Project description:XAB2 ChIP-Seq profile of mESCs treated with trans-retinoic acid (tRA), a pleiotropic factor known to activate transcription and regulate gene expression during cell differentiation and embryonic development and CHIP-Seq profile of the same cells untreated.
Project description:DNA damage and metabolic disorders are intimately linked with premature disease onset but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Persistent DNA damage accumulation in tissue-infiltrating macrophages carrying an ERCC1-XPF DNA repair defect (Er1F/-) riggers Golgi dispersal, dilation of endoplasmic reticulum, autophagy and exosome biogenesis leading to the secretion of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in vivo and ex vivo.
Project description:The intention of the experiment is to explore potential connections and roles of genes participating in DNA repair processes with the process of transcription.
Project description:Purpose: The goal of the study is to determine the transcriptional changes associated with non-radiated cells, radiated cells, and sorted non-radiated, and radiation-induced endothelial and pericyte-like cells to establish the identity of the vascular-like cells
Project description:This gene array analysis shows that the transcriptome of HEK293, representing low-differentiated human embryonic kidney cells, cultured in presence of tRA and cAMP differentiating agents, is consistent with a genetic program relevant to kidney development Comparison of HEK293 cells grown in standard contitions or in presence of differentiating agents. Cells were seeded in 10 cm dishes, cultured for 3 days either in complete medium or in medium supplemented with tRA and cAMP, harvested, and spun down before RNA isolation. Comparative analysis allowed us to identify genes transcriptionally by tRA/cAMP.
Project description:Genome-wide expression studies were performed on dermal fibroblasts from Sotos syndrome patients with a confirmed NSD1 abnormality and compared with age-sex matched controls. We used microarrays to detect differentially expressed genes in Sotos syndrome patients and performed a global test with the aim to map NSD1 within a signaling transduction pathway. Dermal fibroblasts were obtained from nine Sotos syndrome patients and nine controls. Since NSD1 is a co-factor of the retinoic acid receptor, cultures were performed both in the presence and absence of retinoic acid.
Project description:The ubiquitin-proteasome system maintains the functional proteome of the cells by the clearance of damaged, misfolded, old and/or unneeded proteins. This is particularly important in the brain where protein accumulation has a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases that drives neuroinflammation. Microglia are the resident immune cells of the central nervous system and play a major role in the regulation of brain homeostasis via constitutive expression of standard proteasomes and immunoproteasomes (IP). Nevertheless, the impact of IP function on the innate immunity of CNS is not well described. Here, we analyzed ubiquitylated proteins in IP deficient microglia upon enrichment and under different conditions to identify the proteins preferentially degraded by the IP and to investigate the impact of the accumulation of these proteins on microglia function.
Project description:We demonstrate that transcriptomic profiling of the NER mutant ercc-1 offers better understanding of the complex phenotypes of ercc-1 deficiency in C. elegans, as it does in mammalian models. There is a transcriptomic shift in ercc-1 mutants that suggests a stochastic impairment of growth and development, with a shift towards a higher proportion of males in the population. Extensive phenotypic analyses confirm that NER deficiency in C. elegans leads to severe developmental and growth defects and a reduced replicative lifespan, although post-mitotic lifespan is not affected. Results suggest that these defects are caused by an inability to cope with randomly occurring DNA damage, which may interfere with transcription and replication. The study investigates the developmental and aging phenotypes of different NER deficient C. elegans mutants (xpa-1, ercc-1, xpf-1 and xpg-1), where the transcriptomic profile of ercc-1 mutant is presented. We show that loss of NER function does not affect post-mitotic lifespan, but leads to impaired embryogenesis, germ cell and larval development and causes a reduced replicative lifespan. Phenotypes are most pronounced in ercc-1, xpf-1 and xpg-1 mutant animals. We provide evidence that this more pronounced phenotype is likely caused by the fact that these genes are involved in multiple repair pathways besides NER. Furthermore, transcriptional profiling of ercc-1 mutants confirms these observations, showing that growth and developmental pathways are underrepresented but that insulin signaling is not affected. Our analysis suggests that XPA-1, ERCC-1, XPF-1 and XPG-1 protect animals against replicative aging by preventing the accumulation of randomly acquired DNA damage. Eight mixed stage C. elegans samples were run on Affymetrix GeneChip C. elegans Genome Arrays. Four samples belong to ercc-1 mutant group and four to the wild-type, N2.