Next Generation Sequencing Quantitative Analysis of Small RNA in Livers of Adult Male Offspring of Obese Female Mice
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ABSTRACT: Obesity during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the offspring. We used RNA next generation sequencing analysis (HiSeq2000) to have a glance at the miRNome in twelve week-old male offspring exposed to maternal obesity and weaned onto an obesogenic diet.
Project description:Obesity during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the offspring. We used RNA next generation sequencing analysis (HiSeq2000) to have a snapshot of the liver transcriptome in twelve week-old male offspring exposed to maternal obesity and weaned onto an obesogenic diet.
Project description:Obesity during pregnancy increase the risk for cardiac in the offspring. We used RNA next-generation sequencing analysis to have a snapshot of the heart transcriptome in male offspring exposed to maternal obesity and weaned onto an obesogenic diet.
Project description:The global prevalence of obesity is increasing across age and gender. The rising burden of obesity in young people contributes to the early emergence of type 2 diabetes. Having one parent obese is an independent risk factor for childhood obesity. While the detrimental impact of diet-induced maternal obesity on offspring is well established, the extent of the contribution of obese fathers is unclear, as is the role of non-genetic factors in the casual pathway. Here we show that paternal high fat diet exposure programmed β-cell âdysfunctionâ in their F1 female offspring. Chronic high fat diet consumption in Sprague Dawley fathers led to increased body weight, adiposity, impaired glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. Relative to controls, their female offspring had lower body weight at day-1, increased pubertal growth rate, impaired insulin secretion and glucose tolerance, in the absence of obesity or increased adiposity. Paternal high fat diet was observed to alter gene expression of pancreatic islet genes in adult female offspring (P < 0.001); affected functional clusters includes calcium ion binding, insulin, apoptosis, Wnt and cell cycle organ/system development. This is the first reported study in mammals describing non-genetic, intergenerational transmission of metabolic sequelae of high fat diet from father to offspring. These findings support a role of fathers in metabolic programming of offspring and form a framework for further studies. F0 founders were male Sprague Dawley rats, divided into two groups, high fat (HF) and control. The HF fathers were given commercially prepared high-fat pellets (43% as fat); while the controls ate standard laboratory chow (9% as fat). The two groups of fathers had distinct phenotype; the HF fathers were significantly heavier with increased adiposity, they were also glucose intolerant and insulin resistant. At 15 weeks of age, fathers were mated with normal females consuming chow, to generate the F1 offspring. Only female offspring were studied. Female offspring were weaned unto standard laboratory chow at 3 weeks. At 6 and 12 weeks, intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test (IpGTT) was performed to measure blood glucose and insulin profile; at 11 weeks, intraperitoneal insulin tolerance test was done. The body weight and adiposity of these offspring were not different between the two groups. The HF offspring had glucose intolerance and impaired glucose-induced insulin response, mainly at the acute phase, observed since 6 weeks. The IpITT was not different between groups. At 13 weeks, islets were harvested from the two groups of offspring.
Project description:The global prevalence of obesity is increasing across age and gender. The rising burden of obesity in young people contributes to the early emergence of type 2 diabetes. Having one parent obese is an independent risk factor for childhood obesity. While the detrimental impact of diet-induced maternal obesity on offspring is well established, the extent of the contribution of obese fathers is unclear, as is the role of non-genetic factors in the casual pathway. Here we show that paternal high fat diet exposure programmed M-NM-2-cell M-bM-^@M-^XdysfunctionM-bM-^@M-^Y in their F1 female offspring. Chronic high fat diet consumption in Sprague Dawley fathers led to increased body weight, adiposity, impaired glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. Relative to controls, their female offspring had lower body weight at day-1, increased pubertal growth rate, impaired insulin secretion and glucose tolerance, in the absence of obesity or increased adiposity. Paternal high fat diet altered the expression of 211 pancreatic islet genes in adult female offspring (P < 0.001); genes belonged to 8 functional clusters, including calcium ion binding, primary metabolic processes and ATP binding, and organ/system development. Broader KEGG pathway analysis of 2014 genes differentially expressed at the P < 0.01 level further demonstrated involvement of insulin and calcium signaling, and MAPK pathways. This is the first reported study in mammals describing non-genetic, intergenerational transmission of metabolic sequelae of high fat diet from father to offspring. These findings support a role of fathers in metabolic programming of offspring and form a framework for further studies. F0 founders were male Sprague Dawley rats, divided into two groups: high fat (HF) and control. The HF fathers were given commercially prepared high-fat pellets (43% as fat), while the controls ate standard laboratory chow (9% as fat). The two groups of fathers had distinct phenotypes; the HF fathers were significantly heavier with increased adiposity, and they were also glucose intolerant and insulin resistant. At 15 weeks of age, fathers were mated with normal females consuming chow to generate the F1 offspring. Only female offspring were studied. Female offspring were weaned unto standard laboratory chow at 3 weeks. At 6 and 12 weeks, an intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test (IpGTT) was performed to measure blood glucose and insulin profile; at 11 weeks, an intraperitoneal insulin tolerance test was done. The body weight and adiposity of these offspring were not different between the two groups. The HF offspring had glucose intolerance and impaired glucose-induced insulin response, mainly at the acute phase, observed since 6 weeks. The IpITT was not different between groups. At 14 weeks, fat was harvested from the two groups of offspring.
