Project description:The goal of this experiment was to distinguish those genes regulated following acute HNF4alpha depletion compared to a developmental knockout model where gene compensation may comfound results. Expression profile of livers from 8 week old male Hnf4alpha Flox mice that express either albumin cre or the tamoxifen inducible ErT2-albumin cre for liver-specific deletion. Mice were fed a control diet or tamoxifen diet in the case of the ErT2-albumin cre to induce recombination.
Project description:Gene expression differences between wild-type and liver-specific Hnf4alpha knockout (Albumin Cre+/-; Hnf4 fl/fl) mouse liver were assessed using RNA obtained from 2-month-old control and genetically modified female mice. RNA was hybridized to Affymetrix GeneChip Mouse Genome 430 2.0 arrays [Mouse430_2].
Project description:The goal of this experiment was to distinguish those genes regulated following acute HNF4alpha depletion compared to a developmental knockout model where gene compensation may comfound results. Expression profile of livers from 8 week old male Hnf4alpha Flox mice that express either albumin cre or the tamoxifen inducible ErT2-albumin cre for liver-specific deletion. Mice were fed a control diet or tamoxifen diet in the case of the ErT2-albumin cre to induce recombination. Six-condition experiment, H4N vs H4T vs H4EN vs H4ET vs H4CN vs H4CP. Biological replicates: 4 samples each group.
Project description:Whole body knockout mice lacking IQ-motif containing GTPase-activating protein 2 (IQGAP2) develop spontaneous hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) at the age of 12 months and older (Schmidt et al., 2008). Hepatic transcript expression profiles were obtained for IQGAP2 knockout and wild-type control mice of two age groups, 6- and 24-month-old. Liver samples from 24-month-old IQGAP2 knockout mice were HCC tumors, livers from all other groups were tumor-free. Results provide insights into the potential role of IQGAP2 as a liver-specific tumor suppressor. Transcript profiles of four groups of mouse livers (N = 3 in each group) were compared using Affymetrix GeneChip® Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array. The groups included livers from 6- and 24-month-old wild-type (WT) mice and 6- and 24-month-old (KO) Iqgap2-/- mice.
