Project description:Mouse GI lumen contents from small intestine and large intestine of young mice. GI contents were extracted with 200ul 95% EtOH, concentrated using centrifugal lyophilization, resuspended with 50% MeOH and 1uM Sulfadimethoxine. Data collected using a Thermo Q Exactive instrument.
Project description:Samples were subjected to sonication using Bioruptor (program mode – 30 sec on, 30 sec off, 10 cycles = 10 min). Samples were sonicated till a clear solution was obtained. After a short spin (5,000 rpm for 10 sec), the samples were heated for 10 minutes at 95°C at 300 rpm in a PCR 96 heating block. Samples were allowed to cool down and spun at 5,000 rpm for 10 sec. 1μl of chloroacetamide was added to the eluate and incubated at 37°C for 30 minutes at 500 rpm. Later the samples were spun down at 5,000 rpm for 10 sec. Proteins were subjected to endoproteinase LysC (1:100 (w/w), Wako) digestion at 37°C for 4 hrs. Later, the proteins were subjected to trypsin digestion (0.5 μg/ μl; 1:50; w/w) at 37 °C overnight. Digestion was stopped by adding 50 μl of 5% TFA (Applied Biosystems) (v/v) that lowered the pH of the solution to below pH 2.0. Subsequently, peptides were cleaned up using the Phoenix 96x (https://preomics.com) kit following the manufacture’s instructions. After drying the peptides in a SpeedVac, samples were stored at -80°C.
Project description:In cancer management, early and accurate diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is important for enhancing survival rate of patients. Currently, serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is the only one biomarker for detection of HCC. However, serum AFP is not satisfactory for diagnosis of HCC due to its low accuracy (about 60-70%). In this study, we collected 109 serum samples (discovery set) from healthy control (HC) and patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), liver cirrhosis (LC) and HCC, and analyzed them with custom lncRNA microarray. Profiling analysis shows 181 differentially expressed lncRNAs between HCs and patients with CHB, LC and HCC. Then a 48-lncRNA diagnostic signature was identified with 100% predictive accuracy for all subjects in the discovery set. This diagnostic signature was verified with a cross-validation analysis in the discovery set. To further corroborate the signature, we gathered another 66 serum samples (validation set) and also analyzed them with microarray. The result indicates that the same signature has similar diagnostic accuracy for HC (100%), CHB (73%), LC (88%) and HCC (95%), implying a reproducible diagnostic biomarker for HCC. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis exhibits that this signature has significantly higher diagnostic accuracy for HCC and non-cancerous subjects (area under curve [AUC]: 0.994) than AFP (AUC: 0.773) in the discovery set and this was also verified in the validation set (0.964 vs 0.792). More importantly, the signature detected small HCC (<3cm) with 100% (13/13) accuracy while AFP with only 61.5% (8/13). Altogether, this study demonstrates that the serum 48-lncRNA signature is not only a powerful and sensitive biomarker for diagnosis of HCC but also a potential biomarker for LC. ***************************************************************** Submitter declares these data are subject to patent number ZL 2016 1 0397094. *****************************************************************
Project description:Exosomal microRNAs have recently been studied as potential diagnostic marker for various malignancies, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study was to investigate serum exosomal microRNA profiles as HCC diagnostic marker. Transmission electron microscopy and western blot were used to identify serum exosomes. Deep sequencing was performed to screen differentially expressed microRNAs between HCC (n=5) and liver cirrhosis (LC, n=5) group. Three upregulated and two downregulated microRNAs were selected for qPCR analysis. The levels of selected microRNAs were normalized to Caenorhabditis elegans miR-39 microRNA mimics. Serum exosomal level of miR-122, miR-148a, and miR-1246 were further analyzed and significantly higher in HCC than LC and normal control (NC) group (P<0.001), but not different from chronic hepatitis group(p>0.05). The receiver operating characteristic curve was used to evaluate diagnostic perfromance of candidate microRNAs. Area under the curve (AUC) of miR-148a was 0.891 [95 % confidence interval (CI), 0.809-0.947] in discriminating HCC from LC, remarkably higher than alpha fetoprotein (AFP) (AUC: 0.712, 95 % CI: 0.607-0.803). Binary logistic regression was adpoted to establish the diagnostic model for discriminating HCC from LC. And the combination of miR-122, miR-148a and AFP increased the AUC to 0.931 (95% CI, 0.857-0.973), which can also be applied for distinguishing early HCC from LC. miR-122 was the best for differentiating HCC from NC (AUC: 0.990, 95% CI, 0.945-1.000). These data suggests that serum exosomal microRNAs signature or their combination with traditional biomarker may be used as a suitable peripheral screening tool for HCC.
