Project description:Background: The prefrontal cortex is important in regulating sleep and mood. Diurnally regulated genes in the prefrontal cortex may be controlled by the circadian system, by the sleep-wake states, or by cellular metabolism or environmental responses. Bioinformatics analysis of these genes will provide insights into a wide-range of pathways that are involved in the pathophysiology of sleep disorders and psychiatric disorders with sleep disturbances. Results: We examined gene expression in the mouse prefrontal cortex at four time points during the 24-hour (12-hour light:12-hour dark) cycle by microarrays, and identified 3,890 transcripts corresponding to 2,927 genes with diurnally regulated expression patterns. We show that 16% of the genes identified in our study are orthologs of identified clock, clock controlled or sleep/wakefulness induced genes in the mouse liver and SCN, rat cortex and cerebellum, or Drosophila head. The diurnal expression patterns were confirmed in 16 out of 18 genes in an independent set of RNA samples. The diurnal genes fall into eight temporal categories with distinct functional attributes, as assessed by the Gene Ontology classification and by the analysis of enriched transcription factor binding sites. Conclusions: Our analysis demonstrates that ~10% of transcripts have diurnally regulated expression patterns in the mouse prefrontal cortex. Functional annotation of these genes will be important for the selection of candidate genes for behavioural mutants in the mouse and for genetic studies of disorders associated with anomalies in the sleep:wake cycle and circadian rhythms. Experiment Overall Design: Prefrontal cortex from 3 biological replicates of C57BL/6J mice at four Zeitgeber Times (ZT 3, 9, 15, and 21) were analyzed
Project description:Background: The prefrontal cortex is important in regulating sleep and mood. Diurnally regulated genes in the prefrontal cortex may be controlled by the circadian system, by the sleep-wake states, or by cellular metabolism or environmental responses. Bioinformatics analysis of these genes will provide insights into a wide-range of pathways that are involved in the pathophysiology of sleep disorders and psychiatric disorders with sleep disturbances. Results: We examined gene expression in the mouse prefrontal cortex at four time points during the 24-hour (12-hour light:12-hour dark) cycle by microarrays, and identified 3,890 transcripts corresponding to 2,927 genes with diurnally regulated expression patterns. We show that 16% of the genes identified in our study are orthologs of identified clock, clock controlled or sleep/wakefulness induced genes in the mouse liver and SCN, rat cortex and cerebellum, or Drosophila head. The diurnal expression patterns were confirmed in 16 out of 18 genes in an independent set of RNA samples. The diurnal genes fall into eight temporal categories with distinct functional attributes, as assessed by the Gene Ontology classification and by the analysis of enriched transcription factor binding sites. Conclusions: Our analysis demonstrates that ~10% of transcripts have diurnally regulated expression patterns in the mouse prefrontal cortex. Functional annotation of these genes will be important for the selection of candidate genes for behavioural mutants in the mouse and for genetic studies of disorders associated with anomalies in the sleep:wake cycle and circadian rhythms. Keywords: diurnally-regulated gene expression
Project description:The circadian rhythms of older individuals are normally shifted, and the metabolic functions of these individuals are degraded. How the link between metabolism and circadian rhythms is decoupled in peripheral metabolic organs with age increased is still largely unknown. Here, we analyze hepatic transcriptome in the liver at zeitgeber time (ZT) 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 from C57BL/6J aged 2month, 6month and 12month. Transcriptional changes suggest that the peripheral circadian system is shifted and that the rhythmic lipid metabolism is disrupted in the liver with aging. Furthermore, we figure out liver EGR-1 might integrate the central and peripheral rhythms and regulate metabolic homeostasis in the liver. Another hepatic transcriptome of WT and Egr-1-KO liver samples at EGR-1 highest(H) and lowest(L) zeitgeber time in 2month, 6month and 12month were analyzed. The results indicated that the rhythmic coupling of EGR-1 and CIDEA regulates age-related metabolic dysfunction in the mouse liver.
Project description:This dataset allows for the exploration of cortical genes at across different timepoints (ZT2, ZT6, ZT10, ZT14, ZT 18, ZT22) in control C57BL/6J mice compared to microglia-depleted C57BL/6J mice (10 day PLX5622 treatment).
