Project description:Purpose: The goals of this study are to compare NGS-derived skin transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) in wild type mice with TTP delta ARE knock-in mutants. Methods: Skin mRNA profiles of approximately 27 week old wild-type (WT) and TTP delta ARE knock-in mice were generated by deep sequencing, with five biological replicates, using Illumina sequencers. The skin RNA samples were prepared from skin biopsies from treated but not papillomatous skin from mice treated with a standard DMBA-TPA protocol for 20 weeks. The sequence reads that passed quality filters were mapped to mm10 with STAR Aligner followed by featureCounts and DESeq2 anlysis. Results: We observed 1144 statistically differentially expressed genes (232 and 912 up- and down-regulated genes in TTP delta ARE mice, respectively, with fold changes >2 and FDR<0.05. Conclusions: Regulated overexpression of TTP by a stablizing deletion in the 3'UTR of its mRNA causes many changes in gene expression in mice subjected to a standard skin papilloma protocol.
Project description:Members of the tristetraprolin (TTP) family of RNA-binding proteins can bind to and promote the decay of specific transcripts containing AU-rich motifs. ZFP36 (TTP) is best known for regulating cytokine expression in myeloid cells; however, the mammalian paralogues ZFP36L1 and ZFP36L2 have not been viewed as important in controlling inflammation. To study potential functional overlaps of these three TTP family proteins in myeloid cells, we developed myeloid-specific knock-out (M-KO) mice of these genes, singly and together. M-Zfp36-KO mice exhibited a mild inflammatory syndrome late in life, while M-Zfp36l1-KO and M-Zfp36l2-KO mice had no apparent spontaneous phenotypes. Mice with simultaneous deficiency of all three TTP family members in myeloid cells developed a severe, spontaneous, inflammatory phenotype, with a median survival of 8 weeks. Macrophages derived from these mice contained many more stabilized transcripts than cells from M-Zfp36-KO mice, many encoding pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. Our findings emphasize the importance of all three family members, acting in concert, in myeloid cell function.
Project description:Members of the tristetraprolin (TTP) family of RNA-binding proteins can bind to and promote the decay of specific transcripts containing AU-rich motifs. ZFP36 (TTP) is best known for regulating cytokine expression in myeloid cells; however, the mammalian paralogues ZFP36L1 and ZFP36L2 have not been viewed as important in controlling inflammation. To study potential functional overlaps of these three TTP family proteins in myeloid cells, we developed myeloid-specific knock-out (M-KO) mice of these genes, singly and together. M-Zfp36-KO mice exhibited a mild inflammatory syndrome late in life, while M-Zfp36l1-KO and M-Zfp36l2-KO mice had no apparent spontaneous phenotypes. Mice with simultaneous deficiency of all three TTP family members in myeloid cells developed a severe, spontaneous, inflammatory phenotype, with a median survival of 8 weeks. Macrophages derived from these mice contained many more stabilized transcripts than cells from M-Zfp36-KO mice, many encoding pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. Our findings emphasize the importance of all three family members, acting in concert, in myeloid cell function.
Project description:Tristetraprolin (TTP) is a tandem CCCH zinc finger protein that was identified through its rapid induction by mitogens in fibroblasts. Studies of TTP-deficient mice, and cells derived from them, showed that TTP could bind to certain AU-rich elements in mRNAs, leading to increases in the rates of mRNA deadenylation and destruction. Known physiological target; mRNAs for TTP include tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF), granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin 2 beta (IL2 beta). Here we used microarray analysis of RNA from wild-type and TTP-deficient fibroblast cell lines to identify transcripts with different decay rates, after serum stimulation and actinomycin D treatment. Of 250 mRNAs apparently stabilized in the absence of TTP, 23 contained conserved TTP binding sites; 10 of these were shown by secondary analyses to be stabilized. The most dramatically affected transcript encoded the protein Ier3, recently implicated in the physiological control of blood pressure. The Ier3 transcript contained several conserved TTP binding sites that could bind TTP directly, and conferred TTP sensitivity to the mRNA in cell transfection studies. These studies have identified several new, physiologically relevant TTP target transcripts in fibroblasts; these target mRNAs encode proteins from a variety of functional classes. Experiment Overall Design: Cell lines were derived from mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cultures from littermate E14.5 embryos (for Zfp36 +/+ and -/- cells). MEFs were maintained at 37o C (5% CO2) in DMEM containing 10% FBS, 100 Experiment Overall Design: U/ml penicillin, 100 μg/ml streptomycin and 2 mM L-glutamine. When the cells had reached approximately 70-90 % confluence, they were trypsinized and diluted 2-50 fold in the same medium, based on morphology and growth rate, such that they would reach near confluence in 3-4 days when subcultured. Experiment Overall Design: Five identical experiments involving sequential serum deprivation, serum stimulation and actinomycin D treatment were performed on five different days; each experiment involved simultaneous identical experiments with the WT and KO cell lines. In each experiment, the cells were serum deprived for 16h, and a sample was taken at that point as a serum-deprived control. The cells were then stimulated by 10% FBS for Experiment Overall Design: 90 min and another sample taken, after which 5μg/ml actinomycin D was added; samples for RNA analysis were then removed at 30, 60, 90 and 120 min after actinomycin D treatment. In all experiments, each sample represented three combined 100 mm dishes of cells.
