Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Arabidopsis rossette leaves comparing WT Col-0 with a transgenic lines overexpressing AhNF-YC gene from Amaranthus hypochondriacus in three different conditions.
Project description:To identify novel therapeutic opportunities for patients with acquired resistance to endocrine treatments in breast cancer, we applied high-throughput screening to explore currently marketed drugs. The Ec50 values were determined for MCF7 and LTED cell lines to identify the compounds showing higher inhibition of LTED cells. The best compound was YC-1 and gene microarray studies were done in vitro for mechanistic exploration. MCF7 and LTED cells were treated with YC-1 for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:The transplanted mature hepatocytes were found to dedifferentiate into hepatic progenitor cells (HPCs), which proliferate and then convert back to mature state at the completion of liver repopulation. The combination of two small molecules Y-27632 (Y, Rock inhibitor) and CHIR99021 (C, Wnt agonist) could convert mouse primary hepatocytes into HPCs, which could be passaged for more than 30 passages in vitro. Moreover, YC could stimulate the proliferation of transplanted hepatocytes in Fah-/- liver by promoting the conversion into HPCs. Netarsudil (N) and LY2090314 (L), two clinically used drugs which target the same pathways as YC, could also promote hepatocytes proliferation in vitro and in vivo, by facilitating HPC conversion.
Project description:Purpose: The goals of this study is to analyze the transcriptome change during retinal explant culture treated with pharmacological chaperone of rhodopsin (YC-001). Methods: The WT and RhoP23H/+ mouse eyes were enucleated at post natal day 15 and retinal explant were cultured for 24 hours followed by the 24 hours treatment with pharmacological chaperone of rhodopsin (YC-001) and dmso vehicle control. Another group of P23H/+ retinal explant was treated further till 9 days. We compare the transcript of RhoP23H/+ dmso with WT dmso at 24 hour treatment (1 days in vitro (1DIV)). RhoP23H/+ YC-001 were also compared with RhoP23H/+ dmso treated retinal explant at 1DIV and 9DIV. Results: A total of 338 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified comparing the RhoP23H/+ vs. WT retinal explants with DMSO and 56 DEGs were identified comparing RhoP23H/+ YC-001 treated vs. DMSO treated retinal explant at 1 DIV. Further we observed an increased number of DEGs (8,597) comparing RhoP23H/+ vs dmso vehicle control at 9DIV. DEGs were identified using stringency with >1.5-fold change and P-value<0.05. Interestingly, we found 40 common genes when comparing RhoP23H/+ YC-001 treated vs. DMSO at 1DIV and 9DIV. Conclusions: This study used RNA-seq technology which represents the transcriptome of WT and RhoP23H/+ mouse retinal explant with and without pharmacological chaperone of rhodopsin (YC-001). Our NGS results show that YC-001 affect many biological pathways including visual transduction, protein homeostasis pathways and decreases the expression of immune response activation genes, to rescue the rhodospin homeostasis and retinal morphology in the retinal explant of P23H Rho mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa (RP).