Project description:Seeking to identify additional transcription factors required for cardiac valve formation, we determined and explored the transcriptional landscape of endocardial cells at the time when key morphogenetic events underlying valve development take place.
Project description:Gene expression profiling reveals a potential role of APC 50% or APC 80% in stimulating hair growth in dermal papilla cells. HFDPCs were human primary cells line, treated with 5 μg/ml APC 50% for 48 h. Microarray gene expression profiling was conducted for three biological replicates HFDPCs were human primary cells line, treated with 5 μg/ml APC 80% for 48 h. Microarray gene expression profiling was conducted for three biological replicates
Project description:We sequenced mRNA of hearts from 50 wild-type and 50 kctd10 mutant embryos at 48 hpf. Examination of mRNA levels in the larvae hearts between the the wt and the kctd10 mutant.
Project description:Heterogeneous Tg(hsp70-hRASG12V) embryos were obtained by mating the male homozygous transgenic fish to wildtype females. They were raised to 24 hour-post fertilization (hpf) stage and received heatshock at 37°C in waterbath for one hour, and kept in 28.5°C till 30hpf for RNA extraction. Wildtype embryos receiving the same heatshock treatment were used as controls. Each microarray sample was prepared by pooling 50 embryos and biological duplication was used.
Project description:Heart formation requires input from two populations of progenitor cells - the first and second heart fields - that differentiate at distinct times and create different cardiac components. The cardiac outflow tract (OFT) is built through recruitment of late-differentiating, second heart field (SHF) -derived cardiomyocytes to the arterial pole of the heart. Mechanisms responsible for selection of an appropriate number of OFT cells from the SHF remain unclear, although several lines of evidence emphasize the importance of FGF signaling in promoting this process. Here, we examine the impact of inhibition of FGF signaling on cardiac transcription profiles in an effort to identify genes operating downstream of FGF during OFT development. We compared hearts from embryos treated with the FGFR inhibitor SU5402 to the hearts from sibling embryos treated with DMSO. Two replicates were performed.
Project description:Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCIPP) is a high-production volume organophosphate flame retardant widely used within the United States. Within zebrafish, initiation of TDCIPP exposure at 0.75 h post-fertilization (hpf) results in genome-wide alterations in methylation during cleavage (2 hpf) as well as epiboly delay or arrest (at higher concentrations) during late-blastula and early-gastrula (4-6 hpf). To determine whether these TDCIPP-induced effects were associated with impacts on the transcriptome, embryos were exposed to vehicle (0.1% DMSO) or 2 μM TDCIPP from 0.75 hpf to 6 hpf, and total RNA was extracted from triplicate embryo pools per treatment and hybridized onto duplicate Affymetrix Zebrafish Gene 1.0 ST Arrays per RNA sample. Based on transcriptome-wide profiling, TDCIPP resulted in a significant impact on biological pathways involved in dorsoventral patterning and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling. Consistent with pathway-level responses, TDCIPP exposure also resulted in strongly dorsalized embryos by 24 hpf – a phenotype that mimicked the effects of dorsomorphin, a potent and selective BMP inhibitor. Moreover, the majority of dorsalized embryos were preceded by epiboly arrest at 6 hpf. Our microarray data also revealed that the expression of sizzled (szl) – a gene encoding a secreted Frizzled-related protein that limits BMP signaling – was significantly decreased by nearly 4-fold at 6 hpf. Therefore, we used a splice-blocking morpholino to test the hypothesis that knockdown of szl phenocopies TDCIPP-induced delays in epiboly progression. Interestingly, contrary to our hypothesis, injection of szl MOs did not affect epiboly progression but, similar to chordin (chd) morphants, resulted in mildly ventralized embryos by 24 hpf. Overall, our findings suggest that TDCIPP-induced epiboly delay may be independent of szl expression and function, and that TDCIPP-induced dorsalization may – similar to dorsomorphin – be due to interference with BMP signaling during early zebrafish.