ABSTRACT: Transcription profiling by array of E10.5 embryos from diabetic pregnancies and matched controls from normal pregnancies to study the effect of maternal diabetes on transcription in the developing embryo
Project description:Exposure to maternal diabetes during pregnancy alters transcriptional profiles in the developing embryo. The enrichment, within the set of de-regulated genes, of those encoding transcriptional regulatory molecules provides support for the hypothesis that maternal diabetes affects specific developmental programs. We compared E10.5 cntrol embryos to E10.5 embryos from diabetic pregnancies in the FVB mouse strain.
Project description:Exposure to maternal diabetes during pregnancy alters transcriptional profiles in the developing embryo. The enrichment, within the set of de-regulated genes, of those encoding transcriptional regulatory molecules provides support for the hypothesis that maternal diabetes affects specific developmental programs. We compared E10.5 cntrol embryos to E10.5 embryos from diabetic pregnancies in the FVB mouse strain. Diabetes was induced in 7-9 week old female FVB mice by streptozotocin. Dams whose blood glucose levels exceeded 250 mg/dl were set up for mating. Embryos were dissected at E10.5 and total RNA was isolated. Equal amounts of RNA prepared from 3 individual embryos were pooled into one sample; each embryo was from a different pregnancy. Three pools were constructed for a total of nine embryos from diabetic pregnancies, and independently three pools for control embryos.
Project description:Diabetic embryopathy can affect any developing organ system, although cardiovascular malformations, neural tube defects and caudal dysgenesis syndrome are the most prominent congenital malformations. We hypothesize that the metabolic imbalance occurring in diabetic pregnancy de-regulates tissue specific gene expression programs in the developing embryo. In order to identify genes whose expression is affected by maternal diabetes, we analyzed gene expression profiles of diabetes-exposed mouse embryos by using Affymetrix microarrays. We identified 129 genes with altered expression levels; 21 genes had increased and 108 genes had decreased expression levels in diabetes-exposed embryos relative to controls. A substantial fraction of these genes (35) are essential for normal embryonic development as shown by functional studies in mouse models. The largest fraction of diabetes-affected genes was in transcription factor and DNA-binding/chromatin remodeling functional categories (19%), which directly affect transcription. These findings suggest that transcriptional regulation in the developing embryos is perturbed by maternal diabetes and that transcriptional regulation plays a major role in the responses of embryos to intrauterine exposure to diabetic conditions. Interestingly, we found the expression of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 α (Hif1α) deregulated in the embryos exposed to the conditions of maternal diabetes. Since hypoxic stress is associated with the complications of diabetic pregnancy, we performed a post-hoc analysis of our microarray data with a specific focus on known HIF1 target genes. Of 39 genes detected in our microarrays, the expression changes of 22 genes (20 were increased and two genes were decreased in diabetes-exposed embryos) were statistically significant. These results indicate that HIF1-regulated pathways are affected in diabetes-exposed embryos. These results strongly suggest that de-regulation of hypoxia/HIF1 activated pathways could be the one of the key molecular events associated with the exposure to the teratogenic intrauterine environment of a diabetic mother. Experiment Overall Design: Total RNA was isolated from whole embryos at embryonic day 10.5 (E10.5). Five diabetes-exposed embryos (2 of 5 embryos had neural tube defects; NTD) were compared to two control embryos. Diabetes was induced in female FVB mice (aged 7-9 weeks) by streptozotocin Embryos were isolated only from dams that were classified as diabetic with the blood glucose levels > 250 mg/dl from the mating day until the day of embryo harvest. Five ug of total RNA was reverse-transcribed, and biotin-labeled cRNA probe generated using the Affymetrix labeling kit and protocol per manufacturers instructions. Probes were then hybridized to the Affymetrix 430A 2.0 genome chip with 14,338 genes. Following washing and staining, the chips were scanned using the Affymetrix GeneChip 3000 scanner in Genetic Microarray Core Facility at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Images were analyzed using Affymetrix GCOS imaging software. Quality metric parameters including noise level, background, and the efficiency of reverse transcription were ascertained for all hybridizations. The expression levels and the âcallâ of âPresentâ, âMarginalâ, âAbsentâ for each probe set were determined by the comparison of the signal intensity of matched and mismatched oligonucleotide probes for the gene sequence.
