Heterogeneity of meningeal cortical cells was deciphered on the molecular level using single cell RNA seq Overall design: RNA sequencing of 179 meningeal cortical cells isolated from naive wild-type mice
Neurogenic Radial Glia-like Cells in Meninges Migrate and Differentiate into Functionally Integrated Neurons in the Neonatal Cortex.
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View SamplesEnterocytes assemble dietary lipids into chylomicron particles that are taken up by intestinal lacteal vessels and peripheral tissues. Although chylomicrons are known to assemble in part within membrane secretory pathways, the modifications required for efficient vascular uptake are unknown. We report that the transcription factor Pleomorphic adenoma gene-like 2 (PLAGL2) is essential for this aspect of dietary lipid metabolism. PlagL2-/- mice die from post-natal wasting owing to failure of fat absorption. Lipids modified in the absence of PlagL2 exit from enterocytes but fail to enter interstitial lacteal vessels. Dysregulation of enterocyte genes closely linked to intracellular membrane transport identified candidate regulators of critical steps in chylomicron assembly. PlagL2 thus regulates essential and poorly understood aspects of dietary lipid absorption and its deficiency represents an authentic animal model with implications for amelioration of obesity or the metabolic syndrome.
Loss of the PlagL2 transcription factor affects lacteal uptake of chylomicrons.
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The MuvB complex sequentially recruits B-Myb and FoxM1 to promote mitotic gene expression.
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View SamplesWe sequenced mRNA from HCT116 p21-/- cells treated with Nutlin-3a, doxorubicin, or DMSO for 24 h. Overall design: Examination of mRNA levels from HCT116 p21-/- cells treated with Nutlin-3a, doxorubicin, or DMSO for 24 h using four replicates each.
Integration of TP53, DREAM, MMB-FOXM1 and RB-E2F target gene analyses identifies cell cycle gene regulatory networks.
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View SamplesTranslation initiation factor eIF4E is overexpressed early in breast cancers in association with disease progression and reduced survival. Much remains to be understood regarding the role of eIF4E in human cancer. Using immortalized human breast epithelial cells, we report that elevated expression of elF4E translationally activates the TGF pathway, promoting cell invasion, loss of cell polarity, increased cell survival and other hallmarks of early neoplasia. Overexpression of eIF4E is shown to facilitate selective translation of integrin 1 mRNA, which drives the translationally controlled assembly of a TGF receptor signaling complex containing 31 integrins, -catenin, TGF receptor I, E-cadherin and phosphorylated Smads2/3. This receptor complex acutely sensitizes non-malignant breast epithelial cells to activation by typically sub-stimulatory levels of activated TGF. TGF can promote cellular differentiation or invasion and transformation. As a translational coactivator of TGF, eIF4E confers selective mRNA translation, reprogramming non-malignant cells to an invasive phenotype by reducing the set-point for stimulation by activated TGF. Overexpression of eIF4E may be a pro-invasive facilitator of TGF activity.
Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 4E Is a Feed-Forward Translational Coactivator of Transforming Growth Factor β Early Protransforming Events in Breast Epithelial Cells.
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View SamplesTranscript dynamics in mitotic exit mutants in the S. cerevisiae BF264-15D strain background. We examined the extent to which periodic cell-cycle transcription persisted in cells arrested in anaphase with intermediate level of B-cyclins.
Reconciling conflicting models for global control of cell-cycle transcription.
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View SamplesBackground: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a family of small, non-coding single-stranded RNA molecules involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. As such, they are believed to play a role in regulating the step-wise changes in gene expression patterns that occur during cell fate specification of multipotent stem cells. Here, we have studied whether terminal differentiation of C2C12 myoblasts is indeed controlled by lineage-specific changes in miRNA expression.
MicroRNA miR-378 promotes BMP2-induced osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal progenitor cells.
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View SamplesFor more than a decade, microarrays have been a powerful and widely used tool to explore the transcriptome of biological systems. However, the amount of biological material from cell sorting or laser capture microdissection is much too small to perform microarray studies. To address this issue, RNA amplification methods have been developed to generate sufficient targets from picogram amounts of total RNA to perform microarray hybridisation. In this study, four commercial protocols for amplification of picograms amounts of input RNA for microarray expression profiling were evaluated and compared. The quantitative and qualitative performances of the methods were assessed. Microarrays were hybridised with the amplified targets and the amplification protocols were compared with respect to the quality of expression profiles, reproducibility within a concentration range of input RNA, and sensitivity.
Evaluation of methods for amplification of picogram amounts of total RNA for whole genome expression profiling.
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Unraveling condition-dependent networks of transcription factors that control metabolic pathway activity in yeast.
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View SamplesDuring CNS development, the nuclear protein SATB2 is expressed in superficial cortical layers and determines projection neuron identity. In the adult CNS, SATB2 is expressed in pyramidal neurons of all cortical layers and is a regulator of synaptic plasticity and long-term memory. Common variation in SATB2 locus confers risk of schizophrenia whereas rare, de novo structural and single nucleotide variants cause severe intellectual disability and absent or limited speech. To which extent symptoms in SATB2-related human pathologies depend on developmental or adult functions of the protein remains to be established. To characterize differences in SATB2 molecular function in developing vs adult neocortex, we compared SATB2 protein interactomes and SATB2-driven gene expression programs at the two ontogenetic stages by co-IP mass spectrometry and RNAseq analyses, respectively. Our results demonstrated that 1) SATB2 interacts with different protein networks at the two ontogenetic stages, with a switch from transcriptional repression towards organization of chromatin structure and 2) SATB2 determines differential transcriptional programs in neonatal vs adult cortex. Overall design: Analysis of neocortex transcriptomes of adult (3 month old) SATB2-deficient (Satb2flx/flx::Camk2a-Cre ) vs floxed mice
Genes encoding SATB2-interacting proteins in adult cerebral cortex contribute to human cognitive ability.
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