Project description:To investigate the contribution of Mincle in neuronopathic Gaucher disease, we established Gba flox/flox; Nestin-Cre mice and crossed them with Mincle deficient mice. RNA sequencing of microglia from these mice revealed Axl, a phaogocytic receptor was upregulated in Gba flox/flox; Nestin-Cre mice. In addition, Tnf was upregulated in Gba flox/flox; Nestin-Cre mice in a Mincle-dependent manner. Our further study elucidated that Mincle, Axl and TNF are involved in the pathology of Gaucher disease.
Project description:To investigate neuronopathic Gaucher disease brain cell gene expression, we established Gba flox/flox; Nestin-Cre mice and performed scRNA sequencing of whole brain cells from these and wild type mice. Unbiased clustering analysis revealed that most remarkable change between wild type and Gba flox/flox; Nestin-Cre mice was the appearance of an activated microglia cluster, which exclusively expressed Tnf. Our further study elucidated the mechanism by which activated microglia and TNF contribute to Gaucher disease pathology.
Project description:To generate novel atopic dermatitis model, we used Nestin-cre mediated Ikk2FL/FL mice. Nestincre-mediated conditional knockout mice of Ikk2 gene were generated by crossing female Ikk2FL/FL mice to male Nestin-cre;Ikk2FL/+mice. Nestin-cre;Ikk2FL/FL mice spontaneously develop chronic AD-like skin inflammation and severe pruritus. We further performed Cap analysis of gene expression (CAGE) to elucidate transcriptional profiles in lesional skin of Nestin-cre;Ikk2FL/FL mice.
Project description:Single nucleotide polymorphisms in intron 1 of the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene were found to be associated with an increased risk of adult obesity. Enhanced FTO expression in mice leads to hyperphagia, increased fat mass, and higher body weight. Neuronal-specific FTOâ??deleted mice have an identical lean body weight phenotype to global FTO-deleted mice. The physiological role of adipose FTO in the homeostasis of energy regulation remains to be elucidated. We used microarrays to elucidate the metabolic pathways that are regulated by FTO in the white fat. FTO flox/flox and Adiponectin-cre FTO flox/flox (AFO) mice were fed with chow diet. White fat tissues from epididymal adipose pad were harvested under ad lib condition for RNA isolation. Three independent pools of FTO flox/flox and AFO mouse white fat RNA were included in the study.
Project description:We have previously shown that the HyD-LIR-Venus probe can specifically inhibit selective autophagy by suppressing the interaction of LIR-containing selective autophagy substrates and receptors with ATG8-family proteins in vivo. We generated hepatocyte-specific HyD-LIR-Venus-expressing mice (HyD-LIRflox/flox; Alb-Cre) by crossing HyD-LIRflox/flox mice, in which HyD-LIR-Venus is expressed under CAG promoter in a Cre-recombinase-dependent manner, with Alb-Cre transgenic mice that express Cre under the control of the Albumin promoter. We performed quantitative proteomic analysis of the livers of 5-week-old HyD-LIRflox/flox and HyD-LIRflox/flox; Alb-Cre mice using the RTS-SPS-MS3 method on Tribrid mass spectrometry.
Project description:Synovial fibroblasts critically contribute to the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by acquiring either a pro-inflammatory or tissue-destructive phenotype. To explore the molecular mechanisms underlying the tissue-destructive fibroblast phenotype in arthritis, we performed bulk RNA-sequencing analysis on the synovial fibroblasts which were isolated from Col6a1-Cre-Ets1-flox/flox (Ets1ΔFib) and Ets1-flox/flox (Ets1flox) mice.