Project description:Cardiac remodeling is the primary factor for the development of ischemic heart failure, which can result from various cardiomyopathies. Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase1 (PDK1) is one of the components of AGC kinase family that maintain mitochondrial metabolism. We here report a PDK1-deficient human cardiac myocyte (CM) model that mimicked the human PDK1 homozygous frameshift mutation and determined the effects of PDK1 dysfunction and its underlying mechanism. PDK1 gene knockout did not affect the pluripotency and differentiation efficiency of hiPSCs. Myocardial cells with a PDK1 gene knockout showed abnormal metabolism, increased oxidative stress levels, decreased cell viability, and increased apoptosis. In addition, lentivirus transfection significantly improved the mitochondrial metabolism in the PDK1-deficient human myocardial model. Taken together, our data provide a PDK1-deficient human cardiomyocyte model that exhibits abnormal mitochondrial metabolism, this model represents an important tool to gain insight into the mechanism of action of metabolism disorders resulting in myocardial remodeling, elucidate the gene-phenotype relationship of PDK1 deficiency, and facilitate drug screening.
Project description:This project consisted of three HDX-MS experiments. First, we compared the dimeric PDK1(SKD-PIF) to monomeric PDK1(SKD) and mapped the differences in deuterium incorporation onto the dimer model. We then compared the deuterium incorporation kinetics for the kinase (PDK1(SKD)) and PH (PDK1(PH) domains of PDK1 with full-length PDK1 (PDK1(FL)) in pairwise experiments.
Project description:Interventions: experimental group :PD-1 Knockout Engineered T Cells
Primary outcome(s): Number of participants with Adverse Events and/or Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and tolerability of dose of PD-1 Knockout T cells using Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE v4.0) in patients
Study Design: historical control
Project description:The role of PDK1 on mammary tumorigenesis and its interaction with PPARdelta, was assessed. Transgenic mice were generated in which PDK1 was expressed in the mammary epithelium. We used microarrays to analyse global gene expression changes in MMTV-PDK1 transgenic mice versus wild-type mice and determine any differential responses to GW501516 treatment.
Project description:Gene expression profiling was performed to access the changes in gene expression in melanomas from Pdk1-inactivated Brafv600E::Pten-/- mice. The expression profiles of the BrafV600E::Pten-/-::Pdk1-/- were compared to the BrafV600E::Pten-/-::Pdk+/+ genotypes. The analysis has identified several important signaling pathways in Pdk1-dependent melanomagenesis. Melanoma tumors from the BrafV600E::Pten-/-::Pdk1+/+ and BrafV600E::Pten-/-::Pdk1-/- genotypes were harvested and mRNA from each group was pooled to enable four biologically replicates analysis.
Project description:The role of PDK1 on mammary tumorigenesis and its interaction with PPARdelta, was assessed. Transgenic mice were generated in which PDK1 was expressed in the mammary epithelium. We used microarrays to analyse global gene expression changes in MMTV-PDK1 transgenic mice versus wild-type mice and determine any differential responses to GW501516 treatment. RNA was isolated (RNeasy Mini Kit, Qiagen) from mammary gland tissue from nulliparious transgenic and wild-type mice maintained on normal rodent chow or a diet supplemented with GW501516 for 1 week.
Project description:Skeletal muscle mass is an important determinant of whole-body glucose disposal. We here show that mice (M-PDK1KO mice) with skeletal muscle–specific deficiency of 3'-phosphoinositide–dependent kinase 1 (PDK1), a key component of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathway, manifest a reduced skeletal muscle mass under the static condition as well as impairment of exercise load–induced muscle hypertrophy. Whereas exercise load-induced changes in gene expression were not affected, the phosphorylation of ribosomal protein S6 kinase (S6K) and S6 induced by exercise load was attenuated in skeletal muscle of M-PDK1KO mice, suggesting that PDK1 regulates muscle hypertrophy not through changes in gene expression but through stimulation of protein synthesis via the S6K-S6 axis.
Project description:Gene expression profiling was performed to access the changes in gene expression in melanomas from Pdk1-inactivated Brafv600E::Pten-/- mice. The expression profiles of the BrafV600E::Pten-/-::Pdk1-/- were compared to the BrafV600E::Pten-/-::Pdk+/+ genotypes. The analysis has identified several important signaling pathways in Pdk1-dependent melanomagenesis.
Project description:This experiment records the transcriptional responses of mES cells (line OG2) to FGF/ERK stimulation in the presence of LIF, to LIF/STAT3 inhibition in the presence of an FGF/ERK inhibitor, and to combined FGF/ERK stimulation / LIF/STAT3 inhibition.
