Project description:The mammary glands of adult female mice were divided into ductal tissue and terminal end buds (TEBs). Basal and luminal epithelial cells were FACS sorted and nuclei extracted for 75bp paired-end ATAC-seq profiling using an Illumina NextSeq 500 sequencer.
Project description:The mammary glands of adult female mice were divided into ductal tissue and terminal end buds (TEBs). Basal and luminal epithelial cells were FACS sorted and RNA extracted for 75bp paired-end RNA-seq profiling using an Illumina NextSeq 500 sequencer.
Project description:The mammary glands of adult female mice were divided into ductal tissue and terminal end buds (TEBs). Basal and luminal epithelial cells were FACS sorted. RNA and nuclei were extracted for RNA-seq and ATAC-seq profiling using an Illumina NextSeq 500 sequencer. This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Project description:Akt1, a serine-threonine protein kinase member of the PKB/Akt gene family, plays a critical role in the regulation of several cellular processes including cell proliferation and apoptosis. In this study, we utilized Akt1+/+ and Akt1¬-/- C57/Bl6 female mice to demonstrate that Akt1 is required for normal mammary gland postnatal development and homeostasis. Akt1 deficiency resulted in severely delayed postnatal mammary gland growth as well as a significant decrease in the number of terminal end buds during puberty. Adult Akt1-/- mammary glands exhibited significantly fewer alveolar buds coupled with a significant increase in epithelial cell apoptosis compared to their wild-type counterparts. Microarray analysis revealed that Akt1 deficiency resulted in several altered gene expression changes and biological processes in adult mammary glands, including organismal development, cell death, and tissue morphology. Of particular importance, a significant decrease in expression of Btn1a1, a gene involved in milk lipid secretion, was observed in Akt1-/- mammary glands by both microarray and RT-PCR validation. Transcriptome analysis of Akt1 wild type and akt1-homozygous mouse mammary glands
Project description:Epithelial cells possess remarkable plasticity, having the ability to become mesenchymal cells through alterations in adhesion and motility (epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition or EMT). Recent studies suggest that EMT endows differentiated epithelial cells with stem cell traits, posing the interesting question of how epithelial plasticity is properly restricted to ensure epithelial differentiation during tissue morphogenesis. Here we identify zinc-finger transcription factor Ovol2 as a key suppressor of EMT of mammary epithelial cells. Epithelia-specific deletion of Ovol2 completely arrests mammary ductal morphogenesis, and depletes epithelial stem/progenitor cell reservoirs. Further, Ovol2-deficient epithelial cells undergo EMT in vivo to become non-epithelial cell types, and that Ovol2 directly represses key EMT inducers such as Zeb1 and regulates stem/progenitor cell responsiveness to TGF-beta. We also provide evidence for a suppressive role of Ovol2 in breast cancer progression. Our findings underscore the critical importance of exquisitely regulating epithelial plasticity to balance stemness with epithelial differentiation in development and cancer. TEBs from control and conditional Ovol2-knockout mammary glands were physically isolated for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. In order to identify primary changes, we analyzed TEBs from 24-25-day-old mice, when morphological differences between control and Ovol2 SSKO were still minimal.
Project description:Akt1, a serine-threonine protein kinase member of the PKB/Akt gene family, plays a critical role in the regulation of several cellular processes including cell proliferation and apoptosis. In this study, we utilized Akt1+/+ and Akt1¬-/- C57/Bl6 female mice to demonstrate that Akt1 is required for normal mammary gland postnatal development and homeostasis. Akt1 deficiency resulted in severely delayed postnatal mammary gland growth as well as a significant decrease in the number of terminal end buds during puberty. Adult Akt1-/- mammary glands exhibited significantly fewer alveolar buds coupled with a significant increase in epithelial cell apoptosis compared to their wild-type counterparts. Microarray analysis revealed that Akt1 deficiency resulted in several altered gene expression changes and biological processes in adult mammary glands, including organismal development, cell death, and tissue morphology. Of particular importance, a significant decrease in expression of Btn1a1, a gene involved in milk lipid secretion, was observed in Akt1-/- mammary glands by both microarray and RT-PCR validation. Transcriptome analysis of Akt1 wild type and akt1-homozygous mouse mammary glands wild type mammary glands from 3 mice and Akt1-deficient mammary glands from 3 mice were analyzed for differences in gene expression at postnatal day 70
Project description:The aim was to carry out global analysis of gene expression changes occurring in the normal pubertal mouse mammary gland from the appearance to the regression of terminal end buds. Experiment Overall Design: 5 time points were chosen for analysis: 3wk, 4wk, 5wk, 6wk and 7wk. Each time point was analysed in triplicate with the exception of the 5wk time point which was analysed in duplicate. Total: 14 samples. Each sample was prepared from a pool of RNA from mammary glands of a minimum of three mice.
