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SRP144485
Homo sapiens
112 Downloadable Samples
NextSeq 550
Description
Predicting the impact of cis-regulatory sequence on gene expression is a foundational challenge for biology. We combine polysome profiling of hundreds of thousands of randomized 5' UTRs with deep learning to build a predictive model that relates human 5' UTR sequence to translation. Together with a genetic algorithm, we use the model to engineer new 5? UTRs that accurately target specified levels of ribosome loading, providing the ability to tune sequences for optimal protein expression. We show that the same approach can be extended to chemically modified RNA, an important feature for applications in mRNA therapeutics and synthetic biology. We test 35,000 truncated human 5' UTRs and 3,577 naturally-occurring variants and show that the model accurately predicts ribosome loading of these sequences. Finally, we provide evidence of 47 SNVs associated with human diseases that cause a significant change in ribosome loading and thus a plausible molecular basis for disease. Overall design: Polysom profiling and sequencing was performed using a library of 300,000 randomized 5' UTR 50-mers with eGFP used as the CDS. Three RNA chemistries were tested: unmodified, pseudouridine, and 1-methylpseudouridine. These were performed in duplicate (6 samples total). A designed library that includes human 5' UTRs, SNVs, and sequences engineered with a genetic algorithm was used with the eGFP CDS (no duplicate). A second randomized library used mCherry as the CDS, also performed in duplicate.
Publication Title
Human 5' UTR design and variant effect prediction from a massively parallel translation assay.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 3 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
Regeneration of skeletal muscle is dependent on the function of tissue-resident muscle stem cells (MuSC), known as satellite cells. MuSC dysfunction is central to muscle pathophysiology, including in age-associated loss of muscle regenerative capacity and congenital disorders such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Despite the central role of satellite cells in muscle regeneration, the signals controlling the balance between muscle stem cell quiescence, proliferation, and differentiation remain incompletely understood. Knowledge of the signals that maintain a quiescent state is particularly lacking, yet such cues are crucial to maintaining a stem cell reservoir that can meet the needs of regeneration throughout life. Here we identify Oncostatin M (OSM), a member of the interleukin-6 family of cytokines, as a potent and essential trans-acting regulator of satellite cell quiescence. Key to this discovery is the development of a novel in vivo imaging-based screening strategy allowing identification of proteins that do not induce in vitro proliferation, but instead maintain MuSCs in a non-mitotic state, poised for rapid robust expansion upon transplantation. We demonstrate that OSM induces reversible exit from the cell cycle and induction of a global transcriptional program significantly enriched within a newly established satellite cell quiescence signature. Genetic ablation of the OSM receptor in mice demonstrates that signaling via OSM/R is essential for maintenance of satellite cell quiescence, and for proper skeletal muscle regeneration in vivo. Given that aberrant activation and exhaustion of stem cells is seen in a variety of disorders, OSM constitutes an attractive therapeutic target in muscle disease states.
Publication Title
Induction of muscle stem cell quiescence by the secreted niche factor Oncostatin M.
Sample Metadata Fields
Age, Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 5 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Expression 430A Array (moe430a)
Description
The majority of sporadic colorectal cancer cases are initiated by mutations in the APC tumor suppressor gene leading to constitutive activation of the Wnt/b-catenin signaling pathway and adenoma formation. Several pre-clinical models carrying germline mutations in the endogenous mouse Apc tumor supressor gene have been generated and their phenotype characterized. The predisposition of these mouse models to multiple intestinal adenomas closely resembles the FAP phenotype at the molecular, cellular and phenotypic level and may prove valuable to elucidate the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying colorectal tumorigenesis. The goal of this study is to establish an expression signature characteristic of intestinal tumors characterized by the inactivation of Apc.
Publication Title
Cross-species comparison of human and mouse intestinal polyps reveals conserved mechanisms in adenomatous polyposis coli (APC)-driven tumorigenesis.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Age, Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus, Homo sapiens
- 5 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Publication Title
A multi-omic analysis reveals the regulatory role of CD180 during the response of macrophages to Borrelia burgdorferi.
Sample Metadata Fields
Age, Specimen part, Treatment
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 5 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HumanHT-12 V4.0 expression beadchip
Description
Macrophages are cells of the innate immune system with the ability to phagocytose and induce a global pattern of responses that depend on several signalling pathways. We have determined the biosignature of murine bone marrow-derived macrophages and human blood monocytes using transcriptomics and proteomics approaches. We identified a common pattern of genes transcriptionally regulated that overall indicate that the response to B. burgdorferi involves the interaction of spirochetal antigens with several inflammatory pathways corresponding to primary (triggered by pattern recognition receptors) and secondary (induced by proinflammatory cytokines) responses. We also show that the Toll-like receptor family member, CD180 is downregulated by the stimulation of macrophages, but not monocytes, with the spirochete. Silencing Cd180 results in increased phagocytosis while tempering the production of the proinflammatory cytokine, TNF. Cd180-silenced cells produced increased levels of Itgam and surface CD11b, suggesting that the regulation of CD180 by the spirochete initiates a cascade that increases the CR3-mediated phagocytosis of the bacterium while repressing the consequent inflammatory response.
