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Targeting CDK7 function in the RNA Polymerase II transcription cycle in inflammatory arthritis

GSE255108 Mus musculus (mouse) RNA-seq (gene expression) 64 samples Submitted 2025/01/29 Platform GPL18573Platform GPL24676Platform GPL30173Platform GPL34281Platform GPL24247
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · mouse · 64 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Mus musculus (mouse)
Samples
64 samples: 21 conditions, mostly in triplicateGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
Disrupting the RNA polymerase II transcription cycle through CDK7 inhibition ameliorates inflammatory arthritisScience translational medicine · 2024
Summary (written by the submitters)
Macrophages are main drivers of inflammation and tissue damage in autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis1-4. The rate-limiting step for transcription of >70% of inducible genes in macrophages is RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) promoter-proximal pause release5-7, yet, the specific role of Pol II pausing in inflammation or whether it can be modulated therapeutically is unknown.
Read the full summary ↓
Genetic ablation of a pause-stabilizing negative elongation factor (NELF) in macrophages enhanced the transcriptional response of paused anti-inflammatory genes to LPS, followed by secondary attenuation of inflammatory signaling, and reduced severity of K/BxN-serum transfer (ST) arthritis in mice. To disrupt Pol II pause establishment pharmacologically, we employed covalent inhibitors of the TFIIH-associated cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 7, THZ1 and YKL-5-124. Both dramatically reduced Pol II pausing in murine and human macrophages, broadly suppressed induction of pro- but not anti-inflammatory genes, and rapidly reversed pre-established inflammatory macrophage polarization by TNF+IFNγ. In vivo, CDK7i ameliorated the acute K/BxN-ST and chronic progressive hTNF-transgenic arthritis in mice. Finally, CDK7i downregulated a pathogenic gene expression signature in synovial explants from arthritis patients. We propose that interfering with Pol II pausing by targeting CDK7 represents a novel therapeutic opportunity for inflammatory diseases.
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Disrupting the RNA polymerase II transcription cycle through CDK7 inhibition ameliorates inflammatory arthritis
Chen X, Shibu G, Sokolsky BA et al. · Science translational medicine 2024 · PMID 39565872 · doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.adq5091
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE255108_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1073533 and SRA study SRP488247. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
21 conditions, mostly in triplicate
DMSO_6h ×5 YKL_6h ×5 DMSO_0h ×3 LPS_1h ×3 LPS_6h ×3 LPS_12h ×3 YKL_0h ×3 YKL_LPS_1h ×3 +17 more

Supports a between-group comparison across 60 samples.

How we read this: 21 replicated groups read from 64 sample titles; they account for 60 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

Samples in this study

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