Transcription profiling of staged Zebra fish embryos at 2 hour intervals over a 24 h period over period of segmentation, when the nervous system is forming
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ABSTRACT: We isolated total RNA from staged embryos at 2 hour intervals over a 24 h period. Total RNA from 8 h embryos was used as a reference for the time course. This expression study used a >16,000 oligonucleotide (65-mers) probe set from Compugen to examine changes in gene expression in wild-type Danio rerio during development, emphasizing the period of segmentation, when the nervous system is forming. Embryos were provided by Scientific Hatcheries.
Project description:The effect of a year-long 10 reduction in water temperature on global gene expression in tail skeletal muscle from adult, male zebrafish was determined using a long oligonucleotide probe set (16,399 65mers from Compugen) spotted onto glass slides. Outbred male zebrafish were obtained from a commercial supplier (Liles Tropical Fish, FL) at 6 months of age. Fish were maintained at 28 until 10 months of age. (see Gerhard et al., Exp Gerontol 37,1055-68, 2002) For temperature reduction, water temperature was decreased by 2.5 per week for 4 weeks. Fish were maintained until 22 months of age. Fish were fed fish flakes (Wardely Corp. Secaucus, NJ) twice per day. Each feeding was a discrete event in which a small measured amount of granular food was sprinkled on the water surface. A second small aliquot was offered if the first has been eaten within a few minutes. The feeding stopped when food from the previous aliquot has not been eaten and feeding behavior has ceased. By providing a consecutive series of small aliquots until food is no longer accepted, every member of the tank has an opportunity to eat until satiety, yet the amount of uneaten food is minimized. At 22 months of age, fish were euthanized by decapitation. Total RNA was harvested from a pool of tail muscle samples from 5 fish. Two independent pools of 5 fish per pool were collected from fish maintained at 18 and 28. Flip-dye hybridizations were performed on each pool for a total of 4 hybridizations in this study. Experiments DAR011d0001 and DAR011d0002 are flip-dye hybridizations from Pool 1. Experiments DAR011d0003 and DAR011d004 are flip-dye hybridizations from Pool 2.
Project description:The PI3K-PKB/c-akt-FOXO signalling network provides a major intracellular hub for regulation of cell proliferation, survival and stress resistance1. Here we report a novel function for FOXO transcription factors in regulating autophagy through modulation of intracellular glutamine levels. To identify novel transcriptional targets of this module we performed an unbiased microarray analysis after conditional activation of the key components PI3K, PKB, FOXO3 and FOXO4. Utilising this global pathway approach we identified glutamine synthetase (GS) as being transcriptionally regulated by PI3K-PKB-FOXO signalling. FOXO-mediated increase in GS expression specifically induced glutamine production independently of cell type, and this was evolutionary conserved. FOXO activation resulted in mTOR inhibition by preventing the translocation of mTOR to lysosomal membranes, which was dependent on GS activity. Increased GS activity resulted in increased autophagosome turnover as measured by LC3 lipidation, p62 degradation, and confocal imaging of LC3, p62, WIPI-1, ULK2 and Atg12. Inhibition of FOXO3-mediated autophagy resulted in increased apoptosis, suggesting that the induction of autophagy by FOXO3-mediated upregulation of GS is important for cellular survival. These findings reveal a novel signalling network that can directly modulate autophagy through regulation of glutamine metabolism. conditional activation of pkb and pi3k were followed in a timeseries. Each timepoint consists of 4 independent replicates, labeled with either cy3 or cy5 and put on array against time0.
Project description:In order to study the physiological consequences of a high-copper diet on hepatic gene expression, 6 mM CuCl2 was added to the drinking water for a period of 1 month. After this period, livers of seven control mice and eight copper-treated mice were isolated and were subjected to microarray analysis and copper measurements. The hepatic gene expression profile of copper-treated mice was compared to non-treated mice using a pooled reference.
Project description:Nine time points for microarray analysis were chosen to study early and late transcriptional responses in copper metabolism upon copper overload in HepG2 cells. Samples of copper-treated cells were hybridized using non-treated samples as a reference.
Project description:Mating is a complex process that causes many behavioral and physiological changes, but the factors triggering these changes and the underlying molecular processes are not well characterized. Honey bee queens provide a convenient system for dissecting these factors (e.g., physical manipulation, insemination volume, insemination substance) via instrumental insemination. We examined the effects of carbon dioxide (CO2), a commonly used anesthetic in instrumental insemination that causes changes similar to those observed after mating, and physical manipulation, which presumably mimics the act of copulation, on the brain transcriptional changes in honey bee queens. We found significant gene overlap between our study and previous mating studies in honey bee queens and Drosophila. This suggests that molecular pathways regulating the mating process are conserved across different mating regimes of honey bees as well as across insect orders.
Project description:RNA was isolated from dissected ventral midbrains of E14.5 Pitx3-/- and Pitx3+/+ mouse embryos. 3 Experimental samples each consisting of 3 Pitx3-/- ventral midbrains were hybridized to reference RNA derived from 10 Pitx3+/+ ventral midbrains
Project description:An experiment was performed to investigate the perservation of gene expression upon metastasis of primary head and neck squamous cell carcinomas to the cervical lymph node.
Project description:Microarray technology was used to monitor the level of expression of 7,657 human genes in a set of 35 nodal peripheral T-cell lymphomas.