Project description:Aging-associated inflammatory and oxidative changes in the rat urinary bladder and dorsal root ganglia - preventive effect of caloric restriction [bladder]
Project description:Major urinary proteins (MUP) are the major component of the urinary protein fraction in house mice (Mus spp.) and rats (Rattus spp.). The structure, polymorphism and functions of these lipocalins have been well described in the western European house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus), clarifying their role in semiochemical communication. The complexity of these roles in the mouse raises the question of similar functions in other rodents, including the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus. Norway rats express MUPs in urine but information about specific MUP isoform sequences and functions is limited. In this study, we present a detailed molecular characterization of the MUP proteoforms expressed in the urine of two laboratory strains, Wistar Han and Brown Norway, and wild caught animals, using a combination of manual gene annotation, intact protein mass spectrometry and bottom-up mass spectrometry-based proteomic approaches. Detailed sequencing of the urinary MUP isoforms reveals a less complex pattern of primary sequence polymorphism in the rat than the mouse. However, rat MUPs exhibit added complexity in the form of post-translational modifications, including the phosphorylation of Ser4 in some isoforms, and exoproteolytic trimming of specific isoforms.
Project description:Gene expression profiling in the rat glandular stomach exposed to methacrylamide, sulfolane, 2-iso-propoxyethanol, hydrazine monohydrate and 4-ethylmorpholine. CIBEX accession: CBX166
Project description:Gene expression profiling in the rat glandular stomach exposed to 2-butanone oxime, m-xylylenediamine, 3-cyanopyridine, 2-(2-aminoethylamino)ethanol and tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol. CIBEX accession: CBX165
Project description:In order to establish a rat embryonic stem cell transcriptome, mRNA from rESC cell line DAc8, the first male germline competent rat ESC line to be described and the first to be used to generate a knockout rat model was characterized using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis.
