Project description:Analysis of uPA regulation of 4T1 tumor growth at gene expression level. The hypothesis tested in the present study was that overexpression of uPA in 4T1 tumor influence the tumor growth and metastasis related cell signaling pathway. 4T1 cells were stably transduced by lentiviral vector expressing mouse uPA or empty vector. After day 7 of inoculation of 4T1 cells into fatpad of Balb/c mice. Total RNA was extracted from tumor samples (triplicate) using Qiagen total RNA isolation kit. The Illumina MouseWG-6 v2.0 Expression BeadChip (Illumina, Wallingford, CT) was used for gene expression. The raw data from the fluorescence intensity measurements of each array experiment was processed using GeneSpringGX v.11.0 software (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA). Statistical analysis, fold change calculations, and hierarchical clustering of the data were also performed in GeneSpring software. Genes that expressed significantly differently with more than 1.5-fold change and a p-value of <0.05 with respect to controls were taken into consideration. Gene expression data were further validated by qRT-PCR analysis. Pathway analysis was performed by MetaCore software (GeneGo, Inc, St. Joseph, MI).
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in mouse 4T1 mammary tumors expressing Cebpb shRNA, compared to 4T1 tumors expressing control shRNA. Analysis of mouse 4T1 mammary tumors expressing Cebpb shRNA compared to control shRNA are further described in Johansson & Berg et al 2012.
Project description:Analysis of uPA regulation of 4T1 tumor growth at gene expression level. The hypothesis tested in the present study was that overexpression of uPA in 4T1 tumor influence the tumor growth and metastasis related cell signaling pathway.
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in mouse 4T1 mammary tumors expressing Cebpb shRNA, compared to 4T1 tumors expressing control shRNA. Analysis of mouse 4T1 mammary tumors expressing Cebpb shRNA compared to control shRNA are further described in Johansson & Berg et al 2012. A 10 chip study using total RNA recovered from five separate 4T1 tumors expressing Cebpb shRNA and five separate 4T1 tumors expressing control shRNA. All tumors were surgically removed after subcutaneous implantation in syngeneic BALB/c mice two weeks earlier. Each chip measures the expression level of 44,170 genes from Mus Musculus with fourteen 24-mer probe pairs (PM/MM) per gene, with three-fold technical redundancy.
Project description:PURPOSE: To provide a detailed gene expression profile of the normal postnatal mouse cornea. METHODS: Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) was performed on postnatal day (PN)9 and adult mouse (6 week) total corneas. The expression of selected genes was analyzed by in situ hybridization. RESULTS: A total of 64,272 PN9 and 62,206 adult tags were sequenced. Mouse corneal transcriptomes are composed of at least 19,544 and 18,509 unique mRNAs, respectively. One third of the unique tags were expressed at both stages, whereas a third was identified exclusively in PN9 or adult corneas. Three hundred thirty-four PN9 and 339 adult tags were enriched more than fivefold over other published nonocular libraries. Abundant transcripts were associated with metabolic functions, redox activities, and barrier integrity. Three members of the Ly-6/uPAR family whose functions are unknown in the cornea constitute more than 1% of the total mRNA. Aquaporin 5, epithelial membrane protein and glutathione-S-transferase (GST) omega-1, and GST alpha-4 mRNAs were preferentially expressed in distinct corneal epithelial layers, providing new markers for stratification. More than 200 tags were differentially expressed, of which 25 mediate transcription. CONCLUSIONS: In addition to providing a detailed profile of expressed genes in the PN9 and mature mouse cornea, the present SAGE data demonstrate dynamic changes in gene expression after eye opening and provide new probes for exploring corneal epithelial cell stratification, development, and function and for exploring the intricate relationship between programmed and environmentally induced gene expression in the cornea. Keywords: other
Project description:In addition to immunodeficiency, host mice for chimeric mice with highly humanized liver should have hepatic malfunction in order to allow higher replacement rate of human hepatocytes in the liver. Urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) whole gene transfer is often employed to achieve hepatic malfunction in the host mice. We have established uPA cDNA transfer that is far stable, as compared with traditional whole uPA gene transfer. Hepatic gene expression was quite similar between whole uPA gene transfer and uPA cDNA transfer after transplantation of the same lot of human hepatocyte (BD195),, as compared with the variation of gene expression after transplantation of different lots of human hepatocytes to host mice with whole uPA gene transfer.
Project description:Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant variant of Vkorc1 that introgressed from Mus spretus into European populations of Mus musculus domesticus. Here, we conducted bidirectional genome scans to characterize introgressed regions into one wild population of M. spretus from Spain and three wild populations of M. m. domesticus from France, Germany, and Iran. Despite the fact that these species show considerable intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation, introgression was observed in all individuals, including in the M. musculus reference genome (GRCm38). Mus spretus individuals had a greater proportion of introgression compared with M. m. domesticus, and within M. m. domesticus, the proportion of introgression decreased with geographic distance from the area of sympatry. Introgression was observed on all autosomes for both species, but not on the X-chromosome in M. m. domesticus, consistent with known X-linked hybrid sterility and inviability genes that have been mapped to the M. spretus X-chromosome. Tract lengths were generally short with a few outliers of up to 2.7 Mb. Interestingly, the longest introgressed tracts were in olfactory receptor regions, and introgressed tracts were significantly enriched for olfactory receptor genes in both species, suggesting that introgression may be a source of functional novelty even between species with high barriers to gene flow.