Project description:High-fat diets are associated with increased obesity and metabolic disease in mice and humans. Here we used analysis of variance (ANOVA) to scrutinize a microarray data set consisting of 10 inbred strains of mice from both sexes fed atherogenic high-fat and control chow diets. An overall F-test was applied to the 40 unique groups of strain-diet-sex to identify 15,288 genes with altered transcription. Bootstrapping k-means clustering separated these changes into four strain-dependent expression patterns, including two sex-related profiles and two diet-related profiles. Sex-induced effects correspond to secretion (males) or fat and energy metabolism (females), whereas diet-induced changes relate to neurological processes (chow) or immune response (high-fat). The full set of pairwise contrasts for differences between strains within sex (90 different statistical tests) uncovered 32,379 total changes. These differences were unevenly distributed across strains and between sexes, indicating that strain-specific responses to high-fat diet differ between sexes. Correlations between expression levels and 8 obesity-related traits identified 5,274 associations between transcript abundance and measured phenotypic endpoints. From this number, 2,678 genes are positively correlated with total cholesterol levels and associate with immune-related categories while 2,596 genes are negatively correlated with cholesterol and connect to cholesterol synthesis. Keywords: gene expression analysis, strain comparision, effect of dietary fat, sex-specific effects
Project description:High-fat diets are associated with increased obesity and metabolic disease in mice and humans. Here we used analysis of variance (ANOVA) to scrutinize a microarray data set consisting of 10 inbred strains of mice from both sexes fed atherogenic high-fat and control chow diets. An overall F-test was applied to the 40 unique groups of strain-diet-sex to identify 15,288 genes with altered transcription. Bootstrapping k-means clustering separated these changes into four strain-dependent expression patterns, including two sex-related profiles and two diet-related profiles. Sex-induced effects correspond to secretion (males) or fat and energy metabolism (females), whereas diet-induced changes relate to neurological processes (chow) or immune response (high-fat). The full set of pairwise contrasts for differences between strains within sex (90 different statistical tests) uncovered 32,379 total changes. These differences were unevenly distributed across strains and between sexes, indicating that strain-specific responses to high-fat diet differ between sexes. Correlations between expression levels and 8 obesity-related traits identified 5,274 associations between transcript abundance and measured phenotypic endpoints. From this number, 2,678 genes are positively correlated with total cholesterol levels and associate with immune-related categories while 2,596 genes are negatively correlated with cholesterol and connect to cholesterol synthesis. Keywords: gene expression analysis, strain comparision, effect of dietary fat, sex-specific effects One group of mice was fed an atherogenic high-fat (30% fat) diet containing cholic acid to increase fat uptake and another was fed a low-fat (6% fat) regular chow diet. Males and females from both diets were studied for mouse strains 129S1/SvImJ, A/J, BALB/cJ, C3H/HeJ, C57BL/6J, CAST/EiJ, DBA/2J, I/LnJ, MRL/MpJ-Tnfrsf6lpr/J, NZB/BINJ, PERA/Ei, and SM/J. All strains were sacrificed between 11- and 13 weeks of age except for CAST and PERA, which were harvested after 50 weeks of age. CAST and PERA were subsequently removed from our analysis based on discrepant harvest age, but can be found in our database (see below). Three replicate animals were used for each combination of diet, strain, and sex, resulting in a total of 120 mice surveyed for gene expression.
Project description:The C57BL/6J mouse model develops obesity and pre-diabetes when fed a high-fat diet. In this experiment, DNA methylation was assessed globally at specific CpG sites in liver tissue from mice receiving high-fat diet (45E% from fat) for 13 weeks (Control) or high-fat diet supplemented with 20% (w/w) of freeze-dried lingonberries (n=4). Our findings show that lingonberries prevent development of high-fat induced obesity, hepatic steatosis and low-grade inflammation, and the DNA was hypermethylated in mice receiving lingonberries compared to control. Genome wide hepatic DNA methylation comparison between mice fed high-fat diet with or without a lingonberry supplement (n=4/group).
