2024
Single-Cell Analysis Reveals a Subset of High IL-12p40-Secreting Dendritic Cells within Mouse Bone Marrow-Derived Macrophages Differentiated with M-CSF.
Bridges K, Pizzurro G, Khunte M, Chen M, Salvador Rocha E, Alexander A, Bass V, Kellman L, Baskaran J, Miller-Jensen K. Single-Cell Analysis Reveals a Subset of High IL-12p40-Secreting Dendritic Cells within Mouse Bone Marrow-Derived Macrophages Differentiated with M-CSF. The Journal Of Immunology 2024, 212: 1357-1365. PMID: 38416039, DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2300431.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBone marrow-derived macrophagesDendritic cellsCell-to-cell heterogeneitySingle-cell RNA sequencing dataRNA sequencing dataSingle-cell analysisIL-12p40Sequence dataExpression of IL12BInnate immune functionProduction of IL-12Bone marrow-derived macrophage culturesMurine bone marrow-derived macrophagesSurface marker expressionAcute inflammatory responseMarrow-derived macrophagesGene encoding IL-12p40Secretion assayIL12B expressionReporter miceDC lineageIL-12GenesProinflammatory cytokinesM-CSF
2021
TNF stimulation primarily modulates transcriptional burst size of NF‐κB‐regulated genes
Bass VL, Wong VC, Bullock ME, Gaudet S, Miller‐Jensen K. TNF stimulation primarily modulates transcriptional burst size of NF‐κB‐regulated genes. Molecular Systems Biology 2021, 17: msb202010127. PMID: 34288498, PMCID: PMC8290835, DOI: 10.15252/msb.202010127.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNF-κB-regulated inflammatory genesGene expression noiseOpen chromatin environmentTranscriptional burst sizeNF-κB target genesNF-κB-regulated genesHistone 3 acetylationChromatin environmentTranscription factor NF-κBTranscriptional noiseExpression noiseTranscriptional burstingTranscript distributionFactor NF-κBGene promoterSubset of cellsIntercellular heterogeneityTNF stimulationCell heterogeneityGenesTNF protein expressionTNF activationProtein expressionTranscriptionBurst size
2019
Fold-Change Detection of NF-κB at Target Genes with Different Transcript Outputs
Wong VC, Mathew S, Ramji R, Gaudet S, Miller-Jensen K. Fold-Change Detection of NF-κB at Target Genes with Different Transcript Outputs. Biophysical Journal 2019, 116: 709-724. PMID: 30704857, PMCID: PMC6382958, DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.01.011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFold-change detectionTarget genesTranscript outputStress-responsive gene transcriptionSingle-cell dataNF-κB target genesRelA nuclear translocationLive-cell imagingMicrofluidic cell-trapping deviceLow-abundance transcriptsTranscription factor nuclear factorNF-κBRNA FISHTranscriptional outputΚB motifTranscript abundanceGene transcriptionTranscriptionTranscript numbersCell trap deviceJurkat TCell typesGenesNF-κB signalingMultiple biological mechanisms