Transgenerational inheritance of an environmentally-induced trait requires that the induced phenotype manifest in generations beyond those that were exposed as germ cells. Here we demonstrate that paternal obesity in mice confers a latent metabolic phenotype not only in F1 sons, but also in F2 grandsons who were never exposed to obesity. F1 and F2 male progeny of obese sires exhibit nearly identical metabolic phenotypes that can be explained in part by stable alterations in hepatic miR-122, a key regulator of fatty-acid metabolism. Both the physiological and molecular alterations induced by paternal obesity are inherited into F2 entirely through the male line, but become attenuated by F3. Our findings demonstrate true transgenerational inheritance of an acquired trait in mammals. The association between the acquired phenotype and levels of several abundant small noncoding RNAs in spermatozoa implicates small RNAs in the mechanism of inheritance.
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View SamplesIn mice, zygotic activation mainly occurs on a wide variety of genes mainly at the 2-cell stage. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are increasingly being recognized as molecules that modulate gene expression. In this study, we performed the directional RNA-seq of MII oocytes and 2-cell embryos to identify the long noncoding RNAs activated during ZGA.
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View SamplesTo gain the transcriptome alteration caused by knockdown of PHF8 and USP7 in MCF-7 cells
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Transcription-dependent generation of a specialized chromatin structure at the TCRβ locus.
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View SamplesDifferentiation of myeloid progenitor cells leads to distinct populations of mononuclear phagocytes.Various macrophages exhibit distinct biological properties.
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View SamplesInnate stimulation with TLR ligands leads to the activation of various genes in macrophages and various populations of these cells may exhibit different responses. Here wanted to delineate and characterize these transcriptional responses in newly established, self-renewing, in vitro grown non-transformed lines (MPI cells) and bone marrow derived macrophages
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View SamplesWe conditionally substituted E-cadherin (E-cad; cadherin 1) with N-cadherin (N-cad; cadherin 2) during intestine development by generating mice in which an Ncad cDNA was knocked into the Ecad locus
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View SamplesWe generated a gene replacement allele of the E-cadherin locus that express an N-cadherin-GFP fusion in ES cells. Expression profiles of homozygous and heterozygous knock-in ES cells were analyzed in comparison to wt ES cells.
Adhesion, but not a specific cadherin code, is indispensable for ES cell and induced pluripotency.
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