The exposure to and contamination by Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), which include pesticides used worldwide and polyaromatic hydrocarbons, is detrimental to human health and diverse ecosystems. Although most mechanistic studies have focused on single compounds, living organisms are exposed to multiple environmental xenobiotics, simultaneously, throughout their lives. The experimental evidence useful for assessing the effects of exposure to pollutant mixtures is scarce. We investigated the effects of exposure to a combination of two POPs, which employ different xenosensors, on global gene expression in a human hepatocyte cell model, HepaRG.
Two persistent organic pollutants which act through different xenosensors (alpha-endosulfan and 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin) interact in a mixture and downregulate multiple genes involved in human hepatocyte lipid and glucose metabolism.
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View SamplesDespite substantial investments, tuberculosis remains one of the biggest challenges in public health.
Synergy of chemotherapy and immunotherapy revealed by a genome-scale analysis of murine tuberculosis.
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View SamplesBackground: Zidovudine remains the cornerstone drug for prophylaxis to prevent mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission. A mild but long-lasting hematological multilineage defect is observed in children exposed in utero.
Genotoxic signature in cord blood cells of newborns exposed in utero to a Zidovudine-based antiretroviral combination.
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View SamplesWe generated single and double knockouts of AtNHX5 and AtNHX6 in order to invesigate possible functions in Arabidopsis. nhx5/nhx6 exhibited severe growth retardation related to cell size and proliferation, as well as endosomal trafficking perutrbations. The results implicate endosomal NHX antiporters in novel cellular functions. In order to investigate further the possible functions of AtNHX5 and AtNHX6, we compared the transcrptional profiles of single and double AtNHX5 and AtNHX6 knockouts. We looked for changes in gene expression might help us to elucidate the molecular events associated with the apparent requirement of AtNHX5 and AtNHX6 for normal growth and development.
The Arabidopsis intracellular Na+/H+ antiporters NHX5 and NHX6 are endosome associated and necessary for plant growth and development.
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View SamplesPreparation of Synaptosomes by density gradient and compare synaptically enriched mRNA to total homogenate transcriptome Overall design: In brief, mouse brains were homogenized in 5 ml homogenization buffer (0.32 M sucrose, 1 mM EDTA pH 7.4, 1 mM dithiothreitol, phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride solution (Sigma, 93482-50ML-F), complete mini-protease inhibitor (Roche Diagnostics) for 10 sec using a polytron. The homogenate was centrifuged at 1,000g for 10 min at 4 °C yielding the nuclear fraction (Nuc) and the supernatant (Sup). The supernatant was centrifuged at 31,000g for 5 min at 4°C using a discontinuous Percoll gradient. The layer between 3% and 10% of Percoll were collected, washed in 30 ml of homogenization buffer and further centrifuged at 22,000 × g for 15 min at 4°CT. The pellet was resuspended in in EBC buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 120 mM NaCl and 0.5% NP-40) containing complete mini-protease inhibitor (Roche Diagnostics) and phosphatase inhibitor cocktail 1 and 2 (Sigma–Aldrich)) for Western blot analysis or lysis buffer for RNA extraction (GenElute Mammalian Total RNA Miniprep Kit, Sigma).
Mutations in NONO lead to syndromic intellectual disability and inhibitory synaptic defects.
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View SamplesRNA-Sequencing (RNA-seq). The aim of this RNA-seq experiment was to monitor the genome-wide transcriptional changes in mouse embryonic stem cells depleted of either Fam60a or Sin3a. Overall design: RNA-Seq of mRNA level of mESCs depleted for Sin3a and Fam60a.
Fam60a defines a variant Sin3a-Hdac complex in embryonic stem cells required for self-renewal.
