During development a specialised subset of endothelial cells, the haemogenic endothelium, undergo an endothelial-to-haematopoietic transition. This process critically involves the transcription factor Runx1. Here we have isolated a specific subpopulation of endothelial cells using a Runx1 enhancer-reporter transgenic mouse line (23GFP). We have compared the gene expression profile of this population to non-23GFP expressing endothelial cells and CD41 expressing haematopoietic progenitor cells to assess whether 23GFP expression marks a biologically distinct subset of endothelium.
Early dynamic fate changes in haemogenic endothelium characterized at the single-cell level.
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View SamplesDevelopment of a suitable mouse model would facilitate the investigation of pathomechanisms underlying human psoriasis and would also assist in development of therapeutic treatments. However, while many psoriasis mouse models have been proposed, no single model recapitulates all features of the human disease, and standardized validation criteria for psoriasis mouse models have not been widely applied. In this study, whole-genome transcriptional profiling is used to compare gene expression patterns manifested by human psoriatic skin lesions with those that occur in five psoriasis mouse models (K5-Tie2, imiquimod, K14-AREG, K5-Stat3C and K5-TGFbeta1). While the cutaneous gene expression profiles associated with each mouse phenotype exhibited statistically significant similarity to the expression profile of psoriasis in humans, each model displayed distinctive sets of similarities and differences in comparison to human psoriasis. For all five models, correspondence to the human disease was strong with respect to genes involved in epidermal development and keratinization. Immune and inflammation-associated gene expression, in contrast, was more variable between models as compared to the human disease. These findings support the value of all five models as research tools, each with identifiable areas of convergence to and divergence from the human disease. Additionally, the approach used in this paper provides an objective and quantitative method for evaluation of proposed mouse models of psoriasis, which can be strategically applied in future studies to score strengths of mouse phenotypes relative to specific aspects of human psoriasis.
Genome-wide expression profiling of five mouse models identifies similarities and differences with human psoriasis.
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