Project description:The Long Evans/orl (LE/orl) rat is an animal model of inherited undescended testis (UDT). To explore genetic mechanisms of UDT, we studied differential gene expression in LE/orl and LE wild type (LE/wt) fetal gubernaculum and testis. Analyses of differentially expressed probe sets linked below as supplementary files: Analysis_methods.txt [A description of the analysis] gub.txt [Genes differentially expressed in between wt and orl gubernacula] testes.txt [Genes differentially expressed between wt and orl testes] wt.txt [Genes differentially expressed in wt gubernacular development] Keywords: strain/condition predisposition, disease state analysis, developmental
Project description:The main goal of this study was to characterize the Dredd-independent functions of PGRP-LE in the adult Drosophila midgut (the midgut is the functional analog of the vertebrate small intestine). We expressed a UAS-PGRP-LE transgene under the control of mex-GAL4, which is specifically active in midgut enterocytes, in a Dredd mutant background. We then collected adult male midguts, extracted total RNA and performed mRNA-seq. Our data show that PGRP-LE overexpression alters fundamental aspects of midgut metabolism in Dredd mutant midguts.
Project description:Uterine epithelial estrogen receptor α (ERα) deficiency in epiERα-/- (Esr1f/-Wnt7aCre/+) mice leads to dysregulated environment of uterine lumen, which is lined by uterine luminal epithelium (LE). We hypothesized that LE transcriptomes held molecular keys to understanding ERα in regulating preimplantation uterine environment. Day 0.5 post-coitum (D0.5) and D3.5 LE (isolated via enzymatic digestion), digested uterus (DU), and flash-frozen uterus (U) from Esr1f/- (control) and epiERα-/- mice were processed for mRNA-seq. There were minimal differentially expressed genes (DEGs, TPM>1, FC>2, FDR<0.05) between DU and U. Between D0.5 and D3.5 Esr1f/- LE, the top upregulated and downregulated GOBP pathways were on cellular processes and on innate immune responses, respectively, with the later also seen in Esr1f/- U. Compared to Esr1f/- LE, the most upregulated and downregulated pathways in D0.5 epiERα-/- LE were on innate immune responses and on biosynthesis and metabolism, respectively; while those in D3.5 epiERα-/- LE were on cell division and on signaling and metabolic processes, respectively. Na+ transmembrane transport was among shared upregulated pathways in D0.5 and D3.5 epiERα-/- LE. Between Esr1f/- and epiERα-/-, most DEGs in U were also DEGs in LE, limited DEGs in U only with higher expression than in LE were related to immune responses, implicating potential paracrine effects of uterine epithelial ERα. Selected DEGs were verified by realtime PCR and immunohistochemistry. This mRNA-seq dataset provides molecular keys to understanding temporal (e.g., innate immunity) and constituent (e.g., uterine fluid movement) functions, and potential paracrine effects of uterine epithelial ERα in regulating the preimplantation uterine environment.
Project description:The Long Evans/orl (LE/orl) rat is an animal model of inherited undescended testis (UDT). To explore genetic mechanisms of UDT, we studied differential gene expression in LE/orl and LE wild type (LE/wt) fetal gubernaculum and testis. Analyses of differentially expressed probe sets linked below as supplementary files:; Analysis_methods.txt [A description of the analysis]; gub.txt [Genes differentially expressed in between wt and orl gubernacula]; testes.txt [Genes differentially expressed between wt and orl testes]; wt.txt [Genes differentially expressed in wt gubernacular development] Experiment Overall Design: Fetuses were harvested from timed matings of LE/wt and LE/orl rats at gestational day (GD) 17, 18, 19, and 20. Single gubernaculum and testis were removed from male fetuses and total RNA was isolated from each organ. Left organs were used, except for GD 20 fetuses where both right and left gubernacula were included. For female fetuses, the right and left gubernacula from a single fetus were pooled before RNA isolation. A total of 54 samples were hybridized to GeneChips; 34 gubernacular samples and 20 testes samples. There were 13 sample groups, each included biological replicate arrays. The sample groups were (1) female LE/wt GD18 gubernacula n=4, (2) male LE/wt GD18 left gubernacula n=4, (3) male LE/wt GD19 left gubernacula n=4, (4) male LE/wt GD20 left gubernacula n=4, (5) male LE/wt GD20 right gubernacula n=3, (6) male LE/orl GD18 left gubernacula n=4, (7) male LE/orl GD19 left gubernacula n=4, (8) male LE/orl GD20 left gubernacula n=4, (9) male LE/orl GD20 right gubernacula n=3, (10) male LE/wt GD17 left testes n=5, (11) male LE/wt GD19 left testes n=5, (12) male LE/orl GD17 left testes n=5, and (13) male LE/orl GD19 left testes n=5.