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View SamplesLocal mRNA translation mediates the adaptive responses of axons to extrinsic signals but direct evidence that it occurs in mammalian CNS axons in vivo is scant. We developed an axon-TRAP-RiboTag approach in mouse that allows deep-sequencing analysis of ribosome-bound mRNAs in the retinal ganglion cell axons of the developing and adult retinotectal projection in vivo. The embryonic-to-postnatal axonal translatome comprises an evolving subset of enriched genes with axon-specific roles suggesting distinct steps in axon wiring, such as elongation, pruning and synaptogenesis. Adult axons, remarkably, have a complex translatome with strong links to axon survival, neurotransmission and neurodegenerative disease. Translationally co-regulated mRNA subsets share common upstream regulators, and novel sequence elements generated by alternative splicing that promote axonal mRNA translation. Our results indicate that intricate regulation of compartment-specific mRNA translation in mammalian CNS axons supports the formation and maintenance of neural circuits in vivo. Overall design: The profiling of ribosome-bound mRNAs in mouse retinal ganglion cell axons at 4 different developmental stages
On-Site Ribosome Remodeling by Locally Synthesized Ribosomal Proteins in Axons.
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View SamplesEvaluation of specific coordinated pattern of transcriptional events consistent with anti-myeloma activity of FK866 (chemical Nampt inhibitor)
Targeting NAD+ salvage pathway induces autophagy in multiple myeloma cells via mTORC1 and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/2) inhibition.
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View SamplesAnalysis of gene expression in Ws-0 lec1 (LEAFY COTYLEDON1) mutant Arabidopsis thaliana. Developmental stages studied includes 24-Hr post-fertilization, globular stage, cotyledon stage, mature green stage, post-mature green stage, and seedlings.
LEC1 sequentially regulates the transcription of genes involved in diverse developmental processes during seed development.
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View SamplesTo follow-up findings that miR-9 was abundantly expressed in control NPCs, significantly down-regulated in a subset of SZ NPCs, and that miR-9 levels/activity, neural migration and diagnosis were strongly correlated, we tested the effect of manipulating miR-9 at cellular, proteomic and transcriptomic levels. Unexpectedly, proteomic- and RNAseq-based analysis revealed that these effects were mediated primarily by small changes in expression of indirect miR-9 targets, rather than large changes in direct miR-9 targets; these indirect targets are enriched for migration-associated genes. Together these data indicate that aberrant levels and activity of miR-9 may be one of the many factors that contribute to SZ risk, at least in a subset of patients. Methods: We compared global transcription of forebrain NPCs from two control and two SZ patients with manipulated miR-9 levels by RNAseq. Results: Although RNAseq analysis revealed large inter-individual heterogeneity, we were able to resolve several functional consistencies in the effects of our miR-9 perturbations: i) the change in miR-9 activity was consistent with the inhibitory role of miR-9, ii) the gene expression fold-change of miR-9 target genes (between each perturbation and its corresponding control, summarized by the first principal component) was correlated (r=0.95, p=3.92e-04) with miR-9 fold change and iii) the differentially expressed (DE; p <0.01) gene list resulting from miR-9 perturbation (paired t-test) was enriched for miR-9 targets (1.53-fold, p=1.2e-5). Conclusions: We integrated the miR-9 perturbation RNAseq data with our existing RNAseq datasets contrasting control and SZ hiPSC NPC expression from our cohort 1 (six controls, four patients), to ask whether there was any relationship between the “SZ NPC signature” and “miR-9 perturbation” datasets; we observed that the DE (p-value <0.01) in “SZ NPC signature” is enriched for DE (fdr<0.01) in “miR-9 perturbation” (the overall enrichment is 2.31-fold (p=9.39e-09)); there is significant correlation between DE fold-change in these two datasets (overall genes r=0.188; p<10e-50). Effects were mediated primarily by small changes in expression of indirect miR-9 targets, rather than large changes in direct miR-9 targets; these indirect targets are enriched for migration-associated genes Overall design: Biological duplicates of passage-matched NPCs from 1 control (female) and 1 SZ patient (female) were transduced with either RV-GFP or RV-miR-9-GFP; GFP-positive NPCs were purified by fluorescent activated cell sorting (FACS) and expanded for two passages. In parallel, passage-matched NPCs from 2 controls (1 male, 1 female) and 2 SZ patients (1 male, 1 female) were transiently transfected with either scrambled or miR-9 LNA probes. In both instances, miR-9 perturbation was confirmed by qPCR.
Dysregulation of miRNA-9 in a Subset of Schizophrenia Patient-Derived Neural Progenitor Cells.
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