Livers from 15 month old mice mainatined on one of 25 different diets varying in protein, carbohydrate, fat (P,C,F) and energy content were analysed. Energy content was categorised as low (8kJ/g), medium (13kJ/g) or high (17kJ/g) Mice were placed on diet from 3 weeks of age and a subset culled for various analyses. The rest of the cohort was allowed to live out their natural life to assess lifespan.
Defining the Nutritional and Metabolic Context of FGF21 Using the Geometric Framework.
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View SamplesElevated branched chain amino acids (BCAAs) are associated with obesity and insulin resistance. How long-term dietary BCAAs impact late-life health and lifespan is unknown. Here, we show that when dietary BCAAs are varied against a fixed, isocaloric macronutrient background, long-term exposure to high BCAA diets led to hyperphagia, obesity and reduced lifespan. These effects were not due to elevated BCAA per se or hepatic mTOR activation, but rather the shift in balance between dietary BCAAs and other AAs, notably tryptophan and threonine. Increasing the ratio of BCAAs to these AAs resulted in hyperphagia and was linked to central serotonin depletion. Preventing hyperphagia by calorie restriction or pair-feeding averted the health costs of a high BCAA diet. Our data highlight a role for amino acid quality in energy balance and show that health costs of chronic high BCAA intakes were not due to intrinsic toxicity; rather, to hyperphagia driven by AA imbalance. Overall design: 3 animals per sex per diet were used. Mice were fed one of four diets (all 19% total protein, 63% carbohydrate, 18% fat, total energy density 14 kJ/g) varying in BCAA content (BCAA200: twice BCAA content of control diet AIN93G; BCAA100: standard content of BCAAs; and BCAA50 and BCAA20: containing one half and one fifth of standard content of BCAAs), and either euthanized at 15 months of age or maintained for determination of lifespan.
Branched chain amino acids impact health and lifespan indirectly via amino acid balance and appetite control.
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View SamplesAFN-1252 is an inhibitor of fatty acid biosynthesis. Gene expression profiles were generated by microarray analysis of S. aureus cells following treatment with AFN-1252, an inhibitor of fatty acid synthesis.
Perturbation of Staphylococcus aureus gene expression by the enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase inhibitor AFN-1252.
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Time of feeding and the intrinsic circadian clock drive rhythms in hepatic gene expression.
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View SamplesThe mechanisms underlying natural variation in lifespan and ageing rate remain largely unknown.
Transcriptome analysis of a long-lived natural Drosophila variant: a prominent role of stress- and reproduction-genes in lifespan extension.
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View SamplesThe only target locus of transcription factor BglJ known to date is the bgl operon, and activation of bgl by BglJ requires RcsB. Transcription factor LeuO is involved in stress responses and known as antagonist of H-NS. To identifiy novel targets of BglJ, we overexpressed BglJ in Escherichia coli K12 and measured differential gene expression by performing DNA microarray analysis. Moreover, to analyze whether all targets of BglJ require RcsB, we overexpressed BglJ in an rcsB deletion background. In addition, we overexpressed LeuO to identifiy targets of LeuO.
RcsB-BglJ activates the Escherichia coli leuO gene, encoding an H-NS antagonist and pleiotropic regulator of virulence determinants.
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View SamplesTemporally restricted feeding is known to impact the circadian clock. This dataset shows the effects of temporally restricted feeding on the hepatic transcriptome.
Time of feeding and the intrinsic circadian clock drive rhythms in hepatic gene expression.
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View SamplesRestricted feeding impacts the hepatic circadian clock of WT mice. Cry1, Cry2 double KO mice lack a circadian clock and are thus expected to show rhythmical gene expression in the liver. Imposing a temporally restricted feeding schedule on these mice shows how the hepatic circadian clock and rhythmic food intake regulate rhythmic transcription in parallel
Time of feeding and the intrinsic circadian clock drive rhythms in hepatic gene expression.
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View SamplesCCAAT/enhancer binding protein ß (C/EBPß) is a transcription factor that regulates the expression of important pro-inflammatory genes in microglia. Mice deficient for C/EBPß show protection against excitotoxic and ischemic CNS damage but the involvement of the various C/EBPß expressing cell types in this neuroprotective effect is not solved. Since C/EBPß-deficient microglia show attenuated neurotoxicity in culture we hypothesized that specific C/EBPß deficiency in microglia could be neuroprotective in vivo. In this study we have tested this hypothesis by generating mice with myeloid C/EBPß deficiency. Mice with myeloid C/EBPß deficiency were generated by crossing LysMCre and C/EBPßfl/fl mice . Primary microglial cultures from C/EBPßfl/fl (named here as WT) and LysMCre-C/EBPßfl/fl (named here as KO) mice were treated with lipopolysaccharide ± interferon ? (IFN?) for 6 h and gene expression was analyzed by RNA sequencing. LysMCre-C/EBPßfl/fl mice showed an efficiency of C/EBPß deletion of 100% in cultured microglia. Transcriptomic analysis of C/EBPß-deficient primary microglia revealed C/EBPß-dependent expression of 1068 genes, significantly enriched in inflammatory and innate immune responses GO terms. This study provides new data that support a central role for C/EBPß in the biology of activated microglia. Overall design: LysMCre-C/EBPßfl/fl genotype (12 samples): 4 samples treated with LPS, 4 with LPS +IFNg, and 4 vehicle. C/EBPßfl/fl genotype (9 samples): 3 samples treated with LPS, 3 with LPS +IFNg, and 3 vehicle. Design Case (Treatment LPS or LPS +INF) control (No treatment or vehicle) in LysMCre-C/EBPßfl/fl genotype and in C/EBPßfl/fl genotype
RNA-Seq transcriptomic profiling of primary murine microglia treated with LPS or LPS + IFNγ.
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View SamplesTemporally restricted feeding has a profound effect on the circadian clock. Fasting and feeding paradigms are known to influence hepatic transcription. This dataset shows the dynamic effects of refeeding mice after a 24hour fasting period.
Time of feeding and the intrinsic circadian clock drive rhythms in hepatic gene expression.
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