Project description:TK2 deficiency causes severe mtDNA depeltion in several tissues, including skeletal muscle and heart. TK2 knockout mice grow slower and their skeletal muscles appeared significantly underdeveloped, whereas heart was close to normal size. We used microarrays in order to compare the transcriptomes in skeletal muscle and heart tissue of 11 days-old TK2 knockout pups with the sames tissues of wild-type pups at the same age. We collected skeletal muscle from the hind limb and hearts of three 11 days-old TK2 knockout and three wild-type pups and extracted total RNA. These RNA samples were used for hybridization in Affymetrix arrays.
Project description:TK2 deficiency causes severe mtDNA depeltion in several tissues, including skeletal muscle and heart. TK2 knockout mice grow slower and their skeletal muscles appeared significantly underdeveloped, whereas heart was close to normal size. We used microarrays in order to compare the transcriptomes in skeletal muscle and heart tissue of 11 days-old TK2 knockout pups with the sames tissues of wild-type pups at the same age.
Project description:SILAC based protein correlation profiling using size exclusion of protein complexes derived from Mus musculus tissues (Heart, Liver, Lung, Kidney, Skeletal Muscle, Thymus)
Project description:SILAC based protein correlation profiling using size exclusion of protein complexes derived from seven Mus musculus tissues (Heart, Brain, Liver, Lung, Kidney, Skeletal Muscle, Thymus)
Project description:Mitochondria serve diverse functions and are essential organelles that require continuous surveillance to maintaintheir integrity and function. LONP1 is an evolutionarily conservedserine peptidase that safeguards mitochondrial protein quality from yeast to human.To investigatethe physiological role of LONP1-mediated mitochondrial quality-control in skeletal musclein vivo, we generated skeletal muscle-specificLonp1-knockout mice (referred to as LONP1 MKO). We performedtranscriptome analysis by whole-genome gene expression profiling experiments in gastrocnemius (GC) muscle from both wild-type (WT) and LONP1-MKO mice. Knockout of LONP1 in skeletal muscle resulted in deregulation of 457 genes in 2-week-old mice and of 1922 genes in 6-week-old mice. Gene ontology analysis revealed that LONP1 deficiency triggers unfolded protein response (UPR) in skeletal muscle.Moreover, GSEA analysis of transcriptomic datain 6-week-old micefurther revealed that genes deregulated by LONP1 deficiency were significantly enriched during aging.Together, the transcriptional profiling results suggest a critical role of LONP1 in regulating skeletal muscle metabolism and health.
Project description:We knocked out the Aanat gene of mice by CRISPR CAS technology, and performed RNA-seq on brain, heart, liver, kidney, lung, skin, stomach, spleen, testis, skeletal muscle, and EWAT of 10-week-old wild-type(WT) and Aanat knockout(Aanat-/-) mice. Through the analysis of differentially expressed genes, we found the genes related to disease and tissue development. Finally, these differential genes were verified by qRT-PCR
Project description:Muscle atrophy is associated with aging (sarcopenia) and chronic unloading (such as bed confinement and immobilization with casts), as well as various pathological conditions such as type 1 diabetes and nerve injury (denervation). The hindlimb skeletal muscles of C57BL/6 mice (9 weeks old, male) were immobilized (unloaded) by a plaster cast. After 11 days, skeletal muscle was collected and RNA extracted. Expression of Dnmt3a was reduced while expression of Gdf5 was increased by plaster cast immobilization compared to age-matched control mice.
Project description:Both aging and physical activity can influence the amount of connective tissue in skeletal muscle, but the impact of these upon specific extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins in skeletal muscle is unknown. We investigated the proteome profile of connective tissue in skeletal muscle by label-free proteomic analysis of on cellular protein-depleted extracts from lateral gastrocnemius muscle of old (22-23 months old) and middle-aged mice (11 months old) subjected to three different levels of regular physical activity for 10 weeks (high resistance wheel running, low resistance wheel running or sedentary controls). We hypothesized that aging is correlated with increased amount of connective tissue proteins in skeletal muscle, and that regular physical activity can counteract these age-related changes. We found that dominating cellular proteins were diminished in the urea/thiourea extract, which was therefore used for proteomics. Proteomic analysis identified 482 proteins and showed enrichment for ECM proteins. Statistical analysis revealed that the abundances of 86 proteins were changed with age. Twenty-three of these differentially abundant proteins were identified as structural ECM proteins (e.g., collagens and laminins) and all of these were significantly more abundant with aging. No significant effect of training or interaction between training and advance in age was found for any proteins. Finally, we found a lower protein concentration in the urea/thiourea extracts from the old compared to middle-aged mice. These findings indicate that intramuscular connective tissue alters its protein content with age but is unaffected by training.
Project description:In animals the organization of the compact mitochondrial genome and lack of introns have necessitated a unique mechanism for RNA processing. To date the regulation of mitochondrial RNA processing and its importance for ribosome biogenesis and energy metabolism are not clear. To understand the in vivo role of the endoribonuclease component of the RNase P complex, MRPP3, we created conditional knockout mice. Here we show that MRPP3 is essential for life, and heart and skeletal muscle-specific knockout leads to a cardiomyopathy early in life, indicating that it is the only RNase P enzyme in mitochondria. We show that RNA processing is required for the biogenesis of the respiratory chain and mitochondrial function. Transcriptome-wide parallel analyses of RNA ends (PARE) and RNA-Seq enabled us to identify the in vivo cleavage sites of RNase P. Cleavage of the 5â² tRNA ends precedes 3â² end processing in vivo and is required for the correct biogenesis of the mitochondrial ribosomal subunits and mitoribosomal proteins that are differentially stabilized or degraded in the absence of mature rRNAs. Finally we identify that large mitoribosomal proteins can form a subcomplex on a precursor mt-RNA containing the 16S rRNA indicating that mitoribosomal biogenesis proceeds co-transcriptionally. Taken together our data show that RNA processing links transcription to translation via assembly of the mitoribosome. Total RNA was isolated from heart tissue from 11 week old control (Mrpp3loxP/loxP) and Mrpp3 knockout mice (Mrpp3loxP/loxP, +/Ckmm), TruSeq libraries produced in triplicate, sequenced and analysed for differential expression. Mitochondrial RNA was isolated from heart tissue from 11 week old control (Mrpp3loxP/loxP) and Mrpp3 knockout mice (Mrpp3loxP/loxP, +/Ckmm), PARE libraries produced in triplicate and sequenced for analysis of mitochondrial RNA processing.