Journal: eBioMedicine
Article Title: Pharmacological inhibition of tyrosine protein-kinase 2 reduces islet inflammation and delays type 1 diabetes onset in mice
doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2025.105734
Figure Lengend Snippet: TYK2i treatment preserves pancreatic β cells and inhibits the expression of IFNα-induced mRNAs in RIP-LCMV-GP mice . Pancreas tissue was harvested from vehicle- and TYK2i-treated RIP-LCMV-GP mice on days 3, 7, and 14 post-inoculation. Single-molecule fluorescence in situ hybridisation (smFISH) detecting Cd274 , Mx1, Cxcl10 , and Stat1 was performed in combination with co-staining of insulin protein and DAPI for nuclear labelling. mRNA expression in individual insulin-positive β cells was quantified following an established pipeline (details are provided in Methods). ( a–c ) Histogram showing the cellular insulin intensity from the pancreatic tissue sections of vehicle (red plot lines) and TYK2i-treated mice (grey plot lines) on days 3, 7, and 14. (d – e) Representative smFISH images of Cd274 , Mx1 , Cxcl10 , and Stat1 in mouse pancreatic islets on day 3 (d) , 7 ( g ), and 14 ( j ). Islet regions are delineated, and the merged smFISH images are shown along with a designated square region of expanded magnification (far right images). ( e, h, k ) Quantitation of mRNA copy number in a single β cell of a pancreatic islet on days 3, 7, and 14. ( f, i, l ) Spatial analysis of RNA localisation between nuclear and cytoplasmic subcellular compartments. Individual β cell measurements of RNA copies and RNA localisation data are expressed as mean ± SD with an indication of significant differences, n = 5–7 mice were studied per condition and 4–10 islets were randomly selected from each section; statistical significance was determined by a Mann–Whitney U test.
Article Snippet: Cells were treated with the TYK2i BMS-986165 (MedChemExpress, catalogue #HY-117287) or BMS-986202 (a kind gift from Bristol Myers Squibb) at different concentrations ranging from 0.0003 to 3 μM and with different proinflammatory cytokines alone or in combination: IFNα (2000 U/mL, PeproTech, catalogue #300-02AA-1MG), IL-1β (50 U/mL, R&D Systems, catalogue #201-LB-005), and TNFα (1000 U/mL, PeproTech, catalogue #300-01A-50UG).
Techniques: Expressing, Fluorescence, In Situ, Hybridization, Staining, Quantitation Assay, MANN-WHITNEY