Project description:The IkB-Kinase (IKK)-NF-kB signaling pathway plays a multifaceted role in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: One the one hand it protects cells from apoptosis, but on the other, it activates transcription of numerous inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. To examine the role of constitutive NF-kB signaling in intestinal epithelium cells (IEC), we generated a mouse model with a tissue-specific knockout of the direct inhibitor of NF-kB, IkBα. We demonstrate that in IκBαIEC-KO mice, constitutive activation of NF-kB in epithelium leads to abnormal intestinal development, enlarged peyer’s patches, loss of Paneth cells, and spontaneous inflammation. We performed expression analysis of IκBαIEC-KO mice compared to wildtype by using the Affymetrix array Clariom S mouse.
Project description:The objective of this study was to identify changes in gene expression levels between wild-type and CFTR-knockout small intestine. CFTR-knockout mice (provided by Dr. Lane Clarke of the University of Missouri) were maintained on colyte. Keywords: gene expression comparison Four wild-type and four CFTR-knockout small intestinal RNA samples were compared. To facilitate statistical analysis and reduce affects of Cy3 and Cy5 labeling, comparison of two WT and two KO were repeated with a dye flip.
Project description:By comparing the small intestine transcriptomes of 4 wild type and 3 ASE-/- mice, we identified several oxidative balance related genes are exressed differentially between WT and ASE-/- in postnatal day 1.5 small intestine when dietary nutrient uptake became vital to support neonatal physiology. We here discover that the asymmetry enhancer of Pitx2 is critical for proper redox homeostasis.This is in agreement with the previous discovery that Pitx2 is important for cellular oxidative balance and is therefore important in cellular maturation and differentiation.