Prostate cancer is a common cause of cancer-related death in men. E6AP, an E3 ubiquitin ligase and a transcription cofactor, is elevated in a subset of prostate cancer patients. Genetic manipulations of E6AP in prostate cancer cells expose a role of E6AP in promoting growth and survival of prostate cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. However, the effect of E6AP on prostate cancer cells is broad and it cannot be explained fully by previously identified tumour suppressor targets of E6AP, promyelocytic leukemia protein and p27. To explore additional players that are regulated downstream of E6AP, we combined a transcriptomic and proteomic approaches. We identified and quantified 16,130 transcripts and 7,209 proteins in castration resistant prostate cancer cell line, DU145. A total of 2,763 transcripts and 308 proteins were significantly altered upon knockdown of E6AP. Pathway analyses supported the known phenotypic effects of E6AP knockdown in prostate cancer cells and in parallel exposed novel potential links of E6AP with cancer metabolism, DNA damage repair and immune response. Changes in expression of the top candidates were confirmed using real-time polymerase chain reaction. Of these, clusterin, a stress-induced chaperone protein, commonly deregulated in prostate cancer, was pursued further. Knockdown of E6AP resulted in increased clusterin transcript and protein levels in vitro and in vivo. Concomitant knockdown of E6AP and clusterin supported the contribution of clusterin to the phenotype induced by E6AP. Overall, results from this study provide insight into the potential biological pathways controlled by E6AP in prostate cancer cells and identifies clusterin as a novel target of E6AP. Overall design: Examination of candidate targets regulated by E6AP at transcript level
Proteotranscriptomic Measurements of E6-Associated Protein (E6AP) Targets in DU145 Prostate Cancer Cells.
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View SamplesTo assess natural variation of downstream auxin responses we subjected 7 different arabidopsis ecotypes to a time course of auxin treatments. 7d-old seedlings grown in liquid culture have been treated for 0, 30 min, 1h and 3h with 1 M IAA.
Natural variation of transcriptional auxin response networks in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Specimen part
View SamplesFlower maturation consists of several events that contribute to reproductive success as flowers open, including petal expansion, stamen filament elongation, pollen release, nectary maturation, stigma growth, and gynoecium maturation to support pollen tube growth. The Arabidopsis transcription factors ARF6 (Auxin Response Factor 6) and ARF8 regulate all of these processes, in part by activating jasmonate biosynthesis. Jasmonates in turn activate genes encoding the transcription factors MYB21 and MYB24, which mediate a subset of the processes controlled by ARF6 and ARF8. This experiment was designed to characterize gene expression in flowers before and after they open, and to determine how arf6 arf8 and myb21 myb24 mutation combinations affect these gene expression patterns.
A regulatory network for coordinated flower maturation.
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View SamplesArgonaute (Ago) proteins associate with microRNAs (miRNAs), which guide them to complementary target mRNAs resulting in gene silencing.
Phosphorylation of Argonaute proteins affects mRNA binding and is essential for microRNA-guided gene silencing <i>in vivo</i>.
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View Samples4 transiently expressed long non-coding RNAs that were identified in human and non-human primate cortical organoid differentiation were activated out of context in HEK293FT cells using CRISPRa. Overall design: 5 sgRNAs targeting TrEx lncRNAs or non-targeting controls were co-transfected with dCas9-VP64 into HEK293FT cells. Successfully transfected cells were selected by puromycin at 24 hours and harvested for RNA at maximal expression, 48 hours post transfection. RNA-seq libraries were prepared in biological triplicates with the NEXTflex Rapid Directional qRNA-Seq Library Prep Kit (PerkinElmer).
Structurally Conserved Primate LncRNAs Are Transiently Expressed during Human Cortical Differentiation and Influence Cell-Type-Specific Genes.
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View SamplesAnalysis of perirenal adipose tissue from healthy kidney donors (age 449 years, BMI 25.83.3 kg/m2, meanSD).
FTO Obesity Variant Circuitry and Adipocyte Browning in Humans.
Specimen part
View SamplesThe autoregulation of mycorrhization (AOM) describes a plant regulatory mechanism that limits the number of infection events by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The key signal mediator is a receptor kinase (GmNARK) that acts in the shoots. Early signals of the mycorrhizal symbiosis induce a root-derived signal that activates GmNARK in the shoot finally leading to a systemic repression of subsequent infections in the root. So far, less is known about the signals down-stream of GmNARK. To find genes regulated by GmNARK in a mycorrhiza-dependent as well as in a mycorrhiza-independent manner, we used the Affymetrix GeneChip for soybean. In general, mycorrhizal root systems consist of both colonized and non-colonized, but autoregulated roots. To physically separate those two root types for transcript analysis of specifically regulated genes, we used the split-root system. Transcript profiling during AOM was done with material of Bragg wild-type and of the nark mutant nts1007, either non-inoculated or partially inoculated with the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis (formerly Glomus intraradices). Wild-type and nark mutants were inoculated with R. irregularis on one half of the root-systems (root-parts "A") only. The remaining half of the root-systems stayed non-infected (root-parts "B"). Corresponding controls stayed completely non-infected. Gene expression was analyzed in inoculated root-parts, non-inoculated root-parts and shoots of three individual plants per treatment. ****[PLEXdb(http://www.plexdb.org) has submitted this series at GEO on behalf of the original contributor, Sara Schaarschmidt. The equivalent experiment is GM53 at PLEXdb.]
Analyzing the soybean transcriptome during autoregulation of mycorrhization identifies the transcription factors GmNF-YA1a/b as positive regulators of arbuscular mycorrhization.
Age, Specimen part
View SamplesEwg differentially regulated genes in 16-18 h Drosophila embryos. The experiment contains expression measurements from wild type, ewg l1 protein null allele and ewg l1 elavEWG (elavEWG rescue construct expressing a ewg cDNA from the elav promoter) mutants.
Erect wing regulates synaptic growth in Drosophila by integration of multiple signaling pathways.
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Functional genomic analysis of the periodic transcriptome in the developing Drosophila wing.
Specimen part
View SamplesAlternative splicing of pre-mRNA generates protein diversity and has been linked to cancer progression and drug response. Exon microarray technology enables genome-wide quantication of expression levels for the majority of exons and facilitates the discovery of alternative splicing events. Analysis of exon array data is more challenging than gene expression data and there is a need for reliable quantication of exons and alternative spliced variants. We introduce a novel, computationally efficient methodology, MEAP, for exon array data preprocessing, analysis and visualization. We compared MEAP with other preprocessing methods, and validation of the results show that MEAP produces reliable quantication of exons and alternative spliced variants. Analysis of data from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) cell lines revealed several variants associated with 11q13 amplication, which is a predictive marker of metastasis and decreased survival in HNSCC patients. Together these results demonstrate the utility of MEAP in suggesting novel experimentally testable predictions. Thus, in addition to novel methodology to process large-scale exon array data sets, our results provide several HNSCC candidate genes for further studies.
Comprehensive exon array data processing method for quantitative analysis of alternative spliced variants.
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