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UNIVERSITY OF OSLO. Cytokine expression profiling of the myocardium reveals a role for CX3CL1 (fractalkine) in heart failure.
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UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Cytokine expression profiling of the myocardium reveals a role for CX3CL1 (fractalkine) in heart failure Cathrine Husberg (1,8), Ståle Nygård (1,2,8), Alexandra Vanessa Finsen (1,8), Jan Kristian Damås (4), Arnoldo Frigessi(3), Erik Øye(6,7,8), Lars Gullestad(4,8), Pål Aukrust(4,5), Arne Yndestad(4,8), Geir Christensen(1,8) 1.Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Ullevål University Hospital 2.Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo 3.Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo 4. Research Institute for Internal medicine, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center 5. Section of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center 6. Department of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center 7. Institute for Surgical Research, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center 8. Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo
Identify cytokines imortant for the development of heart failure (HF) - and that are not previously associated with HF Aim
Strategy Cell cultures Gene modified mice
MI 3d 5d 7d 14d Time Microarray study At each time point tissues from 5 mice with myocardial infarction (MI) and 5 SHAM operated mice were used for cDNA microarray screening.
Microarray preprosessing by MAANOVA Following the MicroArray ANOVA (MAANOVA) model of Kerr et al (2000), log-transformed intensity for a gene g on array i with dye j (Cy5 or Cy3) and treatment k (MI or SHAM) was modelled by We are mainly interested in the quantity VG1g-VG2g , as it represents the gene-specific effect of MI. Adding the other (nuisance) parameters results in a model based normalisation of the expression measurements.
R package: maanova • Make data and design file (see maanova manual for detailed instructions) • Start R • Make script file with R commands something like (NB! Only an extract of the full code, won’t work...) • > library(maanova) • > l<-read.madata("lowint.txt", header=FALSE, designfile="des.txt”...... > h<-read.madata("highint.txt", header=FALSE, designfile="des.txt”...... • > source("M:/Rlibs/sat_corr.txt") > r<-s.c(l,h) #correct for saturated spots according to Lyng et al (2004) • > d<-createData(r) > n<-transform.madata(d,method="rlowess",draw="off") #”pre-normalisation” using lowess > m<-makeModel(n,formula=~Dye+Type+Array) #Type=MI or SHAM • > a<-fitmaanova(n,m) • > t<-matest(n,m,term="Type",MME.method="noest",n.perm=100) • > res<-cbind(d$gene.name,a$Type[,1]- a$Type[,2], t$Fs$Pvalperm) • #make result table with important quantities (gene symbols, ratio estimate, p-values) • > write.table(res,file=”result-file.txt”,sep=”\t”) 4. Read result file using Excel.
Significance assessment Two criteria: • At least 30% up- or downregulation (a rough estimate of what can be of functional importance) • P-value<0.05. That is, we ar not performing multiple testing because we will • only consider the cytokines (i.e. a subset of all genes) • post-verify the significant genes by qRT-PCR (higher accuracy)
Significantly regulated cytokines not previously associated with heart failure.
Human tissue HF C HF C HF C HF C HF C HF C HF 75 Fractalkine 50 37 Verification by qRT-PCR and in humans. Array qRT-PCR Human serum 6,0 Ratio 4,0 • Ammount of circulating fractalkine related to extent of disease. 2,0 0,0 • 3x upregulated in human tissue Murine tissiue
Exploring fractalkine’s molecular function Stimulate cells with fractalkine, and screen for differentially expressed genes. Use CXCR knock-out mice, and screen for differentially expressed genes Identify signalling pathways significantly affected by fractalkine stimulation/ knock-out using the software Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (enrichment analysis).
Ingenuity Pathway Analysis Commercial software for understanding complex biological systems. Uses a knowledge base containing (millions of) biological and chemical relationships (manually) extracted from the scientific literature. Key components: * Signaling and Metabolic Pathways Analysis * Cellular and Disease Process Analysis * Molecular Network Analysis
Signaling pathways activated by fractalkine Signalling pathways in adult cardiomyocytes stimulated by fractalkine (identified by Ingenuity Pathways Analysis software)