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Nat Genet ; 38(2): 234-9, 2006 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16415889

ABSTRACT

Cardiovascular disorders are influenced by genetic and environmental factors. The TIGR rodent expression web-based resource (TREX) contains over 2,200 microarray hybridizations, involving over 800 animals from 18 different rat strains. These strains comprise genetically diverse parental animals and a panel of chromosomal substitution strains derived by introgressing individual chromosomes from normotensive Brown Norway (BN/NHsdMcwi) rats into the background of Dahl salt sensitive (SS/JrHsdMcwi) rats. The profiles document gene-expression changes in both genders, four tissues (heart, lung, liver, kidney) and two environmental conditions (normoxia, hypoxia). This translates into almost 400 high-quality direct comparisons (not including replicates) and over 100,000 pairwise comparisons. As each individual chromosomal substitution strain represents on average less than a 5% change from the parental genome, consomic strains provide a useful mechanism to dissect complex traits and identify causative genes. We performed a variety of data-mining manipulations on the profiles and used complementary physiological data from the PhysGen resource to demonstrate how TREX can be used by the cardiovascular community for hypothesis generation.


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Databases, Genetic , Disease Models, Animal , Genomics , Heart Diseases/genetics , Hematologic Diseases/genetics , Lung Diseases/genetics , Animals , Gene Expression Profiling , Genetic Variation , Genomics/methods , Heart Diseases/physiopathology , Hematologic Diseases/physiopathology , Hypoxia/chemically induced , Internet , Lung Diseases/physiopathology , Male , Microarray Analysis , Myocardium/metabolism , Rats , Rats, Inbred BN , Rats, Inbred Dahl , Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid/genetics
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Mol Cell Biol ; 23(24): 9014-24, 2003 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14645514

ABSTRACT

Surfactant protein C (SP-C; Sftpc) gene expression is restricted to pulmonary type II epithelial cells. The proximal SP-C promoter region contains critical binding sites for nuclear factor I (NFI) and thyroid transcription factor 1 (TTF-1; also called Nkx2.1). To test the hypothesis that NFI isoforms interact with TTF-1 to differentially regulate SP-C transcription, we performed transient transfection assays in JEG-3 cells, a choriocarcinoma cell line with negligible endogenous NFI or TTF-1 activity. Cotransfection of NFI family members with TTF-1 induced synergistic activation of the SP-C promoter that was further enhanced by p300. TTF-1 directly interacts with the conserved DNA binding and dimerization domain of all NFI family members in coimmunoprecipitation and mammalian two-hybrid experiments. To determine whether SP-C expression is regulated by NFI in vivo, a chimeric fusion protein containing the DNA binding and dimerization domain of NFI-A and the Drosophila engrailed transcriptional repression domain (NFIen) was conditionally expressed in mice under control of a doxycycline-inducible transgene. Induction of NFIen in a subset of type II cells inhibited SP-C gene expression without affecting expression of TTF-1 in doxycycline-treated double-transgenic mice. Taken together, these findings support the hypothesis that NFI family members interact with TTF-1 to regulate type II cell function.


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CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins/metabolism , DNA-Binding Proteins , Nuclear Proteins/metabolism , Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein C/genetics , Transcription Factors/metabolism , Animals , Base Sequence , Binding Sites/genetics , CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins/genetics , Cell Line, Tumor , DNA/genetics , Humans , Mice , Mice, Transgenic , NFI Transcription Factors , Nuclear Proteins/genetics , Promoter Regions, Genetic , Protein Isoforms/metabolism , Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics , Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism , Thyroid Nuclear Factor 1 , Transcription Factors/genetics , Transcription, Genetic , Y-Box-Binding Protein 1
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