Project description:Transcriptional profiling of murine hepatocyte gene expression following exposure to prolactin or actinomycin D Prolactin or actinomycin D-treated versus serum-free control cells: AML12 and Hepa 1-6. Biological replicates: 2 per cell line per treatment protocol.
Project description:To determine and compare a functional role of long non-coding RNA LL35/Falcor in murine hepatocytes in vitro and in vivo we performed a transcriptome analysis of AML12 hepatocytes cell line and murine liver after LL35 depletion.
Project description:SOCS1 is a tumor suppressor in hepatocellular carcinoma. Recently we showed that loss of SOCS1 in hepatocytes promotes NRF2 activation. Here we investigated how SOCS1 expression affected oxidative stress response in HCC cells. Murine Hepa1-6 cells expressing SOCS1 (Hepa-SOCS1) or control vector (Hepa-Vector) were treated with cisplatin or tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BHP). Induction of NRF2 and its target genes, oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, cell survival and cellular proteome profiles were evaluated. NRF2 induction was significantly reduced in Hepa-SOCS1 cells. The gene and protein expression of NRF2 targets were differentially induced in Hepa-Vector cells but markedly suppressed in Hepa-SOCS1 cells. Hepa-SOCS1 cells displayed increased induction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) but reduced lipid peroxidation. Nonetheless, Hepa-SOCS1 cells treated with cisplatin or t-BHP showed reduced survival. GCLC, poorly induced in Hepa-SOCS1 cells, showed a strong positive correlation with NFE2L2 and an inverse correlation with SOCS1 in the TCGA-LIHC transcriptomic data. Proteomic analysis of Hepa-Vector and Hepa-SOCS1 cells revealed that SOCS1 differentially modulated many proteins involved in diverse molecular pathways including those implicated in mitochondrial ROS generation and detoxification by peroxiredoxin and thioredoxin systems. Our findings indicate that maintaining sensitivity to oxidative stress is an important tumor suppression mechanism of SOCS1 in HCC.
Project description:The importance of unanchored Ub in innate immunity has been shown only for a limited number of unanchored Ub-interactors. We investigated what additional cellular factors interact with unanchored Ub and whether unanchored Ub plays a broader role in innate immunity. To identify unanchored Ub-interacting factors from murine lungs, we used His-tagged recombinant poly-Ub chains as bait. These chains were mixed with lung tissue lysates and protein complexes were isolated with Ni-NTA beads. Sample elutions were subjected to mass spectrometry (LC-MSMS) analysis.
