Project description:Microarray analysis of liver RNA from male Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor null mice on C57B6 background expressing human LXR alpha or GFP (control) via adeno-associated virus (AAV2.8) gene transfer, under control of the liver specific human thyroxine binding globulin promoter. Samples are from 8 month old mice, with AAV treatment at age of 10 weeks, on Western diet for 12 weeks prior experiment. The synthetic LXR ligand T0901317 (5mg/kg) or vehicle was administered for 3 days by i.p. injection to designated mice.
Project description:Mucopolysaccharidosis IIIB (MPS IIIB) is an inherited metabolic disease due to deficiency of α-N-Acetylglucosaminidase (NAGLU) enzyme with subsequent storage of undegradedheparan sulfate (HS). The main clinical manifestations of the disease are profound intellectual disability and neurodegeneration. To identify potential biomarkers and novel neuropathological mechanisms of MPS IIIB, a label-free quantitative proteomic approach was applied to compare the proteome profile of brains from MPS IIIB and control mice. Proteins were identified through a bottom up analysis and 130 were significantly under-represented and 74 over-represented in MPS IIIB mouse brains compared to wild type (WT). Multiple bioinformatic analyses of the differentially abundant proteins allowed to define three major clusters: proteins involved in cytoskeletal regulation, synaptic vesicle trafficking, and energy metabolism. The results highlight the involvement of these clustered proteins in the neuropathology of MPS IIIB disease. The proteins identified in this study would provide potential targets for diagnostic and therapeutic studies of MPS IIIB.
Project description:AAV gene therapy has recently been approved for clinical use and shown to be efficacious and safe in a growing number of clinical trials. However, the safety of AAV as a gene therapy has been challenged by a few studies that documented hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after AAV gene delivery in mice. The association between AAV and HCC has been difficult to reconcile and is the subject of intense debate because numerous AAV studies have not reported toxicity. Here, we report a comprehensive study of HCC in a large number of mice following therapeutic AAV gene delivery. Using a sensitive high-throughput integration site-capture technique and global expressional analysis, we found that AAV integration into the Rian locus and the over-expression of a proximal gene, Rtl1, were associated with HCC. In addition, we identify a number of genes with differential expression that maybe useful in the study, diagnosis and treatment of HCC. We demonstrate that AAV vector dose, enhancer-promoter selection, and the timing of gene delivery are the defining factors in AAV-mediated insertional mutagenesis. Our results help explain the AAV-mediated genotoxicity previously observed and have important implications for the design of both safer AAV vectors and gene therapy studies. To investigate the possibility that insertional mutagenesis by AAV contributed to the development of HCC, we collected normal and tumor tissues from adult mouse livers that received AAV injection at a neonatal stage.
Project description:The experiment evaluates the therapeutic effect brain injected AAV9-IDS (Adeno-associated virus 9 encoding IDS enzyme) treatment in a mouse model of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II (MPSII). Microarrays were performed in order to compare the transcriptional profiling after the treatment. Three groups were analyzed, wild type (WT) mice, MPSII mice treated with AAV-NULL (AAV vector alone) and MPSII mice treated with AAV-IDS (vector encoding IDS enzyme). Four months after vector administration (at 6 months of age), animals were sacrificed and tissues were harvested and processed. RNA isolated from the encephalon of three groups of mice was analysed using the Affimetrix® microarray platform
Project description:We used AAV as a vector to deliver hGRβ to the liver of GR Liver Knockout mice. We collected liver samples for microarray analysis to investigate any phenotype as well as the underlying specific signaling pathway. In particular, we would like to determine if and how hGRβ overexpression in liver affects mGRαâs gene transcription profile in GR Liver Knockout mice. GR Liver Knockout mice were treated with PBS, AAV-GFP and AAV-hGRB, respectively. Each treatment group has four replicates.
Project description:We used AAV as a vector to deliver hGRβ to C57BL/6 mouse liver. We collected liver samples for microarray analysis to investigate any phenotype as well as the underlying specific signaling pathway. In particular, we would like to determine if and how hGRβ overexpression in liver affects mGRαâs gene transcription profile in C57BL/6 mice. Three replicates for each group: untreated WT liver, AAV-GFP treated liver, and AAV-hGRB treated liver.
Project description:We are comparing the gene expression patterns from rats in which they are either double housed or socially isolated. Within these groups we performed the following manipulations:<br><br>AAV-GFP to the NAc shell<br><br>AAV-CREB to the NAc shell<br><br>chronic imipramine treatment<br><br>water control<br><br>
Project description:CHQ5B primary human myoblasts obtained from Dr V. Mouly (Paris, France) have been described previously (Faulkner et al., 1999). Ankrd2 is upregulated on differentiation of myoblasts. The change in gene expression was studied in cells silenced for Ankrd2 (infected with AAV-shAnkrd2), control cells (infected with AAV-shLuc) and control cells uninfected.
Project description:To initially determine changes on the transcriptome level that might account for the phenotypic observations in an unbiased fashion, we performed large-scale mRNA expression profiling 8 weeks after treatment with an AAV harboring a control or GAbpa-specific miRNA under the LP1 promoter. Mice were subjected to 16 h fasting or a 16 h fasting + 6 h refeeding cycle before termination of the experiment. All 8 AAV-injected experimental groups as NC and GAbpα knockdown samples for the different conditions (wt or db/db; fasting or refeeding) were included.