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Temporal And Functional Profile Of The Transcriptional Regulatory Network In The Early Regenerative Response To Partial Hepatectomy In The Rat., Egle Juskeviciute, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Jan B Hoek May 2012

Temporal And Functional Profile Of The Transcriptional Regulatory Network In The Early Regenerative Response To Partial Hepatectomy In The Rat., Egle Juskeviciute, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Jan B Hoek

Rajanikanth Vadigepalli

BACKGROUND: The goal of these studies was to characterize the transcriptional network regulating changes in gene expression in the remnant liver of the rat after 70% partial hepatectomy (PHx) during the early phase response including the transition of hepatocytes from the quiescent (G0) state and the onset of the G1 phase of the cell cycle. RESULTS: The transcriptome of remnant livers was monitored at 1, 2, 4, and 6 hours after PHx using cDNA microarrays. Differentially regulated genes were grouped into six clusters according their temporal expression profiles. Promoter regions of genes in these clusters were examined for shared transcription …


Revealing Genes Associated With Vitellogenesis In The Liver Of The Zebrafish (Danio Rerio) By Transcriptome Profiling., Liraz Levi, Irena Pekarski, Ellen Gutman, Paolo Fortina, Terry Hyslop, Jakob Biran, Berta Levavi-Sivan, Esther Lubzens Jan 2009

Revealing Genes Associated With Vitellogenesis In The Liver Of The Zebrafish (Danio Rerio) By Transcriptome Profiling., Liraz Levi, Irena Pekarski, Ellen Gutman, Paolo Fortina, Terry Hyslop, Jakob Biran, Berta Levavi-Sivan, Esther Lubzens

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: In oviparous vertebrates, including fish, vitellogenesis consists of highly regulated pathways involving 17beta-estradiol (E2). Previous studies focused on a relatively small number of hepatic expressed genes during vitellogenesis. This study aims to identify hepatic genes involved in vitellogenesis and regulated by E2, by using zebrafish microarray gene expression profiling, and to provide information on functional distinctive genes expressed in the liver of a vitellogenic female, using zebrafish as a model fish. RESULTS: Genes associated with vitellogenesis were revealed by the following paired t-tests (SAM) comparisons: a) two-month old vitellogenic (Vit2) females were compared with non-vitellogenic (NV) females, showing 825 …


Temporal And Functional Profile Of The Transcriptional Regulatory Network In The Early Regenerative Response To Partial Hepatectomy In The Rat., Egle Juskeviciute, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Jan B Hoek Jan 2008

Temporal And Functional Profile Of The Transcriptional Regulatory Network In The Early Regenerative Response To Partial Hepatectomy In The Rat., Egle Juskeviciute, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Jan B Hoek

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: The goal of these studies was to characterize the transcriptional network regulating changes in gene expression in the remnant liver of the rat after 70% partial hepatectomy (PHx) during the early phase response including the transition of hepatocytes from the quiescent (G0) state and the onset of the G1 phase of the cell cycle. RESULTS: The transcriptome of remnant livers was monitored at 1, 2, 4, and 6 hours after PHx using cDNA microarrays. Differentially regulated genes were grouped into six clusters according their temporal expression profiles. Promoter regions of genes in these clusters were examined for shared transcription …


Characterization Of The Chicken Inward Rectifier K+ Channel Irk1/Kir2.1 Gene., Hideki Mutai, Lawrence C Kenyon, Emily Locke, Nami Kikuchi, John Carl Oberholtzer Nov 2004

Characterization Of The Chicken Inward Rectifier K+ Channel Irk1/Kir2.1 Gene., Hideki Mutai, Lawrence C Kenyon, Emily Locke, Nami Kikuchi, John Carl Oberholtzer

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Inward rectifier potassium channels (IRK) contribute to the normal function of skeletal and cardiac muscle cells. The chick inward rectifier K+ channel cIRK1/Kir2.1 is expressed in skeletal muscle, heart, brain, but not in liver; a distribution similar but not identical to that of mouse Kir2.1. We set out to explore regulatory domains of the cIRK1 promoter that enhance or inhibit expression of the gene in different cell types. RESULTS: We cloned and characterized the 5'-flanking region of cIRK1. cIRK1 contains two exons with splice sites in the 5'-untranslated region, a structure similar to mouse and human orthologs. cIRK1 has …


Insulin Receptor And Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Dephosphorylation By Three Major Rat Liver Protein-Tyrosine Phosphatases Expressed In A Recombinant Bacterial System, Naotake Hashimoto, Wei-Ren Zhang, Barry J. Goldstein Jun 1992

Insulin Receptor And Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Dephosphorylation By Three Major Rat Liver Protein-Tyrosine Phosphatases Expressed In A Recombinant Bacterial System, Naotake Hashimoto, Wei-Ren Zhang, Barry J. Goldstein

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPases) play an essential role in the regulation of signal transduction mediated by reversible protein-tyrosine phosphorylation. In order to characterize individual rat hepatic PTPases that might have specificity for autophosphorylated receptor tyrosine kinases, we isolated cDNA segments encoding three PTPases (PTPase 1B, LAR and LRP) that are expressed in insulin-sensitive liver and skeletal muscle tissue, and evaluated their catalytic activity in vitro. The intrinsic PTPase activities of the full-length PTPase 1B protein and the cytoplasmic domains of LAR and LRP were studied by expression of recombinant cDNA constructs in the inducible bacterial vector pKK233-2 using extracts of …