ABSTRACT: On the Relationships in Rhesus Macaques between Chronic Ethanol Consumption and the Brain Transcriptome (Central Nucleus of the Amigdala - CeA)
Project description:This is the first description of the effects of chronic ethanol consumption on the brain transcriptome in a non-human primate (rhesus macaque). Thirty male animals self-administered ethanol on a daily basis for over 12 months. Gene expression was measured with RNA-Seq in the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA). Genes negatively correlated with consumption were enriched in functional annotations associated with translation and included clusters of ribosomal and mitochondrial ribosomal proteins. Genes positively correlated with consumption were enriched in membrane annotations including neuron and synapse part. Genes in the latter category included Ctnna2, Shank1, Vamp2, and Syn1. Gene-level expression data were clustered using the Weighted Gene Coexpression Network Analysis (WGCNA) algorithm to identify hub nodes affected by excessive consumption. Key hubs included Nf1, Nkain2, Tmem108 and Penk. The data were also analyzed for alternative exon usage (Iancu et al., 2015). Additional translation and membrane related genes affected by excessive consumption were detected. These included Grm2, Dpysl2 and Kcnc4. Overall, the data illustrate that the effects of excessive ethanol consumption are broad, consistent with the observation that ethanol affects the expression of numerous hub genes.
Project description:Single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) was used to profile the transcriptome of 7,631 nuclei in macaque adult testis. This dataset includes two samples from two different individuals. This dataset is part of a larger evolutionary study of adult testis at the single-nucleus level (97,521 single-nuclei in total) across mammals including 10 representatives of the three main mammalian lineages: human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, gibbon, rhesus macaque, marmoset, mouse (placental mammals); grey short-tailed opossum (marsupials); and platypus (egg-laying monotremes). Corresponding data were generated for a bird (red junglefowl, the progenitor of domestic chicken), to be used as an evolutionary outgroup.
Project description:This study describes differential miRNA expression in intact colon tissue during acute SIV infection of rhesus macaques. Nine miRNAs were found to be significantly affected by infection, with 5 down-regulated and 4 up-regulated miRNAs. The expression of one upregulated miRNA was further characterized and found to be significantly elevated specifically in response to SIV replication and not immune activation/inflammation accompanying SIV infection.
