Project description:Post-transcriptional regulatory networks are dependent on the interplay of many RNA-binding proteins having a major role in mRNA processing events in mammals. We have been interested in the concerted action of the two RNA-binding proteins hnRNP A1 and HuR, both stable components of immunoselected hnRNP complexes and having a major nuclear localization. Specifically, we present here the application of the RNA-immunoprecipitation (RIP)-Chip technology to identify a population of nuclear transcripts associated with hnRNP A1-RNPs as isolated from the nuclear extract of either HuR WT or HuR-depleted (KO) mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells. The outcome of this analysis was a list of target genes regulated via HuR for their association (either increased or reduced) with the nuclear hnRNP A1-RNP complexes. Real time PCR analysis was applied to validate a selected number of nuclear mRNA transcripts, as well as to identify pre-spliced transcripts (in addition to their mature mRNA counterpart) within the isolated nuclear hnRNP A1-RNPs. The differentially enriched mRNAs were found to belong to GO categories relevant to biological processes anticipated for hnRNP A1 and HuR (such as transport, transcription, translation, apoptosis and cell cycle) indicative of their concerted function in mRNA metabolism. Ribonucleoprotein Immunoprecipitation (RIP) using hnRNP A1 specific antibody was performed in nuclear extracts from HuR WT and HuR KO Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts (MEFs). RNA isolated from these IPs together with nuclear RNA from the two cell types, was subjected to microarray analysis. Three biological replicates, representing three independent experiments, are available for each condition except in the case of nuclear RNA isolated from HuR WT MEFs that one replicate didn’t pass the quality control.
Project description:Lysosome-enriched fractions from the liver of Cln8 KO mice and WT mice. Included are four datasets: 1. Lysosome-enriched fraction from the liver of Cln8 KO mice, replicate 1 (CLN8_KO_1). 2. Lysosome-enriched fraction from the liver of Cln8 KO mice, replicate 2 (CLN8_KO_2). 3. Lysosome-enriched fraction from the liver of WT mice, replicate 1 (WT_1). 4. Lysosome-enriched fraction from the liver of WT mice, replicate 2 (WT_2).
Project description:We report the HuR-RNA interactions in the liver by performing RNA-immunoprecipitation sequencing (RIP-seq). RIP-seq was performed in healthy livers of wildtype (WT) mice using a HuR antibody. We found that 1380 cytoplasmic-target mRNAs bound to HuR, as assessed by the comparison between the HuR-specific antibody and the IgG control
Project description:We conducted RNA-sequencing from three per group C57BL/6J male mice, ten weeks old. Liver tissue was collected from wild-type (WT) and Cryptochrome1 (CRY1) knockout (KO) mice.
Project description:Post-transcriptional regulatory networks are dependent on the interplay of many RNA-binding proteins having a major role in mRNA processing events in mammals. We have been interested in the concerted action of the two RNA-binding proteins hnRNP A1 and HuR, both stable components of immunoselected hnRNP complexes and having a major nuclear localization. Specifically, we present here the application of the RNA-immunoprecipitation (RIP)-Chip technology to identify a population of nuclear transcripts associated with hnRNP A1-RNPs as isolated from the nuclear extract of either HuR WT or HuR-depleted (KO) mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells. The outcome of this analysis was a list of target genes regulated via HuR for their association (either increased or reduced) with the nuclear hnRNP A1-RNP complexes. Real time PCR analysis was applied to validate a selected number of nuclear mRNA transcripts, as well as to identify pre-spliced transcripts (in addition to their mature mRNA counterpart) within the isolated nuclear hnRNP A1-RNPs. The differentially enriched mRNAs were found to belong to GO categories relevant to biological processes anticipated for hnRNP A1 and HuR (such as transport, transcription, translation, apoptosis and cell cycle) indicative of their concerted function in mRNA metabolism.
Project description:HuR shRNA adenoviruses were delivered into WT or humanized mice intravenously at 2 × 109 pfu/mouse for both control virus and HuR shRNA virus . After seven days, liver tissue samples were harvested after a four hours fasting and stored immediately in liquid nitrogen till further analysis.The frozen liver tissue samples were homogenized in Trizol reagent (Invitrogen) using TissueLyser LT system (Qiagen). The isolated RNA was purified by MagMAX RNA Extraction Kit (ThermoFisher) and the construction of strand specific sequencing libraries using TruSeq Stranded Total RNA Prep kit (Illumina) and the sequencing was performed at NHLBI DNA Sequencing and Genomics Core using Illumina HiSeq 3000 paired-end sequencing platform.
Project description:To understand the effects of knocking out the 5-LO gene on gene expression in key metabolic target tissues liver. The 5LO KO mouse liver profiling data was analyzed by identifying genes that were up- and down-regulated at selected p value and fold change in the liver of 5LO KO mice compared to the corresponding WT B6 controls.
Project description:Fenofibrate is a specific agonist of the nuclear receptor PPARa. To identify the gene expression under the strict dependence of hepatic PPARa activity, we generated a new mouse strain of PPARa-specific deletion in hepatocyte (albumin-Cre+/- Pparaflox/flox or LKO) and we compared them to total Ppara KO (KO), wild-type (WT) and liver WT (albumin-Cre-/- Pparaflox/flox or LWT) mice. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression in liver of Ppara LKO, LWT, Ppara KO and WT male mice. There are 36 liver samples, each from an individual mouse. The samples are from Ppara liver KO (LKO), Ppara KO (KO), wild-type (WT) and liver WT (LWT) male mice of 14 week-old from the same genetic background (C57Bl/6J) treated with Fenofibrate (100 mg/kg/day) or vehicle (aqueous solution of gum Arabic 3%) by daily gavage for 10 days. n= 4 mice for LKO, LWT and WT genotypes treated with vehicle; n=3 for KO mice treated with vehicle; n=5 mice for LWT, LKO and KO genotypes treated with fenofibrate; n=4 WT mice treated with fenofibrate. All mice were sacrified at ZT14.