Project description:Mice were weaned onto standard RM1 diet or onto a highly palatable obesogenic diet (824018 – ‘45% AFE fat) supplemented with condensed milk. After 12 weeks, mice were killed, and liver NK cells (Lin- NK1.1+ CD49a- CD49b+) or ILC1 (Lin- NK1.1+ CD49a+ CD49b-) were sorted. Total RNA was extracted from sorted cells, cDNA generated and RNASeq performed.
Project description:Maternal obesity impacts the health of offspring, increasing the risk of developing obesity and/or other metabolic dysregulation in childhood or later in life. Using a genome-wide methylation assay, we identified sex-dependent dysregulation of the methylome of CD3+ T-lymphocytes, a cell type that plays an important role in obesity and inflammatory diseases, in newborn offspring of overweight and obese mothers. Furthermore, the differentially methylated loci were targeted to regulatory regions of the genome, in imprinted genes and genes identified from GWAS as being related to type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Project description:Obesity is a major contributor to metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. Senescence is a highly dynamic process activated by diverse stimuli and increased cellular senescence has been associated with age-related disorders. Here, we investigated the impact of cellular senescence in obesogenic diet-related metabolic and cardiac dysfunctions. An obesogenic diet induced an increase on body weight gain and adiposity, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hepatic disorders in mice; however, these alterations were prevented by a senolytic cocktail (dasatinib and quercetin), which leads to removal of senescent cells. In addition, the elimination of senescent cells counteracted the activation of the senescent program and DNA damage in the white adipose tissue (WAT) induced by an obesogenic diet. Obese mice had an increase of the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) and DNA damage in the heart, cardiac hypertrophy, and diastolic dysfunction; however, the use of a senolytic combination abolished these myocardial alterations caused by an obesogenic diet. Transcriptomic analysis of the hearts revealed that obese mice exhibited a downregulation of genes associated with fatty acid metabolism, oxidative phosphorylation, PI3K AKT MTOR signaling, P53 pathway, and DNA repair; however, the treatment with senolytic cocktail induced an increase of these pathways in the heart. Collectively, these data suggest that obesogenic diet elicits WAT and cardiac senescence program in mice, and that targeting senescent cells may be a novel therapeutic strategy for attenuating obesity-related metabolic and cardiac disorders.
Project description:Obesity has considerable effects on morbidity and mortality, and the prevalence of obesity has been increasing rapidly worldwide during the past two decades. Even if obesity affects the entire individual, adipose tissue plays a central role in the development of obesity. Expression profiling of adipose tissue may give insights into the mechanisms contributing to obesity and obesity-related disorders. The Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) Sib-Pair Study consists of 154 nuclear families with BMI-discordant sib pairs (BMI difference more than 10 kg/m2) resulting in a study population consisting of 732 subjects. The full SOS Sib-Pair study offspring cohort consists of 425 subjects. Microarray expression analysis in subcutaneous adipose tissue was performed in 375 subjects (262 women and 113 men) of the SOS Sib-Pair offspring cohort. Microarray expression analysis in subcutaneous adipose tissue was performed in women (n=262) and men (n=113) of the SOS Sib-Pair offspring cohort.
Project description:The global rise in obesity has revitalized a search to understand genetic, and in particular, epigenetic factors underlying the disease. We present a Drosophila model of paternal-diet-induced Inter-Generational Metabolic Reprogramming (IGMR) and identify genes required for its encoding in offspring. Intriguingly, we find that as little as two days of dietary intervention in fathers elicits obesity in offspring. Paternal sugar acts as a physiological suppressor of variegation, de-silencing chromatin state-defined transcriptional units in both mature sperm and in offspring embryos. We identify requirements for H3K9/K27me3 dependent reprogramming of metabolic genes in two distinct germline and zygotic windows. Critically, we find evidence that a similar system regulates obesity-susceptibility and phenotype variation in mice and humans. The findings provide insight into the mechanisms underlying intergenerational metabolic reprogramming and carry profound implications for our understanding of phenotypic variation and evolution. RNA-seq on Drosophila embryos and sperm samples fed medium and high sugar.
Project description:Maternal obesity is increasingly common and negatively impact offspring health. Children born to mothers with obesity are at higher risk of developing diseases associated with abnormalities within the hematopoietic system such as atypical immune profiles, hematopoiesis, and metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Interestingly, disease risks are often dependent on the offspring’s sex, suggesting sex-specific reprogramming effect of maternal obesity on offspring hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) function. However, the impact of maternal obesity exposure on offspring HSPC function is largely unknown, and the capability of HSPC to regulate offspring metabolic health has not been studied. Here we examined differential transcriptomes of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from male and female pups (postnatal day 21) from dams given western diet or control diet. RNA-seq revealed inflammatory gene pathways in female MatOb offspring that potentially protect HSPC function.