Project name: Homo sapiens

Description: Limitation of essential amino acids, such as tyrosine or methionine/cysteine, causes upregulation of exogenous integrated transgene expression in mammalian cells. This phenomenon is mediated by histone acetylation and chromatin remodelling, since histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors reproduce starvation-induced transgene upregulation and chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis of amino acid-deprived cells reveals significant changes in total core histones detectable at the CMV promoter. Expression profiling of HeLa cells starved for 5 days in medium without tyrosine or methionine/cysteine provides important information on the cellular response to amino acid deprivation and suggests the involvement of HDAC4 (class II HDAC) in transgene derepression during amino acid starvation.Overall design: Total RNA obtained from HeLa and HeLaOA1myc cells (HeLa cells with a human ocular albinism type 1 (OA1)+myc tag transgene) subjected to 5 days of tyrosine or methionine/cysteine starvation compared to control cells. Twelve samples are analyzed: HeLa and HeLaOA1myc grown for 5 days in RPMI deprived of tyrosine (Y) vs. complete RPMI; technical duplicates of HeLa and HeLaOA1myc grown for 5 days in DMEM deprived of methionine/cysteine (MC) vs. complete DMEM.

Data type: Transcriptome or Gene expression

Sample scope: Multiisolate

Relevance: Medical

Release date: 2012-07-24

Last updated: 2012-01-24