Project description:Wild-type bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) were treated with vehicle (0.1% EtOH/D-PBS), 6h 100 ng/ml lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or 16h 1uM dexamethasone (Dex) and 6h 100 ng/ml LPS (Dex+LPS) and mRNA expression analysed by RNA-Seq.
Project description:Whole MeRIP-sequencing analysis was performed and analyzed by Lc. Aksomics Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China). The peri-infarct cortex from sham mice, PT mice with EV-Vector, and PT mice with EV-circSCMH1 was collected in TRIzol. Total RNAs were qualified by agarose gel electrophoresis and quantified using Nanodrop. mRNA was isolated and then fragmented to 100-nucleotide-long fragments. m6A methylated mRNAs were enriched with anti-N6-methyadenosine(m6A) antibody. We use commercial kit for RNA-seq library prepa ration of m6A mRNA and input samples. Completed libraries were qualified and then sequenced on Hiseq 4000 platform.
Project description:Major advances have been made to develop an automated universal 384-well plate sample preparation platform with high reproducibility and adaptability for extraction of proteins from cells within a culture plate. An in-solution digest strategy is employed to generate peptides from the extracted proteins for LC-MS analysis in the 384-well plate. Method evaluation utilized HeLa cells cultured in the 384-well plate ranging from 500 – 10,000 cells. Digestion efficiency was excellent in comparison to the commercial digest peptides standard with minimal sample loss while improving sample preparation throughput by 20 – 40 fold. Analysis of six human cell types, which included two primary cell samples identified and quantified approximately 4,000 proteins for each sample in a single LC-MS/MS injection with as little as 100 – 10,000 cells depending on cell type demonstrating universality of the platform. Implementation of the comprehensive 384-well format protocol for processing cells to clean digested peptides enables large-scale biomarker validation and compound screening through proteomic analysis.
Project description:The transcriptome of murine LC after 24 hours in vivo exposure to a moderate dose of 10 microgram 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin was studied. It was found that mice, although they express the arylhydrocarbon receptor abundantly in LC, are inert to its activation. Target genes are not inducible, in contrast to many other cell types. Experiment Overall Design: i.p. injection, isolation of cells after 24 hours, 95% sorting purity of LC.
Project description:Mephedrone (Meph) is a novel psychostimulant whose recreational consumption is often associated to other drugs, especially alcohol (EtOH). This kind of drug consumption during adolescence is a matter of concern. We studied, in adolescent CD-1 mice, whether low-moderate doses of EtOH could enhance the psychostimulant (locomotor acivity) and reinforcing (conditioned place preference, CPP) effects of mephedrone. Simultaneously we also determined the most relevant transcriptional changes associated to a reinforcing treatment. A single dose of Meph (10 mg/kg, sc) induced an increase of about 100% in locomotor activity, which was a further enhanced by 40% when associated with a dose of EtOH (1 g/kg). The hyperlocomotion was partially antagonized by ketanserin and haloperidol, but only haloperidol blocked the potentiation induced by EtOH. Furthermore, Meph (25 mg/kg) induced significant positive conditioning, which increased by 70% when administered with 0.75 mg/kg EtOH. Microarray analysis of mRNA extracted from anterior striata of the mice used in CPP experiments reported significant modifications in genes related with neurotransmission and synaptic plasticity, which were further validated by Real-time PCR for all three drug-treated groups.
