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SRP095698
Mus musculus
1 Downloadable Sample
Illumina HiSeq 2000
Description
Precise spatiotemporal regulation of genetic programs, driven by cellspecific super-enhancers, is paramount for the function of cell lineages. Studies have suggested that insulated neighborhoods, formed by the zincfinger protein CTCF, sequester genes and their associated enhancers thus preventing them from trespassing on off-target genes. Although this could explain the enhancer-gene-specificity conundrum, there is limited genetic evidence that the search space of cell-specific super-enhancers is constrained by CTCF. We have addressed this question in the Wap locus with its exceptional mammary-specific super-enhancer, which is separated by five CTCF sites from neighboring genes. Three of these sites are positioned between the Wap super-enhancer and the widely expressed Ramp3. Enhancer deletions demonstrated that the Wap super-enhancer controls Ramp3 expression despite the presence of three parting CTCF sites. Individual and combinatorial deletions of these CTCF sites revealed cell-specific functions of the conserved anchor site. Although unable to block super-enhancer activity, it muffled its impact on Ramp3 in mammary tissue. Unexpectedly, this CTCF site was obligatory for Ramp3 expression in cerebellum, suggesting the coinciding presence of regulatory elements. While our results suggest a surprisingly limited in vivo role for a CTCF anchor in blocking a mammary-specific super-enhancer, they also implicate this site in cerebellum-specific gene activation. Our study illustrates additional complexities of CTCF sites supporting tissue-specific functions. Overall design: Total RNA-seq was done for mammary tissue at pregnancy day 18.
Publication Title
Facultative CTCF sites moderate mammary super-enhancer activity and regulate juxtaposed gene in non-mammary cells.
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Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 10 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Genome U133A 2.0 Array (hgu133a2)
Description
This study was performed to identify gene expression differences in not otherwise specified soft tissue sarcomas (NOS, malignant fibrous histiocytomas) and correlate them to histological findings and the clinical course. RNA was isolated and differential gene expression was analysed by the microarray technique.
Publication Title
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma--pleomorphic sarcoma, NOS gene expression, histology, and clinical course. A pilot study.
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Sex
View Samples- Arabidopsis thaliana
- 8 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Arabidopsis ATH1 Genome Array (ath1121501)
Description
Analysis of the abh1 mutant Arabidopsis plants following treatment with 50 uM abscisic acid (ABA). ABH1 encodes the large (80kDa) subunit of the nuclear mRNA cap binding complex and affects early ABA signal transduction events (Hugouvieux et al., 2001, Cell 106, 477).
Publication Title
mRNA cap binding proteins: effects on abscisic acid signal transduction, mRNA processing, and microarray analyses.
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No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Mus musculus, Homo sapiens
- 8 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
A dataset for coordinated transcriptome analysis of the effect of ethanol on human embryonic cerebral slices in vitro and on the mouse embryonic cerebral cortex in a in vivo model.
Publication Title
Combined transcriptome analysis of fetal human and mouse cerebral cortex exposed to alcohol.
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Time
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
C1013G/CXCR4 variant has been inserted into BCWM.1 cells, and gene expression profile has been performed on the mutated cells and on the parental cells.
Publication Title
C1013G/CXCR4 acts as a driver mutation of tumor progression and modulator of drug resistance in lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma.
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Cell line
View Samples- Rattus norvegicus
- 26 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Rat Genome 230 2.0 Array (rat2302)
Description
Gene expression from primary neuronal, astrocytic, oligodendrocytic and microglial cultures, as well as from RNA mixtures thereof.
Publication Title
Population-specific expression analysis (PSEA) reveals molecular changes in diseased brain.
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Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 13 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
STEP (striatal-enriched tyrosine phosphatase) is a brain-specific phosphatase named for its robust expression in striatum. Brains from homozygous and heterozygous STEP knockout mice and wild-type littermates were harvested, and striatum microdissected. RNA was extracted and hybridized to Affymetrix 230_2 microarray chips.
Publication Title
Downstream effects of striatal-enriched protein tyrosine phosphatase reduction on RNA expression in vivo and in vitro.
