Project description:Macrodactyly is a congenital malformation characterized by enlargement of bone and soft tissues in limbs, typically with excessive accumulation of adipose tissues. Although gain-of-function mutation of PIK3CA has been identified in macrodactyly, the mechanism of PIK3CA mutation in adipose accumulation is poorly understood. In this study, we found that adipocytes from macrodactyly were more hypertrophic than those observed in polydactyly. PIK3CA (H1047R) activating mutation and enhanced activity of PI3K/AKT pathway were detected in macrodactylous adipose-derived stem cells (Mac-ADSCs). To identify the key downstream effectors of PIK3CA activation-mediated adipogenesis in Mac-ADSCs, we examined the transcriptome of Mac-ADSCs, BYL-719 treated Mac-ADSCs and Pol-ADSCs by RNA-Seq analysis.
Project description:Oncogenic translational programmes are an emerging hallmark of cancer and often driven by dysregulation of signaling pathways including KRAS and mTORC that converge on the eukaryotic translation initiation (eIF) 4F complex. Altered eIF4F activity promotes translation of oncogene mRNAs that typically contain highly structured 5’UTRs rendering their translation strongly dependent on RNA unwinding by DEAD-box helicase eIF4A1 subunit of the eIF4F complex. In addition, eIF4A1 separately functions to load mRNA into the 43S pre-initiation complex (PIC), an essential step for the translation of cellular mRNA. While eIF4A1-dependent mRNAs have been widely investigated, it is still unclear if highly structured mRNAs recruit and activate eIF4A1 unwinding specifically. Here, we uncover that unwinding by eIF4A1 is activated in an RNA sequence-dependent manner in cells. Our data demonstrate that eIF4A1-dependent mRNAs contain specific RNA sequences, particularly enriched for polypurine-motifs, in their 5’UTR which recruit and specifically stimulate unwinding of local repressive RNA structure by eIF4A1 in an RNA sequence-dependent manner to facilitate translation. Mechanistically, we show that polypurine-rich sequences trigger the formation of RNA sequence-specific multimeric eIF4A1-complexes, assembled of catalytically distinct eIF4A1 subunits, the joint activity of which enhances RNA unwinding activity. Together with our structural data, we describe a model in which conformational changes within eIF4A1 and the RNA through the process of eIF4A1 multimerisation, lead to an optimal interaction of eIF4A1-unwinding subunits with the structured RNA region which enhances unwinding. Hence, we conclude that RNA sequences in addition to protein cofactors contribute to the regulation of cellular eIF4A1 function and promotion of translation of eIF4A1-unwinding dependent mRNAs.
Project description:1. Evaluate the diagnostic value of long noncoding RNA (CCAT1) expression by RT-PCR in peripheral blood in colorectal cancer patients versus normal healthy control personal.
2. Evaluate the clinical utility of detecting long noncoding RNA (CCAT1) expression in diagnosis of colorectal cancer patients & its relation to tumor staging.
3. Evaluate the clinical utility of detecting long noncoding RNA (CCAT1) expression in precancerous colorectal diseases.
4. Compare long noncoding RNA (CCAT1) expression with traditional marker; carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) in diagnosis of colorectal cancer.
Project description:Adipogenesis occurs through a specific gene program in undifferentiated fat progenitors. We hypothesized that the properties of the fat progenitors are regulated by hox genes, the developmental genes essential in different tissue stem cells. Their biased expression in white and brown fat implies roles in distinguishing the two fat types. Among 39 Hox genes, Hoxc8 is highly enriched in undifferentiated adipose tissue stem cells (ADSCs) and down-regulated in differentiated adipocytes. Forced expression of Hoxc8 suppressed adipocyte differentiation of ADSCs. Using microarrays, we investigated the effect of Hoxc8 overexpression on global transcripts in ADSCs. We compared among four groups: untreated ADSCs, adipogenic induction media (MDI)-treated ADSCs, MDI-treated ADSC-vector and MDI-treated ADSC-Hoxc8. A number of, but not all, adipogenesis-related genes are suppressed by Hoxc8. This dataset illustrates the global effect of Hoxc8, a developmental transcription factor, on the expression of adipogenesis-related genes. Gene expression was compared among untreated ADSCs (control), adipogenic induction media-treated ADSCs, adipogenic induction media-treated ADSC-vector (ADSCs transduced with control vector), and adipogenic induction media-treated ADSC-Hoxc8 (ADSCs transduced with human Hoxc8). Total RNA was isolated from ADSCs using the Qiagen RNeasy kit (Qiagen). At NimbleGen, quality and yield were verified before cDNA synthesis and Cy3-end labeling. The labeled cDNA samples were hybridized to Homo sapiens 4-Plex arrays (Roche NimbleGen, A4487001-00-01) that represent 24,000 human genes. Raw data files for each sample were normalized and background-corrected using a Robust Multi-Array Analysis as implemented by NimbleScan software. Students’ two-tail t-tests were conducted among the samples for each transcript and fold-change was determined. Transcripts whose abundance was significantly altered (P < 0.05) and an absolute fold change greater than 2 were defined as differentially regulated.
