Project description:Ataxia telangiectasia (AT) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by neuronal degeneration, telangiectasias, acute cancer predisposition, and hypersensitivity to ionizing radiation (IR). The gene defective in AT, ATM (for AT-mutated), encodes a protein, pATM that has been found to have IR-inducible kinase activity. Cells from individuals with AT exhibit severely attenuated cell cycle checkpoints in response to gamma radiation exposure. pATM has been hypothesized to act as part of a complex that senses DNA damage, in particular, DNA double strand breaks. We are studying the pATM-dependent gene expression responses to a dose of 1.5 Gy radiation in lymphoblastoid cell lines from multiple individuals with either wild type or mutated ATM. The gene expression analyses were performed on Agilent Human 1A Oligo chips containing approximately 16,000 60mer probes. We identified a set of genes whose gene expression changes are ATM-dependent following exposure to 1.5 Gy IR. This set of genes was tested by real time quantitative PCR analysis. The study consists of one dose group - 1.5 Gray gamma radiation. Samples were collected 6 hr following irradiation (treated) or mock irradiation (controls) for each culture. Each culture has a treated sample and a control sample. There are cultures from 6 wild-type ATM individuals and cultures from 6 individuals that are ATM-deficient, for a total of 12 cultures. Hybridizations compared RNA extracted from each individual culture's treated sample against its corresponding control sample, and were performed as dye-flip duplicates (1 replicate in each direction). Hybridizations were performed on the Human 1A Oligo Chips using low input, direct labeling at Paradigm Genetics Laboratory. Microarray scanning was performed with the Agilent G2565AA Scanner. Paradigm Standard Operating Procedures were followed for quality analysis, sample labeling, microarray hybridization and washing, scanning, image analysis and initial data analysis.

Project description:Plants exhibit a robust transcriptional response to gamma radiation which includes the induction of transcripts required for homologous recombination and the suppression of transcripts that promote cell cycle progression. Various DNA damaging agents induce different spectra of DNA damage as well as M-bM-^@M-^\collateralM-bM-^@M-^] damage to other cellular components and therefore are not expected to provoke identical responses by the cell. Here we study the effects of two different types of ionizing radiation (IR) treatment, HZE (1 GeV Fe26+ high mass, high charge, and high energy relativistic particles) and gamma photons, on the transcriptome of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings. Both types of IR induce small clusters of radicals that can result in the formation of double strand breaks (DSBs), but HZE also produces linear arrays of extremely clustered damage. We performed these experiments across a range of time points (1.5-24 h after irradiation) in both wild-type plants and in mutants defective in the DSB-sensing protein kinase ATM. The two types of IR exhibit a shared double strand break-repair-related damage response, although they differ slightly in the timing, degree, and ATM-dependence of the response. The ATM-dependent, DNA metabolism-related transcripts of the M-bM-^@M-^\DSB responseM-bM-^@M-^] were also induced by other DNA damaging agents, but were not induced by conventional stresses. Both Gamma and HZE irradiation induced, at 24 h post-irradiation, ATM-dependent transcripts associated with a variety of conventional stresses; these were overrepresented for pathogen response, rather than DNA metabolism. In contrast, only HZE-irradiated plants, at 1.5 h after irradiation, exhibited an additional and very extensive transcriptional response, shared with plants experiencing M-bM-^@M-^\extended night.M-bM-^@M-^] This response was not apparent in gamma-irradiated plants. We treated 5-day-old WT and atm-1 seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana with 100 Gy of Gamma radiation (over a span of 15 minutes) or 30 Gy of HZE (over a span of approximately 12 minutes). Gamma irradiations were completed at 8:40 am, while HZE irradiations were conducted in two runs (due to space limitations) which were completed at 1:09 and 1:28pm respectively. Gamma treated seedlings were sampled at 10:10 am, 11:40 am, 2:55 pm, 8:40 pm, and 8:40 am. HZE treated seedlings were sampled at 2:39 pm, 4:09 pm, 7:24 pm, 1:09 am, and 1:09 pm. Un-irradiated WT and atm-1 control seedlings were sampled at 10:45 am on Day #1 and 9:15 am on Day #2. There are a total of 22 experimental or control conditions, with two replicates per condition, yielding 44 samples overall.

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