Mario Brosch

This comprises the whole LiSyM network

One of the tasks of the healthy liver is to store fat. Yet, at some stage, too much fat makes the liver sick. One critical time point occurs when a healthy fatty liver becomes inflamed and progresses to steatohepatitis, or NASH. LiSyM-Pillar I will identify what events lead to this transition. Does it occur in all parts of the liver? Which molecules indicate that it is taking place? Can the degeneration be stopped or undone - and if so, how?

This generic project is intended to be a forum for all LiSyM partner and external stakeholders interested in participating in the BMBF initiative LiSyM-Krebs.

To investigate the underlying molecular principles of metabolic and morphogenic zonation of the human liver lobule, we generated an integrated epigenetic map across three zones (pericentral, intermediate and periportal) by methylation and transcriptomic analysis of hepatocytes captured by laser micro-dissection. We observe a deep link between epigenetic zonation of human liver and a zonated expression of metabolic and morphogenic pathways: Key transcriptionally zonated enzymes in xenobiotic and ...

The study comprises 19 human liver biopsy donors divided into the groups normal control (NC = 7012, 7173, 7194, 7279), healthy obese (HO = 6758, 6922, 7213, 7230, 7252), bland steatosis (STEA = 6967, 7137, 7172, 7181, 7251) and early NASH (EARLY = 6610, 7041, 7157, 7188, 7344).

Hepatocytes captured by laser microdissection were obtained from three hepatic zones (pericentral, intermediate and periportal) and subjected to reduced representation bisulfite sequencing and RNA-seq resulting in 114 ...

Transcriptomic analysis of hepatocytes captured by laser micro-dissection from hepatic zone: pericentral (CV)

DNA-methylation at binding sites of uniformly expressed transcription factors in human hepatocytes ; hepatic zone: pericentral (CV)

Transcriptomic analysis of hepatocytes captured by laser micro-dissection from hepatic zone: intermediate (IZ)

Transcriptomic analysis of hepatocytes captured by laser micro-dissection from hepatic zone: periportal (PP)

DNA-methylation at binding sites of uniformly expressed transcription factors in human hepatocytes ; hepatic zone: intermediate (IZ)

Human RNA-Seq data set GSM2819712 stored in NCBI (GEO)

Human RNA-Seq data set GSM2819698 stored in NCBI (GEO)

liver tissue sample : 6922_IZ_RNA

Human RNA-Seq data set GSM2819714 stored in NCBI (GEO)

Human RNA-Seq data set GSM2819713 stored in NCBI (GEO)

Human RNA-Seq data set GSM2819711 stored in NCBI (GEO)

SOP : liver tissue microdissection for RNA sequencing

Talk at the Jamboree 2021 about epigenomic map of human liver zonation and loss of zonation in end-stage liver disease

Human microdissected liver tissue sample