Project description:2-cell (E1.5) stage embryos were cultured in normal KSOM+AA conditions until E3.5 +2h and thereafter 100 embryos each were moved to control or p38-MAPKi conditions and cultured for another 7 hours (E3.5 +9h). The embryos were then washed through pre-warmed (37˚C) Hank’s balanced salt solution (HBSS, Sigma-Aldrich; Cat. No. H9269) and lysed by moving to a 1.5ml centrifuge tube containing about 15µl of SDT-lysis buffer (4% (w/v) SDS, 100 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.6, 0.1 M DTT). Cell lysis was performed by incubating the tubes in a 95˚C thermoblock for 12 minutes, brief centrifugation at 750 rpm, cooling to room temperature and storage at -80˚C. Individual protein solutions were processed by filter-aided sample preparation (FASP) method with some modifications (see the associated publication for more details). Resulting peptides were cleaned by liquid-liquid extraction (3 iterations) using water saturated ethyl acetate. 1/10th of the FASP eluate was taken out for direct LC-MS measurements, evaporated completely in SpeedVac concentrator (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Peptides were further transferred into LC-MS vials using 50μL of 2.5% formic acid (FA) in 50% acetonitrile (ACN) and 100μL of pure ACN and with addition of polyethylene glycol (final concentration 0.001%) and concentrated in a SpeedVac concentrator. Phosphopeptides were enriched from the remaining 9/10th of the cleaned FASP eluate after complete solvent evaporation (SpeedVac concentrator) using High-Select™ TiO2 Phosphopeptide Enrichment Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific) according to manufacturer protocol. Phosphopeptide standards (0.1 pmol of MS PhosphoMix 1, 2, 3 Light; Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri, USA) was added to suspended sample in binding/equilibration buffer. Flow-through fraction was dried and used for second enrichment step using High-Select™ Fe-NTA Phosphopeptide Enrichment Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA) according to manufacturer protocol. Resulting phosphopeptides were extracted into LC-MS vials by 2.5% FA in 50% ACN and 100% ACN with addition of polyethylene glycol (final concentration 0.001%) and concentrated in a SpeedVac concentrator). LC-MS/MS analyses of all peptide mixtures (2 peptide solutions for each sample – 1) not enriched; 2) enriched on phosphopeptides using TiO2 enrichment kit) were done using RSLCnano system connected to Orbitrap Fusion Lumos mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Prior to LC separation, tryptic digests were online concentrated and desalted using trapping column (100 μm × 30 mm, column compartment temperature of 40˚C) filled with 3.5-μm X-Bridge BEH 130 C18 sorbent (Waters). After washing of trapping column with 0.1% FA, the peptides were eluted (flow rate - 300nl/min) from the trapping column onto an analytical column (Acclaim Pepmap100 C18, 3 µm particles, 75 μm × 500 mm; column compartment temperature of 40˚C, Thermo Fisher Scientific) by using 50 or 100 minutes long nonlinear gradient program (1-56% of mobile phase B; mobile phase A: 0.1% FA in water; mobile phase B: 0.1% FA in 80% ACN) for analysis of phosphopeptide enriched fractions or not enriched peptide mixtures, respectively. Equilibration of the trapping column and the analytical column was done prior to sample injection to sample loop. The analytical column outlet was directly connected to the Digital PicoView 550 (New Objective) ion source with sheath gas option and SilicaTip emitter (New Objective; FS360-20-15-N-20-C12) utilization. ABIRD (ESI Source Solutions) was installed. MS data were acquired in a data-dependent strategy with cycle time for 3 seconds and with survey scan (350-2000 m/z). The resolution of the survey scan was 60000 (200 m/z) with a target value of 4×105 ions and maximum injection time of 50ms. HCD MS/MS (30% relative fragmentation energy, normal mass range) spectra were acquired with a target value of 5.0x104. The MS/MS spectra were recorded in Orbitrap at resolving power of 30,000 or 15,000 (200 m/z) and the maximum injection time for MS/MS was 500 or 22 ms for analysis of phosphopeptides enriched fraction or non-enriched peptide mixture, respectively. Dynamic exclusion was enabled for 60 seconds after one MS/MS spectra acquisition. The isolation window for MS/MS fragmentation was set to 1.6 m/z.