RNA sequencing of human fibroblasts after SUPT4H1 siRNA treatment
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AccessionGSE83484
TitleRNA sequencing of human fibroblasts after SUPT4H1 siRNA treatment
DescriptionAsses the transcriptome-wide changes associated with depletion of transcription elongation factor, SUPT4H1, in human fibroblasts. An expanded hexanucleotide repeat in C9orf72 is the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (c9FTD/ALS). Therapeutics (e.g., antisense oligonucleotides) are being developed to target RNAs containing the expanded repeat sequence (GGGGCC); however, this approach is complicated by the presence of antisense strand transcription of expanded GGCCCC repeats. We found that targeting the transcription elongation factor, Spt4, selectively decreased production of both sense and antisense expanded transcripts, as well as their translated dipeptide repeat (DPR) products, and also mitigated degeneration in animal models. Inhibition of SUPT4H1, the human ortholog of Spt4, similarly decreased production of sense and antisense RNA foci as well as DPR proteins in c9ALS patient fibroblasts and neurons from patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells, consistent with our finding that cerebellar DPR protein levels correlate with SUPT4H1 expression in c9FTD/ALS patients. Therapeutic targeting of a single factor to eliminate pathological features of c9FTD/ALS offers advantages over approaches that require targeting sense and antisense repeats separately.
Landing Pagehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE83484
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ARCHS4
Published September 2017
ARCHS4 provides access to gene counts from HiSeq 2000 and HiSeq 2500 platforms for human and mouse experiments from GEO ...
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Clustergrammer
Published October 2017
Web-based tool for visualizing and analyzing high-dimensional data as interactive and shareable heatmaps
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Interactive heatmap visualization of RNA-seq dataset GSE83484
ARCHS4, Clustergrammer
Highly interactive web-based heatmap visualization of the top 500 most variable genes in t...
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