Next Generation Sequencing Analysis of Wild Type and SRSF1-MKO Skeletal Muscle Transcriptomes
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ABSTRACT: Skeletal muscle specific SRSF1 KO mice were generated by mating SRSF1flox/flox and MyoD-Cre mice, Total RNA from muscle sample were analyzed by Next Generation Sequencing
Project description:This experiment was conducted to identify mRNA transcripts alteration in muscle from skeletal muscle-sepcific Fundc1-knockout mice. The following abstract from the submitted manuscript describes the major findings of this work. Mitophagy directs muscle-adipose crosstalk to alleviate dietary obesity. Tingting Fu, Zhisheng Xu, Lin Liu, Qiqi Guo, Hao Wu, Xijun Liang, Danxia Zhou, Liwei Xiao, Lei Liu, Yong Liu, Min-Sheng Zhu, Quan Chen and Zhenji Gan. The quality of mitochondria in skeletal muscle is essential for maintaining metabolic homeostasis during adaptive stress responses. However, the precise control mechanism of muscle mitochondrial quality and its physiological impacts remain unclear. Here, we demonstrate that FUNDC1, a mediator of mitophagy, plays a critical role in controlling muscle mitochondrial quality as well as metabolic homeostasis. Skeletal muscle-specific ablation of FUNDC1 in mice resulted in LC3-mediated mitophagy defect, leading to impaired mitochondrial energetics. This caused decreased muscle fat utilization and endurance capacity during exercise. Interestingly, mice lacking muscle FUNDC1 were protected against high-fat diet-induced obesity with improved systemic insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance despite reduced muscle mitochondrial energetics. Mechanistically, FUNDC1 deficiency elicited a retrograde response in muscle that upregulated FGF21 expression, thereby promoting the thermogenic remodeling of adipose tissue. Thus, these findings reveal a pivotal role of FUNDC1-dependent mitochondrial quality-control in mediating the muscle-adipose dialogue to regulate systemic metabolism.
Project description:This experiment was conducted to identify mRNA transcripts alteration in skeletal muscle of MLL4SET muscle-specific knockout mice. Enhancers play central role in controlling gene expression in time and space. Primed enhancers are marked by histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) mono/di-methylation (H3K4me1/2). Mixed-lineage leukemia 4 (MLL4/KMT2D) is an evolutionarily conserved H3K4me1/2 methyltransferase that is required for enhancer activation. Here, we identified the genome-wide MLL4 occupancy in mouse skeletal muscle by ChIP-seq coupled with RNA-seq analysis. Gene ontology analysis revealed that MLL4 controls muscle fiber-type switching. We thus have revealed novel MLL4 targets involved in muscle metabolism.
Project description:Skeletal muscle growth and regeneration rely on myogenic progenitor and satellite cells, the stem cells of postnatal muscle. Elimination of Notch signals during mouse development results in premature differentiation of myogenic progenitors and formation of very small muscle groups. Here we show that this drastic effect is rescued by mutation of the muscle differentiation factor MyoD. However, rescued myogenic progenitors do not assume a satellite cell position and contribute poorly to myofiber growth. The disrupted homing is due to a deficit in basal lamina assembly around emerging satellite cells and to their impaired adhesion to myofibers. On a molecular level, emerging satellite deregulate the expression of basal lamina components and adhesion molecules like integrin a7, collagen XVIIIa1, Megf10 and Mcam. We conclude that Notch signals control homing of satellite cells, stimulating them to contribute to their own microenvironment and to adhere to myofibers. Gene expression analysis using total RNA from FACS-isolated Vcam-1+/CD31-/CD45-/Sca1- embryonic muscle progenitor cells from E17.5 back muscle tissue of MyoD-/-, Pax3cre/+;Rbpjflox/flox;MyoD-/- and Pax3cre/+;DnMamlflox/flox;MyoD-/- mice.
Project description:Mitochondria serve diverse functions and are essential organelles that require continuous surveillance to maintaintheir integrity and function. LONP1 is an evolutionarily conservedserine peptidase that safeguards mitochondrial protein quality from yeast to human.To investigatethe physiological role of LONP1-mediated mitochondrial quality-control in skeletal musclein vivo, we generated skeletal muscle-specificLonp1-knockout mice (referred to as LONP1 MKO). We performedtranscriptome analysis by whole-genome gene expression profiling experiments in gastrocnemius (GC) muscle from both wild-type (WT) and LONP1-MKO mice. Knockout of LONP1 in skeletal muscle resulted in deregulation of 457 genes in 2-week-old mice and of 1922 genes in 6-week-old mice. Gene ontology analysis revealed that LONP1 deficiency triggers unfolded protein response (UPR) in skeletal muscle.Moreover, GSEA analysis of transcriptomic datain 6-week-old micefurther revealed that genes deregulated by LONP1 deficiency were significantly enriched during aging.Together, the transcriptional profiling results suggest a critical role of LONP1 in regulating skeletal muscle metabolism and health.
Project description:The p52 isoform of Psip1/Ledgf links histone H3K36 methylation and the regulation of alternative splicing. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) of Psip1 together with H3K36me3 and Srsf1 and by ChIP-on-chip analysis demonstrated that H3K36me3, Psip1 and SRSF1 enrichment correlates on the gene bodies Array design includes 2 dye swap replicates for Srsf1 and Psip1-/- samples, and single arrays for PSIP and H3K36me3 samples
Project description:RNA from primary hepatocyte cultures from three 3-month-old SRSF1HKO mice compared to RNA from three 3-month-old WT mice for changes in exon utilization and gene expression. SRSF1 KO vs. WT, three replicates each.