Project description:To explore the molecular mechanism underlying glucose regulation by hepatic FTO, we used the human hepatocyte Hep-G2 cell line as an experimental platform and analyzed transcriptome changes following FTO knock-down.
Project description:To explore the molecular mechanism underlying glucose regulation by hepatic FTO, we used the human hepatocyte Hep-G2 cell line as an experimental platform and analyzed transcriptome changes following FTO knock-down.
Project description:To explore the molecular mechanism underlying glucose regulation by hepatic FTO, we analyzed transcriptome changes in hepatic tissue after FTO knockout.
Project description:To gain insight into FTO function, we knocked down and overexpressed FTO in HEK293 cells.Genetrail analyses of expression profiles pointed to the RNA splicing and processing machinery. Intriguingly, using immunocytochemistry and confocal laser scanning microscopy, we observed strong enrichment of FTO in nuclear speckles and - to a lesser extent - in nucleoli, but not in other known nuclear bodies. We also studied RNA samples of Fto knockout and wild type mice with regard to content of methylated and unmethylated nucleosidesand observed that ratios of modified and unmodified uracil and adenine were different depending on the presence of FTO. Taken together, our data suggest that FTO is involved in RNA processing and modification. We used microarrays to investigate global gene expression changes depending on the level of FTO We compared FTO overexpressing and FTO depleted cells to cells with endogeneus level of FTO to determine global gene expression changes.
Project description:Genome-wide association studies in diverse populations have reproducibly associated variants within introns of FTO with increased risk for obesity and type-2 diabetes.While the molecular mechanisms linking these noncoding variants with obesity are not immediately obvious, subsequent studies in mice demonstrated that FTO expression levels influence body mass and composition phenotypes. Yet, no direct connection between the obesity-associated intronic variants and FTO expression or function has been made. We show that the obesity-associated noncoding sequences within FTO are functionally connected, at megabase distances, primarily with the homeobox gene IRX3, rather than with FTO. 4C-seq samples for Fto/fto and Irx3/irx3a genes promoters in different samples: adult mouse brain, E9.5 mouse embryos and 24hpf zebrafish embryos.
Project description:Proteomics of HEPG2 cells following FTO overexpression and knockdown. Data accompany our paper entitled “Dynamic Regulation of N6,2′-O-dimethyladenosine (m6Am) in Obesity” scheduled for publication in Nature Communications, 2021