Project description:SMRT (silencing mediator of retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors) is recruited by numerous transcription factors to mediate lineage and signal dependent transcriptional repression. We generated a knock-in mutation in the receptor interaction domain (RID) of SMRT (SMRTmRID) that solely disrupts its interaction with nuclear hormone receptors. SMRTmRID-derived 3T3-MEFs display a dramatically increased adipogenic capacity and accelerated differentiation rate. We measured global gene expression in wild-type versus SMRTmRID-derived 3T3-MEFs in the undifferentiated state to examine which pathways were altered. Our results demonstrate that SMRT-RID dependent repression is a key determinant of the adipogenic set point. Experiment Overall Design: 3T3 cells derived from wild-type and SMRT RID MEFs were cultured under pre-differentiated conditions prior to harvesting for RNA.
Project description:SMRT (silencing mediator of retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors) is recruited by numerous transcription factors to mediate lineage and signal dependent transcriptional repression. We generated a knock-in mutation in the receptor interaction domain (RID) of SMRT (SMRTmRID) that solely disrupts its interaction with nuclear hormone receptors. SMRTmRID-derived 3T3-MEFs display a dramatically increased adipogenic capacity and accelerated differentiation rate. We measured global gene expression in wild-type versus SMRTmRID-derived 3T3-MEFs in the undifferentiated state to examine which pathways were altered. Our results demonstrate that SMRT-RID dependent repression is a key determinant of the adipogenic set point. Keywords: SMRTmRID expression compared to wild-type
Project description:We have used primary MEFs derived from wild type and E2F4 null mice growing asynchrounously in serum to generate a signature for E2F4 pathway activation. 10 wild type and 10 E2F4 null samples were each assayed using the Affymetrics Mouse Genome 430A 2.0 array. Keywords: Primary MEFs from wild type and E2F4 null mice
Project description:Mutations in Ppt1, which is a depalmitoylation enzyme result in early onset neurodegeneration, therefore, we hypothesized that the protein content of brain membranes from mutant newborn mice will differ from those derived from wild-type. This unbiased analysis revealed that the majority of the differentially identified proteins are palmitoylated and their upstream pathway analysis point to neurodegenerative diseases. One of the differentially expressed proteins was Rab3IP, which is a direct downstream effector of Rab11 and affects the guanine nucleotide-exchange activity of Rab3IP toward Rab8. Rab3IP, Rab11 and Rab8 are known to be involved in ciliogenesis. Rab3IP distribution in cilia differed between the wild type and the mutant cells. Our analysis showed that these three proteins are palmitoylated. Site-directed mutagenesis of the palmitoylation sites of Rab11 affects its intracellular localization. Most importantly, in MEFs, neuroblasts, neurons and brain preparations, longer cilia were detected in Ppt1-/-. Collectively, our studies suggest that cilia abnormalities need to be considered as part of the pathophysiology of CLN1. Mutations in Ppt1, which is a depalmitoylation enzyme result in early onset neurodegeneration, therefore, we hypothesized that the protein content of brain membranes from mutant newborn mice will differ from those derived from wild-type. This unbiased analysis revealed that the majority of the differentially identified proteins are palmitoylated and their upstream pathway analysis point to neurodegenerative diseases. One of the differentially expressed proteins was Rab3IP, which is a direct downstream effector of Rab11 and affects the guanine nucleotide-exchange activity of Rab3IP toward Rab8. Rab3IP, Rab11 and Rab8 are known to be involved in ciliogenesis. Rab3IP distribution in cilia differed between the wild type and the mutant cells. Our analysis showed that these three proteins are palmitoylated. Site-directed mutagenesis of the palmitoylation sites of Rab11 affects its intracellular localization. Most importantly, in MEFs, neuroblasts, neurons and brain preparations, longer cilia were detected in Ppt1-/-. Collectively, our studies suggest that cilia abnormalities need to be considered as part of the pathophysiology of CLN1. Mutations in Ppt1 result in early onset neurodegeneration, therefore, we hypothesized that the levels of proteins extracted from purified brain membranes of newborn mice will differ. One of the main effects of palmitoylation is changing the hydrophobic index of proteins and thus affecting these proteins interactions with different membranal domains. Assuming that PPT1 substrates are over palmitoylated in Ppt1-/- brains it is possible that its localization to specific membranal domain is different than in the wild-type brains. We isolated Triton X-100 soluble membranes from three wild-type and three Ppt1-/- brains and identified the proteins by PalmPISC. Many of the identified proteins were found to be palmitoylated. A second feature, which was noted is that many of the differential proteins (62 out of 88, 70%) can be detected in the cilia proteome (http://v3.ciliaproteome.org/cgi-bin/index.php). This observation led to test whether ciliary proteins differ between wild-type and Ppt1-/-. Cilia were prepared from newborn dissociated brain cell cultures and analyzed by MS
Project description:ChIP-seq of mouse embryonic fibroblast-adipose like cell line 3T3-L1 to identify binding sites of NCoR1 and SMRT following induction of differentiation, and RNA Pol-II after SMRT knock down
Project description:To investigate the role of Notch2 in the inflammatory response in chondrocytes, we cultured primary chondrocytes derived from wild type and Notch2 mutant mice and treated TNFalpha or vehicle. We then performed gene expression profiling analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq of wild type and Notch2 mutant chondrocytes.