Transcription profiling of human HEK 293 cells with or without overexpression of the repressor ICER treated by forskolin at 0,1,2,4 and 8 hours
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ABSTRACT: HEK 293 cells with or without overexpression of ICER IIg were treated with forskolin for 0, 1 h, 2 h, 4 h or 8 h. The cell line used in the experiments is HEK 293 cells stable transfected with tetracycline-inducible ICER (Inducible cAMP early repressor) expression.
Project description:The aim of this study is to discover genes regulated by miR-204. Differential gene expression in HEK-293 cells transfected with miR-204-mimic compared to HEK-293 cells transfected with control oligo (HEK-293 control) was analyzed using the Agilent Human Whole Genome 4x44K gene expression array (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA). HEK-293 cells were transfected with either miR-204 or a control, and gene expression was analyzed using the Agilent Human Whole Genome 4x44K array. A dye-swap was performed.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of HEK293-derived cell lines that are stably transfected with either a tetracycline-inducible TRIB3 expression construct (TRIB3-293 cells), tetracycline-inducible ATF4 expression construct (ATF4-293 cells) or the corresponding empty vector (Vector-293 cells). Samples from tetracycline-treated and tetracycline-untreated cell cultures were collected after a 24-hour (TRIB3-293 cells, Vector-293) or 4-hour (ATF4-293) incubation in growth medium either with or without glucose.
Project description:HEK 293 cells were transiently transfected with plasmids expressing Vector only(PCMV), Aire, or MBD-VP16 with the goal of comparing the global gene expression profiles in the Aire and MBD-VP16 groups We used microarrays to detail the global gene expression profile. HEK 293 cells were transiently transfected with plasmids expressing Vector only(PCMV), Aire, or MBD-VP16 and 72 hrs post transfection total RNA was collected for microarray analysis.
Project description:This series of microarray experiments monitored the gene expression profiles for monoclonal cell lines (derived from HEK-293 parental cell culture) with high (H1, H15, H24, H36, H39) or low (L3, L28, L29) levels of store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE). For selection of clones, HEK-293 cells were loaded with indo-1 and sorted by FACS on the basis of their cyclopiazonic acid (CPA)-stimulated Ca2+ entry. Monoclonal cell lines were selected from the sorted cells and their levels of SOCE confirmed by monitoring thapsigargin-stimulated Ba2+ entry. Total RNA was extracted from cells immediately after removal from their growth environment. RNA was processed and hybridized to the Affymetrix HG-U133A chip. Two parallel hybridizations were done for each RNA preparation from each monoclonal cell line or from the parental HEK-293 cell culture.
Project description:Magnesium is essential for cellular life, but how it is homeostatically controlled still remains poorly understood. Here we report that members of CNNM family, which have been controversially implicated in both cellular Mg2+ influx and efflux, selectively bind to the TRPM7 channel to stimulate divalent cation entry into cells. Co-expression of CNNMs with the channel markedly increased uptake of divalent cations, which is prevented by an inactivating mutation to the channel’s pore. Knockout of Trpm7 in cells or application of the TRPM7-channel inhibitor NS8593 also interfered with CNNM-stimulated divalent cation uptake. Conversely, knockout of CNNM3 and CNNM4 in HEK-293 cells significantly reduced TRPM7-mediated divalent cation entry, without affecting TRPM7 protein expression or its cell surface levels. Furthermore, we found that cellular overexpression of Phosphatases of Regenerating Liver (PRLs), a known CNNMs binding partner, stimulated TRPM7-dependent divalent cation entry and that CNNMs were required for this activity. Whole-cell electrophysiological recordings demonstrated that deletion of CNNM3 and CNNM4 from HEK-293 cells interfered with heterologously expressed and native TRPM7 channel function. We conclude that CNNMs employ the TRPM7 channel to mediate divalent cation influx and that CNNMs also possess separate TRPM7-independent Mg2+ efflux activities that contribute to CNNMs’ control of cellular Mg2+ homeostasis.
Project description:PBDEs are widely used in consumer and household products as flame retardants. Many studies have shown that PBDEs could disrupt thyroid hormone homeostasis and adversely affect brain development. Here, we explored the toxical effects of BDE209 on HEK 293 cells and found that BDE209 may have a role in nucleosome remodeling. Many gene sets involved in cancer are enriched at the BDE209-treated sample. This indicates the carcinogenicity of BDE209. Interestingly, the impacts of BDE209 dissoved in DMSO on gene expression are more pronounced than the simple additive effects of BDE209 and DMSO alone. Gene expression profiles of human embryonic kidney 293 cells (HEK 293) cultured in normal medium, and medium containing BDE209 or DMSO were generated by deep sequencing, using Illumina HighSeq2000, respectively..