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Sex, Specimen part, Treatment
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 18 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Murine Genome U74A Version 2 Array (mgu74av2)
Description
Comparison by expression profiling of tissue from dKO (utrophin/dystrophin-deficient) and MDX mice at 8 weeks of age. Independent triplicate analyses/strain were done for extraocular, hindlimb, and cardiac muscle.
Publication Title
Analysis of gene expression differences between utrophin/dystrophin-deficient vs mdx skeletal muscles reveals a specific upregulation of slow muscle genes in limb muscles.
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No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 8 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Dysregulation of ceramide synthesis has been associated with metabolic disorders such as atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus. Using a human hepatoma cell line (Huh7), we investigated the changes in lipid homeostasis and gene expression when the synthesis of ceramide is perturbed by knocking down serine transferases subunits 1, 2 and 3 (SPTLC123) or dihydroceramide desaturase (DEGS1). While the inhibition of serine palmitoyl transferase (SPTLC) affects ceramide production differently at the subspecies level depending upon which SPTLC subunit is silenced; depleting DEGS1 is sufficient to produce a similar outcome as knocking down all SPTLC subunits. Both the distribution of multiple lipid classes, especially at the subspecies level, and the global transcriptional profile is altered differently when either SPTLC123 or DEGS1 were silenced. The overall transcriptional changes indicate a negative regulation in biosynthetic processes and a down-regulation of genes involved in general endomembrane trafficking for both DEGS1 and SPTLC123 siRNA treated cells, but also the up-regulation of genes involved with cell migration function in DEGS1 siRNA cells. Pathway analysis indicate changes in amino acid, sugar and nucleotide metabolisms as well as vesicle trafficking between organelles occurred more robustly in DEGS1 silenced cells. Although either SPTLC123 or DEGS1 siRNA treatment positively regulated numerous genes involved with endocytosis and endosomal recycling, depleting SPTLC123 caused transcriptional changes in genes primarily involved with lipid metabolism. The alterations reflect how SPTLC or DEGS1 silenced cells respond differently to disruption in lipid flux, but also maintain cellular lipid pools through increasing endocytotic processes and down-regulating metabolic biosynthesis without developing endoplasmic reticulum stress. Also, these results are the first to demonstrate that reducing ceramide synthesis by decreasing the function of either SPTLC or DEGS1 affects cellular function differently at the level of lipid synthesis and gene expression.
Publication Title
Silencing of enzymes involved in ceramide biosynthesis causes distinct global alterations of lipid homeostasis and gene expression.
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Cell line
View Samples- Rattus norvegicus
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Rat Genome 230 2.0 Array (rat2302)
Description
Neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes (NRVCMs) were stretched biaxially (112%/24h) or stimulated with phenylephrine (PE, 50 uM), both resulting in a similar degree of hypertrophy. Unstretched NRVCMs served as negative control. Affymetrix microarray analysis revealed 164 genes more than 2.0-fold up- and 21 genes less than 0.5-fold downregulated (p<0.01). Differential expression was confirmed by real-time PCR. Several genes of the fetal gene program, i.e. BNP (4.2-fold, all p<0.05) were induced by stretch as well as PE. We also verified the upregulation of known stretch-responsive genes, including HSP70 (20.9x) and c-myc (3.0x). Moreover, we identified genes exclusively induced by stretch, such as the cardioprotective and antihypertrophic cytokine GDF15 (24.8x) and the antihypertrophic factor heme oxygenase 1 (Hmox1, 10.8x; both confirmed on protein level). Of note, neither PE nor endothelin-1 were able to upregulate GDF15 and Hmox1, while angiotensin II significantly induced both genes. Conversely, addition of the AT1 receptor blocker irbesartan markedly blunted stretch-mediated GDF15 and Hmox1 induction, suggesting that the angiotensin II receptor mediates stretch-dependent signals.
Publication Title
Gene expression pattern in biomechanically stretched cardiomyocytes: evidence for a stretch-specific gene program.
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