Project description:Recent researches identified the existence of adipose derived stem cells (ADSCs) in adipose tissue. Perivascular ADSCs (PV-ADSCs) locate around vasculatures and can differentiate into vascular lineages. However, the detailed cellular heterogeneity within PV-ADSCs has not been investigated. Therefore, we performed single-cell profiling of subcutaneous (S-) and perivascular (PV-) ADSCs from wild-type and obese mice. After referring to the clustering strategies from other ADSCs’ single-cell data, we provided a more comprehensive picture and trajectory, especially for PV-ADSCs. Both single-cell analysis and in vitro experiments revealed that S-ADSCs from obese mice had impaired abilities of cell migration and proliferation compared to wild-type S-ADSCs. PV-ADSCs have distinctively intrinsic properties. We uncovered 4 subpopulations of PV-ADSCs including Dpp4+, Col4a2+, Clec11a+ and Sult1e1+ cells. Notably, the differentiative function of PV-ADSCs towards vascular lineages was mainly attributed to the existence of Clec11a+ subpopulation, which highly expressed Mgp. The present study provided an integrative view of the ADSCs’ variance from the perspective of origins and obesity.
Project description:[1] Microarray analysis in the rat myocardial tissue: 124I-HIB transplanted MI model Vs. phosphate buffered saline (PBS) injected myocardial infarction (MI) model Vs. Sham operated model [2] Microarray analysis in the rat adipose derived stem cells: 124I-HIB-labeled ADSCs Vs. Unlabeled ADSCs [1] We investigated the change of gene expression profile in sham operated-, PBS injected- and 124I-HIB-labeled ADSCs transplanted myocardium in rat myocaridial infarction (MI) model. [2] We compared gene expression profile with 124I-HIB labeled ADSCs and unlabeled ADSCs in vitro.
Project description:Background: Adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) can differentiate into Schwann cells (SCs) at the site of nerve injury, where Schwann cell-derived exosomes (SC-Exos) are suspected to exert an induction effect. Our study aimed to induce the differentiation of ADSCs in vitro using SC-Exos and to investigate the mechanisms involved through miRNA sequencing. Methods: Subcutaneous fat was used to extract ADSCs. Exosomes were extracted from Schwann cell lines (RSC96) using ultracentrifugation. After 8 days of induction of ADSCs by SC-Exos, phenotypic characteristics were observed by examining the expression of SC markers (S100, NGFR, MPZ, GFAP) through RT-qPCR, Western blot and immunofluorescence. Additionally, miRNA sequencing was performed on induced ADSCs, followed by bioinformatic analysis and validation of the results. Results: SC-Exos were taken up by human ADSCs. The RNA and protein expression levels of S100, NGFR, MPZ and GFAP were found to be significantly higher in the SC-Exo induction group than in the uninduced group, despite no significant difference to the Dezawa’s method group, which was also consistent with the immunofluorescence results. According to the sequencing results, there were a total of 72 differentially expressed miRNAs. Bioinformatics analysis indicated that 3506 Gene Ontology terms and 98 Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathways were significantly enriched. Ten miRNAs, 6 target mRNAs and elevated expression of the PIK3CD/Akt pathway were validated by RT-qPCR or Western blot, which is consistent with the sequencing results. Conclusions: Our data suggest that SC-Exos are able to induce the differentiation of ADSCs into SCs in vitro. It is speculated that the differentially expressed miRNAs play a significant role in the differentiation process.
Project description:High-throughput sequencing of Drosophila melanogaster small RNAs. total RNA, ~18-26nt RNAs isolated using PAGE, ligation to adapters requires 5' monophosphate and 3' OH Keywords: High-throughput solexa sequencing Small RNAs were sequenced from D. melanogaster female head. Raw sequences were clipped by 3' linker sequences recognition, and select clipped sequences longer than 18 nt Quality scores in the supplementary file for GSM240749 are undefined. Quality of the bases assessed by (1) identifying for the sequenced linker, which is a known sequence, and (2) mapping the clipped sequence to the genome and taking only perfect hits.