Project description:Folate deficiency promotes differentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells, but shifts the overall phenotype towards skeletal muscle
Project description:The full length of LncVSM transfected into Vascular Smooth Muscle cells to down-regulation for screening differential expression prolifes of LncVSM effecting.The empty vector transfected Vascular Smooth Muscle cells as controls. Eight Samples analyzed.
Project description:The full length of LncVSM transfected into Vascular Smooth Muscle cells to down-regulation for screening differential expression prolifes of LncVSM effecting.The empty vector transfected Vascular Smooth Muscle cells as controls.
Project description:The objective of this study is to determine the effect of maternal folate deficiency on the skeletal muscle transcriptome of piglets from a reciprocal cross, in which full-sibling Landrace (LR) and full-sibling Chinese local breed Laiwu (LW) pigs were used for reciprocal cross matings, and sows were fed either a folate deficient or a normal diet during early-mid gestation. In addition, the difference in the responsiveness of the piglets to folate deficiency during early-mid pregnancy between reciprocal cross groups was investigated.Longissimus dorsi (LD) muscle samples were collected from newborn piglets and a 4 x 44K Agilent porcine oligo microarray was used for transcriptome analysis of porcine LD muscle. The results showed that folate deficiency during early-mid pregnancy affected piglet body weight, LD muscle fiber number and content of intramuscular triglyceride.
Project description:Crotonylation of histones is discovered of late as one of post-translational modification that can regulate gene expression. However, the function of crotonylation on non-histone proteins in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) is unclear. Here, we aim to use modification and proteomic analysis to find the cellular characteristic of crotonylated non-histone proteins and the crosstalk with ubiquitinated proteins in vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) phenotypic remodeling. We performed modification and proteomic analysis of VSMCs before and after stimulated with platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB). The crotonylated and ubiquitinated pan-antibody was used to enrich the protein and then subjected to high-throughput mass spectrometry analysis. The enrichment analysis was performed within differentially modified proteins in regards to GO terms, KEGG and protein domain.
Project description:NCOR1 is a trancriptional coregulator and has been demonstrated to modulate the acitivities of multiple transcription factors in many cell types. However, the function of NCOR1 in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) is unclear. We aimed to explore the effect of NCOR1 deficiency on gene expression in VSMCs and phenoypic modulation of VSMCs. Therefore, we constructed smooth-muscle specific NCOR1 knockout mice and isolated primary VSMCs for RNA-sequencing.