Patients had low calorie diet weight reduction run in prior to the day of surgery. The human liver and subcutaneous fat tissue samples were obtained from 12 obese subjects undergoing bariatric surgery and then used for the mRNA expression analyses. Overall design: mRNA profiles of human liver and subcutaneous fat tissue samples were generated by RNA sequencing using Illumina HiSeq 2500.
Integrated Network Analysis Reveals an Association between Plasma Mannose Levels and Insulin Resistance.
Age, Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesWe find significant evidence of the OVOL, AP1, STAT1, STAT3, and NFKB1 TFs having important roles in MET. We prioritize known gene/drug targets for follow-up in the clinic, and show that the AP1/MYC TF pair is a strong candidate for intervention. Overall design: Examination of the effects of OVOL1 and OVOL2 overexpression common to prostate cancer and breast cancer models.
A bioinformatics approach reveals novel interactions of the OVOL transcription factors in the regulation of epithelial - mesenchymal cell reprogramming and cancer progression.
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View SamplesAndrogen receptor (AR) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor that plays a key role in the onset and progression of prostate cancer. Surprisingly little is known of AR binding sites and collaborating transcription factors in the human genome. Here we have identified the DNA sequence motifs that are significantly enriched within the authentic 90 AR target regions found on chromosomes 21 and 22 in human prostate cancer cells by combining chromatin immunoprecipitation for AR with chromosome-scale tiled oligonucleotide microarrays. By integrating the DNA sequence motif data with the gene expression profiles from human prostate cancers we identified the transcription factors that recognize each of these motifs. These factors form complexes with AR, bind to specific AR target regions and govern androgen-dependent transcription. Together with AR these collaborating transcription factors form a regulatory network that directs prostate cancer growth and survival and identify potential new opportunities for therapeutic intervention.
A hierarchical network of transcription factors governs androgen receptor-dependent prostate cancer growth.
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View SamplesAnalysis of the gene expression profile of the atx1 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana compared to the wild-type, using apices tissue of in in vitro plants and Affymetrix ATH1 chips.
ARABIDOPSIS TRITHORAX1 dynamically regulates FLOWERING LOCUS C activation via histone 3 lysine 4 trimethylation.
Age, Specimen part
View SamplesAnalysis of the transcriptome of mouse models of prostate cancer to assemble a mouse prostate cancer interactome.
Cross-species regulatory network analysis identifies a synergistic interaction between FOXM1 and CENPF that drives prostate cancer malignancy.
Treatment
View SamplesAn integrative analysis of this compendium of proteomic alterations and transcriptomic data was performed revealing only 48-64% concordance between protein and transcript levels. Importantly, differential proteomic alterations between metastatic and clinically localized prostate cancer that mapped concordantly to gene transcripts served as predictors of clinical outcome in prostate cancer as well as other solid tumors.
Integrative genomic and proteomic analysis of prostate cancer reveals signatures of metastatic progression.
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View SamplesDissemination of cancer stem cells (CSCs) serves as the basis of metastasis. Recently, we demonstrated that circulating prostate cancer (PCa) targets the hematopoietic stem cell (HSCs) niche in marrow during dissemination. Once in the niche, disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) may remain dormant for extended periods. As the major function of the HSC niche is to maintain stem cell functions, we hypothesized that the niche regulates CSC activities of DTCs. We show that DTCs recovered from marrow were significantly enriched for a CSC phenotype. Critically, the conversion of DTCs to CSCs is regulated by niche. The data demonstrate that the niche plays a significant role in maintaining tumor-initiating PCa in marrow and suggests a functional relationship between CSCs and dormancy. Understanding how the marrow niche regulates the conversion of DTCs to CSCs is critical for the development of therapeutics specifically targeting skeletal bone metastasis and dormancy.
The marrow niche controls the cancer stem cell phenotype of disseminated prostate cancer.
Specimen part
View SamplesAccumulating evidences suggest that sex affects lung development. During the fetal period, male lung maturation is delayed compared with female and surfactant production appears earlier in female than in male fetal lungs.
Gene expression profile of androgen modulated genes in the murine fetal developing lung.
Specimen part, Disease
View SamplesHigh-protein diets are known to reduce adiposity in the context of high carbohydrate and Western diets. However, few studies have investigated the specific high-protein effect on lipogenesis induced by a high-sucrose (HS) diet or fat deposition induced by high-fat feeding. We aimed to determine the effects of high protein intake on the development of fat deposition and partitioning in response to high-fat and/or HS feeding. A total of thirty adult male Wistar rats were assigned to one of the six dietary regimens with low and high protein, sucrose and fat contents for 5 weeks. Body weight (BW) and food intake were measured weekly. Oral glucose tolerance tests and meal tolerance tests were performed after 4th and 5th weeks of the regimen, respectively. At the end of the study, the rats were killed 2 h after ingestion of a calibrated meal. Blood, tissues and organs were collected for analysis of circulating metabolites and hormones, body composition and mRNA expression in the liver and adipose tissues. No changes were observed in cumulative energy intake and BW gain after 5 weeks of dietary treatment. However, high-protein diets reduced by 20 % the adiposity gain induced by HS and high-sucrose high-fat (HS-HF) diets. Gene expression and transcriptomic analysis suggested that high protein intake reduced liver capacity for lipogenesis by reducing mRNA expressions of fatty acid synthase (fasn), acetyl-CoA carboxylase a and b (Acaca and Acacb) and sterol regulatory element binding transcription factor 1c (Srebf-1c). Moreover, ketogenesis, as indicated by plasma -hydroxybutyrate levels, was higher in HS-HF-fed mice that were also fed high protein levels. Taken together, these results suggest that high-protein diets may reduce adiposity by inhibiting lipogenesis and stimulating ketogenesis in the liver.
High dietary protein decreases fat deposition induced by high-fat and high-sucrose diet in rats.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesAlternative mRNA splicing is an important mechanism for regulation of gene expression. Changes in gene expression contribute to the pathogenesis of heart failure. However, changes in mRNA splicing have not been systematically examined in heart disease. We hypothesized that mRNA splicing is changed in diseased hearts.
Heart failure-associated changes in RNA splicing of sarcomere genes.
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