Project description:In this project we analyze the transcriptome of the human multiple myeloma isogenic cell lines ARP-1 (UTX wild-type) and ARD (UTX null). The transcriptome is studied at baseline, upon restoration of UTX levels in ARD cells for 3 and 6 days, and upon treatment of the cell lines with the EZH2 inhibitor GSK343. Moreover, we analyzed the transcriptome of a ARD resistant cell line that we generated.
Project description:All animals have evolved the ability to survive nutrient deprivation, and nutrient signaling pathways are conserved modulators of health and disease. In C. elegans, late-larval starvation provokes adult reproductive diapause (ARD), a long-lived quiescent state that enables animals to survive months without food, yet underlying molecular mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we show that ARD is distinct from other forms of diapause, and shows surprisingly little requirement for canonical longevity pathways, autophagy and fat metabolism. Instead ARD depends dramatically on HLH-30/TFEB transcription factor to promote morphologic and metabolic remodeling involved in ARD entry, survival, and recovery, suggesting it is a master regulator of reproductive quiescence. TFEB transcriptome and genetic analyses reveal that Max-like HLH factors, mTOR, AMP-kinase, protein synthesis, and mitochondrial fusion are target processes that promote ARD longevity. Evidently reproductive quiescence rewires metabolism in unique ways to ensure long-term survival, and could illuminate similar mechanisms acting in latent tumorigenesis, and long-term fasting.
Project description:Diapause is a long-lived state of resilience that allows organisms to outlast adversity. C. elegans can endure months in a fasting-induced adult reproductive diapause (ARD) and, upon refeeding, regenerate and reproduce. Here, we find that mutants of ARD master regulator hlh-30/TFEB arrest in a novel senescence-like state during ARD and refeeding, in which germline stem cells are characterized by DNA damage, nucleolar expansion, cell cycle arrest, and mitochondrial dysfunction, alongside dysregulated immune and growth metabolic signatures, elevated senescence-associated β-galactosidase and premature aging at the organismal level. Forward genetic screens reveal a TFEB-TGFβ signaling axis that systemically controls diapause, stem cell longevity, and senescence, aligning nutrient supply to proper metabolism and growth signaling. hlh-30 mutation misaligns nutrient cues and growth signaling, triggering senescence and abrogating stem cell and organismal longevity, which can be restored by downregulating TGFβ signaling. Notably, TFEB’s vital role is conserved in mouse embryonic and human cancer diapause. Thus, ARD offers a powerful model to rapidly characterize diapause-related regulatory pathways and study stem cell longevity and senescence in vivo, directly relevant to mammals.
Project description:Root and leave samples of 4 different apple genotypes were investigated in order to analyse the gene expression after infection with Apple Replant Disease (ARD). All genotypes were cultivated in ARD-infected soil and gamma-irradiated (disinfected) soil in the greenhouse for 7 days. The ARD soil originated from two different orchards representing two different soil compositions. After 7 days root tissue was collected from each plant and used for the subsequent gene expression analysis. This work was part of the project BonaRes-ORDIAmur funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education within the frame of the program BonaRes (grant no. 031B0025B). It was also funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) via the research training group GRK1798 "Signaling at the Plant-Soil Interface" and a grant to BL and LB (BE 1174/19-1).
Project description:RNA-sequencing of VCaP and LNCaP, LNCaP-EnzR, or LNCaP AR-V7 overexpressing prostate cancer cell lines treated with AR degrader ARD-61.
Project description:This a model from the article:
Hypoxia-dependent sequestration of an oxygen sensor by a widespread structural motif can shape the hypoxic response - a predictive kinetic model
Bernhard Schmierer, Béla Novák1 and Christopher J Schofield
BMC Systems Biology2010, 4:139
20955552,
Abstract:
Background
The activity of the heterodimeric transcription factor hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) is regulated by the post-translational, oxygen-dependent hydroxylation of its α-subunit by members of the prolyl hydroxylase domain (PHD or EGLN)-family and by factor inhibiting HIF (FIH). PHD-dependent hydroxylation targets HIFα for rapid proteasomal degradation; FIH-catalysed asparaginyl-hydroxylation of the C-terminal transactivation domain (CAD) of HIFα suppresses the CAD-dependent subset of the extensive transcriptional responses induced by HIF. FIH can also hydroxylate ankyrin-repeat domain (ARD) proteins, a large group of proteins which are functionally unrelated but share common structural features. Competition by ARD proteins for FIH is hypothesised to affect FIH activity towards HIFα; however the extent of this competition and its effect on the HIF-dependent hypoxic response are unknown.
Results
To analyse if and in which way the FIH/ARD protein interaction affects HIF-activity, we created a rate equation model. Our model predicts that an oxygen-regulated sequestration of FIH by ARD proteins significantly shapes the input/output characteristics of the HIF system. The FIH/ARD protein interaction is predicted to create an oxygen threshold for HIFα CAD-hydroxylation and to significantly sharpen the signal/response curves, which not only focuses HIFα CAD-hydroxylation into a defined range of oxygen tensions, but also makes the response ultrasensitive to varying oxygen tensions. Our model further suggests that the hydroxylation status of the ARD protein pool can encode the strength and the duration of a hypoxic episode, which may allow cells to memorise these features for a certain time period after reoxygenation.
Conclusions
The FIH/ARD protein interaction has the potential to contribute to oxygen-range finding, can sensitise the response to changes in oxygen levels, and can provide a memory of the strength and the duration of a hypoxic episode. These emergent properties are predicted to significantly shape the characteristics of HIF activity in animal cells. We argue that the FIH/ARD interaction should be taken into account in studies of the effect of pharmacological inhibition of the HIF-hydroxylases and propose that the interaction of a signalling sensor with a large group of proteins might be a general mechanism for the regulation of signalling pathways.
There are there models described in the paper. 1) Skeleton Model 1 (SKM1) - HIFα CAD-hydroxylation in the absence of the FIH/AR-interaction. 2) Skeleton Model 2 (SKM2) - FIG sequestration by ARD proteins and oxygen-dependent FIH-release. 3) Full Model (Fusion of SKM1 and SKM2) - the effects of the FIH/ARD proteins interaction on HIFα CAD-hydroxylation.
This model corresponds to the "Full Model" described in the paper. The model reproduces figure 5 of the publication.
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