The objective of the experiment is to compare the transcriptomes of LSD1 knockout (KO) and control oocytes Overall design: RNA-seq analysis of GV oocytes, with three biological replicates for each genotype
Dynamic changes in histone modifications precede de novo DNA methylation in oocytes.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesGlobal gene expression analysis of FD-iPSC and deribved neural crest cells
Modelling pathogenesis and treatment of familial dysautonomia using patient-specific iPSCs.
Specimen part
View SamplesThe pathways involved in hierarchical differentiation of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) into abundant and durable endothelial cells (EC) are unknown. We employed an EC-specific VE-cadherin promoter driving GFP (hVPr-GFP) to screen for factors that augmented yields of vascular-committed ECs from hESCs. In phase 1 of our approach, inhibition of TGFb, precisely at day 7 of hESC differentiation, enhanced emergence of hVPr-GFP+ ECs by 10-fold. In the second phase, TGFb-inhibition preserved proliferation and vascular identity of purified ECs, resulting in net 36-fold expansion of homogenous EC-monolayers, and allowing transcriptional profiling that revealed a unique angiogenic signature defined by the VEGFR2highId1highVE-cadherin+EphrinB2+CD133+HoxA9- phenotype. Using an Id1-YFP hESC reporter line, we showed that TGFb-inhibition sustained Id1 expression in hESC-derived ECs, which was required for increased proliferation and preservation of EC commitment. These data provide a multiphasic method for serum-free differentiation and long-term maintenance of authentic hESC-derived ECs, establishing clinical-scale generation of transplantable human ECs.
Expansion and maintenance of human embryonic stem cell-derived endothelial cells by TGFbeta inhibition is Id1 dependent.
Specimen part
View SamplesA study of diabetic neuropathy in dorsal root ganglia from streptozotocin-diabetic male wistar rats over the first 8 weeks of diabetes
Identification of changes in gene expression in dorsal root ganglia in diabetic neuropathy: correlation with functional deficits.
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Time
View SamplesWe previously found a short sleeper mutant, fmn, and identified its mutation in the dopamine transporter gene. In an attempt to discover additional sleep related genes in Drosophila, we carried out a microarray analysis comparing mRNA expression in heads of fmn and control flies and found differentially expressed genes.
The NMDA Receptor Promotes Sleep in the Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesGene expression profiling reveals functional difference between Sq and HH-Sq on differentiation, metabolism, and lipid droplot formation of dADSC
New Amphiphilic Squalene Derivative Improves Metabolism of Adipocytes Differentiated From Diabetic Adipose-Derived Stem Cells and Prevents Excessive Lipogenesis.
Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage
View SamplesIdentification of temporal changes in gene expression in macrophages isolated from the site of nerve injury. Overall design: Macrophages were profiled at 3 timepoints (5, 14, and 28 days) after nerve injury with 2-3 independent biological replicates per timepoint.
Temporal changes in macrophage phenotype after peripheral nerve injury.
Subject, Time
View SamplesIt has been difficult to elucidate the structure of gene regulatory networks under anticancer drug treatment. Here, we developed an algorithm to highlight the hub genes that play a major role in creating the upstream and downstream relationships within a given set of differentially expressed genes. The directionality of the relationships between genes was defined using information from comprehensive collections of transcriptome profiles after gene knockdown and overexpression. As expected, among the drug-perturbed genes, our algorithm tended to derive plausible hub genes, such as transcription factors. Our validation experiments successfully showed the anticipated activity of certain hub gene in establishing the gene regulatory network that was associated with cell growth inhibition. Notably, giving such top priority to the hub gene was not achieved by ranking fold change in expression and by the conventional gene set enrichment analysis of drug-induced transcriptome data. Thus, our data-driven approach can facilitate to understand drug-induced gene regulatory networks for finding potential functional genes.
InDePTH: detection of hub genes for developing gene expression networks under anticancer drug treatment.
Cell line, Treatment
View SamplesReprogramming somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) sets their identity back to an embryonic age. This presents a fundamental hurdle for modeling late-onset disorders using iPSC-derived cells. We therefore developed a strategy to induce age-like features in multiple iPSC-derived lineages and tested its impact on modeling Parkinson’s disease (PD). We first describe markers that predict fibroblast donor age and observed the loss of these age-related markers following iPSC induction and re-differentiation into fibroblasts. Remarkably, age-related markers were readily induced in iPSC-derived fibroblasts or neurons following exposure to progerin including dopamine neuron-specific phenotypes such as neuromelanin accumulation. Induced aging in PD-iPSC-derived dopamine neurons revealed disease phenotypes requiring both aging and genetic susceptibility such as frank dendrite degeneration, progressive loss of tyrosine-hydroxylase expression and enlarged mitochondria or Lewy body-precursor inclusions. Our study presents a strategy for inducing age-related cellular properties and enables the modeling of late-onset disease features. Overall design: Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived midbrain dopamine neurons from a young and old donor overexpressing either GFP or Progerin.
Human iPSC-based modeling of late-onset disease via progerin-induced aging.
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View SamplesTargets of Retinoic Acid (RA) were identified in primary human epidermal keratinocytes grown in the presence or absence of all-trans retinoic acid for 1, 4, 24, 48 and 72 hours. Targets of Thyroid Hormone (T3) were identified in primary human epidermal keratinocytes grown in the presence or absence of the hormone; same controls as for RA.
Retinoid-responsive transcriptional changes in epidermal keratinocytes.
Specimen part
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