Project description:Diabetic embryopathy can affect any developing organ system, although cardiovascular malformations, neural tube defects and caudal dysgenesis syndrome are the most prominent congenital malformations. We hypothesize that the metabolic imbalance occurring in diabetic pregnancy de-regulates tissue specific gene expression programs in the developing embryo. In order to identify genes whose expression is affected by maternal diabetes, we analyzed gene expression profiles of diabetes-exposed mouse embryos by using Affymetrix microarrays. We identified 129 genes with altered expression levels; 21 genes had increased and 108 genes had decreased expression levels in diabetes-exposed embryos relative to controls. A substantial fraction of these genes (35) are essential for normal embryonic development as shown by functional studies in mouse models. The largest fraction of diabetes-affected genes was in transcription factor and DNA-binding/chromatin remodeling functional categories (19%), which directly affect transcription. These findings suggest that transcriptional regulation in the developing embryos is perturbed by maternal diabetes and that transcriptional regulation plays a major role in the responses of embryos to intrauterine exposure to diabetic conditions. Interestingly, we found the expression of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 α (Hif1α) deregulated in the embryos exposed to the conditions of maternal diabetes. Since hypoxic stress is associated with the complications of diabetic pregnancy, we performed a post-hoc analysis of our microarray data with a specific focus on known HIF1 target genes. Of 39 genes detected in our microarrays, the expression changes of 22 genes (20 were increased and two genes were decreased in diabetes-exposed embryos) were statistically significant. These results indicate that HIF1-regulated pathways are affected in diabetes-exposed embryos. These results strongly suggest that de-regulation of hypoxia/HIF1 activated pathways could be the one of the key molecular events associated with the exposure to the teratogenic intrauterine environment of a diabetic mother. Keywords: Comparative studies of embryonic response to maternal diabetes
Project description:Maternal diabetes causes congenital malformations in various organs in fetuses. This study was aimed to investigate the differential gene expression profiling in developing brains of embryos from diabetic mice. Experiment Overall Design: Totally six samples were used. Three brains of the embryos from control normal mice was hybridized on three chips separately. And three malformed brains of the embryos from experimental diabetic mice was hybridized on three chips separately.
Project description:Maternal diabetes causes cardiac malformations in fetuses. In this study, we have analyzed the differential gene expression profiling in the developing heart of embryos from diabetic and control mice by using the oligonucleotide microarray. Expression patterns of genes and proteins that are differentially expressed in the developing heart were further examined by the real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry. Embryos of diabetic pregnancies displayed cardiac malformations. Microarray analysis revealed the genes that were altered in expression level in the developing heart of embryos from diabetic mice when compared to controls. It is concluded that altered expression of a variety of genes involved in heart development is associated with cardiac malformations in offsprings of diabetic mother. We used microarrays to identify the genes specific to the developing heart of embryos from control and diabetic mice RNA was isolated from heart tissue of control and diabetes exposed E13.5 and E15.5 mouse embryos (three samples each). The RNA was hybridised onto Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array.
Project description:Maternal diabetes causes congenital malformations in various organs in fetuses. This study was aimed to investigate the differential gene expression profiling in developing brains of embryos from diabetic mice. Keywords: disease state analysis
Project description:Maternal diabetes during early pregnancy can cause birth defects, notably of the developing heart and nervous system. To recognize the gene expression differences that may be the basis for such birth defects, we performed RNA-Seq on mouse embryos of the Non-Obese Diabetic (NOD) strain. Mice of that strain spontaneously develop type I diabetes.
Project description:Congenital heart defects (CHD) are one of the most common defects in offspring of diabetic mothers. There is a clear association between maternal diabetes and CHD; however the underlying molecular mechanism remains unknown. We hypothesized that maternal diabetes affects with the expression of early developmental genes that regulate the essential developmental processes of the heart, thereby resulting in the pathogenesis of CHD. We analyzed genome-wide expression profiling in the developing heart of embryos from diabetic and control mice by using the oligonucleotide microarray. Microarray analysis revealed that a total of 878 genes exhibited more than 1.5 fold changes in expression level in the hearts of experimental embryos in either E13.5 or E15.5 compared with their respective controls. Expression pattern of genes that is differentially expressed in the developing heart was further examined by the real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. Several genes involved in a number of molecular signaling pathways such as apoptosis, proliferation, migration and differentiation in the developing heart were differentially expressed in embryos of diabetic pregnancy. It is concluded that altered expression of several genes involved in heart development may contribute to CHD in offspring of diabetic mothers.
Project description:Maternal diabetes is a teratogen that can lead to neural tube closure defects in the offspring. We therefore sought to compare gene expression profiles at the site of neural tube closure between stage-matched embryos from normal dams, and embryos from diabetic dams. Neurulation-stage mouse embryos at 8.5 days of gestation were used to prepare neural tissue at the anterior aspect of neural tube closure site 1. Tissue was procured from the open neural tube immediately anterior of the closure site, and from the closed neural tube immediately posterior to the closure site by laser microdissection. For each sample, 10 sections were pooled, total RNA was extracted, and 7 ng of total RNA were used for expression profiling by Tag sequencing using an Applied Biosystems SolidSAGE kit for library construction, and an AB SOLiD 5500 XL instrument for sequencing. Sequence reads were mapped to RefSeq RNA, and count data per gene were obtained using a modified version of the Applied Biosystems SOLiDâ?¢ SAGEâ?¢ Analysis Software. diabetic dam - closed neural tube // diabetic dam - open neural tube // normal dam - closed neural tube // normal dam - open neural tube