We sought to more precisely characterize the different alpha-synuclein (aSyn) 3’UTR mRNA species in normal and PD human brain. High-throughput, whole-transcriptome sequencing of the 3’UTR ends of polyadenylated mRNA transcripts (termed pA-RNAseq; see Methods) was performed on a cohort of 17 unaffected and 17 PD cerebral cortical tissue samples. This revealed 5 aSyn 3’UTR isoforms, with lengths of 290, 480, 560, 1070 and 2520 nt. Of these, the 560 nt and 2520 nt forms were predominant. The existence and relative preponderance of these species was further confirmed by Northern Blot. We next hypothesized, that aSyn 3’UTR selection might be altered in PD. Comparison of pA-RNAseq profiles from PD and unaffected cerebral cortex samples revealed an increase in the preponderance of the long 3’UTR species (>560 nt) relative to shorter species (<560 nt). Such a relative increase in aSynL was confirmed by Quantitative real-time RT-PCR (rt-qPCR) and appeared specific for PD, as the increase was also observed by comparison to RNA from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient samples. We note that the modified aSyn 3’UTR selection associated with PD patient tissue was detected in cerebral cortex tissue, which typically harbors pathological evidence of the disease process without frank cell loss; thus, this phenotype is unlikely to be a secondary consequence of neurodegeneration. Overall design: Comparison of 3''UTR ends of alpha-synuclein in PD and unaffected brain cortex
Alternative α-synuclein transcript usage as a convergent mechanism in Parkinson's disease pathology.
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miR-503 represses human cell proliferation and directly targets the oncogene DDHD2 by non-canonical target pairing.
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MiR-191 Regulates Primary Human Fibroblast Proliferation and Directly Targets Multiple Oncogenes.
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View SamplesGene expression profile following transfection with miR-503, miR-103, or miR-494 mature duplex
miR-503 represses human cell proliferation and directly targets the oncogene DDHD2 by non-canonical target pairing.
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View SamplesProfile of transcripts isolated from Ago2 immunoprecipitation following transfection with miR-191 mature duplex and gene expression profile following transfection with miR-191 mature duplex
MiR-191 Regulates Primary Human Fibroblast Proliferation and Directly Targets Multiple Oncogenes.
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View SamplesExploring the expression profile of ovarian clear cell carcinoma cancer cell subpopulations- derived tumors grown within a murine and a human cellular tissues.
Niche-dependent gene expression profile of intratumoral heterogeneous ovarian cancer stem cell populations.
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View SamplesThe Her-2/Neu-positive mouse breast cancer cell line was serially co-cultured with minced brain, bone marrow, and lung tissue in an intravital microscopy chamber mounted on the dorsal skinfold of nude mice, alternating with growth in vitro. Gene expression analysis was performed on the cells grown in culture after sorting and further growth in vitro. Gene expression under these growth conditions differed in time and according to the co-cultivated organ tissue. This study reveals genes that are expressed by cells as they adapt differentially to various foreign tissue microenvironments, and may represent a paradigm to discover gene expression changes that occur immediately upon extravasation when cancer metastasizes.
Effects of different tissue microenvironments on gene expression in breast cancer cells.
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View SamplesWe utilized oligonucleotide microarrays to measure cellular mRNA decay rates in mock- or reovirus-infected murine L929 cells to determine if changes in host mRNA expression are a consequence of reovirus-induced alterations in cellular mRNA stability.
Reovirus infection induces stabilization and up-regulation of cellular transcripts that encode regulators of TGF-β signaling.
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View SamplesComparison of gene expression signatures in hESC-derived gastrointestinal precursors, enterospheres and primary human tissues to determine lineage and cell type identity.
Functional Enterospheres Derived In Vitro from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.
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View SamplesBased on preliminary data demonstrating that macrophages are critical regulators of Helicobacter pylori colonization and gastric pathology in mice, we sought to investigate how macrophages may serve as bacterial reservoirs of intracellular H. pylori. Overall design: BMDM were isolated from WT and PPARg-/- mice and cultured with M-CSF for 7 days to promote macrophage differentiation. Fully differentiation macrophages were challenged with H. pylori strains SS1 at an MOI of 10 for 15 minutes. Extracellular bacteria was then eliminated by gentamycin treatment. Cells were collected at 0, 60, 120, 240, 360 and 720 minutes post gentamycin treatment to ascertain whole transcriptome differential gene expression during infection.
Identification of new regulatory genes through expression pattern analysis of a global RNA-seq dataset from a Helicobacter pylori co-culture system.
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