Metabolomics,Unknown,Transcriptomics,Genomics,Proteomics

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Alteration of hepatic gene expression profile in NPC mice correlates with tissue damage and oxidative stress status

ABSTRACT: Background: Niemann Pick type C disease (NPC) is a neurovisceral lipid storage disorder, characterized by unesterified cholesterol accumulation in lysosomal/late endosome compartments. The main tissues affected in the disease are the liver and the cerebellum. Although the primary defect in this disease occurs in the liver, the pathological mechanisms involved in hepatocyte damage and death have been poorly explored. Here, we assessed biochemical parameters, liver histology and the mRNA abundance of genes encoding proteins associated to oxidative stress, copper metabolism, fibrosis and inflammation and cholesterol metabolism in livers of WT and NPC mice. Methodology/Principal Findings: We found that the histology of NPC mice livers show signals of inflammation and fibrosis. This was correlated with an increase of carbonylated proteins and reduced glutathione content in the liver, as well as a significantly increment of total content of copper in liver tissue. Finally, we analyzed the liver gene expression pattern by qPCR and microarray assays. We found a correlation between the tissue fibrotic status and a differential hepatic expression of genes related to oxidative stress, fibrosis and inflammation processes in NPC mice. Conclusions/Significance: Our data show that NPC liver disease is evidenced by an increase in fibrosis as well as in oxidative stress status. Concomitantly, there is a correlation with an altered gene expression pattern, mainly of oxidative stress and fibrosis related genes, which could be useful as a potential disease progression biomarkers. We compared three liver samples from NPC mice to a common reference sample made from pooled mRNA of three wild type mice

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Leonardo Pavez

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-24013 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease is a rare, genetic, lysosomal disorder with progressive neurodegeneration. Poor understanding of the pathophysiology and lack of blood-based diagnostic markers are major hurdles in the treatment and management of NPC and several additional neurological, lysosomal disorders. To identify disease severity correlates, we undertook whole genome expression profiling of sentinel organs, brain, liver, and spleen of Balb/c Npc1-/- mice (Npc1nih)relative to Npc1+/- at an asymptomatic stage, as well as early- and late-symptomatic stages. Unexpectedly, we found prominent up regulation of innate immunity genes with age-dependent change in their expression, in all three organs. We shortlisted a set of 12 secretory genes whose expression steadily increased with age in both brain and liver, as potential plasma correlates for the neurological disease. Ten were innate immune genes with eight ascribed to lysosomes. Several are known to be elevated in diseased organs of murine models of other lysosomal diseases including GaucherM-bM-^@M-^Ys disease, Sandhoff disease and MPSIIIB. We validated the top candidate lysozyme, in the plasma of Npc1-/- as well as Balb/c Npc1nmf164 mice (bearing a point mutation closer to human disease mutants) and show its reduction in response to an emerging therapeutic. We further established elevation of innate immunity in Npc1-/- mice through multiple functional assays including inhibition of bacterial infection as well as cellular analysis and immunohistochemistry. We used microarrays on the diseased organs, brain, liver and spleen of the Npc1-/- mice to unserstand the molecular changes occur during the progression of NPC diseases. From the data, we have identified 12 potential genes which can be potentially developed as blood-based biomarker. We have also discovered up regulation of innate iimunity genes in all three organs of Npc1-/- mice and functionally validated them in liver and spleen. Brain from 11 female Npc1M-bM-^HM-^R/M-bM-^HM-^R and 16 control female mice (Npc1+/+ and Npc1+/M-bM-^HM-^R) from 6 age groups (20-25, 37-40, 54-55, 59-62, 67-71 and 81-84 days) were surgically harvested. Liver and spleen from 6 Npc1-/- and 6 Npc1+/- female mice from three age group ( 20-25, 54-55 and 67-71 days) were surgically harvested. Organs were kept in RNA later and stored at -20 M-BM-0C until used. RNA was isolated and Affymetrix mouse 430 2.0 array hybridizations were performed by M-bM-^@M-^XUCLA Clinical Microarray CoreM-bM-^@M-^Y, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Subsequent raw data were analyzed using DNA-Chip Analyzer (D-Chip) with the .CEL files obtained from AGCC. Data from Npc1-/- mice from all age groups were compared to control mice (Npc1+/- and/or Npc1-/- mice) from all age groups separately for brain, liver and spleen. 'Matrix Table1' corrsponds for brain, 'Matrix Table2' corresponds for liver and 'Matrix Table3' corresponds for spleen. Thresholds for selecting significant genes were set at a relative difference M-BM-31.5-fold, absolute difference M-BM-3100 signal intensity units and p<0.05. Genes that met all three criteria simultaneously were considered as significant change.

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Alteration of hepatic gene expression profile in NPC mice correlates with tissue damage and oxidative stress status

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