Project description:We intended to investigate effects of mmu-miR-15a-3p on gene expression in mice We used microarrays to compare gene expression in mouse B/CMBA.Ov cell lines transfected with mmu-miR-15a-3p and negative control mimic
Project description:We performed RNA sequencing on the fetal portion of murine placentas isolated at gestational day (GD) 18, 8 days after dams are exposed to a single intravascular administration of either pooled murine-conserved HEamiRNAs (50 μg of pooled equimolar quantities of mmu-miR-222-5p, mmu-miR-187-5p, mmu-mir-299a, mmu-miR-491-3p, miR-760-3p, mmu-miR-671-3p, mmu-miR-449a-5p and mmu-miR-204-5p mimics) or control scrambled miRNAs.
Project description:Non-thermal plasma, a partially ionized gas, holds significant potential for clinical applications, including wound healing support, oral therapies, and anti-tumour treatments. While its applications shown promising outcomes, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain incompletely understood. We thus applied non-thermal plasma to mouse auricular skin and conducted non-coding RNA sequencing, as well as single-cell blood sequencing. In a time-series analysis (5 time points spanning 2 hours), we compared the expression of microRNAs in the plasma-treated left ears to the unexposed right ears of the same mice as well as to the ears of unexposed control mice. Our findings indicate specific effects in the treated ears for a set of five miRNAs: mmu-miR-144-5p, mmu-miR-144-3p, mmu-miR-142a-5p, mmu-miR-223-3p, and mmu-miR-451a. Interestingly, miR-223-3p also exhibited an increase over time in the right non-treated ear of the exposed mice, suggesting systemic effects. Notably, this miRNA, along with mmu-miR-142a-5p and mmu-miR-144-3p, regulates genes and pathways associated with wound healing and tissue regeneration (namely ErbB, FoxO, Hippo, and PI3K-Akt signalling). This co-regulation is particularly remarkable considering the significant seed dissimilarities among the miRNAs. Finally, single blood cell sequencing revealed the downregulation of 12 from 15 target genes in B-cells, Cd4+ and Cd8+ T-cells. Collectively, our data provide evidence for a systemic effect of non-thermal plasma.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below. Non-thermal plasma, a partially ionized gas, holds significant potential for clinical applications, including wound-healing support, oral therapies, and anti-tumour treatments. While its applications showed promising outcomes, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain incompletely understood. We thus apply non-thermal plasma to mouse auricular skin and conducted non-coding RNA sequencing, as well as single-cell blood sequencing. In a time-series analysis (five timepoints spanning 2 hours), we compare the expression of microRNAs in the plasma-treated left ears to the unexposed right ears of the same mice as well as to the ears of unexposed control mice. Our findings indicate specific effects in the treated ears for a set of five miRNAs: mmu-miR-144-5p, mmu-miR-144-3p, mmu-miR-142a-5p, mmu-miR-223-3p, and mmu-miR-451a. Interestingly, mmu-miR-223-3p also exhibits an increase over time in the right non-treated ear of the exposed mice, suggesting systemic effects. Notably, this miRNA, along with mmu-miR-142a-5p and mmu-miR-144-3p, regulates genes and pathways associated with wound healing and tissue regeneration (namely ErbB, FoxO, Hippo, and PI3K-Akt signalling). This co-regulation is particularly remarkable considering the significant seed dissimilarities among the miRNAs. Finally, single-cell sequencing of PBMCs reveals the downregulation of 12 from 15 target genes in B-cells, Cd4+ and Cd8+ T-cells. Collectively, our data provide evidence for a systemic effect of non-thermal plasma.
Project description:The mouse mSCC-20 cell line was transfected with 5nM of mmu-pre-miR-193b-3p, pre-miR-365a-3p or pre-miR-NC1. Total RNAs were extracted 30 h after transfection and hybridized on microarrays. One color experiment with 3 experimental conditions : miR-NC1- (n=4), miR-193b-3p- (n=2) and miR-365-3p- (n=2) transfected cells, corresponding to a total of 8 samples.
Project description:Mycoestrogens are derived from mold and can interfere with female reproduction. Mycoestrogen zearalenone (ZEA) is a common food contaminant in levels of ppb ~ low ppm. Previously we demonstrated disrupted mouse placental development by 40 ppm ZEA diet. MicroRNAs are sensitive to xenobiotics and have been implicated in placental physiology and pathology. We hypothesized that ZEA could dysregulate microRNA expression in the mouse placenta. Gestation day 13.5 (D13.5) placentas from young mice treated with 0 ppm (control), 4 ppm, and 40 ppm ZEA diets were analyzed for microRNA profiling using microRNA array. The top 20 most highly expressed microRNAs in the D13.5 control placentas are predicated to target genes involved in important signaling pathways that are critical for maternal-fetal communications, such as protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum, endocytosis, and regulation of actin cytoskeleton. Using criteria of Log2FC ≥ 1 and Log2FC ≤ -1 (linear 2 fold change (FC)), a false discovery rate adjusted p-value ≤ 0.05, and average reading > 100 (top 20% most abundant microRNAs), R package limma identified 8 differentially expressed miRNAs (mmu-miR-133b-5p, mmu-miR-7028-5p, mmu-miR-294-3p, mmu-miR-3970, mmu-miR-20b-5p, mmu-miR-7683-3p, mmu-miR-291b-3p, mmu-miR-369-3p) in the 40 ppm ZEA group that included all 4 differentially expressed miRNAs in the 4 ppm ZEA group. Some of these differentially expressed microRNAs have been shown in vitro to have important functions in placental growth and maternal-fetal transport. These data imply roles of placental microRNAs in regulating expression of genes critical for placental function in vivo and in sensing environmental contaminants.
Project description:We investigated functions of miRNAs at the level of the whole transcriptome of primary neurons. We transfected mouse E17.5 forebrain primary neuronal cultures (at four to six days of in vitro development) with miRNA mimics and inhibitors. After approximately 48 h post transfection we profiled the effect of these transfections on gene expression with Illumina mRNA microarrays. Cultures were transfected with mimics and inhibitors of five mouse miRNAs (mmu-miR-124, mmu-miR-434-3p, mmu-miR-143, mmu-miR-145 and mmu-miR-25) and with a mimic of a non-mouse miRNA (cel-miR-67). Direct widespread inhibition of gene expression by the perturbed miRNAs was evident when gene expression in cultures transfected with miRNA mimics was compared to those transfected with the inhibitors (or to matched mock transfected cultures): 3-prime UTRs of downregulated transcripts were significantly enriched in seed matching sites for the perturbed miRNAs. Interestingly, analysis of differential gene expression in mock transfected cells (identified through comparison of mock transfected cultures with matched untreated cultures) revealed that genes inhibited by miRNAs were enriched in genes upregulated in mock transfected cultures. This inhibition was the most efficient by the two neuronal miRNAs under investigation (mmu-miR-124 and mmu-miR-434-3p). To investigate if miRNA mediated inhibition of stress induced genes (i.e. stress associated with transfections) was also the case in other stresses, we profiled gene expression changes triggered by chronic neuronal depolarisation. For this, we treated the cultures with KCl (15 mM, 48 h) and compared them to matched untreated cultures. We found that genes upregulated by KCl had a significant intersection with those upregulated by the mock transfection. Moreover, we also found that genes upregulated by KCl had a significant intersection with genes inhibited by mmu-miR-124 and mmu-miR-434-3p. Therefore we concluded that neuronal miRNAs stabilise the neuronal transcriptome by inhibiting stress inducible genes.