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MYC regulates the core pre-mRNA splicing machinery as an essential step in lymphomagenesis.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesOver-expressed MYC binds to virtually all active promoters within a cell, although with different binding affinities, and modulates gene expression, both positively and negatively. Here, we show that during lymphomagenesis in E-myc transgenic mice, MYC directly up-regulates the transcription of the core snRNP assembly genes, including PRMT5, an arginine methyltransferase, that methylates Sm proteins as an early step in lymphomagenesis. This coordinated regulatory effect is direct and is critical for snRNP biogenesis, the maintenance of effective mRNA splicing and cellular viability in cycling cells, in either fibroblasts or B-cells.
MYC regulates the core pre-mRNA splicing machinery as an essential step in lymphomagenesis.
Specimen part
View SamplesExperiment: Establishment of expression profiles in a brain metastasis from a PTC (RNA processing and hybridization to Affymetrix microarray done twice to yield a technical replicate), in non-brain metastatic, stage III and IV PTCs, and primary brain tumors. Biostatistics analysis identified genes and biofunctions related to the brain metastatic PTC.
Microarray expression profiling identifies genes, including cytokines, and biofunctions, as diapedesis, associated with a brain metastasis from a papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Sex, Disease stage
View SamplesExperiment: Establishment of expression profiles in HT, PTC with HT, PTC without HT, and mPTC in comparison to TN samples. TN samples were downloaded as CEL files from the repository of the microarray vendor. Biostatistical analysis focussed in first instance on identifying genes and biofunctions related to HT and PTC with HT.
Genetic relationship between Hashimoto`s thyroiditis and papillary thyroid carcinoma with coexisting Hashimoto`s thyroiditis.
Sex, Disease
View SamplesCytokine signaling is transmitted by cell surface receptors which function as natural biological switches to control among others mainly immune related processes. Recently, we have designed synthetic cytokine receptors (SyCyRs) consisting of GFP- and mCherry-nanobodies fused to trans-membrane and intracellular domains of cytokine receptors, which phenocopied cytokine signaling induced by non-physiological homo- and heterodimeric GFP-mCherry ligands. Interleukin 22 signals via IL-22Rα1 and the common IL-10R2, belongs to the IL-10 cytokine family and is critically involved in tissue regeneration. IL-22 SyCyRs phenocopied native IL-22 signal transduction as shown by induction of cytokine-dependent cellular proliferation, signal transduction and transcriptome analysis. Whereas homodimeric IL-22Rα1 SyCyRs failed to activate signaling, homodimerization of the second IL-22 signaling chain, SyCyR(IL-10R2), which was considered to not induce signal transduction, lead to induction of signal transduction. Interestingly, the SyCyR(IL-10R2) and SyCyR(IL-22Rα1) were able to form functional heterodimeric receptor signaling complexes with the synthetic IL-6 receptor chain SyCyR(gp130). In summary, we demonstrated that IL-22 signaling can be phenocopied by synthetic cytokine receptors. Further we identified a novel IL-10R2 homodimeric receptor complex and receptor cross-talk with gp130.
Synthetic interleukin 22 (IL-22) signaling reveals biological activity of homodimeric IL-10 receptor 2 and functional cross-talk with the IL-6 receptor gp130.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesIn vitro studies identified TBC1D4 as an regulator of renal ion and water transporting proteins. However, TBC1D4-deficient mice did not show a defective renal salt and water homeostasis.
Rab-GAP TBC1D4 (AS160) is dispensable for the renal control of sodium and water homeostasis but regulates GLUT4 in mouse kidney.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesMuscle contraction during exercise is the major stimulus for the release of peptides and proteins (myokines) that are supposed to take part in the benefical adaptation to exercise. We hypothesize that application of an in vitro exercise stimulus as electric pulse stimulation (EPS) to human myotubes enables the investigation of the human muscle secretome in a clearly defined model. We applied EPS for 24 h to primary human myotubes and studied the whole genome-wide transcriptional response and as well as the release of candidate myokines. We observed 183 differentially regulated transcripts with fold-changes > 1.3. The transcriptional response resembles several properties of the in vivo situation in the skeletal muscle after endurance exercise, namely significant enrichment of pathways associated with interleukin and chemokine signaling, lipid metabolism, and anti-oxidant defense; notably without increased release of creatin kinase.
Cytokine response of primary human myotubes in an in vitro exercise model.
Sex, Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesPurpose: MetS consist of five risk factors: elevated blood pressure and fasting glucose, visceral obesity, dyslipidemia and hypercholesterinemia. The physiological impact of lipid metabolism indicated as visceral obesity and hepatic lipid accumulation is still under debate. One major cause of disturbed lipid metabolism might be dysfunction of cellular organelles controlling energy homeostasis, i.e. mitochondria and peroxisomes.
Alteration of Liver Peroxisomal and Mitochondrial Functionality in the NZO Mouse Model of Metabolic Syndrome.
Sex, Age, Specimen part
View SamplesIn order to identify potential genes that may play an important role in progression of colorectal carcinoma, we screened and validated the global gene expression using cDNA expression array on 36 CRC tissues and compared with 24 non-cancerous colorectal tissue.
Genome-wide expression analysis of Middle Eastern colorectal cancer reveals FOXM1 as a novel target for cancer therapy.
Sex
View SamplesCytokine-induced signal transduction is executed by natural biological switches, which among many others control immune related processes. To construct a biological device, that simulates cytokine signaling, we utilized nanobodies to generate synthetic cytokine receptors (SyCyR). High affinity GFP- and mCherry-nanobodies were selected and extracellularly fused to trans-membrane and intracellular domains of IL-23 cytokine receptors. Soluble homo- and heterodimeric GFP:mCherry fusion proteins served as SyCyR ligands. Heterodimeric GFP-mCherry and homodimeric GFP fusion proteins efficiently phenocopied IL-23 signal transduction, respectively, as demonstrated by STAT3-, ERK- and Akt-activation, SOCS3 expression and transcriptome profiling. Interestingly, the homodimeric GFP fusion protein induced IL-23 receptor homo-dimerization and activation of IL-23-like signal transduction
Synthetic cytokine receptors transmit biological signals using artificial ligands.
Specimen part, Cell line
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