RASSF1C, unlike RASSF1A, is not a tumor suppressor, but instead may play a role in stimulating metastasis and survival in breast cancer cells
Ras-association domain family 1C protein promotes breast cancer cell migration and attenuates apoptosis.
Cell line
View SamplesDeletion of the NF-B subunit p65/RelA in the hematopoietic compartment results in gene expression changes in lineage-Flk2-c-kit+Sca-1+ cells from mouse bone marrow.
Deletion of the NF-κB subunit p65/RelA in the hematopoietic compartment leads to defects in hematopoietic stem cell function.
Specimen part
View SamplesGlobal analysis of gene expression in 9 day old LEAFY-GR, 35S::LFY or Landsberg erecta seedlings treated with the steroid dexamethasone and/or the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide.
Genomic identification of direct target genes of LEAFY.
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View SamplesTo investigate the role of CYP2B in lipid metabolism, a Cyp2b triple knockout mouse lacking Cyp2b9, Cyp2b10, and Cyp2b13 was developed using CRISPER/Cas9. Wildtype (WT) and Cyp2b-null mice were fed a normal diet (ND) or a 60% high-fat diet (HFD) for 10 weeks. RNA was extracted from the livers of male and female mice from all treatment groups and used for RNA seqencing. RNAseq data demonstrated that hepatic gene expression in ND-fed Cyp2b-null male mice is similar to HFD-fed WT mice, indicating that Cyp2b-null male mice are reacting as if they are receiving a HFD even if they are not. Gene ontology and KEGG pathways show perturbations in lipid metabolism pathways, including PUFA metabolism, fatty acid elongation, and glycerophospholipid metabolism. Overall design: Use RNA-sequencing to investigate the role of Cyp2b in hight-fat diet-induced obesity on a transcriptomic level, by comparing the livers of WT and Cyp2b-null mice fed a HFD for 10 weeks using Illumina technology.
Cyp2b-null male mice are susceptible to diet-induced obesity and perturbations in lipid homeostasis.
Sex, Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesDifferential gene expression between groups of homogenous cell types is a biological question whose time has come. RNA can be extracted from small numbers of cells, such as those isolated by laser capture microdissection, but the small amounts obtained often require amplification to enable whole genome transcriptome profiling by technologies such as microarray analysis and RNA-seq. Recently, advances in amplification procedures make amplification directly from whole cell lysates possible. The aim of this study was to compare two amplification systems for variations in observed RNA abundance attributable to the amplification procedure for use with small quantities of cells isolated by laser capture microdissection. Arabidopsis root cells undergoing giant cell formation due to nematode infestation and un-infested control root cells were laser captured and used to evaluate 2 amplification systems. One, NuGEN's WT-Ovation Pico amplification system, uses total RNA as starting material while the other, NuGEN's WT-One-Direct Amplification system, uses lysate containing the captured cells. The reproducibility of whole genome transcript profiling and correlations of both systems were investigated after microarray analysis. The NuGEN WT-Ovation One-Direct system was less reproducible and more variable than the NuGEN WT-Ovation Pico system. The NuGEN WT-Ovation Pico Amplification kit resulted in the detection of thousands of genes differentially expressed genes between giant cells and control cells. This is in marked contrast to the relatively few genes detected after amplification with the NuGEN WT-Ovation One-Direct Amplification kit.
Comparison between NuGEN's WT-Ovation Pico and one-direct amplification systems.
Specimen part, Time
View SamplesBecause refractive development is governed largely by the retina, we analyzed the retinal transcriptome in chicks wearing a spectacle lens, a well-established means to induce refractive errors, to identify gene expression alterations and to develop novel mechanistic hypotheses about refractive development.
Image defocus and altered retinal gene expression in chick: clues to the pathogenesis of ametropia.
Specimen part
View SamplesCloned embryos produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) display a plethora of phenotypic characteristics that make them different from fertilized embryos, indicating defects in the process of nuclear reprogramming by the recipient ooplasm. To elucidate the extent and timing of nuclear reprogramming, we used microarrays to analyze the transcriptome of mouse SCNT embryos during the first two cell cycles. We identified a large number of genes mis-expressed in SCNT embryos. We found that genes involved in transcription and regulation of transcription are prominent among affected genes, and thus may be particularly difficult to reprogram, and these likely cause a ripple effect that alters the transcriptome of many other functions, including oxidative phosphorylation, transport across membrane, and mRNA transport and processing. Interestingly, we also uncovered widespread alterations in the maternal (i.e. non transcribed) mRNA population of SCNT embryos. We conclude that gene expression in early SCNT embryos is grossly abnormal, and that this is at least in part the result of incomplete reprogramming of transcription factor genes.
Tough beginnings: alterations in the transcriptome of cloned embryos during the first two cell cycles.
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View SamplesOne-day old white Leghorn chicks were housed in brooders with a 12 hr light:dark cycle, using General Electric chroma 50 fluorescent lighting with irradiance of approximately 50W/cm2 at chick eye level. They received Purina Chick Chow food and water ad libitum. At one week of age and at the onset of the light phase, the chicks were anesthetized with inhalation ether, and a unilateral translucent white plastic goggle was glued to the periorbital feathers to induce ipsilateral form-deprivation myopia, alternating between the left or right eye.
Form-deprivation myopia in chick induces limited changes in retinal gene expression.
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View SamplesIdentification of innate immune responses in the livers of mice infected with liver-stage arresting, transgenic, Plasmodium yoelii parasites. Overall design: Whole liver samples from mock and P. yoelli fabb/f- infected C57BL/6 and BALB/cJ mice. Samples were taken 1 and 3 days post infection
Interferon-mediated innate immune responses against malaria parasite liver stages.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesImmunologic dysfunction, mediated via monocyte activity, has been implicated in the development of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND). We hypothesized that transcriptome changes in peripheral blood monocytes relate to neurocognitive functioning in HIV+ individuals, and that such alterations could be useful as biomarkers of worsening HAND. METHODS: mRNA was isolated from the monocytes of 86 HIV+ adults and analyzed with the Illumina HT-12 v4 Expression BeadChip. Neurocognitive functioning, HAND diagnosis, and other clinical and virologic variables were determined.
Transcriptome analysis of HIV-infected peripheral blood monocytes: gene transcripts and networks associated with neurocognitive functioning.
Age, Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Race
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