion of FGFR2 resulted only in transient developmental defects in branching morphogenesis. Using a conditional deletion strategy,we investigated the consequences of FGFR1 deletion alone and then the simultaneous deletion of both FGFR1 and FGFR2 in the mammary epithelium. FGFR1 deletion using a keratin 14 promoter-driven Cre-recombinase resulted in an early,yet transient delay in development. However,no reduction in functional outgrowth potential was observed following limiting dilution transplantation analysis. In contrast,a significant reduction in outgrowth potential was observed upon the deletion of both FGFR1 and FGFR2 in MECs using adenovirus-Cre. Additionally,using a fluorescent reporter mouse model to monitor Cre-mediated recombination,we observed a competitive disadvantage following transplantation of both FGFR1/R2-null MECs,most prominently in the basal epithelial cells. This correlated with the complete loss of the mammary stem cell repopulating population in the FGFR1/R2-attenuated epithelium. FGFR1/R2-null MECs were partially rescued in chimeric outgrowths containing wild-type MECs,suggesting the potential importance of paracrine mechanisms involved in the maintenance of the basal epithelial stem cells. These studies document the requirement for functional FGFR signaling in mammary stem cells during development.
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19758
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抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,Alexa Fluor® 488
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,Alexa Fluor® 488
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,APC
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,Biotin
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,Biotin
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,PE
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,PE
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,PerCP-Cy5.5
抗小鼠CD24抗体,clone M1/69,PerCP-Cy5.5
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,Alexa Fluor® 488
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,Alexa Fluor® 488
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,APC
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,Biotin
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,FITC
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,PE
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,PE
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,Pacific Blue™
抗小鼠CD49f抗体,clone GoH3,Pacific Blue™
Pino CJ et al. (FEB 2013)
Nephrology,dialysis,transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 28 2 296--302
Cell-based approaches for the treatment of systemic inflammation.
Acute and chronic solid organ failures are costly disease processes with high mortality rates. Inflammation plays a central role in both acute and chronic organ failure,including heart,lung and kidney. In this regard,new therapies for these disorders have focused on inhibiting the mediators of inflammation,including cytokines and free radicals,with little or no success in clinical studies. Recent novel treatment strategies have been directed to cell-based rather than mediator-based approaches,designed to immunomodulate the deleterious effects of inflammation on organ function. One approach,cell therapy,replaces cells that were damaged in the acute or chronic disease process with stem/progenitor technology,to rebalance excessive inflammatory states. As an example of this approach,the use of an immunomodulatory role of renal epithelial progenitor cells to treat acute renal failure (ARF) and multiorgan failure arising from acute kidney injury is reviewed. A second therapeutic pathway,cell processing,does not incorporate stem/progenitor cells in the device,but rather biomimetic materials that remove and modulate the primary cellular components,which promote the worsening organ tissue injury associated with inflammation. The use of an immunomodulating leukocyte selective cytopheretic inhibitory device is also reviewed as an example of this cell processing approach. Both of these unconventional strategies have shown early clinical efficacy in pilot clinical trials and may transform the therapeutic approach to organ failure disorders.
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CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
CryoStor® CS10
Karki R et al. (DEC 2016)
Nature
NLRC3 is an inhibitory sensor of PI3K-mTOR pathways in cancer.
NLRs (nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeats) belong to a large family of cytoplasmic sensors that regulate an extraordinarily diverse range of biological functions. One of these functions is to contribute to immunity against infectious diseases,but dysregulation of their functional activity leads to the development of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Cytoplasmic innate immune sensors,including NLRs,are central regulators of intestinal homeostasis. NLRC3 (also known as CLR16.2 or NOD3) is a poorly characterized member of the NLR family and was identified in a genomic screen for genes encoding proteins bearing leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) and nucleotide-binding domains. Expression of NLRC3 is drastically reduced in the tumour tissue of patients with colorectal cancer compared to healthy tissues,highlighting an undefined potential function for this sensor in the development of cancer. Here we show that mice lacking NLRC3 are hyper-susceptible to colitis and colorectal tumorigenesis. The effect of NLRC3 is most dominant in enterocytes,in which it suppresses activation of the mTOR signalling pathways and inhibits cellular proliferation and stem-cell-derived organoid formation. NLRC3 associates with PI3Ks and blocks activation of the PI3K-dependent kinase AKT following binding of growth factor receptors or Toll-like receptor 4. These findings reveal a key role for NLRC3 as an inhibitor of the mTOR pathways,mediating protection against colorectal cancer.
