Project description:Younger age and obesity increase the incidence and rates of metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), an aggressive subtype of breast cancer. The tissue microenvironment, specifically the extracellular matrix (ECM), is known to promote tumor invasion and metastasis. We sought to characterize the effect of both age and obesity on the ECM of mammary fat pads. We used a diet-induced obesity (DIO) model where 10-week-old female mice were fed a high-fat diet (HFD) for 16 weeks or a control chow diet (CD) where time points were every 4 weeks to monitor age and obesity HFD progression. We isolated the mammary fat pads to characterize the ECM at each time point. Utilizing proteomics, we found that the early stages of obesity were sufficient to induce distinct differences in the ECM composition of mammary fat pads that promote TNBC cell invasion. ECM proteins previously implicated in driving TNBC invasion Collagen IV and Collagen VI, were enriched with weight gain. Together these data implicate ECM changes in the primary tumor microenvironment as mechanisms by which age and obesity contribute to breast cancer progression.
Project description:The effect of high fat diet feeding on heart gene transcription regulation was investigated in an F2 cross of 129S6 x Balb/c mice using Illumina gene expression arrays. Expression data was determined in 5 months old male mice fed a high fat diet (40% fat) for 15 weeks. Control mice were fed a standard carbohydrate chow. 96 animals per group were used. The files mouse-f2-chd-genotype.txt and HFD.txt contain genotyping data linked to the diets, they can be found found in the file E-MTAB-401.additional.zip on the FTP for this submission. NOTE: the file CHD.txt was replaced by the updated file mouse-f2-chd-genotype.txt on 8th April 2014.
Project description:We investigated remodeling of the mitochondrial proteome to determine mechanisms of changes to lipid oxidation following high-fat feeding. C57BL/6J mice consumed either a high-fat diet (HFD, 60% fat) or low fat diet (LFD, 10% fat) for 12 weeks. Mice were fasted 4 hours then anaesthetized by sodium pentobarbital for tissue collection. A mitochondrial-enriched fraction was prepared from gastrocnemius muscles and underwent proteomic analysis by high-resolution mass spectrometry.
Project description:Younger age and obesity increase the incidence and rates of metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), an aggressive subtype of breast cancer. The tissue microenvironment, specifically the extracellular matrix (ECM), is known to promote tumor invasion and metastasis. We sought to characterize the effect of both age and obesity on the ECM of liver tissue. We used a diet-induced obesity (DIO) model where 10-week-old female mice were fed a high-fat diet (HFD) for 12 weeks or a control chow diet (CD) where time points were every 4 weeks to monitor age and obesity. We isolated liver tissue to characterize the ECM at each time point. Utilizing proteomics, we found that the early stages of obesity were sufficient to induce distinct differences in the ECM composition of the livers. ECM proteins previously implicated in TNBC invasion, Collagen V and Collagen IV, were enriched with weight gain. Together these data implicate ECM changes in the primary tumor microenvironment as mechanisms by which age and obesity contribute to breast cancer progression.
Project description:Males and females from each SM/J and LG/J were placed on either a low-fat diet or high-fat diet immediately after weaning until 20 weeks of age. At 20 weeks, mice were sacrificed in late morning after a four-hour fast and liver tissue was collected from 4 males and 4 females from each strain and diet.
Project description:Gene transcription in epididymal fat pads was investigated in an F2 cross of 129S6 x Balb/c mice using Illumina gene expression arrays. Expression data was determined in 5 months old male mice fed a high fat diet (40% fat) for 15 weeks.