This approach allowed the researchers to accurately detect
gene expression changes resulting from the reactions.
Not exact matches
While nicotine and non-nicotine products both produced
changes, e-cigarette products without nicotine
resulted in even more
gene expression changes than products with nicotine, Zelikoff said.
When his team looked at
gene expression changes in the mice, then applied them to humans with early stage cancer, the
results revealed a breakdown of which patients have a high or low chance of survival.
The mGlu2 decrease, they determined,
resulted from an epigenetic
change, which affects the
expression of
genes, in this case the
gene that codes for mGlu2.
Gene moonlighting can occur merely through
changes in
expression, which may
result from as little as a single mutation; it does not require the meandering process of random alteration and selection implied by the duplication and neofunctionalization model.
The
results showed a correlation between
changes in his brain and alterations in the
expression of many families of
genes in his blood.
Decades of research have shown that differentiation is the
result of stereotypic
gene expression changes that are required to specify the fate of a cell.
This is consistent with our finding that the post-mortem transcriptomic
changes are both the
result of RNA degradation and of regulated
gene expression.
Changes in
gene expression as a response to death, and during subsequent post-mortem ischemia, might be expected to reflect stochastic variation
resulting from the enzymatic processes underlying mRNA degradation.
The approach to target validation utilizes RNAi, CRISPR, and ORF
expression platforms to genetically perturb candidate target
gene expression in relevant cancer cell lines, and then profile the
resulting phenotypic
changes with regard to their effect on various biochemical pathways.
So what kind of harm can the
changes in
gene expression resulting from (epi) mutations cause?
Melanocytes respond by altering
gene transcription, and these
changes in
gene expression profiles
result in easily quantifiable phenotypes such as modified pigment production (a hallmark of melanocyte differentiation state) and
changes in morphological cell properties.
Proteomic analysis to profile protein abundance
resulted in the identification and relative quantification for 912 proteins with two or more unique peptides and 86 proteins with significant abundance
changes after treatment with the neurotoxins, while microarray analyses to profile
gene expression revealed 181
genes with significant
changes in mRNA after treatment.
Moreover, CRISPRi did not
result in any off - target
changes in
gene expression — a commonly cited problem with CRISPR / Cas9.
Results: Here, we profile genome - wide
changes in DNA methylation,
gene expression and lipidomics in response to DR and aging in female mouse liver.
Results: Within 4 h, activation of CD4 (+) T cells invokes
changes in histone modifications and enhancer RNA transcription that correspond to altered
expression of the interacting
genes identified by promoter capture Hi - C.
«And that most probably
resulted from a
change in the pattern of Hox
gene expression,» says Böhmer.
The theory proposed by Professor Khavinson is based on the underlying assumption that
changes in
gene expression result in decreased protein synthesis, eventually leading to aging and the development of diseases.
It is likely that a combination of several factors (e.g. age - related
changes at the level of
gene expression, infectious agents, toxic compounds, and head trauma) affects the neuronal milieu and initiates neuropathological processes leading to the formation of toxic tau and amyloid β species, reduction of synaptic plasticity, and neuronal loss
resulting in development of sporadic AD.»
Finally, because we did not measure
gene expression, the current
results await replication and extension using methods that can clarify whether the observed effects are associated with
changes in
gene expression that would indicate up or down regulation of TNF.