Publication Title
A multi-omic analysis reveals the regulatory role of CD180 during the response of macrophages to Borrelia burgdorferi.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Treatment
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 50 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
Understanding the molecular underpinnings of cancer is of critical importance to developing targeted intervention strategies. Identification of such targets, however, is notoriously difficult and unpredictable. Malignant cell transformation requires the cooperation of a few oncogenic mutations that cause substantial reorganization of many cell features and induce complex changes in gene expression patterns. Genes critical to this multi-faceted cellular phenotype thus only have been identified following signaling pathway analysis or on an ad hoc basis. Our observations that cell transformation by cooperating oncogenic lesions depends on synergistic modulation of downstream signaling circuitry suggest that malignant transformation is a highly cooperative process, involving synergy at multiple levels of regulation, including gene expression. Here we show that a large proportion of genes controlled synergistically by loss-of-function p53 and Ras activation are critical to the malignant state. Remarkably, 14 among 24 such 'cooperation response genes' (CRGs) were found to contribute to tumor formation in gene perturbation experiments. In contrast, only one in 14 perturbations of genes responding in a non-synergistic manner had a similar effect. Synergistic control of gene expression by oncogenic mutations thus emerges as an underlying key to malignancy and provides an attractive rationale for identifying intervention targets in gene networks downstream of oncogenic gain and loss-of-function mutations.
Publication Title
Synergistic response to oncogenic mutations defines gene class critical to cancer phenotype.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 12 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Clariom S Array (clariomsmouse)
Description
Under hypoxic conditions, nitroimidazole compounds accumulate in cells in their reduced form and have oxygen-mimetic effects, serving as markers of hypoxia and radiosensitizers. The full potential of their bioreductive metabolism, including cytotoxicity for cancer stem cells, has not been sufficiently explored, however. Here we investigated the changes in gene expression induced by treatment with 2-nitroimidazole doranidazole in murine glioma stem cells, under normoxic or hypoxic conditions.
Publication Title
2-Nitroimidazoles induce mitochondrial stress and ferroptosis in glioma stem cells residing in a hypoxic niche.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2500
Description
In this study we plan to compare the profiles of control sample (cultured podocytes) with the Exoc5 knock down in cutured podocytes to examine the differentially expressed genes. Overall design: We hope to identify the genes that are downregulated on knocking down Exoc5 in cultured human podocytes cells
Publication Title
Disruption of the exocyst induces podocyte loss and dysfunction.
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Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 13 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2500
Description
Purpose: Characterize functional alterations in stem cells and paneth cells obtained from young and aged mice, focusing on age-based impairment of intestinal regeneration due to a decline in canonical Wnt signaling. Methods: mRNA profiles of young and aged stem and paneth cells were generated in triplicate (with one additional young paneth sample) using the Illumina HiSeq 2500. Reads that passed quality filters were aligned to the mm10 mouse genome with annotations provided by UCSC. Results: Approximately 10 millions reads were aligned per sample, corresponding to 36186 transcripts -- of these, 19574 exhibited reasonable expression. The effect of age was tested wtihin paneth and stem cells, using unpaired t-tests with a p-value cutoff of 0.05 and fold change cutoff of 1.5. Within paneth cells, 1025 genes were significant; within stem cells, 750 genes exhibited differential regulation. Among the downregulated genes in paneth and stem cells, we observed significant enrichment of canonical Wnt signaling genes. Conclusion: Age-related downregulation of canonical Wnt signaling is involved in the impairment of intestinal regulation upon aging. Overall design: mRNA profiles of paneth and stem cells obtained from proximal intestinal crypts from aged and young male Lgr5 mice were generated using RNAsequencing in triplicate, using Illumina HiSeq 2500.
Publication Title
Canonical Wnt Signaling Ameliorates Aging of Intestinal Stem Cells.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Specimen part, Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 12 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2000
Description
The ability to generate defined null mutations in mice revolutionized the analysis of gene function in mammals. However, gene-deficient mice generated by using 129-derived embryonic stem (ES) cells may carry large segments of 129 DNA, even when extensively backcrossed to reference strains, such as C57BL/6J, and this may confound interpretation of experiments performed in these mice. Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), encoded by the PLAT gene, is a fibrinolytic serine protease that is widely expressed in the brain. A large number of neurological abnormalities have been reported in tPA-deficient mice. The studies here compare genes differentially expressed in the brains of Plat-/- mice from two independent Plat-/- mouse derivations to wild-type C57BL/6J mice. One strain denoted “Old” was constructed in ES cells from a 129 mouse and backcrossed extensively to C57BL/6J, and one denoted “New” Plat-/- mouse was constructed using zinc finger nucleases directly in the C57BL/6J-Plat-/- mouse strain. We identify a significant set of genes that are differentially expressed in the brains of Old Plat-/- mice that preferentially cluster in the vicinity of Plat on chromosome 8, apparently linked to more than 20 Mbp of DNA flanking Plat being of 129 origin. No such clustering is seen in the New Plat-/- mice. Overall design: Whole-transcriptome profiling of the cerebral cortex of wild-type control C57BL/6J mice and two independent Plat-/- mice strains on the C57BL/6J background.
Publication Title
Passenger mutations and aberrant gene expression in congenic tissue plasminogen activator-deficient mouse strains.
Sample Metadata Fields
Age, Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
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