Project description:Examination of aging in social insects. Differential gene expression between old and young individuals of four castes of the termite Macrotermes bellicosus. Minor workers, major workers, kings, queens. Collected in January 2015 in Ivory Coast.
Project description:To understand at the molecular level the differences between old HSCs and young HSCs we have performed genome-wide analyses using Affymetrix Gene ST 1.0 microarrays with FACS purified cell populations. In contrast to other datasets comparing young and old HSCs, we compared both young and old HSCs and GMPs, and subtracted for genes that were also differentially expressed between young and old GMPs using a zero-intercept linear model. This allowed us to identify 913 significantly differentially expressed genes that were specific to old HSCs and segregated into different clusters.
Project description:Aging is associated with the decline of protein, cell, and organ function. Here, we use an integrated approach to characterize gene expression, bulk translation, and cell biology in the brains and livers of young and old rats. We identify 468 differences in protein abundance between young and old animals. The majority are a consequence of altered translation output, that is, the combined effect of changes in transcript abundance and translation efficiency. In addition, we identify 130 proteins whose overall abundance remains unchanged but whose sub-cellular localization, phosphorylation state, or splice-form varies. While some protein-level differences appear to be a generic property of the rats’ chronological age, the majority are specific to one organ. These may be a consequence of the organ’s physiology or the chronological age of the cells within the tissue. Taken together, our study provides an initial view of the proteome at the molecular, sub-cellular, and organ level in young and old rats. The corresponding dataset in Gene Expression Omnibus is <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE66715">GSE66715</a>.
Project description:We have performed ATAC-seq in highly purified Hematopoeitic Stem cells (HSC, LSK/SLAM) from young (4-5mo) and old (20-24mo) C57BL/6J in order to investigate differences in chromatin accessible sites between these 2 groups.
Project description:We analyzed the protein expression spectrum in the blood and found 257 proteins expressed differentially in plasma and 1183 proteins expressed differentially in blood cells between old and young rhesus monkeys.
Project description:Gene expression approach to differences in stress response between human skin fibroblasts derived from chronologically young (~20 years) and old (~90 years) subjects. Expression of CDKN2A was most different between fibroblasts from young and old subjects and
Project description:To examine underlying differences in gene expression between young and old MSCs and the effects of exposure of old MSCs to media conditioned by young MSCs on gene expression we performed RNA sequencing
Project description:The circadian profile of the transcriptomes in murine tissues was compared between groups of young and old male mice. The oscillatory phase and absolute expression levels were evaluated as a function of biological age. Distinct differences in multiple pathways were apparent based on biological and circadian time in a tissue specific manner.
