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Figure 1 Functional characterization of Atxn1, Ebf1, Rreb1 and Ube2e2 (a,b,e) Data is displayed as box/whisker plots where the center line represents the median, box limits contain the 25th-75th percentiles, and whiskers span max/min values.(a) Gene expression measured by qPCR in murine subcutaneous (SAT), perigonadal visceral (VAT), and pericardial (PAT) adipose tissues (n=6 mice). Statistical significance was assessed using ANOVA and Sidak’s correction for multiple comparisons.(b) Gene expression measured by qPCR in murine adipose tissues after 8 weeks of high fat feeding compared to normal chow fed controls (n=5 mice per group). Statistical significance was assigned using a two-sided T-test.(c) Gene expression measured by qPCR in cultured adipocyte progenitors isolated from the subcutaneous (SAT) or perigonadal visceral (VAT) depots (n=4 replicates). Cells were expanded to confluence and then collected at intervals after induction of adipogenic differentiation. Data displayed as mean, error bar=s.e.m. Statistical significance was assessed using ANOVA and Sidak’s correction for multiple comparisons to time 0.(d) Oil-red-o staining of progenitors isolated from subcutaneous adipose and exposed to retroviral delivery of shRNA constructs during ex vivo expansion and induction of adipogenesis. Relative to control vector carrying a scramble sequence, shRNA constructs specific for Atxn1 and Ube2e2 impaired adipogenic differentiation. Scale=1mm.(e) Oil-red-o stain was alcohol extracted and quantified at OD520 (n=9 technical replicates). Statistical significance was assessed using ANOVA and Sidak’s correction for multiple comparisons to control (Scramble). Data representative of 3 independent experiments. Read more……>click Here< Read more…

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Uncultured fecal gut microbiota from an underweight donor confers weight loss on gnotobiotic mice We used anthropometric data collected from members of a birth cohort study (14) of 100 children living in Mirpur thana in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to define whether they were healthy or undernourished (table S1). Those with height-for-age z scores (HAZ) greater than or equal to −2 were classified as “healthy,” whereas those with scores less than or equal to −3 were deemed severely stunted. At 18 months, 30 and 25 children satisfied these criteria for healthy and severely stunted, respectively, whereas at 24 months, 27 and 20 children received these designations; the remaining children were classified as moderately stunted (HAZ between −2 and −3). A PCR-based screen for ETBF targeting all three fragilysin gene subtypes (14) was performed using DNA isolated from fecal samples that had been collected from these children at 18 and 24 months of age. The results revealed that ETBF was variably present between individuals and within a given individual over time, with a total of 25 of 24-month-old children having a positive test (table S1). In this small cohort, ETBF carriage was not significantly correlated with indices of linear or ponderal growth . We combined anthropometric and PCR data to select fecal samples collected at 24 months from two children: (i) a healthy individual (child ID 7114 in table S1) with a HAZ score of −0.71, a WAZ score of −1.49, and a WHZ score of −1.62 who was ETBF-negative at the two time points tested, and (ii) a severely stunted and moderately underweight individual (child ID 7004) with a HAZ score of −3.02, a WAZ score of −2.51, and a WHZ score of −1.34 who was ETBF-positive at both time points. Of the 35 individuals with a positive ETBF test at either time point, only this stunted/underweight child was positive at both 18 and 24 months of age. Fecal samples obtained from members of this singleton birth cohort were screened for parasites using microscopic methods (5); neither of the two donors tested positive (see Materials and Methods for details). To define the effects of diet and these two childrens’ gut microbiota on host biology, we generated three representative versions (embodiments) of the diets consumed by the population represented by the donors. To do so, we determined the relative daily caloric contributions of various selected ingredient types, based on a study by Arsenault and coworkers (16). Selection of specific food items as representative of each ingredient type was based on consumption incidence surveys tabulated by Islam et al. (17), and the results were incorporated into a database consisting of 54 food ingredients. We filtered this database to remove items consumed by <20% of households and categorized each of the remaining 39 items (see Materials and Methods for additional details). From the resulting diet ingredient matrix, we randomly sampled (without replacement) one item each from cereals, pulse vegetables, roots/tubers, leafy vegetables, fruits, and fish, plus three nonleafy vegetables, to populate three separate diet lists. Using the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Nutrient Database for Standard References (18), we determined the caloric information for each ingredient and subsequently calculated proportions required to match the predetermined contributions of each ingredient type. Food items were cooked in a manner intended to simulate Bangladeshi practices, and the resulting three embodiments of a Bangladeshi diet were sterilized by irradiation. This approach allowed us to generate several representative Bangladeshi diets that were not dominated by the idiosyncrasies of a single individual's diet or by our own biases. The composition and results of nutritional analysis of the three diet embodiments are described in table S2 (A and B). The nutritional requirements of mice and children are compared in table S2C. The results of a Read more…

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