scholarly journals Differences in decorin expression by papillary and reticular fibroblasts in vivo and in vitro

1993 ◽  
Vol 290 (3) ◽  
pp. 893-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Schönherr ◽  
L A Beavan ◽  
H Hausser ◽  
H Kresse ◽  
L A Culp

Immunostaining of adult human skin shows that the small dermatan sulphate proteoglycan decorin is abundant in the whole dermal layer but absent from the epidermis. In the papillary layer adjacent to the dermal-epidermal border, more decorin was detected than in the reticular layer of the dermis. Expression of decorin mRNA by cells in the papillary dermis could also be shown by in situ hybridization. In contrast, biglycan, another small chondroitin sulphate/dermatan sulphate proteoglycan, is found only at the dermal-epidermal border. Therefore the biosynthesis of these two proteoglycans by papillary and reticular fibroblasts from two different donors was compared in tissue culture. Papillary fibroblasts secrete up to 5.9 times more decorin than reticular fibroblasts, while the amounts of cell-associated decorin in both cell types are similar. By Northern blot analysis as well as by in situ hybridization it was shown that papillary fibroblasts contain more mRNA coding for decorin than do reticular cells. In addition, no mosaic pattern of decorin expression was found in the cultured cells. The expression and synthesis of biglycan compared with decorin was about 10 times lower and did not show any significant differences for the two cells types. The kinetics of secretion and the rate of endocytosis of decorin were similar for both types of fibroblasts. These results were found with fibroblasts between the 9th and 15th passage from a newborn subject as well as from a 78-year-old donor, indicating that the pattern of decorin synthesis is not age-dependent in the range investigated. These results further show that fibroblasts from different layers of the dermis have a specific pattern of synthesis of small chondroitin sulphate/dermatan sulphate proteoglycans, and they also maintain these patterns in cell culture.

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianfranco Coppola ◽  
Basil Alexander ◽  
Dino Di Berardino ◽  
Elizabeth St John ◽  
Parvathi K. Basrur ◽  
...  

2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danijela Drakulic ◽  
Milena Stevanovic ◽  
Gordana Nikcevic

RNA-RNA in situ hybridization is a reliable method for studying tissue and cell specific gene expression, which enables visualization of labeled antisense RNA probe hybridized to specific mRNA. In this study we employed non-radioactive RNA-RNA in situ hybridization using biotin- or digoxigenin-labeled RNA probes in order to detect SOX gene expression in carcinoma cell lines. By this approach we confirmed results obtained by Northern blot analysis, where the presence of SOX2 mRNA in NT2/D1 and SOX14 mRNA in HepG2 cells has been established. Our aim was to set up RNA-RNA in situ hybridization method in in vitro cultured cells in order to perform further analyses of SOX gene expression on various normal and cancer tissues.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Zhen Zhang ◽  
Quan Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background circular RNAs (circRNAs) recently have been emerged as vital regulators for involvement of initiation and progression of diverse kinds of human cancers. This study aimed to investigate the role of circRNAs in colorectal cancer (CRC). Methods The expression profile of circRNAs in 5 pairs of CRC tissues and adjacent normal tissues were analyzed by Microarray. Quantitative real-time PCR and in situ hybridization and Base Scope Assay were used to determine the level and prognostic values of hsa_circ_0000231. Then, functional experiments in vitro and in vivo were performed to investigate the effects of hsa_circ_0000231 on cell proliferation. Mechanistically, fluorescent in situ hybridization, dual luciferase reporter assay, RNA pull-down and RNA immunoprecipitation experiments were performed to confirm the interaction between hsa_circ_0000231 and IGF2BP3 or has_miR-375. Results hsa_circ_0000231 was evidently up-regulated in CRC primary tissues, which was indicated to poor prognosis of CRC patients. The results demonstrated that hsa_circ_0000231 could promote CRC cell proliferation as well as tumorigenesis in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistic analysis showed that hsa_circ_0000231 might on the one hand act as a ceRNA (competing endogenous RNA) of miR-375 to regulate cyclin D2 (CCND2), and on the other hand bind to IGF2BP3 protein to protect CCND2 from being degraded. Conclusion Our findings suggest that hsa_circ_0000231 facilitated CRC progression by sponging miR-375 or binding to IGF2BP3 to modulate CCND2. This discovery implied that has_circ_0000231 may be a potential new diagnostic and therapeutic biomarker for CRC.


Author(s):  
S. Bursztajn ◽  
S. A. Berman

Muscle cells are multinucleated and each nucleus has the capacity of expressing many genes. Both in vivo and in vitro the AChR clusters appear to be associated with clusters of nuclei. To answer the question whether each nucleus in a multinucleated myotube is equally active in expressing the AChR message and how this may be regulated by motor neuron we have carried out in situ hybridization with radiolabeled probes to the AChR α subunit RNA. We have found that muscle cells do not express the mRNA at equal levels. The response we have observed is not due to the death, or the metabolic inactivity of some nuclei. Cells hybridized with a probe for U1 small nuclear RNA, show grains in every nucleus with approximately the same grain distribution. To better understand how the motor neuron may regulate the AChR gene expression we have combined in situ hybridization with immunocytochemistry. We radiolabeled the AChR intron/exon probes with two (35S) thiodeoxynucleoside triphosphates (dNYPs).


