Project description:The study applied NGS to determine the cardiac transcriptomes of BBLN-transgenic mice with FVB/N background in comparison to those of non-transgenic FVB/N mice at an age of 8 months. The BBLN (Bublin coiled-coil protein) is the chromosome 9 open reading frame, C9orf16, with largely unknown function. To investigate the cardiac phenotype of increased cardiac BBLN transcript levels we generated BBLN-transgenic (Tg-BBLN) mice. Echocardiography documented that Tg-BBLN mice developed features of heart failure at an age of 8 months. To elucidate pathomechanisms of heart failure induced by BBLN, we performed NGS of the cardiac transcriptomes of eight-month-old, male, BBLN-transgenic mice with cardiac-specific expression of BBLN under control of the myocardium-specific, alpha-MHC promoter. The non-transgenic control group are age-matched, male, nontransgenic FVB/N mice. NGS data of this study document transcriptome changes underlying the heart failure phenotype induced by transgenic BBLN expression.
Project description:The study performed NGS to investigate the cardiac transcriptomes of right and left ventricular heart specimens of 3-4-month-old BBLN-transgenic mice with FVB/N background in comparison to those of non-transgenic FVB/N mice. BBLN-transgenic (Tg-BBLN) mice with myocardium-specific BBLN expression were generated to investigate the cardiac phenotype of increased cardiac BBLN transcript levels because the function of BBLN (Bublin coiled-coil protein), which is the chromosome 9 open reading frame(C9orf16), is largely unknown. Tg-BBLN mice with increased cardiac BBLN levels developed features of heart failure with increasing age. Pathomechanisms of heart failure induced by BBLN were investigated by NGS of right and left ventricular heart specimens of male, BBLN-transgenic mice (age: 3-4 months). NGS data reveal transcriptome changes in right and left ventricular heart specimens induced by increased expression of BBLN in the heart.
Project description:The RAF kinase inhibitor protein, RKIP, is a dual inhibitor of the RAF1 kinase and the G-protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 (GRK2). By inhibition of the proto-oncogenic and pro-survival RAF1-MAPK pathway, the RAF kinase inhibitor protein, RKIP, acts as a tumor suppressor, which enhances cardiomyocyte death and promotes the development of symptoms of heart failure. To elucidate pathomechanisms of heart failure induced by RKIP, the study determined the cardiac transcriptomes of eight-month-old, male, transgenic mice with cardiac-specific expression of RKIP (PEBP1) under control of the myocardium-specific, alpha-MHC promoter. In addition, the study determined the cardiac transcriptomes of GRK2-transgenic mice. Tg-GRK2 mice have a slightly increased transgenic expression of GRK2. According to NGS data, cardiac GRK2-Grk2 transcript levels of Tg-GRK2 mice are 1.59±0.10-fold higher than those of non-transgenic FVB hearts. In Tg-GRK2 mice, transgenic GRK2 is expressed under control of the ubiquitous CMV immediate-early promoter/enhancer. The non-transgenic control group are age-matched, male, nontransgenic FVB/N mice. NGS data of this study document transcriptome changes underlying the heart failure phenotype induced by transgenic RKIP expression and cardiac degeneration induced by GRK2 expression.
Project description:As virus diseases cannot be controlled by traditional plant protection methods the risk of their spread have to be minimized on vegetatively propagated plants, such as grapevine. Metagenomics approaches used for virus diagnostics, offer a unique opportunity to reveal the presence of all viral pathogens in the investigated plant, why their usage can reduce the risk of using infected material for a new plantation. Here we used a special field, deep sequencing of virus derived small RNAs, of this high throughput method for virus diagnostics and determined viromes of vineyards in Hungary. With NGS of virus derived small RNAs we could detect not only the viruses tested routinely, but also new ones, which have never been described in Hungary before. Virus presence didn’t correlated with the age of the plantation, moreover phylogenetic analysis of the identified virus isolates suggests that infections mostly caused by the usage of infected propagating material. Our results, validated by other molecular methods, highlighted further questions to be answered before these method can be introduced as a routine, reliable test for grapevine virus diagnostics.
Project description:Using NGS approach we performed the search of multiple sclerosis-related miRNAs. We used PBMC as an informative and easily accessible biological material. To exclude bias in miRNA expression levels caused by disease modifying therapies, miRNA profiling was performed in treatment-naïve RRMS patients. Taking into account hypothetic gender specificity in disease pathogenesis we compared miRNA expression in RRMS patients and HCs separately for men and women. MiRNA profiling in men identified 32 differentially expressed miRNAs, which passed threshold for multiple corrections and may be attributed to MS-related. At the same time we did not find well-defined MS-specific miRNA expression signatures in women using NGS