Changes in nuclear Ca2+ homeostasis activate specific gene expression programs and are central to the acquisition and the plastic storage of memories. DREAM /KChIP proteins form heterotetramers that bind DNA and repress transcription in a Ca2+-dependent manner. Single ablation of one member of the DREAM/KChIP family may result in a mild or the absence of phenotype due to partial gene compensation. To study the function of DREAM/KChIP proteins in the brain, we used transgenic mice expressing a Ca2+-insensitive/CREB-independent dominant active mutant DREAM (daDREAM). We show that daDREAM controls the expression of several activity-dependent transcription factors including Npas4, Nr4a1, Mef2C, JunB and c-Fos, as well as the chromatin modifying enzyme Mbd4 and proteins related to actin polymerization like Arc and gelsolin. Thus, directly or through these targets, expression of daDREAM in the forebrain resulted in a complex phenotype characterized by i) impaired learning and memory, ii) loss of recurrent inhibition and enhanced LTP in the dentate gyrus without affecting Kv4-mediated potassium currents, and iii) modified spine density in DG granule neurons. Our results propose DREAM as a master-switch transcription factor regulating several activity-dependent gene expression programs to control synaptic plasticity, learning and memory.
DREAM controls the on/off switch of specific activity-dependent transcription pathways.
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View SamplesProfiling of the transcriptome of FITChigh/FSCdim and FITCdim/FSChigh sub-populations. Three biological replicates were profiled for each cell type. Overall design: Profiling of the transcriptome of FITChigh/FSCdim and FITCdim/FSChigh sub-populations. Three biological replicates were profiled for each cell type.
An autofluorescence-based method for the isolation of highly purified ventricular cardiomyocytes.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesNew and effective therapeutical options are available for the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis. One of such treatments is rituximab, and chimeric anti-CD20 antibody that selectively depletes the CD20+ B cell subpopulation.
Identification of candidate genes for rituximab response in rheumatoid arthritis patients by microarray expression profiling in blood cells.
Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage
View SamplesThe transcriptome of zebrafish embryos treated with a Nodal signaling inhibitor at sphere stage, which causes neural tube defects, is compared to those treated at 30% epiboly, which does not. Overall design: Transcriptomic analysis of differential gene expression of key developmental pathways under differing inhibitory treatments.
Identification of transcripts potentially involved in neural tube closure using RNA sequencing.
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View SamplesWe are investigating the transcriptional response of Anc1 deficient yeast under basal and MMS exposed conditions
Anc1, a protein associated with multiple transcription complexes, is involved in postreplication repair pathway in S. cerevisiae.
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View SamplesWe sought to find a gene-expression multigene predictor of response to infliximab therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients. Using internal and external cross-validation systems we have built and validated an 8-gene predictor for response to infliximab.
An eight-gene blood expression profile predicts the response to infliximab in rheumatoid arthritis.
Sex, Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage
View SamplesAnalysis of collecting duct response to low NaCl or high NaCl diet at the gene expression level. Results provide insight into transcriptional changes in principal and intercalated cells that occur in response to changes in dietary NaCl. Overall design: Total RNA obtained from collecting duct cells isolated from mice fed low NaCl or high NaCl diet for 5 days.
Salt-sensitive transcriptome of isolated kidney distal tubule cells.
Sex, Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesWe used RNA sequencing to characterize gene expression of Ly75+/+ B1-8hi and Ly75-/- B1-8hi B cells from the germinal center light zone (LZ) 12 h after forcing positive selection of the Ly75+/+ population with anti-DEC205-OVA. Overall design: We primed C57BL/6 hosts with OVA-alum i.p. and after 2 weeks we adoptively transferred a mixture of B1-8hi B cells in which 15% were Ly75+/+ CD45.1 (DECP) and 85% were Ly75-/- CD45.1/2 (DECN). We then immunized the animals with NP-OVA in the footpads and after 6 days we injected anti-DEC205-OVA. 12 h or 24 h after anti-DEC205-OVA injection we sorted B220+ CD38- CD95+ CD45.1+ CD45.2- CD83hi CXCR4lo (DECPLZ) and B220+ CD38- CD95+ CD45.1+ CD45.2+ CD83hi CXCR4lo (DECNLZ) cells for whole transcriptome analysis by mRNA sequencing.
Germinal Center Selection and Affinity Maturation Require Dynamic Regulation of mTORC1 Kinase.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesPatients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a markedly increased risk to develop cardiovascular disease, and traditional cardiovascular risk factors fail to account for this increased risk. We used microarray to probe the platelet transcriptome in individuals with SLE and healthy controls, and the gene and protein expression of a subset of differentially expressed genes was further investigated and correlated to platelet activation status. Real-time PCR was used to confirm a type I interferon (IFN) gene signature in patients with SLE, and the IFN-regulated proteins PRKRA, IFITM1 and CD69 (p<0.0001) were found to be up-regulated in platelets from SLE patients as compared to healthy volunteers. Notably, patients with a history of vascular disease had increased expression of type I IFN-regulated proteins as well as more activated platelets as compared with patients without vascular disease. We suggest that interferogenic immune complexes stimulate production of IFN which up-regulates the megakaryocytic type I IFN-regulated genes and proteins. This could affect platelet activation and contribute to development of vascular disease in SLE. In addition, platelets with type I IFN signature could be a novel marker for vascular disease in SLE.
Platelet transcriptional profile and protein expression in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: up-regulation of the type I interferon system is strongly associated with vascular disease.
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Disease
View SamplesWe performed microarray analyses on RNA from mice with isoproterenol-induced cardiac hypertrophy and mice with exercise-induced physiological hypertrophy and identified 865 and 2,534 genes that were significantly altered in pathological and physiological cardiac hypertrophy models, respectively.
Transcriptional profile of isoproterenol-induced cardiomyopathy and comparison to exercise-induced cardiac hypertrophy and human cardiac failure.
Specimen part
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