Project description:Cardiac-specific PPARalpha transgenic (Tg-PPARalpha) mice show mild cardiac hypertrophy and systolic dysfunction. The failing heart phenotypes observed in Tg-PPARalpha are exacerbated by crossing with cardiac-specific Sirt1 transgenic (Tg-Sirt1) mice, whereas Tg-Sirt1 mice themselves do not show any cardiac hypertrophy or systolic dysfunction. To investigate the mechanism leading to the failing heart phenotypes in TgPPARalpha/Tg-Sirt1 bigenic mice, microarray analyses were performed. The microarray analyses revealed that many ERR target genes were downregulated in Tg-PPARalpha and in Tg-Sirt1, and they were further downregulated in the Tg-PPARalpha/Tg-Sirt1 bigenic mice.
Project description:Cardiac-specific PPARalpha transgenic (Tg-PPARalpha) mice show mild cardiac hypertrophy and systolic dysfunction. The failing heart phenotypes observed in Tg-PPARalpha are exacerbated by crossing with cardiac-specific Sirt1 transgenic (Tg-Sirt1) mice, whereas Tg-Sirt1 mice themselves do not show any cardiac hypertrophy or systolic dysfunction. To investigate the mechanism leading to the failing heart phenotypes in TgPPARalpha/Tg-Sirt1 bigenic mice, microarray analyses were performed. The microarray analyses revealed that many ERR target genes were downregulated in Tg-PPARalpha and in Tg-Sirt1, and they were further downregulated in the Tg-PPARalpha/Tg-Sirt1 bigenic mice. Four groups of cardiac-specific transgenic mice were used for the study, i.e., control, PPARalpha, Sirt1 and PPARalpha/Sirt1. Hearts were dissected after 10-11 weeks of male FVB background transgenic mice. Total RNA was prepared from the hearts to conduct the microarray analyses.
Project description:Transcriptional profiles on different yeast strain mutants (DEgd2/1, DEgd2/Btt1)were identified by microarray analysis comparing total mutant RNA vs wild type RNA.
Project description:Argonaute (Ago) proteins associate with microRNAs (miRNAs), which guide them to complementary target mRNAs resulting in gene silencing. RNA coimmunoprecipitations (RIP) were performed with Ago2 and Ago2 mutants. The precipitated mRNAs were analyzed using one Affymetrix microarrays to compare the mRNA preciptation rates of mutants vs Ago2 wild type.
Project description:Identification of cellular proteins interacting with Gemin5 phosphorylation mutants in T897 residue. We used the T897A mutant as phosphorylation defective protein and the T897E mutant as phosphomimetic. P85 C-terminal fragment of Gemin5 has been used to purify the protein complexes associated by Tandem Affinity Purification. The study has been performed using two biological replicates of each bait protein: p85-T897A and p85-T897E.