Project description:Insufficient sleep and circadian disruption are associated with poor prognosis in cancer patients, yet how sleep deficiency (SD) disrupts circadian cellular biological process that promote tumor growth and development remains elusive. To investigate the effects of sleep deficiency on tumorigenesis, we evaluated the gene expression in the lung from KRASG12D/WT mice after sleep deficient treatment (7 weeks). Analyzing Gene Ontology (GO) Enrichment of significantly up-regulated genes from lung tumors of SD mice, we found that lipid metabolism processes were enriched in the top 20 GO terms. Lipid metabolomics results showed that SD dramatically stimulates fatty acid oxidation process during lung tumorigenesis. Moreover, genetic ablation of ACSL1, a key regulatory factor in FAO, marked reversed SD-promoted lung tumor development. In addition, SD triggered fatty acid oxidation to enhance cancer stem-like properties.
Project description:Insufficient sleep and circadian disruption are associated with poor prognosis in cancer patients, yet how sleep deficiency (SD) disrupts circadian cellular biological process that promote tumor growth and development remains elusive. To investigate the effects of sleep deficiency on tumorigenesis, we evaluated the gene expression in the lung from KRASG12D/WT mice after sleep deficient treatment (7 weeks). Analyzing Gene Ontology (GO) Enrichment of significantly up-regulated genes from lung tumors of SD mice, we found that lipid metabolism processes were enriched in the top 20 GO terms. Lipid metabolomics results showed that SD dramatically stimulates fatty acid oxidation process during lung tumorigenesis. Moreover, genetic ablation of ACSL1, a key regulatory factor in FAO, marked reversed SD-promoted lung tumor development. In addition, SD triggered fatty acid oxidation to enhance cancer stem-like properties.
Project description:The molecular mechanisms underlying the great differences in susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) exhibited by both humans and laboratory animals are unknown. Using microarray technology, the present study demonstrates that the effects of noise overexposure on the expression of molecules likely to be important to the development of NIHL differ among inbred mice that have distinctive susceptibilities to NIHL including B6.CAST, 129X1/SvJ, and 129S1/SvImJ. The noise-exposure protocol produced, on average, a permanent loss of about 40 dB in sensitivity for auditory brainstem responses in susceptible B6.CAST mice, but no threshold elevations for the two resistant 129S1/SvImJ and 129X1/SvJ substrains. Measurements of noise-induced gene expression changes 6 h after the noise exposure revealed significant alterations in the expression levels of 48 genes in the resistant mice, while by these same criteria, there were seven differentially expressed genes in the susceptible B6.CAST mice. Differentially expressed genes in both groups of mice included subsets of transcription factors. However, only in the resistant mice was there a significant induction of proteins involved in cell-survival pathways such as HSP70, HSP40, p21, GADD45ï¢, Ier3, and Nfï«ï¢iïº. Moreover, increased expression of three of these factors after noise was confirmed at the protein level. Drastically enhanced HSP70, GADD45ï¢, and p21 immunostaining were detected 6 h after the noise exposure in subsets of cells of the lateral wall, spiral limbus, and organ of Corti as well as in cochlear nerve fibers. Upregulation of these proteins after noise exposure likely contributes to the prevalence of survival cellular pathways and thus to the resistance to NIHL that is characteristic of the 129X1/SvJ mice. Experiment Overall Design: Female 10-wk-old mice of the B6.CAST and 129X1/SvJ strains were divided randomly into non-noise control and noise-exposure groups. The non-noise mice served as controls in the gene-profiling experiments to control for the stress induced by experimenter handling and/or confinement of the mice in the noise-exposure chamber that was not directly related to the noise. This mice were in the noise chamber for a sham exposure. In contrast, the ânoiseâ groups were exposed to a 105-dB SPL, 10-kHz octave band of noise for 1 h and sacrificed 6 h after the exposure. Of each of these major groups, eight mice were used for each of three 129X1/SvJ control and three noise-exposed 129X1/SvJ arrays and two B6.CAST control and two noise-exposed B6.CAST arrays. Consequently within each subgroup the arrays are biological replicates.
Project description:Noise-induced hidden hearing loss (HHL) is a new type of hearing loss that has been identified in recent years and leads to insidious damage to the cochlea, unlike the well-known noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). However, the cellular and molecular basis for it remains to be elucidated. Here, we established a single-cell transcriptome profile of the C57BL/6J mouse cochlea, in which we describe the transcriptome changes of individual cell types within the cochlea with HHL and NIHL. Mice in the HHL group were exposed to 110 dB of noise for 2 hours, and those in the NIHL group were exposed to 115 dB of noise for 4 hours for 3 days. The cochlea was taken 6 hours after the last noise exposure. The control group was not exposed to noise, with other conditions being the same as those in the noise-exposed group. The results of sequencing at the single-cell level help us gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of the development of HHL and NIHL.