Research Paper Volume 16, Issue 8 pp 7217—7248

Hepatocyte-specific METTL3 ablation by Alb-iCre mice (GPT), but not by Alb-Cre mice (JAX), resulted in acute liver failure (ALF) and postnatal lethality

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Figure 8. The loss of the compensatory growth responses of METTL3Δhep hepatocytes (GPT) to liver injury induced by METTL3Δhep (GPT). (AD) The histogram of GO term enrichment analyses based on the GO term of top20 enriched biological process for up-regulated DEGs according to the significance of enrichment (P-value). GO analysis of up-regulated genes in the liver of control mice and METTL3Δhep mice (JAX) was performed by using RNA-seq data deposited in NCBI GEO under the accession number GSE197800 [16] (A) and GSE176113 [20] (B), respectively, while GO analysis of up-regulated genes in the liver of control mice and METTL3Δhep mice (GPT) at 1 week (C) and 2 weeks (D) after birth was performed by using RNA-seq data deposited in NCBI GEO under the accession number GSE198512 (C, D). (E, F) IHC of Ki67 in livers from control mice and METTL3Δhep mice (JAX) at 1 m and 3 m after birth (E), and quantification for Ki67 staining (F). (G, H) IHC of Ki67 in livers from 7-, 14- and 21- day-old control mice and METTL3Δhep mice (GPT) (G), and quantification for Ki67 staining (H). (I, J) qRT-PCR analysis of the expression of cell cycle-related genes in the liver of METTL3Δhep mice (JAX) (I) and METTL3Δhep mice (GPT) (J).