Project description:The experimental goals of this study were to determine the differences in hypothalamus gene expression in genetically identical mice that have variability in their susceptibility towards diet-induced obesity following 6 weeks feeding a high fat diet, 2 weeks low fat diet and 6 weeks high fat diet. Keywords: Comparative gene expression analysis
Project description:High-fat diet and obesity are high risk factors for colorectal cancer. The underlying mechanism is still unclear. Environmental factors alter the epigenome to affect gene expression thus the phenotype. In response to external stimuli, the cis-regulatory regions, especially enhancer loci, are key elements for regulating selective gene expression. We thus explored the effects of high-fat diet and the accompanying obesity on gene expression and the enhancer landscape in colon epithelium. High-fat diet exposed binding sites of transcription factors downstream of signaling pathways important in the initiation and progression of colon cancer. Meantime, colon specific enhancers were lost rendering the cells potential for dedifferentiation. The alteration at enhancer regions drives a specific transcription program promoting colon cancer progression. The comprehensive interrogation of enhancer changes by high-fat diet in colon epithelium provides a number of insights into the underlying biology of high-fat diet and obesity in increasing colon cancer risk, and provides potential therapeutic targets to treat obese colon cancer patients. ChIP sequencing of active enhancer mark h3k27ac in colon epithelium from wild type mice and NAG-1 transgenic mice treated with either low-fat diet or high-fat diet. The gene expression component of the study is included in GSE46843.
Project description:High-fat diet and obesity are high risk factors for colorectal cancer. The underlying mechanism is still unclear. Environmental factors alter the epigenome to affect gene expression thus the phenotype. In response to external stimuli, the cis-regulatory regions, especially enhancer loci, are key elements for regulating selective gene expression. We thus explored the effects of high-fat diet and the accompanying obesity on gene expression and the enhancer landscape in colon epithelium. High-fat diet exposed binding sites of transcription factors downstream of signaling pathways important in the initiation and progression of colon cancer. Meantime, colon-specific enhancers were lost rendering the cells potential for dedifferentiation. The alteration at enhancer regions drives a specific transcription program promoting colon cancer progression. The comprehensive interrogation of enhancer changes by high-fat diet in colon epithelium provides a number of insights into the underlying biology of high-fat diet and obesity in increasing colon cancer risk, and provides potential therapeutic targets to treat obese colon cancer patients. We measured gene expression in colon epithelium from wild type mice and NAG-1 (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-activated gene-1) transgenic mice fed either a 10% fat diet (LF) or a 60% fat diet (HF) for 20 weeks, using Agilent Whole Mouse Genome 4x44 multiplex format oligo arrays (014868) (Agilent Technologies) following the Agilent 1-color microarray-based gene expression analysis protocol. The ChIP-seq component of the study is included in GSE46748.
Project description:EMG produced TPA metagenomics assembly of the High fat feeding rather than obesity drives taxonomical and functional changes in the gut microbiota in mice (mice obesity) data set.
Project description:The High Fat Diet (HFD)-feeding significantly stimulated fat accumulation in Drosophila adults. Simultaneous feeding of known anti-obesity drugs that having the effect on rat and mouse, Quercetin Glycosides (QG) and Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) also suppressed fat accumulation in Drosophila at an equivalent concentration. Therefore, we have established a convenient model system to study on diet-induced fat accumulation and to evaluate effects of anti-obesity drugs using Drosophila. To understand overview of alterations of gene expression due to diet-induced fat accumulation and its suppression by the known anti-obesity drugs, we performed the RNA seq analyses. Consequently, mRNA levels of several genes involved in lipid metabolism, glycolysis/gluconeogenesis and anti-oxidative stress have changed in adults fed the HFD. Moreover, the levels altered in those fed on HFD supplemented with QG or EGCG. Our qRT-PCR further confirmed the RNA-seq data suggesting that expression of five genes essential for lipid metabolism was changed in HFD-fed animals and further altered in the animals treated with anti-obesity drugs. Among them, the most remarkable alteration was observed in dHSL gene encoding a lipase involved in lipid-storage after HFD feeding and the HFD supplemented with QG or EGCG. These changes are consistent with HFD-induced fat accumulation as well as the anti-obesity effects of those two drugs in mammals, suggesting that these genes play an important role in the anti-obesity effects of the drugs. These are the first evidences that whole profiles of altered gene expression under a condition of a diet-induced obesity and its suppression by anti-obesity drugs in Drosophila.
