Gene expression profile of Huh7 cells with long and short telomeres
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Project description:We sorted H2O2–treated HCC Huh7-cells harboring telomeres in the top 20th percentile (long telomeres) and bottom 20th percentile of telomere length (short telomeres) according to fluorescence-activated cell sorting based on the fluorescence intensity associated with the telomere-binding protein, followed by whole-genome mRNA-expression microarray analysis. In detail, a stable Huh7 cell line expressing GFP-tagged telomere-binding protein adrenocortical dysplasia protein homolog (TPP1) was established using 1 mg/mL G418 as a selection antibiotic. The telomere lengths in living cells were measured by assessing the expression of TPP1 by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) under the assumption that the expression level of the telomere binding protein is proportional to telomere length. The cells were dissociated at 37°C in 0.2 % w/v trypsin-EDTA for 10 min. After gentle pipetting to induce dissociation, the cells were washed twice with cold PBS solution containing 0.6 % w/v ultra-pure bovine serum albumins (A0100-010) and filtered using a cell strainer (BD Bioscience). HCC cells displaying weak or strong GFP expression were isolated from the mock- or H2O2-treated cells using a FACS Aria II (BD Bioscience), respectively. A whole genome mRNA expression microarray (Macrogen, Seoul, Korea) was used to compare the gene expression patterns between HCC cells possessing short or long telomeres.
2019-06-10 | GSE114004 | GEO
Project description:Eukaryotes maintain telomere length within a defined range. While short telomeres are known to activate DNA damage responses and limit cell proliferation, long telomeres are associated with extended proliferative capacity, but their broader cellular consequences remain less well understood. In budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, long telomeres have been shown to influence gene expression at specific loci, but whether long telomeres affect transcription genome-wide has not been reported. Here, we analysed the transcriptomes of diploid yeast strains in a single lineage in which long telomeres were initially generated by a rif2delta mutation and subsequently inherited through successive rounds of mitosis and meiosis in the absence of this mutation. We show that strains with long telomeres exhibit a distinct gene expression profile, enriched in transcripts encoding membrane transporters. Both up- and down-regulated genes were distributed across the genome, arguing against a purely telomere-proximal effect on gene expression. Affected genes were enriched for Rap1 binding sites, consistent with a model in which long telomeres alter the availability of telomere-associated transcriptional regulators such as Rap1 and thereby affect gene expression at non-telomeric binding sites for these regulators. The magnitude of transcriptional changes was greatest in strains with the longest telomeres. Together, our findings demonstrate that long telomeres induce a genome-wide transcriptional response that accompanies inherited long telomeres across generations but diminishes as telomeres shorten. These types of transcriptional changes may also occur in other eukaryotes, including humans, where long telomeres can be inherited and are associated with disease.
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Project description:The factors that underlie the increasing incidence of diabetes with age are poorly understood. We examined whether telomere length, known to decrease with age, plays a role in the age-dependent increased incidence of diabetes. We show that in mice with short telomeres, insulin secretion is impaired and leads to glucose intolerance despite the presence of an intact M-NM-2-cell mass. Islets from mice with short telomeres displayed evidence of M-NM-2-cell dysfunction, and in response to glucose, had defective mitochondrial membrane depolarization as well as Ca2+ handling which limited insulin release. Short telomeres induced the hallmarks of senescence including premature accumulation of p16INK4a, and altered gene expression of key pathways essential for signaling and insulin secretion. Short telomeres also had an additive damaging effect to endoplasmic reticulum stress which occurs in the late stages of type 2 diabetes. This manifested as more severe hyperglycemia in insulin mutant Akita mice which had a more profound loss of M-NM-2-cell mass and increased M-NM-2-cell apoptosis. Our data identify impaired signaling in the setting of senescence as a novel mechanism of telomere-mediated disease, and implicate telomere length as a determinant of risk and pathogenesis in diabetes. The experiment is designed to analyze gene expression profiles of islets from mice with short telomeres compared to those of wildtype mice.
2013-10-01 | E-GEOD-25040 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:The factors that underlie the increasing incidence of diabetes with age are poorly understood. We examined whether telomere length, known to decrease with age, plays a role in the age-dependent increased incidence of diabetes. We show that in mice with short telomeres, insulin secretion is impaired and leads to glucose intolerance despite the presence of an intact β-cell mass. Islets from mice with short telomeres displayed evidence of β-cell dysfunction, and in response to glucose, had defective mitochondrial membrane depolarization as well as Ca2+ handling which limited insulin release. Short telomeres induced the hallmarks of senescence including premature accumulation of p16INK4a, and altered gene expression of key pathways essential for signaling and insulin secretion. Short telomeres also had an additive damaging effect to endoplasmic reticulum stress which occurs in the late stages of type 2 diabetes. This manifested as more severe hyperglycemia in insulin mutant Akita mice which had a more profound loss of β-cell mass and increased β-cell apoptosis. Our data identify impaired signaling in the setting of senescence as a novel mechanism of telomere-mediated disease, and implicate telomere length as a determinant of risk and pathogenesis in diabetes.
2013-10-01 | GSE25040 | GEO
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2018-01-22 | GSE93869 | GEO
Project description:Telomere shortening is universally acquired with aging in humans, but the contribution of telomere shortening to immune aging is not fully understood. Here, we studied T cells derived from short telomere syndrome patients and compared their T cell profile and function to controls and elderly individuals who had normal age-adjusted telomere length. The short telomere syndrome patients were all under age 40 and carried mutant telomerase or telomere genes and had telomere lengths below the 1st age-adjusted percentile. The T cell profile of young short telomere syndrome patients resembled those that were five decades older including a depletion of naive T cell population and accumulation of terminally differentiated effector cells. To test whether short telomeres affect the quality of these cells, we performed a gene expression microarray. The data are summarized here. We found that although numerically expanded in both short telomere and elderly cases, the gene expression microarrays were distinct with short telomere cells predominately upregulating gene expression of DNA damage pathways and elderly T cells upregulating cell extrinsic apoptotic pathways. The goal of the experiment is to highlight important genes and pathways that may drive immune aging in short telomere syndromes and which may also contribute to normal immune aging.
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