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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2010

Different roles of G protein subunits beta1 and beta2 in neutrophil function revealed by gene expression silencing in primary mouse neutrophils.

Yong Zhang, Wenwen Tang, Matthew C Jones, Wenwen Xu, Stephanie Halene, Dianqing Wu

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yong ZhangDepartment of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
Wenwen Tang
Matthew C Jones
Wenwen Xu
Stephanie Halene
Dianqing Wu
Yale University · USIo Therapeutics (United States) · US

Funding

Vascular Pathophysiology and History Core (VPHC)P01HL070694 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI COWAN, ANN E. · 2002 to 2013
$17.5M
Molecular Function of Chemoattractant-Mediated SignalingR01HL080706 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI WU, DIANQING · 2005 to 2009
$2.3M
Molecular Function of Chemoattractant-Mediated SignalingR01GM054597 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI WU, DIANQING · 1996 to 2004
$1.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL070694NHLBI NIH HHS HL 080706NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL070694NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL080706NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM054597
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neutrophils play important roles in host innate immunity and various inflammation-related diseases. In addition, neutrophils represent an excellent system for studying directional cell migration. However, neutrophils are terminally differentiated cells that are short lived and refractory to transfection; thus, they are not amenable for existing gene silencing techniques. Here we describe the development of a method to silence gene expression efficiently in primary mouse neutrophils. A mouse stem cell virus-based retroviral vector was modified to express short hairpin RNAs and fluorescent marker protein at high levels in hematopoietic cells and used to infect mouse bone marrow cells prior to reconstitution of the hematopoietic system in lethally irradiated mice. This method was used successfully to silence the expression of Gbeta(1) and/or Gbeta(2) in mouse neutrophils. Knockdown of Gbeta(2) appeared to affect primarily the directionality of neutrophil chemotaxis rather than motility, whereas knockdown of Gbeta(1) had no significant effect. However, knockdown of both Gbeta(1) and Gbeta(2) led to significant reduction in motility and responsiveness. In addition, knockdown of Gbeta(1) but not Gbeta(2) inhibited the ability of neutrophils to kill ingested bacteria, and only double knockdown resulted in significant reduction in bacterial phagocytosis. Therefore, we have developed a short hairpin RNA-based method to effectively silence gene expression in mouse neutrophils for the first time, which allowed us to uncover divergent roles of Gbeta(1) and Gbeta(2) in the regulation of neutrophil functions.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationGene SilencingAnimalsBone Marrow CellsCell MovementChemotaxisGTP-Binding Protein beta SubunitsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeutrophilsRetroviridaeRNA, Small InterferingSignal TransductionStem CellsGTP-Binding Protein beta SubunitsRNA, Small Interfering

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PMID20525682
PMCPMC2915716
OpenAlexW2013853691

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