Project description:Oxidative stress in adipose tissue and liver has been linked to the development of obesity. NADPH oxidases (NOX) enzymes are a major source of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The current study was designed to determine if NOX2-generated ROS play a role in development of obesity and metabolic syndrome after high fat feeding. Wild type (WT) mice and mice lacking the cytosolic NOX2 activated protein p47phox (P47KO) were fed AIN-93G diets or high fat diets (HFD) containing 45% fat and 0.5% cholesterol for 13 weeks from weaning. Affymetrix array analysis revealed dramatically less expression of mRNA of genes linked to energy metabolism, adipocyte differentiation (PPARM-NM-3, Runx2) and fatty acid uptake (CD36, lipoprotein lipase) in fat pads from female HFD-P47KO mice compared to HFD-WT females. These data suggest that NOX2 is an important regulator of metabolic homeostasis and that NOX2-associated ROS plays an important role in development of diet-induced obesity particularly in the female fat pads from p47phox and wild type fed a high fat or control diet
Project description:As microarray based gene expression profiling is well suited to study the complex diseases such as obesity, we revealed gene expression changes of fat tissues on obesity model zebrafish to elcidate the pathophysiological function of each fat tissue in metabolic syndrome. Zebrafish in over-feeding group were fed three times per day with Artemia (60 mg cysts/fish/day) through 8weeks. 1week over-feeding group were fed three times per day with Artemia (60 mg cysts/fish/day) through 1week. For caloric restriction, zebrafish were fed with Artemia (2.5 mg cysts/fish/day) for 2 weeks after over-fed with Artemia for 8 weeks.
Project description:High-fat diet (HFD) induced obesity (DIO) has been shown impacts on metabolism, hormonal profile, male fertility, and spermatogenesis. We employed genome-wide transcriptional analysis on the testis of diet induced obesity (DIO) and normal chow (NC) C57BL/6 J male mice to search genes regulated by obesity in testis. Both blood glucose and lipids contents significantly increased in DIO mice after 8 weeks fat-rich feeding. RNA-seq analysis revealed 371 down-regulated and 460 up-regulated transcripts in DIO group comparing to NC group. Chromosome 3, 4, 9, 16, and 18 were significantly more active, while chromosome 5, 10, and 19 were significantly more inactive after 8-week fat-diet feeding. Wilcoxon enrichment analysis discovered that the thermogenesis pathway (KEGG) was significantly enriched in the testis of DIO group (with 8 enriched up-regulated genes: Smarca2, Adcy3, Atp5pb, Creb1, Gnas, Rps6kb2, Upcrc1 and Dpf1). Real-time PCR further confirmed that Smarca2 and Atp5pb were upregulated in the testis of DIO mice. These finding implied that diet-induced thermogenesis pathways could be altered in the testis of DIO mice.
Project description:An intrinsic property of the heart is an ability to rapidly and coordinately adjust flux through metabolic pathways in response to physiologic stimuli (termed metabolic flexibility). Cardiac metabolism also fluctuates across the 24-hr day, in association with diurnal sleep-wake and fasting-feeding cycles. Although loss of metabolic flexibility has been proposed to play a causal role in the pathogenesis of cardiac disease, it is currently unknown whether day-night variations in cardiac metabolism are altered during disease states. Here, we tested the hypothesis that diet-induced obesity disrupts cardiac “diurnal metabolic flexibility”, which is normalized by time-of-day-restricted feeding. Chronic high fat feeding (20-wk) induced obesity in mice, abolished diurnal rhythms in whole body metabolic flexibility, and increased markers of adverse cardiac remodeling (hypertrophy, fibrosis, and steatosis). RNAseq analysis revealed that 24-hr rhythms in the cardiac transcriptome were dramatically altered during obesity; only 22% of rhythmic transcripts in control hearts were unaffected by obesity. However, day-night differences in cardiac substrate oxidation were essentially identical in control and high fat fed mice. In contrast, day-night differences in both cardiac triglyceride synthesis and lipidome were abolished during obesity. Next, a subset of obese mice (induced by 18-wks ad libitum high fat feeding) were allowed access to the high fat diet only during the 12-hr dark (active) phase, for a 2-wk period. Dark phase restricted feeding partially restored whole body metabolic flexibility, as well as day-night differences in cardiac triglyceride synthesis and lipidome. Moreover, this intervention partially reversed adverse cardiac remodeling in obese mice. Collectively, these studies reveal diurnal metabolic inflexibility of the heart during obesity specifically for non-oxidative lipid metabolism (but not for substrate oxidation), and that restricting food intake to the active period partially reverses obesity-induced cardiac lipid metabolism abnormalities and adverse remodeling of the heart.
Project description:High-fat diet and obesity are high risk factors for colorectal cancer. The underlying mechanism is still unclear. Environmental factors alter the epigenome to affect gene expression thus the phenotype. In response to external stimuli, the cis-regulatory regions, especially enhancer loci, are key elements for regulating selective gene expression. We thus explored the effects of high-fat diet and the accompanying obesity on gene expression and the enhancer landscape in colon epithelium. High-fat diet exposed binding sites of transcription factors downstream of signaling pathways important in the initiation and progression of colon cancer. Meantime, colon-specific enhancers were lost rendering the cells potential for dedifferentiation. The alteration at enhancer regions drives a specific transcription program promoting colon cancer progression. The comprehensive interrogation of enhancer changes by high-fat diet in colon epithelium provides a number of insights into the underlying biology of high-fat diet and obesity in increasing colon cancer risk, and provides potential therapeutic targets to treat obese colon cancer patients.