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Series GSE44718 Query DataSets for GSE44718
Status Public on May 07, 2013
Title Multiple roles for Grainyheadlike transcription factors in the establishment and maintenance of human mucociliary airway epithelium
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary The airways of the human lung are lined by an epithelium made up of ciliated and secretory luminal cells and undifferentiated p63+ Krt5+ basal cells. The integrity of this epithelium and its ability to act as a selective barrier are critical for normal lung function. In other epithelia there is evidence that transcription factors of the evolutionarily conserved grainyheadlike (GRHL) family play key roles in co-ordinating the expression of numerous proteins required for epithelial morphogenesis, differentiation, remodeling and repair. However, little is known about their function in the adult lung. Here, we focus on the role of GRHL2 in primary human bronchial epithelial (HBE) cells, using either shRNA or a dominant negative protein (DN-GRHL2) to inhibit its function. We follow changes in epithelial phenotype, and in gene transcription using RNA-seq or microarray analysis, both in undifferentiated basal cells and in cells differentiating in air-liquid interface culture into a mucociliary epithelium with transepithelial electrical resistance. We identify several hundreds of genes that are directly or indirectly regulated by GRHL2. Using ChIP-seq to map sites of GRHL2 binding in the basal cells we identify 7,687 potential primary targets, and confirm that GRHL2 binding is strongly enriched near GRHL-regulated genes. Different subsets of the large cohort of potential GRHL2 targets appear to be active in basal and differentiated cells. Taken together, the results strongly support the hypothesis that GRHL2 plays a key role in regulating many physiological functions of human airway epithelium, including those involving cell adhesion, polarity and morphogenesis.
 
Overall design Frozen primary human bronchial epithelial (HBE) cells were obtained from three donors. Passage 2 cells at 40% confluence were infected with H2B-GFP or DN-GRHL2 lentivirus and 1 mg/ml puromycin added 48 h later. At confluence, Doxycycline 0.5 mg/ml was added for 24 h. RNA-seq was performed on all six samples, as well as samples from two donors that were not infected.
 
Contributor(s) Gao X, Vockley CM, Pauli F, Newberry KM, Xue Y, Randell SH, Reddy TE, Hogan BL
Citation(s) 23690579
Submission date Feb 27, 2013
Last update date May 15, 2019
Contact name Timothy E Reddy
E-mail(s) tim.reddy@duke.edu
Organization name Duke University
Department Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Lab ReddyLab
Street address 2347 CIEMAS, 101 Science Drive
City Durham
State/province NC
ZIP/Postal code 27708
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL11154 Illumina HiSeq 2000 (Homo sapiens)
Samples (8)
GSM1089281 C29_WT
GSM1089282 C36_WT
GSM1089283 C29_Ctl
Relations
BioProject PRJNA191084
SRA SRP018883

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