Project description:Using a supercritical fluid chromatography-mass spectrometry (SFC-MS)-based methodology, we quantified phosphoinositides (PIPs) species in LPIAT1 KO mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs).
Project description:Using a supercritical fluid chromatography-mass spectrometry (SFC-MS)-based methodology, we quantified phosphoinositides (PIPs) species in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) from WT or FIP200 KO mice during autophagosome formation.
Project description:A cohort of age-matched mice (eIF6+/+ and eIF6+/-) were fed with High-Fat Diet. All experimental mice were sacrificed after 16 weeks and the livers were recovered. RNA was isolated from liver biopsies of eIF6+/+ and eIF6+/- mice and RNAseq analysis was performed. The aim of the analysis is the investigation of the transcriptional changes driven by chronic depletion of eIF6 in the liver of mice upon High Fat Diet (HFD) feeding.
Project description:Celastrol has been shown to sensitize leptin receptor signaling and reduce ER stress. Current microarray data provide the gene expression profile in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) after Celastrol treatment compared with control.
Project description:Moderating the pool of active ribosomal subunits is critical for maintaining global translation rates. A crucial factor for modulating the 60S ribosomal subunits is eukaryotic translation initiation factor 6. Release of eIF6 from 60S is essential to permit 60S interactions with 40S. Here, using the N106S mutant of eIF6, we show that disrupting eIF6 interaction with 60S leads to an increase in vacant 80S. It further highlights a dichotomy in the anti-association activity of eIF6 that is distinct from its role in 60S biogenesis and shows that the nucleolar localization of eIF6 is not dependent on uL14-BCCIP interactions. Limiting active ribosomal pools markedly deregulates translation especially in mitosis and leads to chromosome segregation defects, mitotic exit delays and mitotic catastrophe. Ribo-Seq analysis of the eIF6-N106S mutant shows a significant downregulation in the translation efficiencies of mitotic factors and specifically transcripts with long 3′UTRs. eIF6-N106S mutation also limits cancer invasion, and this role is correlated with the overexpression of eIF6 only in high-grade invasive cancers suggesting that deregulation of eIF6 is probably not an early event in cancers. Thus, this study highlights the segregation of eIF6 functions and its role in moderating 80S availability for mitotic translation and cancer progression.
Project description:Moderating the pool of active ribosomal subunits is critical for maintaining global translation rates. A crucial factor for modulating the 60S ribosomal subunits is eukaryotic translation initiation factor 6. Release of eIF6 from 60S is essential to permit 60S interactions with 40S. Here, using the N106S mutant of eIF6, we show that disrupting eIF6 interaction with 60S leads to an increase in vacant 80S. It further highlights a dichotomy in the anti-association activity of eIF6 that is distinct from its role in 60S biogenesis and shows that the nucleolar localization of eIF6 is not dependent on uL14-BCCIP interactions. Limiting active ribosomal pools markedly deregulates translation especially in mitosis and leads to chromosome segregation defects, mitotic exit delays and mitotic catastrophe. Ribo-Seq analysis of the eIF6-N106S mutant shows a significant downregulation in the translation efficiencies of mitotic factors and specifically transcripts with long 3′UTRs. eIF6-N106S mutation also limits cancer invasion, and this role is correlated with the overexpression of eIF6 only in high-grade invasive cancers suggesting that deregulation of eIF6 is probably not an early event in cancers. Thus, this study highlights the segregation of eIF6 functions and its role in moderating 80S availability for mitotic translation and cancer progression.
Project description:Investigation of DNA methlation changing in thymidine treatment-induced MEFs. Mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) were obtained at E14.5 embryos and supplied with Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) (Invitrogen) with 15% FBS, 100 μg/ml streptomycin and 100 U/ml penicillin. Potential hematopoietic progenitor cells (CD45+CD41+CD31+c-Kit+) were negatively selected with Biotin labeled anti-CD45, anti-CD31, anti-CD41 and anti-c-Kit antibodies by magnetic beads. Hereafter, treated MEFs are referred to as 4neg MEFs for initiation of induction. 4neg MEFs were seeded on mitomycin (MMC)-treated MEFs as feeder cells and cultured in DMEM with 15% FBS, 100 μg/ml streptomycin, 100 U/ml penicillin, 2 mM L-glutamine, 0.1 mM non-essential amino acids and 100 μM thymidine as induction medium for 2 days followed with analysis