ABSTRACT: Cardiac aldosterone and corticosterone regulated genes in mice with cardiomyocytes targeted mineralocorticoid receptor overexpression (MR-Cardio mice) and their controls (Ctrl mice)
Project description:Inappropriate mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) activation is involved in cardiac diseases. MR binds aldosterone, but also glucocorticoids; the identity of the ligand responsible for the deleterious effects of cardiac MR activation is still unclear. Mice overexpressing MR in cardiomyocytes (MR-Cardio) and their controls (Ctrl) were treated for 7 days with aldosterone or corticosterone and a whole genome microarray analysis was performed.
Project description:Inappropriate mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) activation is involved in cardiac diseases. The mechanisms are still unclears. Mice overexpressing MR in cardiomyocytes (MR-Cardio) and their controls (Ctrl) were treated for 7 days with aldosterone and a whole genome microarray analysis was performed.
Project description:Cardiac aldosterone regulated genes in mice with cardiomyocytes targeted mineralocorticoid receptor overexpression (MR-Cardio mice) and their controls (Ctrl mice)
Project description:Inappropriate excess of the steroid hormone aldosterone, which is a mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) agonist, is associated with increased inflammation and risk of cardiovascular disease. MR antagonists are cardioprotective and antiinflammatory in vivo, and evidence suggests that they mediate these effects in part by aldosterone- independent mechanisms. We used affymetrix to characterize the effect of Mineralocorticoid Receptor deletion on macrophage transcriptional profile, and identify its requirement in normal glucocorticoid signalling. We isolated mouse peritoneal macrophages from Myeloid MRKO mice and Floxed Controls, cultured in the presence or absence of corticosterone. RNA was extracted for Affymetrix cDNA hybridization. Each sample was pooled from experiments performed in triplicate.
Project description:Recent studies have highlighted the role of adrenal corticosteroid signaling in cardiac physiology and pathophysiology. It is known that glucocorticoids and aldosterone are able to bind glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), and these ligand-receptor interactions are redundant. Therefore, it has been impossible to delineate how these nuclear receptors couple with corticosteroid ligands and differentially regulate gene expression for operation of their distinct functions in the heart. Here, to particularly define the role of GR, we applied ligand-based approach involving GR-specific agonist cortivazol (CVZ) and GR antagonist RU486, and performed microarray analysis using rat neonatal cardiomyocytes. We indicated that glucocorticoids appear to be a major determinant of GR-mediated gene expression when compared with aldosterone. Moreover, expression profiles of these genes highlighted numerous roles of glucocorticoids in various aspects of cardiac physiology. Experiment Overall Design: We analyzed gene expression changes after exposure of cells to corticosterone (COR), aldosterone (ALD), and cortivazol (CVZ) in the absence or presence of GR antagonist RU486. Since our preliminary experiments using several cell lines showed that expression of many GR target genes was induced by glucocorticoids in 3 h and to avoid secondary effects of the products of GR-regulated genes, we in the present study set the time periods of exposure to these ligands as 3 h. DNA microarray experiments were performed twice with the same protocol except for RU486 treatment.
Project description:Aldosterone, the main mineralocorticoid hormone in Humans, has a major role in maintaining the hemo-electrolytique homeostasis, by acting in the distal part of nephron. This steroid hormone mainly acts through its binding to a ligand-induced transcription factor, the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR). MR binds to specific genomic sequences, where it recruits transcriptional coregulators, to activate or repress target gene transcription. The aim of this work was to access the whole aldosterone-dependand MR target genes, by comparing sequenced data from aldosterone or vehicle-treated samples. Anti-MR ChIP-seq in Human Kidney GFP-hMR cells treated with vehicle or Aldosterone.
Project description:Aldosterone, the main mineralocorticoid hormone in Humans, has a major role in maintaining the hemo-electrolytique homeostasis, by acting in the distal part of nephron. This steroid hormone mainly acts through its binding to a ligand-induced transcription factor, the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR). MR binds to specific genomic sequences, where it recruits transcriptional coregulators, to activate or repress target gene transcription. The aim of this work was to access the whole aldosterone-dependand MR target genes, by comparing sequenced data from aldosterone or vehicle-treated samples.
Project description:Target gene of mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) is comparatively unknown, although distal convoluted tubule (DCT) expresses MR in in vivo. We used microarray and immortalized murine DCT cell-line overexpressing human MR with treatment of aldosterone to elucidate target genes of MR in DCT. mDCT overexpresses human MR by lipofection and is treated for 3 hours with ethanol (g1), or 10^-9 M aldosterone (g2), or 10^-7 M aldosterone (g3), or 10^-7 M aldosterone with pretreatment of 5 x 10^-6 M spironolactone (g4) for 2 hours.
Project description:The steroid hormone aldosterone plays a role in vascular function and disease. Aldosterone activates the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), a ligand-activated transcription factor. MR have been found to be expressed in vascular cells and vessels. We used microarrays to identify the global programme of gene expression changes in mouse aortas treated with vehicle (DMSO) or aldosterone. Wild type C57Bl6 male mice were treated with spironolactone (20 mg/kg/day, an MR antagonist) for 5 days by Sub-cutaneous pellet to suppress basal MR-mediated gene expression. Aortas were then harvested and treated ex vivo in organ culture with vehicle or 100 nM aldosterone for 2, 4, or 8 hours. Three aortas were pooled for each timepoint and treatment, and three pooled biological replicates were performed.
Project description:Inappropriate excess of the steroid hormone aldosterone, which is a mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) agonist, is associated with increased inflammation and risk of cardiovascular disease. MR antagonists are cardioprotective and antiinflammatory in vivo, and evidence suggests that they mediate these effects in part by aldosterone- independent mechanisms. We used affymetrix to characterize the effect of Mineralocorticoid Receptor deletion on macrophage transcriptional profile, and identify its requirement in normal glucocorticoid signalling.
