Project description:The goal of this study was to determine the chromatin accessibility difference between WT and PIN1 knockout mouse embryonic fibroblasts.
Project description:Early-stage Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the loss of dendritic spines in the neocortex of the brain. This phenomenon precedes tau pathology, plaque formation, and neurodegeneration and likely contributes to synaptic loss, memory impairment, and behavioral changes in patients. Studies suggest that spine loss is induced by soluble, multimeric Ab42, whose post-synaptic signaling activates the protein phosphatase calcineurin. We investigated how calcineurin causes spine pathology and found that the cis-trans prolyl isomerase Pin1 is a critical downstream target of Ab42/calcineurin signaling. In spines, Pin1 interacts with and is dephosphorylated by calcineurin, which rapidly suppresses its isomerase activity. Pin1 knockout or Ab42 exposure induced mature spine loss in Ab42-treated wild-type cells but had no effect on Pin1 null neurons. The data implicate Pin1 in spine maintenance and synaptic loss in early Alzheimer's disease.
Project description:ATRA was identified as a Pin1 inhibitor via fluorescence polarization-based high throughput screening. We performed microarray expression profiling to demonstrate the similarity between ATRA and Pin1 KD at the genome-wide level APL NB4 cells in response to ATRRA or inducible Pin1 knockdown for 3 days were collected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. We sought to validate in genome-wide level whether similarity occurred between ATRA and Pin1 knockdown-treated NB4 cells.
Project description:ATRA was identified as a Pin1 inhibitor via fluorescence polarization-based high throughput screening. We performed microarray expression profiling to demonstrate the similarity between ATRA and Pin1 KD at the genome-wide level
Project description:To investigate the specific gene expression program by which mutant-p53 and Pin1 control invasion and metastasis in breast cancer cells, we compared the transcriptomic profile of control, mutant-p53 depleted or Pin1 depleted MDA-MB-231 cells.