Project description:Tristetraprolin (TTP) binds to specific AU-rich elements in the 3'UTR of certain transcripts and regulates post-transcriptional gene expression by increasing the rate of mRNA turnover. Here, we generated a novel TTP mouse line (TTPΔARE) with a 136 base deletion in the 3'UTR AU-rich region of TTP mRNA, which resulted in a moderate increase in TTP protein expression in many tissues. In this study, we evaluated the effects of the moderate TTP overexpression on the overall pattern of gene expression in spleen, to investigate the effect of this mutation on mRNA targets of TTP under normal conditions. We utilized "TTPΔARE" (136 b deletion in the 3'UTR AU-rich region of Zfp36 mRNA) mice that overexpress TTP and compared the transcriptomic changes to the littermate "WT" mice. Spleen mRNA from four WT and four "TTPΔARE" mice were subjected to mRNA-Seq. All the animals used in this study were males between the ages of 8-12 weeks and were on a C57BL/6 background.
Project description:Tristetraprolin (TTP) is a tandem CCCH zinc finger protein that was identified through its rapid induction by mitogens in fibroblasts. Studies of TTP-deficient mice, and cells derived from them, showed that TTP could bind to certain AU-rich elements in mRNAs, leading to increases in the rates of mRNA deadenylation and destruction. Known physiological target mRNAs for TTP include tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF), granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin 2 beta (IL2 beta). Here we used microarray analysis of RNA from wild-type and TTP-deficient fibroblast cell lines to identify transcripts with different decay rates, after serum stimulation and actinomycin D treatment. Of 250 mRNAs apparently stabilized in the absence of TTP, 23 contained conserved TTP binding sites; 10 of these were shown by secondary analyses to be stabilized. The most dramatically affected transcript encoded the protein Ier3, recently implicated in the physiological control of blood pressure. The Ier3 transcript contained several conserved TTP binding sites that could bind TTP directly, and conferred TTP sensitivity to the mRNA in cell transfection studies. These studies have identified several new, physiologically relevant TTP target transcripts in fibroblasts; these target mRNAs encode proteins from a variety of functional classes. Keywords: mRNA degradation, time course, knockout experiment
Project description:Twenty-one pheromone-induced genes were selected from the literature (Zhao, Daniels et al. 2005 was the major source) as the reference set for assessing the pheromone response of CAI4 (Wild-type), cpp1Δ/Δ, cek1Δ/Δ, cek2Δ/Δ, cpp1Δ/Δ cek1Δ/Δ, cpp1Δ/Δ cek2Δ/Δ and cek1Δ/Δ cek2Δ/Δ strains.Our aim was to check whether or not these 21 pheromone-induced genes are up-regulated in response to pheromone in each mutant strain.
Project description:Tristetraprolin (TTP) binds to specific AU-rich elements in the 3'UTR of certain transcripts and regulates post-transcriptional gene expression by increasing the rate of mRNA turnover. In this study, we evaluated the effects of TTP deficiency on the overall gene expression of spleen tissue, in order to discover tissue specific targets of TTP under normal physiologic conditions. We utilized "Triple KO" (Zfp36-/-/TNFR1-/-/TNFR2-/-) mice that are deficient in TTP and two TNF receptors and compared the transcriptomic changes to "Double KO" (TNFR1-/-/TNFR2-/-) and WT mice. Spleen mRNA from four WT, four "Double KO", and four "Triple mice" was subjected to RNA-Seq in two phases. All the animals used in this study were males between the ages of 12-14 weeks and were on a mixed (75% C57BL/6NTac, 25% 129/SVEV) background.
Project description:Tristetraprolin (TTP) binds to specific AU-rich elements in the 3'UTR of certain transcripts and regulates post-transcriptional gene expression by increasing the rate of mRNA turnover. In this study, we evaluated the effects of TTP deficiency on the overall gene expression of spleen tissue, in order to discover tissue specific targets of TTP under normal physiologic conditions. We utilized "Triple KO" (Zfp36-/-/TNFR1-/-/TNFR2-/-) mice that are deficient in TTP and two TNF receptors and compared the transcriptomic changes to "Double KO" (TNFR1-/-/TNFR2-/-) and WT mice. Spleen mRNA from four WT, four "Double KO", and four "Triple mice" was subjected to RNA-Seq in two phases. All the animals used in this study were males between the ages of 12-14 weeks and were on a mixed (75% C57BL/6NTac, 25% 129/SVEV) background. Examination of splenic gene expression difference between "Triple KO"-WT and "double KO"-WT data sets