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06005
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IntestiCult™ 类器官生长培养基 (小鼠)
Okkelman IA et al. ( 2016)
PloS one 11 12 e0167385
Use of Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) as a Timer of Cell Cycle S Phase.
Incorporation of thymidine analogues in replicating DNA,coupled with antibody and fluorophore staining,allows analysis of cell proliferation,but is currently limited to monolayer cultures,fixed cells and end-point assays. We describe a simple microscopy imaging method for live real-time analysis of cell proliferation,S phase progression over several division cycles,effects of anti-proliferative drugs and other applications. It is based on the prominent (˜ 1.7-fold) quenching of fluorescence lifetime of a common cell-permeable nuclear stain,Hoechst 33342 upon the incorporation of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) in genomic DNA and detection by fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM). We show that quantitative and accurate FLIM technique allows high-content,multi-parametric dynamic analyses,far superior to the intensity-based imaging. We demonstrate its uses with monolayer cell cultures,complex 3D tissue models of tumor cell spheroids and intestinal organoids,and in physiological study with metformin treatment.
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06005
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IntestiCult™ 类器官生长培养基 (小鼠)
Rong S et al. (JUN 2017)
Journal of lipid research jlr.M077610
Cholesterol auxotrophy and intolerance to ezetimibe in mice with SREBP-2 deficiency in the intestine.
Sterol regulatory element-binding protein-2 (SREBP-2) activates transcription of all genes needed for cholesterol biosynthesis. To study SREBP-2 function in intestine,we generated a mouse model (Vil-BP2(-/-) ) in which Cre recombinase ablates SREBP-2 in intestinal epithelia. Intestines of Vil-BP2(-/-) mice had reduced expression of genes required for sterol synthesis,in vivo sterol synthesis rates,and epithelial cholesterol contents. On a cholesterol-free diet,they displayed chronic enteropathy with histological abnormalities of both villi and crypts,growth restriction,and reduced survival that was prevented by supplementation of cholesterol in the diet. Likewise,SREBP-2-deficient enteroids required exogenous cholesterol for growth. Blockade of luminal cholesterol uptake into enterocytes with ezetimibe precipitated acutely lethal intestinal damage in Vil-BP2(-/-) mice,highlighting the critical interplay in the small intestine of sterol absorption via NPC1L1 and sterol synthesis via SREBP-2 in sustaining the intestinal mucosa. These data show that small intestine requires SREBP-2 to drive cholesterol synthesis that sustains the intestinal epithelia when uptake of cholesterol from the gut lumen is not available,and provide a unique example of cholesterol auxotrophy expressed in an intact,adult mammal.
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06005
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IntestiCult™ 类器官生长培养基 (小鼠)
Aladegbami B et al. (JUL 2017)
Scientific reports 7 1 5580
Epithelial cell specific Raptor is required for initiation of type 2 mucosal immunity in small intestine.
Intestinal tuft cells are one of 4 secretory cell linages in the small intestine and the source of IL-25,a critical initiator of the type 2 immune response to parasite infection. When Raptor,a critical scaffold protein for mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1),was acutely deleted in intestinal epithelium via Tamoxifen injection in Tritrichomonas muris (Tm) infected mice,tuft cells,IL-25 in epithelium and IL-13 in the mesenchyme were significantly reduced,but Tm burden was not affected. When Tm infected mice were treated with rapamycin,DCLK1 and IL-25 expression in enterocytes and IL-13 expression in mesenchyme were diminished. After massive small bowel resection,tuft cells and Tm were diminished due to the diet used postoperatively. The elimination of Tm and subsequent re-infection of mice with Tm led to type 2 immune response only in WT,but Tm colonization in both WT and Raptor deficient mice. When intestinal organoids were stimulated with IL-4,tuft cells and IL-25 were induced in both WT and Raptor deficient organoids. In summary,our study reveals that enterocyte specific Raptor is required for initiating a type 2 immune response which appears to function through the regulation of mTORC1 activity.
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