Project description:RNA from primary intestinal fibroblasts derived from Lkb1fl/fl mice (biological replicate n=4). Cells were adenotransducted with either AdCre or AdGFP to deplete Lkb1 and at day 4 after adenotransduction treated 24h with or without LPS. RNA sequencing method used was 3′UTR RNA sequencing.
Project description:The genes induced by mechanical stimuli may be also involved in disease resistance and wood formation and development in Acacia koa. If so, mechanically stressed A. koa may be used as a model to study disease resistance and wood formation and development. Microarray analysis was performed to determine expression levels of 4,000 genes related to disease resistance and wood development in Acacia koa in response to mechanical stimuli (touch). RNA was extracted from two groups of A. koa seedlings, (1) mechanically stressed and (2) unstressed koa seedlings. Each group had two biological replicates (n=2), where n represents pools of approcimately 20 individuals.
Project description:Autophagy is activated in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and is currently being considered a promising therapeutic target in clinical trials. PDAC is a highly lethal disease with incidence rate equalling mortality rate. Main reasons for PDAC lethality are late-stage diagnosis, high agressiveness and metastatic rate, lack of effective treatments as well as specific diagnostic markers. Here we show that varying levels of the Autophagy related gene 5 (Atg5) determine pancreatic tumor formation and malignancy. While homozygous deletion of Atg5 blocks tumor progression in an in vivo model of PDAC, heterozygous deletion increases tumor aggressiveness and metastasis. Further analyses reveal that monoallelic loss of Atg5 affects mitochondrial homeostasis, changes intracellular calcium oscillations, heightens extracellular cathepsin activities , and promotes a pro-tumorigenic inflammatory microenvironment collectively enhancing tumor cell migration, invasion, and metastasis. Future treatments should take into account that variations in the autophagy pathway may have opposing effects on pancreatic tumor load, especially considering the multitude of autophagy inhibitors currently tested in clinical trials.
Project description:The Gnas mutant mice driver by AdCre injection showed heterotopic osssification. In order to understand the underlying mechanism, we performed ATAC seq experiments from the control and Gnas mutant subcutaneous progenitor cells.
Project description:In order to better understand the effects of social stress on the prefrontal cortex, we investigated gene expression in mice subjected to acute and repeated social encounters of different duration using microarrays. The observed up-regulation of genes associated with vascular system and brain injury suggests that stressful social encounters may affect brain function through the stress-induced dysfunction of the vascular system. We studied gene expression profiles of prefrontal cortices of male mice subjected to social stress of different durations: Comparisons included: acute stress (24 hours after single social stress episode) vs. acute control (unstressed), stress-8 days vs. control-8 days, stress-13 days vs. control-13 days, stress-13 days+5 days of rest vs. control-13 days+5 days of rest. For each comparison, we analyzed 3 biological replicates per group. Two of out of three biological replicates were further replicated in dye swap (final dye swap failed due to problem during microarray hybridization). Each biological replicate consisted of equal amounts of total RNA from 3 mice subjected to the same experimental condition.
Project description:We investigated gene expression in mice subjected to acute and chronic social stress of different duration. Microarray data showed that chronic stress affected genes involved in function of vascular system (Alas2, Hbb-b1, Hba-a2, Hba-a1), injury response (Vwf, Mgp, Cfh, Fbln5, Col3a1, Ctgf) and inflammation (Isg20, Ctla2a, Ctla2b,Lcn2, Lrg1, Rsad2,S100a8, S100a9). Review of the literature revealed that the most frequently regulated genes (up or down) were Igfbp2, Igf2, Prlr, App, Cdh1, Col1A1, Clic6, Enpp2, Sostdc1,Itgb6, Mef2c, Spp1, and Zeb2. Obtained results suggest that stress may affect brain functions through the stress-induced dysfunction of the vascular system. Some of the key genes revealed by the review of published data participate both in the response to injury and in the mechanism of learning and memory. These genes may constitute a link between stress and stress-induced memory impairments. An important issue raised by our work is also the risk of tissue contamination with choroid plexus. Such contamination would result in consistent up- or down-regulation of genes, such as Ttr, Igf2, Igfbp2, Prlr, Enpp2, Sostdc1, 1500015O10RIK (Ecrg4), Kl, Clic6, Kcne2, F5, Slc4a5, and Aqp1. This is analysis of 24 hippocampal RNA samples. Each sample consisted of equal amounts of total RNA from 3 mice subjected to the same experimental condition. Comparisons: acute stress vs. acute control (unstressed), stress-8 days vs. control-8 days, stress-13 days vs. control-13 days, stress-13 days+5 days of rest vs. control-13 days+5 days of rest. 3 biological replicates in each comparison. Dye swap (technical replicate) was included for each biological replicate.
Project description:The Gnas mutant mice driver by AdCre injection showed heterotopic osssification. In order to understand the underlying mechanism, we performed RNA seq experiments using total RNA from the control and Gnas mutant subcutaneous progenitor cells.
Project description:For this study, thymic transcriptome responses to an acute heat stress and/or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were investigated in a broiler line (heat and disease susceptible) and an inbred Fayoumi line (heat and disease resistant) of chickens. In a 2 x 2 design, 22 day-old birds were exposed to heat stress (35°C for 7 hours), lipopolysaccharide (100 µg/kg average body weight per line), or both stressors. Thermoneutral temperature (25°C) and phosphate buffered saline were used as the respective controls. Tissue samples were collected from the thymus and used to isolate high quality RNA. cDNA libraries (n = 31) were constructed and sequenced on the HiSeq 2500.
Project description:A "Cartes d'Identite des Tumeurs" (CIT) project from the french Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (http://cit.ligue-cancer.net). Conditional Knockout mouse model for the tumor suppressor gene Ap, Apc 2lox. The disruption of the Apc gene is realized by injection of an adenovirus encoding the Cre recombinase (AdCre). Homozygous animals injected with a high dose of AdCre showed an activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in most of the hepatocytes and develop an hepatomegaly and die soon after. Analysis of gene up- and down regulation for liver-indicible APC disruption.
Project description:To determine whether BCL6 binds to the certain locus we performed genomic localization studies by chromatin immunoprecipitations (ChIP) using a densely tiled custom oligonucleotide microarray covering the genomic loci of different genes. Keywords: ChIP-chip, Transcription Factor localization The experiment was performed in Ramos cell. Triplicate ChIP with BCL6 or actin (negative control) antibodies were cohybridized to the arrays versus the respective input chromatin.The fold enrichment for each oligonucleotide was calculated as the ratio of Cy5 vs. Cy3. Any peaks involving >5 oligonucleotides and with > 2.5 fold enrichment were considered potentially positive hits.