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ArticlePloS one2014

Transcriptomic analysis unveils correlations between regulative apoptotic caspases and genes of cholesterol homeostasis in human brain.

Raffaella Picco, Andrea Tomasella, Federico Fogolari, Claudio Brancolini

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Article in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Raffaella PiccoDepartment of Medical and Biological Sciences, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy.
Andrea TomasellaDepartment of Medical and Biological Sciences, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy.
Federico FogolariDepartment of Medical and Biological Sciences, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy.
Claudio BrancoliniDepartment of Medical and Biological Sciences, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy.
University of Udine · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulative circuits controlling expression of genes involved in the same biological processes are frequently interconnected. These circuits operate to coordinate the expression of multiple genes and also to compensate dysfunctions in specific elements of the network. Caspases are cysteine-proteases with key roles in the execution phase of apoptosis. Silencing of caspase-2 expression in cultured glioblastoma cells allows the up-regulation of a limited number of genes, among which some are related to cholesterol homeostasis. Lysosomal Acid Lipase A (LIPA) was up-regulated in two different cell lines in response to caspase-2 down-regulation and cells silenced for caspase-2 exhibit reduced cholesterol staining in the lipid droplets. We expanded this observation by large-scale analysis of mRNA expression. All caspases were analyzed in terms of co-expression in comparison with 166 genes involved in cholesterol homeostasis. In the brain, hierarchical clustering has revealed that the expression of regulative apoptotic caspases (CASP2, CASP8 CASP9, CASP10) and of the inflammatory CASP1 is linked to several genes involved in cholesterol homeostasis. These correlations resulted in altered GBM (Glioblastoma Multiforme), in particular for CASP1. We have also demonstrated that these correlations are tissue specific being reduced (CASP9 and CASP10) or different (CASP2) in the liver. For some caspases (CASP1, CASP6 and CASP7) these correlations could be related to brain aging.

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ApoptosisBrainCaspase 1Caspase 10Caspase 2Caspase 3Caspase 9Cell Line, TumorCholesterolCysteine EndopeptidasesGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGlioblastomaHomeostasisHumansOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisOrgan SpecificityCASP10 protein, humanCASP2 protein, humanCaspase 1Caspase 10Caspase 2Caspase 3Caspase 9CholesterolCysteine EndopeptidasesRNA, Messenger

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