Project description:Understanding gene expression changes over the lifespan of cells is of fundamental interest and gives important insights into processes related to maturation and ageing. This study was undertaken to understand the global transcriptome changes associated with ageing in fish erythrocytes. Fish erythrocytes retain their nuclei throughout their lifetime and they are transcriptionally and translationally active. However, they lose important functions during their lifespan in the circulation. We separated rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) erythrocytes into young and old fractions using fixed angle-centrifugation and analyzed transcriptome changes using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) technology and quantitative real-time PCR. We found 930 differentially expressed between young and old erythrocyte fractions; 889 of these showed higher transcript levels in young, while only 34 protein-coding genes had higher transcript levels in old erythrocytes. In particular ion binding, signal transduction, membrane transport, and various enzyme classes are affected in old erythrocytes. The transcripts with higher levels in old erythrocytes were associated with 7 different GO terms within biological processes and 9 within molecular functions and cellular components respectively. Our study furthermore found several highly abundant transcripts as well as a number of differentially expressed genes for which the protein products are currently not known revealing the gaps of knowledge in most non-mammalian vertebrates. Our data provide the first insight into changes involved in ageing on the transcriptional level and thus opens new perspectives for the study of maturation processes in fish erythrocytes.
Project description:The most preclinical used in vivo model to study lung fibrosis is the bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis model in 2-3-month-old mice. Although this model resembles key aspects of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), there are limitations in its predictability for the human disease. One of the main differences is the juvenile age of animals that are usually used in experiments, resembling humans of around 20 years. Because IPF patients are usually older than 60 years, aging appears to play an important role in the pathogenesis of lung fibrosis. Therefore, we here compared young (3 months) and old mice (21 months) 21 days after intratracheal bleomycin instillation. Analyzing lung transcriptomics (mRNAs & miRNAs) and proteomics, we found most pathways to be similarly regulated in young and old mice. However, old mice show an imbalanced protein homeostasis as well as an increased inflammatory state in the fibrotic phase compared to young mice. Comparisons with published human transcriptomic data sets (GSE47460, GSE32537 and GSE24206) revealed that the gene signature of old animals correlates significantly better with IPF patients as well as it turned human healthy individuals better into “IPF patients” using an approach termed predictive disease modelling. Comprising, young and old animals show similarly molecular hallmarks of IPF. Additionally, old mice resemble several features associated with IPF more closely compared to young animals.
Project description:Mass spectrometry was performed with an Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid mass spectrometer (Thermo Scientific) interfaced with an UltiMate 3000 Binary RSLCnano System (Dionex). Proteome Discoverer v.1.4 (Thermo Scientific) with SEQUEST HT search engines was used for the spectra-preprocessing and HCD MS2 spectra were used for peptide identification and quantitation based on TMT reporter ions. TMT isobaric comparison of old versus young haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Young 1 and Young 2 are samples 126 and 128 of dataset UTH_1. Old 1 and Old 2 are samples 129 and 130 of UTH_1. Young 3 is sample 131 and Old 3 is sample 130 of dataset UTH_4.
Project description:RNA sequencing of hematopoietic stem cells isolated from young (8-12 week) and old (24-27 month) BL6 mice from experimental groups that are intended to describe the transcriptomic consequences of parabiosis on the function of old hematopoietic stem cells.
Project description:Proteomic analysis of young and old murine diaphragm and associated changed in contractile aproperties. Redox sensitive Cysteine residues from both adult and old diaphragm tissues examined.
Project description:Purpose: We investigated the transcriptomic change in brown fat of young and old mice (wild type) through high-throughput RNA-sequencing (RNA-Seq) analysis when the mice were exposed to cold room or room temperatur. Methods: We prepared 10 of young (3 months) mice and 9 of old (24 months) mice, and kept them in cold room (4°c) or room temperature (24°c) for 24 hours. Then, we sacrified mice and extracted RNA from brown fat tissue (BAT) for RNA-seq experiment. Results: BAT of Young mice showed increased carbohydrate metabolism and glycolytic flux during cold exposure Conclusions: The thermogenesis function of BAT is accelerated on cold exposure.