Bacterial pathogens must be able to both recognize suitable niches within the host for colonization and successfully compete with commensal flora for nutrients in order to establish infection. Ethanolamine (EA) is a major component of mammalian and bacterial membranes and may be used by pathogens as a carbon and/or nitrogen source in the gastrointestinal tract. We examined how EA influences gene expression in the human pathogen enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EHEC). Our results indicate EA is not only important for nitrogen metabolism, but that EA is used in cell-to-cell signaling to activate virulence gene expression. Genes encoding for the global regulatory proteins QseC, QseE, and QseA, as well as for attaching and effacement (AE) lesion formation and Shiga toxin are differentially regulated when EHEC is grown with micromolar concentrations of EA. We also constructed a deletion of eutR that encodes the regulator of the eut (EA utilization) operon and examined virulence gene expression. These results suggest that EutR is important in regulating gene expression in response to EA, but that EA signaling does not occur solely through EutR. This is the first report linking EA to cell-to-cell signaling and pathogenesis.
Ethanolamine controls expression of genes encoding components involved in interkingdom signaling and virulence in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7.
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View SamplesFemale infertility syndromes are among the most prevalent chronic health disorders in women, but their molecular basis remains unknown because of the complexity of oogenesis and uncertainty regarding the number and identity of ovarian factors controlling the assembly, preservation, and maturation of ovarian follicles. To systematically discover such ovarian fertility factors en masse, we employed a mouse model (Foxo3), where follicles are assembled normally but are then synchronously activated. Gene expression profiling of mutant and normal ovaries led to the identification a surprisingly large set of ovarian factors. The set included the vast majority of known ovarian factors, many of which when mutated produce female sterility phenotypes, but most were novel. Subsequent analyses revealed novel classes of ovarian factors and significant overrpresentation on the X chromosome, among other insights into the general properties of oogenesis genes and their patterns of expression.
Genomewide discovery and classification of candidate ovarian fertility genes in the mouse.
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View SamplesBRD4 Inhibition of spindle cell malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (sMPNST) tumor cells
BET bromodomain inhibition triggers apoptosis of NF1-associated malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors through Bim induction.
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View SamplesAnalysis of mechano-regulation of tenocyte metabolism at gene expression level. The hypothesis tested in the present study was that cyclic tensile strain influence the balance of anabolism/catabolism of tenocytes.
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Age, Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesMyoblasts harvested from a postnatal day 2 WT and Foxj3 KO litter.
Foxj3 transcriptionally activates Mef2c and regulates adult skeletal muscle fiber type identity.
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View SamplesWe used microarrays to detail the global pattern of gene expression in the cortical regional of MRTF-A/-B double knockout mice at Postnatal day 0 (P0).
Myocardin-related transcription factors regulate the Cdk5/Pctaire1 kinase cascade to control neurite outgrowth, neuronal migration and brain development.
Specimen part
View SamplesTLR4 deficiency attenuates kidney injury after ischemic reperfusion as measured by both renal function and morphology. To better understand the role of TLR4 during the acute kidney injury, we used DNA microarray to identify genes that were differentially expressed on kidneys in wildtype B10 mice and TLR4 null mice during the early stage of injury.
Endothelial pentraxin 3 contributes to murine ischemic acute kidney injury.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesPreviously, we found that LZTFL1 is down-regulated in epithelial tumors including lung cancer and functions as a tumor suppressor in gastric cancers. However, the functional role of LZTFL1 in lung oncogenesis is undefined. We show here that downregulation of LZTFL1 expression in non-small cell lung cancer is associated with recurrence and poor survival, while re-expression of LZTFL1 in lung tumor cells inhibited extravasation/colonization of circulating tumor cells to the lung and inhibited tumor growth in vivo. Mechanistically, we found that LZTFL1 is expressed in ciliated human bronchial epithelial cells (HBECs) and its expression correlates with HBEC differentiation. LZTFL1 inhibits TGF-activated MAPK and hedgehog signaling. Alteration of intracellular levels of LZTFL1 resulted in changes of expression of genes associated with epithelial-to mesenchymal transition (EMT). We conclude that LZTFL1 inhibit lung tumorigenesis, possibly by maintaining epithelial cell differentiation and/or inhibition of signalings that lead to EMT, and suggest that reactivation of LZTFL1 expression in tumor cells may be a novel lung cancer therapeutic approach.
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Specimen part, Cell line
View SamplesThese E. coli strains were grown with various signaling molecules and the expression profiles were determined.
Global effects of the cell-to-cell signaling molecules autoinducer-2, autoinducer-3, and epinephrine in a luxS mutant of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli.
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View Samplesgamma delta intraepithelial lymphocytes were isolated from the colons of DSS-treated and untreated mice. Total RNAs were isolated and compared by Affymetrix DNA microarray.
Reciprocal interactions between commensal bacteria and gamma delta intraepithelial lymphocytes during mucosal injury.
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