Transcription profiling of wild type and A-C/EBP transgenic mouse embryonic fibroblasts during adipogenesis to identify C/ebp alpha target genes

This experiment was designed to identify C/ebp alpha target genes during the process of adipogenesis by means of comparison of differentiating (wild-type) cells to a perturbation model (transgenic cells). For this, gene expression profiling during adipogenesis of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) prepared from wild-type and transgenic mice was performed. The transgene encodes for a dominant-negative A-CEBP protein that abolishes C/EBP DNA-binding activity. Five timepoints were measured for both transgenic and wild-type MEFs during adipogenesis (0h, 10h, 20h, d3 , d8). Every timepoint was hybridized against pre-confluent cells as reference.