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Deletion of the mouse homolog of human FHR1 (FHRE) protects ApoE-/- mice from atherosclerosis

GSE272153 Mus musculus (mouse) RNA-seq (gene expression) 12 samples Submitted 2026/01/28 Platform GPL24247
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · mouse · 12 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
12 samples: 3 × WT mouse vs 3 × APOE KO vs 3 × FHRE KO vs 3 × APOE & FHRE 2xKOGroups 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
Deletion of the Mouse Homolog of Human FHR1 (muFHR1) Alleviates Atherosclerosis in ApoE-/- miceInternational journal of medical sciences · 2026
Summary (written by the submitters)
Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of heart attack and stroke worldwide. The key characteristic of atherosclerosis is accumulation of LDL cholesterol in artery walls, subsequent infiltration by monocytes/macrophages, and development of inflammation. Macrophage-driven inflammation causes oxidative stress, thereby enhancing endothelial cell activation, immune cell recruitment, and foam cell formation.
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Lowering LDL plasma levels, as well as inhibiting inflammation, reduces the risk of cardiovascular events. Recently, we reported that plasma protein complement factor H-related 1 (FHR1) binds to the necrotic surfaces of cardiovascular plaques and induces inflammation driven by monocytes/macrophages and neutrophilic granulocytes. Moreover, the concentration of FHR1 is higher, whereas CFHR1 gene deletion frequency is significantly lower, in patients with atherosclerosis than in healthy controls. To investigate the link between FHR1 and atherosclerosis, we generated FHRE-/- (the murine homolog of FHR1) knockout mice and then crossed them with ApoE-/- knockout mice (a model of human atherosclerosis). Notably, deletion of FHRE enhanced lipid degradation in liver as seen by RNAseq analysis, resulting in normalized cholesterol levels, reduced inflammation and no plaque formation in FHRE-/-ApoE-/- mice than in ApoE-/- mice expressing FHRE. These data indicate that FHRE directs uptake of oxLDL by macrophages, and supports foam cell formation, plaque development, and inflammation in dislipidemic mice. As human FHR1 correlates with non-HDL cholesterol concentrations and inflammation markers in patients with atherosclerosis-associated cardiovascular disease (ACVD) we assume that FHR1/FHRE plays a key role in development of atherosclerosis and subsequent events such as stroke and heart attack.
Published in
Deletion of the Mouse Homolog of Human FHR1 (muFHR1) Alleviates Atherosclerosis in ApoE-/- mice
Perie L, Herr SM, Ghebreslassie T et al. · International journal of medical sciences 2026 · PMID 41583528 · doi:10.7150/ijms.114990
This dataset
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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 GSE272153_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 PRJNA1135219 and SRA study SRP519596. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
3 × WT mouse vs 3 × APOE KO vs 3 × FHRE KO vs 3 × APOE & FHRE 2xKO

Supports a between-group comparison across 12 samples.

How we read this: 4 replicated groups read from 12 sample titles; they account for 12 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.

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