Journal: Scientific Reports
Article Title: Oral Pathobiont Activates Anti-Apoptotic Pathway, Promoting both Immune Suppression and Oncogenic Cell Proliferation
doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-35126-8
Figure Lengend Snippet: Enriched blood panDCs and gingival tissues of CP patients reveal immunosuppressive state. ( A ) 29 genes associated with transcriptional regulation, inflammation, immunosuppression, cell proliferation, anti-apoptosis and other homeostatic functions were identified from the RNAseq data. Bar graphs show both up- (red) and down- (blue) regulation of genes (≥±2 fold) in ex-vivo isolated and panDC-enriched blood samples from CP patients compared to healthy controls confirmed by TaqManPCR. The overall validation data shows the same trend as in RNAseq analysis. ( B ) H&E of healthy control and CP patient’s gingival tissue. The arrows indicate the infiltrating cells of inflammatory responses; (20X), CT- Connective Tissue, ET- Epithelial Tissue. Results are representative of two experiments (n = 9/group). ( C ) Co-localized expression of pAKT1/pFOXO1, pAKT1/DC-SIGN (receptor for Mfa1) and DC-SIGN/FOXP3 (arrowhead) in gingival connective tissue (marked in b) from CP, compared with healthy control. Images are representative of three independent experiments (Scale bar- 100 µm; pls refer Fig. for independent channel and their quantification measurement of co-localization. ( D ) Immunoblot analysis of p/tAKT1, p/tFOXO1, FOXP3, IDO1, BIM, CXCR4 and SDF1 in gingival tissue of CP compared with healthy control. ( E ) Mfa1 and FimA mRNA in ex-vivo isolated panDCs from CP patients and Healthy control and normalized with the internal control. ( F–H ) Regulation of FOXO1, FOXP3, BIM transcription by FOXO1A or pAKT1. Immunoprecipitation of chromatin from the human FOXO1 ( F ), FOXP3 ( G ) and BIM ( H ) locus in mixed immune cell population from gingival tissues of CP and healthy control with anti-pAKT1 or anti-FOXO1A, followed by qPCR analysis of immunoprecipitants; results are presented relative to input by immunoprecipitation with isotype-matched control antibody. Data are representative of six independent experiments. * P ≤ 0.05, ** P ≤ 0.01.
Article Snippet: The antagonists for AKT1 (MK-2206 2HCl) and FOXO1 (AS1842856) were from Selleckchem and Calbiochem, respectively.
Techniques: Ex Vivo, Isolation, Biomarker Discovery, Control, Expressing, Western Blot, Immunoprecipitation