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GSE12501
Mus musculus
18 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430A 2.0 Array (mouse430a2)
Description
Aneuploidy, an incorrect chromosome number, is the leading cause of miscarriages and mental retardation in humans and is a hallmark of cancer. We examined the effects of aneuploidy on primary mouse cells by generating a series of cell lines that carry an extra copy of one of four mouse chromosomes. In all four trisomic lines proliferation was impaired and metabolic properties were altered. Immortalization, the acquisition of the ability to proliferate indefinitely, was also affected by the presence of an additional chromosome, with some chromosomes inhibiting immortalization while others accelerating the process. Our data indicate that aneuploidy decreases not only organismal but also cellular fitness and elicits traits that are shared between different aneuploid cells.
Publication Title
Aneuploidy affects proliferation and spontaneous immortalization in mammalian cells.
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No sample metadata fields
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- 24 Downloadable Samples
Illumina HiSeq 2000
Description
The heat shock response (HSR) is a mechanism to cope with proteotoxic stress by inducing the expression of molecular chaperones and other heat shock response genes. The HSR is evolutionarily well conserved and has been widely studied in bacteria, cell lines and lower eukaryotic model organisms. However, mechanistic insights into the HSR in higher eukaryotes, in particular in mammals, are limited. We have developed an in vivo heat shock protocol to analyze the HSR in mice and dissected heat shock factor 1 (HSF1)-dependent and -independent pathways. Whilst the induction of proteostasis-related genes was dependent on HSF1, the regulation of circadian function related genes, indicating that the circadian clock oscillators have been reset, was independent of its presence. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the in vivo HSR is impaired in mouse models of Huntington's disease but we were unable to corroborate the general repression of transcription after a heat shock found in lower eukaryotes. Overall design: RNA-Seq was performed on mRNA isolated from quadriceps femoris muscle of 24 mice. These mice were of wild type, R6/2, and Hsf1-/- genotypes. Two mice of each genotype were tested in four conditions: (1) heat shock, (2) control heat shock, (3) HSP90 inhibition (NVP-HSP990), and (4) HSP90 inhibition vehicle.
Publication Title
HSF1-dependent and -independent regulation of the mammalian in vivo heat shock response and its impairment in Huntington's disease mouse models.
Sample Metadata Fields
Age, Specimen part, Treatment, Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2000
Description
Examining changes in expression in a mouse model of SBMA compared to WT littermates. Overall design: Mice sacrificed at 14wks of age had LABC isolated and cDNA generated and sequenced on an illumina platform.
Publication Title
Androgen receptor polyglutamine expansion drives age-dependent quality control defects and muscle dysfunction.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx
Description
The earliest stages of Huntington’s disease are marked by changes in gene expression that are caused in an indirect and poorly understood manner by polyglutamine expansions in the huntingtin protein (HTT). To explore the hypothesis DNA methylation may be altered in cells expressing mutated HTT, we use reduced-representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) to map sites of DNA methylation in cells carrying either wild-type or mutant HTT. We find that a large fraction of the genes that change in expression in the presence of mutant huntingtin demonstrate significant changes in DNA methylation. Regions with low CpG content, which have previously been shown to undergo methylation changes in response to neuronal activity, are disproportionately affected. Based on the sequence of regions that change in methylation, we identify AP-1 and SOX2 as transcriptional regulators associated with DNA methylation changes, and we confirm these hypotheses using genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP-Seq). Our findings suggest new mechanisms for the effects of polyglutamine-expanded HTT. These results also raise important questions about the potential effects of changes in DNA methylation on neurogenesis and at later stages, cognitive decline in Huntington’s patients. Overall design: mRNA-seq in STHdhQ7/Q7 and STHdhQ111/Q111 cells
Publication Title
Extensive changes in DNA methylation are associated with expression of mutant huntingtin.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 40 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
The sense of hearing depends on the faithful transmission of sound information from the ear to the brain by spiral ganglion (SG) neurons. However, how SG neurons develop the connections and properties that underlie auditory processing is largely unknown.
Publication Title
Developmental profiling of spiral ganglion neurons reveals insights into auditory circuit assembly.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- 2 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx
Description
We have analysed the activity of the nuclear exosome during meiosis by deletion of TRF4, which encodes a key component of the exosome targeting complex TRAMP. We find that TRAMP mutants produce high levels of CUTs during meiosis that are undetectable in wild-type cells, showing that the nuclear exosome remains functional for CUT degradation. Lack of TRAMP activity stabilises ~1600 CUTs in meiotic cells, which occupy 40% of the binding capacity of the nuclear cap binding complex (CBC). Overall design: One sample each of Cbc2-associated RNA from wild-type and trf4-deleted cells at 6 hours of meiosis
Publication Title
The nuclear exosome is active and important during budding yeast meiosis.
Sample Metadata Fields
Subject, Time
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 15 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Decidual macrophage populations, CD11cHI and CD11cLO cells were analyzed for expression profiles and unique characteristics.
Publication Title
Two unique human decidual macrophage populations.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 24 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx, Illumina HiSeq 2000
Description
Transcriptional dysregulation is an early feature of Huntington''s disease (HD). We observed gene-specific changes in H3K4me3 at transcriptionally repressed promoters in R6/2 mouse and human HD brain. Genome-wide analysis showed a novel chromatin signature for this mark. Reducing the levels of the H3K4 demethylase SMCX/Jarid1c in primary neurons reversed down-regulation of key neuronal genes caused by mutant Huntingtin (Htt) expression. Finally, reduction of SMCX/Jarid1c in primary neurons from BACHD mice or the single Jarid1 in a Drosophila HD model was protective. Therefore, targeting this epigenetic signature may be an effective strategy to ameliorate the consequences of HD. Overall design: mRNA-seq in wild type and R6/2 cortex and striatum at 8 and 12 weeks.
Publication Title
Targeting H3K4 trimethylation in Huntington disease.
Sample Metadata Fields
Age, Specimen part, Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus, Homo sapiens
- 9 Downloadable Samples
Illumina MouseRef-8 v2.0 expression beadchip, Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
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Publication Title
Brain iron accumulation affects myelin-related molecular systems implicated in a rare neurogenetic disease family with neuropsychiatric features.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Disease
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 9 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
Differential gene expression is assessed in substantia nigra and basal ganglia of neurodegenertion with brain iron accumulation cases (BIA) compared to matched normal controls (c).
Publication Title
Brain iron accumulation affects myelin-related molecular systems implicated in a rare neurogenetic disease family with neuropsychiatric features.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Disease
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