Development ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
JH Russ ◽  
JD Horton

This paper describes in vitro and in vivo attempts to deplete the 4- to 8-month-old Xenopus laevis (J strain) thymus of its lymphocyte compartment. Gamma irradiation (2-3000 rad) of the excised thymus, followed by two weeks in organ culture, is effective in removing lymphocytes, but causes drastic reduction in size and loss of normal architecture. In contrast, in vivo whole-body irradiation (3000 rad) and subsequent in situ residence for 8-14 days proves successful in providing a lymphocyte-depleted froglet thymus without loss of cortical and medullary zones. In vivo-irradiated thymuses are about half normal size, lack cortical lymphocytes, but still retain some medullary thymocytes; they show no signs of lymphocyte regeneration when subsequently organ cultured for 2 weeks. Light microscopy of 1 micron, plastic-embedded sections and electron microscopy reveal that a range of thymic stromal cell types are retained and that increased numbers of cysts, mucous and myoid cells are found in the thymus following whole-body irradiation. In vivo-irradiated thymuses are therefore suitable for implantation studies exploring the role of thymic stromal cells in tolerance induction of differentiating T lymphocytes.


1995 ◽  
Vol 108 (12) ◽  
pp. 3795-3805 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Schuler ◽  
L.M. Sorokin

The expression of laminin-1 (previously EHS laminin) and laminin-2 (previously merosin) isoforms by myogenic cells was examined in vitro and in vivo. No laminin alpha 2 chainspecific antibodies react with mouse tissues, 50 rat monoclonal antibodies were raised against the mouse laminin alpha 2 chain: their characterization is described here. Myoblasts and myotubes from myogenic cell lines and primary myogenic cultures express laminin beta 1 and gamma 1 chains and form a complex with a 380 kDa alpha chain identified as laminin alpha 2 by immunofluorescence, immunoprecipitation and PCR. PCR from C2C12 myoblasts and myotubes for the laminin alpha 2 chain gene (LamA2) provided cDNA sequences which were used to investigate the in vivo expression of mouse LamA2 mRNA in embryonic tissues by in situ hybridization. Comparisons were made with specific probes for the laminin alpha 1 chain gene (LamA1). LamA2 but not LamA1 mRNA was expressed in myogenic tissues of 14- and 17-day-old mouse embryos, while the laminin alpha 2 polypeptide was localized in adjacent basement membranes in the muscle fibres. In situ hybridization also revealed strong expression of the LamA2 mRNA in the dermis, indicating that laminin alpha 2 is expressed other than by myogenic cells in vivo. Immunofluorescence studies localized laminin alpha 2 in basement membranes of basal keratinocytes and the epithelial cells of hair follicles, providing new insight into basement membrane assembly during embryogenesis. In vitro cell attachment assays revealed that C2C12 and primary myoblasts adhere to laminin-1 and -2 isoforms in a similar manner except that myoblast spreading was significantly faster on laminin-2. Taken together, the data suggest that laminins 1 and 2 play distinct roles in myogenesis.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penghui Xu ◽  
Xing Zhang ◽  
Jiacheng Cao ◽  
Jing Yang ◽  
Zetian Chen ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Gastric cancer (GC) ranks third in motality among all cancers worldwide. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) play essential roles in the malignant progression and metastasis of gastric cancer. As a transcription factor, FOXP2 is involved in the progression of many tumours. However, the regulation and association between circRNAs and FOXP2 remain to be discovered. Methods: RNA sequencing was used to explore differential circRNA expression profile in gastric cancer and quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) were used to detect circST3GAL6 expression. The cellular location of circST3GAL6 was determined by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Functional experiments in circST3GAL6 knockdown and overexpression cell lines were performed in vitro and in vivo. The correlation between circST3GAL6 and miR-300 was confirmed by the RNA pull-down assay, dual-luciferase reporter assay and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). The effects of circST3GAL6 on autophagy were detected by confocal microscopy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The mechanism of the circST3GAL6/miR-300/FOXP2 axis was verified by western blotting. The transcriptional regulation of Met by FOXP2 was proven by ChIP and luciferase reporter assays.Results: CircST3GAL6 was significantly depressed in GC tissues and cells. circST3GAL6 overexpression inhibited the proliferation, invasion and metastasis of GC cells in vitro and in vivo. Importantly, circST3GAL6 overexpression induced apoptosis and promote autophagy in GC cells. Furthermore, we found that circST3GAL6 sponged miR-300 and subsequently regulated FOXP2. We further revealed that FOXP2 suppressed the activation of the Met/AKT/mTOR axis, a classic pathway that regulates autophagy-mediated proliferation and migration.Conclusion: Our findings revealed that circST3GAL6 functions as a tumour suppressor through the miR-300/FOXP2 axis in GC, regulates apoptosis and autophagy through FOXP2-mediated transcriptional inhibition of the MET axis and may be a biomarker for GC treatment.


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