Project description:To interrogate the genome-wide target genes of TOX4, we performed RNA-seq from livers of 16-hr fasted animals (10-wk-old C57BL/6J male mice) following TOX4 KD. The RNA-sequencing was performed by Columbia Genome Center. Poly-A pull-down was used to enrich mRNA from total liver RNA and library construction with Illumina TruSeq. Libraries were sequenced using Illumina NovaSeq 6000. Kallisto pipeline was used to quantify transcript abundance (Bray et al., 2016).
Project description:Livers from C57Bl6 male adult mice infected either with an adenovirus control (Ad-CTRL) or an adenovirus overexpressing FAT10 (Ad-FAT10) and treated or not with pemafibrate (Pema, vehicule CMC) were used to prepare RNA.
Project description:Reprogramming to induced pluripotency induces the switch of somatic cell identity to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). However, the mediators and mechanisms of reprogramming remain largely unclear. To elucidate the mediators and mechanisms of reprogramming, we used a siRNA mediated knockdown approach for selected candidate genes during the conversion of somatic cells into iPSCs. We identified Tox4 as a novel factor that modulates cell fate, using reprogramming efficiency towards iPSCs as an assay. We found that Tox4 is needed early in reprogramming to efficiently generate early reprogramming intermediates, irrespective of reprogramming conditions used. Tox4 enables proper exogenous reprogramming factor expression and the closing and opening of putative somatic and pluripotency enhancers early during reprogramming, respectively. We show that TOX4 protein assembles into a high molecular form. Moreover, Tox4 is also required for the efficient conversion of fibroblasts towards the neuronal fate, suggesting a broader role of Tox4 in modulating cell fate. Our study reveals Tox4 as a novel transcriptional modulator of cell fate that mediates reprogramming from the somatic state to the pluripotent and neuronal fate.
Project description:Reprogramming to induced pluripotency induces the switch of somatic cell identity to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). However, the mediators and mechanisms of reprogramming remain largely unclear. To elucidate the mediators and mechanisms of reprogramming, we used a siRNA mediated knockdown approach for selected candidate genes during the conversion of somatic cells into iPSCs. We identified Tox4 as a novel factor that modulates cell fate, using reprogramming efficiency towards iPSCs as an assay. We found that Tox4 is needed early in reprogramming to efficiently generate early reprogramming intermediates, irrespective of reprogramming conditions used. Tox4 enables proper exogenous reprogramming factor expression and the closing and opening of putative somatic and pluripotency enhancers early during reprogramming, respectively. We show that TOX4 protein assembles into a high molecular form. Moreover, Tox4 is also required for the efficient conversion of fibroblasts towards the neuronal fate, suggesting a broader role of Tox4 in modulating cell fate. Our study reveals Tox4 as a novel transcriptional modulator of cell fate that mediates reprogramming from the somatic state to the pluripotent and neuronal fate.
Project description:To gain more insights into the functional significance of lnc-HLX-2-7, gene expression profiles were measured using D425 (sh-CTRL), D425 (sh-HLX) and intracranial D425 xenografts treated with ASO-CTRL and ASO-lnc-HLX 2-7 by RNA sequencing.