Project description:We report cell-type specific ribosome profiling in a mouse glioma model. We report a strategy for cell-type specific ribosome profiling in vivo. Our strategy was applied to the characterization of a mouse glioma model.
Project description:Post-transcriptional regulation including mRNA binding to ribosomes plays an important role in determining cell-type-specific gene expression patterns. Here, we applied an approach that profiles cell-type-specific mRNAs. The Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification method (TRAP; Heiman et al., Cell, 2008 and Doyle et al., Cell, 2008) was developed in mice and has been combined with the UAS/Gal4 system in Drosophila (Thomas et al., PLoS ONE, 2012). TRAP is a powerful method to find cell-type-specific differences at the level of the 'translatome' (Dougherty, Schmidt, Nakajima, & Heintz, Nucleic Acids Research, 2010). In parallel to published efforts, we developed and implemented the method for the fly and compared distinct head cell types and identified cell-type-specific transcript classes with neuronal (e.g. receptor-, neuropeptide- or hormone activity) or glial function (e.g. transporter activity). Neuronal TRAP genes are over-represented in the brain, larval CNS and thoracico-abdominal ganglion (Chintapalli, Wang, & Dow, Nature Genetics, 2007). Using cell-type-to-cell-type comparisons (e.g. neurons vs. glia), instead of a given cell population to the total (e.g. neurons vs. head), the differences could be identified with greater resolution. TRAP uncovered more neuronal genes compared to neuronal RNA polymerase II ChIP-seq data (Schauer et al., Cell Reports, 2013). Thus, TRAP data confirm the importance of post-transcriptional regulation in defining cell identity. TRAP is one of the best methods to reveal differential "omics" data among distinct cell types by profiling ribosome-bound mRNAs. TRAP is a promising tool to reveal cell-type-specific transcriptional and translational changes in a perturbed environment.
Project description:Ribosome profiling has emerged as a powerful tool for genome-wide measurements of translation, but library construction requires multiple ligation steps and remains cumbersome relative to more conventional deep sequencing experiments. We report a new approach to ribosome profiling that does not require ligation. Library construction for ligation-free ribosome profiling can be completed in one day with as little as 1 ng of purified RNA footprints. We used ligation-free ribosome profiling to identify new patterns of cell type-specific translation in the brain and tested its ability to identify translational targets of mTOR signaling in the brain.
Project description:Purpose: Ribosome profiling has revolutionized systems-based analysis and which produces a âglobal snapshotâ of all the ribosomes translationally active in a cell at a particular moment. The goals of this study are to first apply ribosome profiling to in vivo samples for the first time and in particular to stem cells and tumours and second to determine which mRNAs are being actively translated in these particular situations. Although much is known about gene expression regulation, little is known about how protein translation regulation can affect stem cell differentiation and tumour progression. Methods: several replicates of ribosome and mRNA profiles of wild-type (WT) and NSun2 -/- mouse skin squamous tumours were generated by deep sequencing, using Illumina HiSeq platform. Results: Our analyses reveal that activation of stress response pathways in vivo drives both a global reduction of protein synthesis and altered translation of specific mRNAs that together promote stem cell functions and tumourigenesis. Ribosome profiles of wild-type (WT) and NSun2 -/- mouse skin squamous tumours
Project description:Changes in protein expression drive both the acute responses and long-lasting adaptation of cells to internal and external stimuli. While advances in labelling strategies have made it possible to examine general proteome dynamics, it is still not possible to access the proteomes of specific cell types in vivo in vertebrates. Here we describe a transgenic mouse line where Cre-recombinase-induced expression of a mutant methionyl-tRNA synthetase (L274G) enables the cell type-specific labelling of nascent proteins with a non-canonical amino-acid and click chemistry. Using immunoblotting, imaging and mass spectrometry, we demonstrate the metabolic labelling of proteins in genetically-targeted neurons in brain slices and in vivo. Moreover, we discover over 200 proteins that are regulated in hippocampal excitatory neurons by exposing mice to an enriched environment. As such, this approach opens new avenues for the isolation, analysis and quantitative comparison of cell type-specific proteomes and their dynamics in healthy and diseased tissues.
Project description:SUM159PT cells were grown either in vitro (in culture) or in vivo (mouse), after which RPL10a tagged with GFP was used to perform extraction by immoprecipitation and subsequent ribosome profiling Two batches of in vitro grown cells, each having 2 replicates. Two batches of in vivo grown cells from tumors grown in two individual mice, each having tumors on left (first batch) and right side (second batch). Extraction and ribosome profiling was done independently for the two batches of samples.
Project description:The aim of this study is to evaluate how cellular energy levels shape codon-specific decoding and affect codon-mediated mRNA degradation. To this end we made use of HT5P-seq (Zhang & Pelechano, 2021, PMID:35474692) in S. cerevisiae to footprint the ribosome of co-translationally degraded mRNAs in vivo upon swift changes in the concentration of intracellular ATP and other energy metabolites.