Project description:Cardiac-specific TNF-alpha transgenic mice are an excellent model to study the pathologenesis of heart failure. Affymetrix U74V2A was used to analyze the gene expression profile of male and female wildtype FVB and TNF-alpha transgenic mice at the time point of compensated hypertrophy and dilated heart failure. 3 week, 13 week and 40 week samples examined.
Project description:Cardiac-specific TNF-alpha transgenic mice are an excellent model to study the pathologenesis of heart failure. Affymetrix U74V2A was used to analyze the gene expression profile of male and female wildtype FVB and TNF-alpha transgenic mice at the time point of compensated hypertrophy and dilated heart failure. 3 week, 13 week and 40 week samples examined. Keywords: other
Project description:Tumor Necrosis Factor-α is greatly implicated in heart pathophysiology, while it is upregulated in the failing myocardium. A major target in TNF-α-induced heart failure is the muscle specific intermediate filament cytoskeleton, comprised by desmin. We analysed the effect of cardiac-specific overexpression of TNF-α in the Des-/- myocardium, which is a known model of dilated cardiomyopathy. Hearts of 3 months old mice (n=3) of Des-/- and TNFαDes-/- genotypes were used for whole genome microarray hybridization analysis.
Project description:The Raf kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP) is a dual inhibitor of the Raf kinase and the G-protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 (GRK2). GRK2 is an indispensable kinase, which exerts a major role in the pathogenesis of heart failure, and inhibition of GRK2 is cardioprotective in experimental models of heart failure. To investigate the cardiac function of RKIP as GRK2 inhibitor, we generated transgenic mice with myocardium-specific expression of RKIP under control of the alpha-MHC promoter. For comparison, mice with myocardium-specific expression of a GRK-specific peptide inhibitor (GRK-Inh) were also generated. Two different transgenic mouse models were established. Transgenic RKIP mice and transgenic GRK-Inh mice were born at Mendelian frequencey and grew to adulthood normally. Microarray gene expression profiling was performed with heart tissue isolated from three study groups: (i) RKIP-transgenic mice, (ii) GRK-Inh-transgenic mice, and (iii) B6 control mice.
Project description:SILAC based protein correlation profiling using size exclusion of protein complexes derived from Mus musculus tissues (Heart, Liver, Lung, Kidney, Skeletal Muscle, Thymus)
Project description:SILAC based protein correlation profiling using size exclusion of protein complexes derived from seven Mus musculus tissues (Heart, Brain, Liver, Lung, Kidney, Skeletal Muscle, Thymus)
Project description:Tumor Necrosis Factor-α is greatly implicated in heart pathophysiology, while it is upregulated in the failing myocardium. A major target in TNF-α-induced heart failure is the muscle specific intermediate filament cytoskeleton, comprised by desmin. We analysed the effect of cardiac-specific overexpression of TNF-α in the Des-/- myocardium, which is a known model of dilated cardiomyopathy.
Project description:The dataset contains 72 RNA-seq samples obtained from adult (P150) C57BL/6JCrl mice. Samples are from total heart, liver and kidney tissue. Four different genotypes are included in the data: 1) wild type, 2) transgenic Ciona intestinalis AOX in Rosa26 locus (Szibor et al. 2017, DOI: 10.1242/dmm.027839), 3) respiratory chain complex III deficient Bcs1lp.S78G knock-in mice (a GRACILE syndrome patient mutation, Leveen et al. 2011, DOI: 10.1002/hep.24031) and 4) a cross between the AOX transgenic and Bcs1lp.S78G mice (Rajendran et al. EMBO Mol Med. In press).
Project description:The study applied NGS to determine the cardiac transcriptomes of BBLN-transgenic mice with FVB/N background in comparison to those of non-transgenic FVB/N mice at an age of 8 months. The BBLN (Bublin coiled-coil protein) is the chromosome 9 open reading frame, C9orf16, with largely unknown function. To investigate the cardiac phenotype of increased cardiac BBLN transcript levels we generated BBLN-transgenic (Tg-BBLN) mice. Echocardiography documented that Tg-BBLN mice developed features of heart failure at an age of 8 months. To elucidate pathomechanisms of heart failure induced by BBLN, we performed NGS of the cardiac transcriptomes of eight-month-old, male, BBLN-transgenic mice with cardiac-specific expression of BBLN under control of the myocardium-specific, alpha-MHC promoter. The non-transgenic control group are age-matched, male, nontransgenic FVB/N mice. NGS data of this study document transcriptome changes underlying the heart failure phenotype induced by transgenic BBLN expression.
Project description:Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant variant of Vkorc1 that introgressed from Mus spretus into European populations of Mus musculus domesticus. Here, we conducted bidirectional genome scans to characterize introgressed regions into one wild population of M. spretus from Spain and three wild populations of M. m. domesticus from France, Germany, and Iran. Despite the fact that these species show considerable intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation, introgression was observed in all individuals, including in the M. musculus reference genome (GRCm38). Mus spretus individuals had a greater proportion of introgression compared with M. m. domesticus, and within M. m. domesticus, the proportion of introgression decreased with geographic distance from the area of sympatry. Introgression was observed on all autosomes for both species, but not on the X-chromosome in M. m. domesticus, consistent with known X-linked hybrid sterility and inviability genes that have been mapped to the M. spretus X-chromosome. Tract lengths were generally short with a few outliers of up to 2.7 Mb. Interestingly, the longest introgressed tracts were in olfactory receptor regions, and introgressed tracts were significantly enriched for olfactory receptor genes in both species, suggesting that introgression may be a source of functional novelty even between species with high barriers to gene flow.