Project description:The purpose of this study was to explore diurnal gene expression changes that occur in the RPE/Choroid/Sclera. Mice C57BL/6J were purchased from the Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME) and raised to approximately 2 months of age and entrained to a 12hr/12hr light/dark cycle for two weeks. Eye cups from male mice were rapidly dissected and RPE/ choroid/sclera tissues were collected over three consecutive diurnal cycles at Zeitgeber time (ZT) 0.5, 1, 1.5, 4, 11, 13, 16, and 23 hrs, for a total of 24 time points. Three mice were used for each time point and dissections for dark time points were done under dim-red light. To generate a reference RNA for microarray hybridization, whole eyes from equal numbers of male and female mice were collected at ZT6 and ZT7. Time: Samples were collected at the indicated Zeitgeber time points
Project description:Deaths related to opioid use have skyrocketed in the United States, leading to a public health epidemic. Research has shown that both biological (genes) and environmental (stress) precursors are linked to opioid use. In particular, stress during adolescence – a critical period of frontal lobe development – influences the likelihood of abusing drugs. However, little is known about the biological mechanisms through which adolescent stress leads to long-term risk of opioid use, or whether genetic background moderates this response. Male and female C57BL/6J were exposed to chronic variable social stress (CVSS) or control conditions throughout adolescence and then tested for prefrontal cortex miRNA gene expression. C57BL/6J mice exposed to CVSS had a downregulation of twelve miRNA in the prefrontal cortex compared to control mice.
Project description:Brown adipose tissue (BAT) burns fatty acids to produce heat, and shows diurnal oscillation with peak activity in glucose and triglyceride-derived fatty acid uptake at wakening. To gain further insight in the diurnal regulation of metabolic BAT activity, we performed chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) on pooled interscapular (i)BAT samples collected from chow-fed male C57BL/6J mice (10 weeks old) exposed to mild cold (22°C) at 3-hour intervals throughout a 24-hour period (n=8 mice per time point). All mice were entrained to a 12h:12h light:dark cycle, and therefore time is denoted as Zeitgeber Time (ZT) in which ZT0 indicates the onset of the light (active) phase.
Project description:Brown adipose tissue (BAT) burns fatty acids to produce heat, and shows diurnal oscillation with peak activity in glucose and triglyceride-derived fatty acid uptake at wakening. To gain further insight in the diurnal regulation of metabolic BAT activity, we performed RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) on interscapular (i)BAT samples collected from chow-fed male C57BL/6J mice (10 weeks old) exposed to mild cold (22°C) at 3-hour intervals throughout a 24-hour period (n=4 mice per time point). All mice were entrained to a 12h:12h light:dark cycle, and therefore time is denoted as Zeitgeber Time (ZT) in which ZT0 indicates the onset of the light (active) phase.
Project description:The purpose of this study was to explore diurnal gene expression changes that occur in the RPE/Choroid/Sclera. Mice C57BL/6J were purchased from the Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME) and raised to approximately 2 months of age and entrained to a 12hr/12hr light/dark cycle for two weeks. Eye cups from male mice were rapidly dissected and RPE/ choroid/sclera tissues were collected over three consecutive diurnal cycles at Zeitgeber time (ZT) 0.5, 1, 1.5, 4, 11, 13, 16, and 23 hrs, for a total of 24 time points. Three mice were used for each time point and dissections for dark time points were done under dim-red light. To generate a reference RNA for microarray hybridization, whole eyes from equal numbers of male and female mice were collected at ZT6 and ZT7. Time: Samples were collected at the indicated Zeitgeber time points time series design
Project description:Circadian rhythmicity in renal function suggests a requirement for circadian adaptations in renal metabolism. We studied circadian changes in renal metabolic pathways using integrated transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic analysis performed on control mice and mice deficient in the circadian clock gene Bmal1 in the renal tubule (cKOt mice). Proteins were extracted from whole kidneys of 60 mice. Of these, 30 were conditional knockouts of Arntl (Bmal1) and 30 were of control genotype. They were housed under 12-hours light/12-hours dark cycles and were sacrificed at six different time points: zeitgeber time ZT 0, ZT 4, ZT 8, ZT 12, ZT 16, ZT 20 ( ZT 0 being the time of light on and ZT 12 the time of light off). Five replicates per genotype and time point were analysed.