Project description:Aggregation of the RNA-binding protein TDP-43 is the key neuropathological feature of neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS and FTLD. TDP-43 is a ubiquitously expressed, nucleic acid-binding protein essential for human development. In physiological conditions, TDP-43 is predominantly nuclear, forms physiological oligomers and performs a wide variety of functions in the metabolism of RNA. However, whether oligomerization is required for TDP-43 functionality and whether oligomerization and RNA binding are intertwined, and if so how, remains poorly understood. To study this question, we generated three GFP-tagged human TDP-43 variants with either six point mutations that disrupt TDP-43 oligomerization (6M), five point mutations within the RNA-recognition motifs that disrupt RNA binding (RBDm) or both (6M&RBDm), and developed the corresponding four (TDP-43 WT and 3 mutants) isogenic HEK-293 cell lines expressing a single copy of GFP-TDP-43 under the control of a doxycycline-inducible promoter. Here, we induced the expression of all four TDP-43 constructs and studied the effects of the mild overexpression of the different TDP-43 variants on the human cell proteome.
Project description:To obtain evidence that Argonaute (AGO) crosslink-centered regions (CCRs) indeed contain functional miRNA-binding sites, we blocked 25 of the most abundant miRNAs in HEK 293 cells (Figure 5C of PMID 20371350) by transfection of a cocktail of 2'-O-methyl-modified antisense oligoribonucleotides and monitored the changes in mRNA stability by microarrays (Figure 7A of PMID 20371350). Consistent with previous studies of individual miRNAs (Grimson et al., 2007), the magnitude of the destabilization effects of transcripts containing at least one CCR depended on the length of the seed-complementary region and dropped from 9-mer to 8-mer to 7-mer to 6-mer matches (Figure 7B of PMID 20371350). We did not find evidence for significant destabilization of transcripts that only contained imperfectly paired seed regions. The top 25 expressed miRNAs expressed in HEK 293 cells were inhibited by transfection of a cocktail of 25 antisense 2'-O-Me oligoribonucleotides and the gene expression was compared to mock-transfected cells.
Project description:In recent times, high throughput screening analyses have broadly defined the RNA cellular targets of TDP-43, a nuclear factor involved in neurodegeneration. A common outcome of all these studies is that changing the expression levels of this protein can alter the expression of several hundred RNAs within cells. What still remains to be clarified is which changes represent direct cellular targets of TDP-43 or just secondary variations due to the general role played by this protein in RNA metabolism. Using a HTS-based splicing junction analysis we have now identified 162 splicing events that are consistent with being directly controlled by TDP-43. Validation of the data, both in neuronal and non-neuronal cell lines demonstrated that TDP-43 substantially alters the levels of isoform expression in four genes potentially important for neuropathology: MADD/IG20, STAG2, FNIP1, and BRD8. Most importantly, for MADD/IG20 and STAG2 these changes could also be confirmed at the protein level. These alterations were also observed in a cellular model that successfully mimics TDP-43 loss of function effects following its aggregation. These novel splicing events may represent potential biomarkers to predict disease onset, progression, and to test the efficacy of novel therapeutic agents to recover TDP-43 functional properties. We have performed an HTS-based splicing junction analysis of a series of stable cell lines that lack TDP-43, overexpress this factor, or express an RNA-binding mutant, in order to find splicing events, potentially associated with neurodegenerativce diseases, regulated by this splicing factor. Samples were analyzed in triplicate from: The following samples were analyzed in triplicate: wild-type HEK-293 cells, siTDP43-treated HEK-293 cells, siTDP43-treated HEK-293 cells overexpressing a flagged-wildtype TDP-43, siTDP43-treated HEK-293 cells overexpressing a RNA-binding deficient mutant.
Project description:In this study we performed 2 interactomes. To identify interactants of RNF111 that are dependent of the RING domain, we performed qualitative interactome comparison of HEK-293 cells transfected with GFP, GFP-RNF111-wt or GFP-RNF11-C933A mutated in its RING domain. This led to the identification of UBXN7 as a RING-dependent partner for RNF111. To identify UBXN7 UAS dependant partners, we performed quantitative interactome comparison of HEK-293 cells transfected with GFP, GFP-UBXN7-UAS.