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Functionally distinct disease-associated fibroblast subsets in rheumatoid arthritis.
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Subject
View SamplesTo establish changes in cardiac transcription profiles brought about by heart failure we collected myocardial samples from patients undergoing cardiac transplantation whose failure arises from different etiologies (e.g. idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, ischemic cardiomyopathy, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, valvular cardiomyopathy, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) and from "normal" organ donors whose hearts cannot be used for transplants. The transcriptional profile of the mRNA in these samples will be measured with gene array technology. Changes in transcriptional profiles can be correlated with the physiologic profile of heart-failure hearts acquired at the time of transplantation.
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View SamplesSuper-enhancers (SEs), which are composed of large clusters of enhancers densely loaded with the Mediator complex, transcription factors and chromatin regulators, drive high expression of genes implicated in cell identity and disease, such as lineage-controlling transcription factors and oncogenes. BRD4 and CDK7 are positive regulators of SE-mediated transcription. By contrast, negative regulators of SE-associated genes have not been well described. Here we show that the Mediator-associated kinases cyclin-dependent kinase 8 (CDK8) and CDK19 restrain increased activation of key SE-associated genes in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) cells. We report that the natural product cortistatin A (CA) selectively inhibits Mediator kinases, has anti-leukaemic activity in vitro and in vivo, and disproportionately induces upregulation of SE-associated genes in CA-sensitive AML cell lines but not in CA-insensitive cell lines. In AML cells, CA upregulated SE-associated genes with tumour suppressor and lineage-controlling functions, including the transcription factors CEBPA, IRF8, IRF1 and ETV6. The BRD4 inhibitor I-BET151 downregulated these SE-associated genes, yet also has anti-leukaemic activity. Individually increasing or decreasing the expression of these transcription factors suppressed AML cell growth, providing evidence that leukaemia cells are sensitive to the dosage of SE-associated genes. Our results demonstrate that Mediator kinases can negatively regulate SE-associated gene expression in specific cell types, and can be pharmacologically targeted as a therapeutic approach to AML.
Mediator kinase inhibition further activates super-enhancer-associated genes in AML.
Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment
View SamplesThis dataset is a time series (1 hour [h], 4 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, 1 week [w], and 8 weeks) intended to compare normal functioning left ventricles [lv + lv2] with infarcted [ilv] and non-infarcted left ventricles [nilv]. Ilv samples are taken from the region between the LAD artery and the apex on a mouse with myocardial infarction. Lv2 samples are from the same region in a sham operated mouse. Nilv samples are taken from the region above the infartion and the left ventricle [lv] samples mimic that region in a sham mouse. The lv and lv2 samples can be compared as both are from normal functioning hearts. For more information visit http://cardiogenomics.med.harvard.edu/groups/proj1/pages/mi_home.html
Mouse cardiac surgery: comprehensive techniques for the generation of mouse models of human diseases and their application for genomic studies.
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Age- and pregnancy-associated DNA methylation changes in mammary epithelial cells.
Sex, Age, Specimen part
View SamplesMechanical overload in the heart induces pathological remodeling that typcially leads to heart failure. We sought to build an in vitro model of heart failure by applying cyclic stretch to engineered isotropic (iso) and anisotropic (aniso) NRVM tissues.
Recapitulating maladaptive, multiscale remodeling of failing myocardium on a chip.
Specimen part
View SamplesNotch is normally activated by cleavage and nuclear translocation of its intracellular domain (ICN1), which turns on downstream target genes. Human T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), an aggressive immature T cell malignancy, is associated with Notch 1 gain-of-function mutations in more than 50% of the cases. Efforts to date to identify direct Notch1 targets have been confounded by the lack of a method to turn Notch1 on in a controlled fashion in T-ALL cells that are poised to respond to Notch signals. Of note, because Notch signaling activates transcriptional repressors that feedback to dampen the expression of many target genes (a process referred to as incoherent logic), it is likely that many direct targets are missed in Notch off analyses, which are further complicated by an inability to identify direct targets in a clear-cut fashion. We have overcome this limitation by developing a GSI washout method that results in the rapid translocation of activated Notch1 to the nucleus. We intend to use this method to study the assembly and loading of transcriptional complexes onto downstream targets, the kinetics of target activation. To date, our efforts have been devoted to comparing the gene expression signature of Notch-on and Notch-off in the human T-ALL cell line CUTLL. In addition to previously identified Notch1 target genes, we have also identified a series of novel genes upregulated by GSI washout in the presence of cycloheximide, suggesting that they are likely to be direct targets.
Genome-wide analysis reveals conserved and divergent features of Notch1/RBPJ binding in human and murine T-lymphoblastic leukemia cells.
Cell line
View SamplesTimed matings were performed using C57BL/6 mice and pregnant females sacrificed starting at embryonic day (E) 10.5, and then in daily intervals until E14.5. Gene expression was be further analyzed at E16.5 and E18.5, to monitor changes in gene expression related to maturation of the heart. At stage 10.5, the rostral and caudal parts of the embryo were removed and the middle part, which includes the heart, was subjected to expression analysis. From embryonic day 11.5 on, we isolated embryonic hearts and separated the ventricular from the atrial chambers.
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View SamplesAortic banding is an excellent model system to evaluate the process of development of left ventricular hypertrophy in response to hemodynamic stress. The Affymetrix GeneChip MgU74Av1 was used to analyze expression profiles of mice at different time points after surgical intervention for pressure-overload induced hypertrophy. More information about this model may be obtained at http://cardiogenomics.med.harvard.edu/groups/proj1/pages/band_home.html
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The activity-dependent histone variant H2BE modulates the life span of olfactory neurons.
Sex, Age, Specimen part
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