Journal: Experimental Hematology & Oncology
Article Title: Disrupting Notch signaling related HES1 in myeloid cells reinvigorates antitumor T cell responses
doi: 10.1186/s40164-024-00588-2
Figure Lengend Snippet: Elevated expression of HES1 in tumor associated macrophages. A Gene expression analysis was performed on TAMs and mammary tissue macrophages (MTMs) obtained from 16-week-old female MMTV-PyMT mice (GES56755). Canonical Notch signaling related genes with a p-value threshold lower than 0.05 were considered to be differentially expressed. The fold change was represented using a log scale. B The mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) of intracellular HES1 staining was measured in macrophages (CD11b + F4/80 + double positive) isolated from bone marrow, spleen, and tumors. Mice were subcutaneously injected with 4T1, CT26 or B16F10 cell lines to generate tumor tissues. C The intracellular HES1 staining from MMTV-PyMT mice. Macrophages from bone marrow, spleen, and tumors were analyzed by flow cytometry. D Expression of HES1 in differentiating macrophages obtained from bone marrows of normal mice. The population of differentiated macrophages were analyzed by flow cytometry based on CD11b + F4/80 + cells (also see Supplemental Fig. 3). Additionally, Hes1 mRNA levels during the differentiation of BMDMs were analyzed using qRT-PCR. Relative expression was normalized to the expression level at the beginning of the experiment, designated as ‘day1’. E Protein expression levels of HES1 during BMDM differentiation were analyzed by Western blotting. The expression levels of Notch signaling-related factors, including NICD, RBPJ, and HEY1 were also measured over the course of BMDM differentiation. F BMDMs were subjected to normoxic (20.9% O 2 ) or hypoxic (1% O 2 ) conditions for 24 h. The expression of HES1 was measured using both qRT-PCR and Western blotting. β-actin expression was used as the normalization control for both methods. The presented data are expressed as mean ± SEM, with asterisks denoting significant differences (* p < 0.05) determined by the student’s t-test
Article Snippet: The murine Hes1 reporter plasmids pHes1 (467)-luc (Addgene plasmid #41723; http://n2t.net/addgene:41723 ; RRID: Addgene_41723) and pHes1 (467 RBPj (-))-luc (Addgene plasmid #43805; http://n2t.net/addgene:43805 ; RRID: Addgene_43805) were gifts from Ryoichiro Kageyama (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Kyoto University). pGL2 basic, pHes1 (467)-luc, or pHes1 (467 RBPj (-))-luc, together with pCMV-β-Gal, were co-transfected into BMDMs using Lipofectamine 2000.
Techniques: Expressing, Gene Expression, Fluorescence, Staining, Isolation, Injection, Flow Cytometry, Quantitative RT-PCR, Western Blot, Control