Project description:One of the metabolic consequences of obesity is abnormal lipid accumulation in the liver, or hepatosteatosis, which can develop intomore serious diseases in the non-alcoholic liver disease (NAFLD) spectrum including non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and hepatocellular carcinoma. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the metabolic changes that occur in hepatosteatosisin order toprevent disease progression.The liver plays a major role in regulating macronutrient and energy homeostasis in both the fed and fasted states. However, whether hepatosteatosis influences thepostprandial molecularresponse, specifically to dietary fat,has not been investigated.Therefore, the goal of this study was to comparethe proteome and phosphoproteome of steatotic livers from diet-induced obese (DIO) mice and control livers from lean mice in the postprandial response to dietary fat. Using untargeted LC-MS/MS analysis, we identified significant alterations in the levels of proteins involved in macronutrient and energy metabolism in livers of DIO compared to lean mice. In addition, uniquely phosphorylated proteins in livers of DIO andlean mice reflect regulatory mechanisms controlling cellular processes contributingto hepatosteatosis. Theresultsof this studyexpandourknowledge ofthe metabolic consequences that occur duringhepatosteatosisandtheinfluence of dietary fat on NAFLD progression.
Project description:Several studies have described phenotypic changes in offspring of mice exposed to environmental factors including diet, but the effect of diet on sperm chromatin remains unclear. We used a high fat diet (HFD) induced obesity mouse model, and examined chromatin of paternal spermatozoa. We performed chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by high throughput sequencing using specific H3 antibodies or specific H3K4me1antibodies.
Project description:Obesity is a global health concern affecting over 650 million adults with a major contributor being an increased consumption of a high-fat diet. Maternal obesity often results in an increased risk of offspring developing obesity. In this study, we examined the effect of diet on visceral adipose in a pre-clinical model of generational diet-induced obesity that included maternal cohorts of C57BL/6 mice fed either a control diet (10% fat) or a high-fat diet (45% fat) and the resulting female offspring fed either diet. Using bottom-up proteomics on omental adipose tissue, differential protein expression was determined with the greatest difference resulting from the generational obese cohort. Differentially expressed proteins were involved in pathways related to cancer, inflammatory disease and immune response. Taken together, the results of this study provide molecular-level insight that will enable the development of more targeted, modifiable interventions that could be implemented pre-, during and post-pregnancy.
2024-10-17 | PXD042092 | Pride
Project description:Diversity of arterial cell and phenotypic heterogeneity induced by high-fat and high-cholesterol diet
Project description:The metabolic syndrome represents a cluster of well-documented risk factors for the development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Next to visceral obesity, dyslipidemia and insulin resistance, excessive triglyceride accumulation in the liver has been implicated to play a role in the development of the metabolic syndrome. To investigate the underlying molecular changes leading to hepatic steatosis we performed microarray analysis on livers of mice either fasted over night or fed a high fat diet for 2 Weeks. We analysed 7 500 genes and subsequently performed a pathway analysis to identify changes in hepatic genes in both models. Fasting induced a high number of differentially expressed hepatic genes, resulting in an change towards an energy saving phenotype. In contrast only a small number of genes were differentially expressed after high fat diet. Fasting promoted gluconeogenesis and b-oxidation, strongly suppressed cholesterol synthesis and activated pathways to preserve hepatic function. High fat diet induced steatosis was accompanied by the activation of the stearoyl-CoA desaturase and the lipogenic transcription factor Srebp-1c, both implicated in the development of hepatic insulin resistance. These changes reflect the activation of different gene expression programs in response to plasma lipid overload. Keywords: Diet intervention Two conditions, fasting and high fat diet. 5 biological replicates for comparison of high fat diet versus fasting and controls versus high fat diet, 4 biological replicates for the comparison of controls versus fasting. All biological replicates are performed as technical replicates in the form of a dye-swap. Total number of arrays hybridises is therefore 28.