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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-8-13
pubmed:abstractText
T cell development requires the interaction of developing thymocytes with thymic epithelial cells. Thymic epithelial cells acquire their unique phenotype under the control of the winged-helix transcription factor Whn, which is lacking in the nude mouse. Whn-dependent genes may therefore be important regulators of lympho-epithelial interactions. To identify Whn target genes we isolated RNA populations of wild-type and nude thymic anlagen from embryonic day 12.5 embryos by laser capture microdissection and compared them by gene expression profiling on microarrays representing 22,000 transcripts. All cDNA with expression differences confirmed by quantitative RT-PCR using RNA from individual anlagen and by in situ hybridization were found to be present in wild-type and absent in nude samples. Three of eight confirmed transcripts were of hematopoietic origin; these transcripts emanate from hematopoietic precursors which have just entered the thymic anlage. Five transcripts were of epithelial origin; one of these corresponds to the recently identified PD-1 ligand (PD-L1), the receptor of which is known to modulate positive selection and to play a role in the control of autoimmunity, and the remaining transcripts code for novel genes. The presented results support our prediction that this systematic approach by gene expression profiling yields regulators of thymopoiesis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0014-2980
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2497-503
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Algorithms, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Expressed Sequence Tags, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Forkhead Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Gene Expression Profiling, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-In Situ Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Lasers, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Ligands, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Mice, Nude, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Thymus Gland, pubmed-meshheading:11500834-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Laser capture microdissection-based expression profiling identifies PD1-ligand as a target of the nude locus gene product.
pubmed:affiliation
MPI für Immunbiologie, Freiburg, Germany. boehm@immunbio.mpg.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't