Project description:Alterations in the expression of key transcription factors can be harmful for pancreatic beta cell homeostasis and could lead to diabetes. This study uncovered that Prox1 overexpression obstructs beta cell maturation and results in severe hyperglycemia. The function of β-cells is key for glucose homeostasis because they supply insulin to the entire body. Genetic or metabolic conditions that disrupt the complex physiology of β-cells can lead to diabetes mellitus, a prevalent life-threatening disease. Here we investigated whether sustained Prox1 expression is incompatible with β-cell development using a transgenic mouse approach, and report that β-cell maturation is drastically impaired in the presence of high levels of Prox1. We used microarrays to identify gene expression profiles and pathways that are differentially activated when Prox1 is overexpressed in murine pancreatic beta cells.
Project description:The stage at which beta cells become functional were first determined with GSIS and Ca++ imaging. Then beta cells at key stages of maturation were purified and their gene expression alterations were determined with RNAseq and exhaustive bioinformatics analyses.
Project description:We report the genome-wide transcriptome of soybean seeds across several stages of seed development and the entire life cycle using Illumina high-throughput sequencing technology. Specifically, we profiled whole seeds containing globular-stage, heart-stage, cotyledon-stage, and early maturation-stage embryos. We also profiled dry soybean seeds, and vegetative and reproductive tissues including leaves, roots, stems, seedlings, and floral buds. Illumina sequencing of transcripts from whole seeds at five stages of seed development (globular, heart, cotyledon, early-maturation, dry), and vegetative (leaves, roots, stems, seedlings) and reproductive (floral buds) tissues.
Project description:Recent advances in high throughput sequencing methodologies allow the opportunity to probe in depth the transcriptomes of organisms including N. caninum. In this project, we are using Illumina sequencing technology to analyze the transcriptome (RNA-Seq) of experimentally accessible stages (e.g. tachyzoites at different times points) of N. caninum NCLiv. The aim is to make transcriptional landscape maps at different time points at different life cycle stages of N. caninum and compare it with equivalent datasets from the closely related parasite Toxoplasma gondii. ArrayExpress Release Date: 2011-02-08 Person Roles: submitter Person Last Name: Service Person First Name: Submission Person Mid Initials: Person Email: datahose@sanger.ac.uk Person Phone: Person Address: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom Person Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Person Roles: Investigator Person Last Name: Reid Person First Name: Adam Person Mid Initials: Person Email: ar11@sanger.ac.uk Person Phone: 01223 834244 Person Address: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,Hinxton,Cambridge. CB10 1SA UK Person Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Person Roles: Project Coordinator Person Last Name: Sanders Person First Name: Mandy Person Mid Initials: J Person Email: mjs@sanger.ac.uk Person Phone: 01223 834244 Person Address: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,Hinxton,Cambridge. CB10 1SA UK Person Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Project description:Pancreatic beta-cells are highly specialized cells that produce and release insulin in response to nutrients, hormones and neurotransmitters. Glucose-induced insulin secretion, a unique feature of fully differentiated beta-cells, is only acquired after birth and is preceded by a phase of intense beta-cell proliferation. These events occurring in the neonatal period are critical for the establishment of an appropriate functional beta-cell mass covering the insulin needs throughout life. However, key regulators of gene expression and cis-regulatory elements involved in the cellular reprogramming along maturation remain to be elucidated. This project addresses this issue by using ATAC-seq (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high throughput sequencing) permitting a fine genome-wide mapping of chromatin accessibility. This approach is used to compare open chromatin regions in newborn and adult rat beta-cells. We obtained a genome-wide picture of chromatin accessible sites (100000) among which 20% were differentially accessible during maturation. Nearly 60% of these sites were in the proximity of significantly differentially expressed genes. An analysis of transcription factor binding sites revealed key known and unforeseen transcription factors which could explain these changes. We validated a transcriptional repressor named SCRT1, that depicted a significant effect on beta-cell proliferation and targeted several genes implicated in the acquisition of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion function. Thus, we were able to find several known and unforeseen key transcriptional regulators acting at cis-regulatory sites and promoters which depicted a differential accessibility and induced differential gene expression along maturation. These findings could be of interest to induce maturation of surrogate insulin-producing cells.
Project description:Recent advances in high throughput sequencing methodologies allow the opportunity to probe in depth the transcriptomes of organisms including N. caninum and Toxoplasma gondii. In this project, we are using Illumina sequencing technology to analyze the transcriptome (RNA-Seq) of experimentally accessible stages (e.g. tachyzoites at different times points) of T. gondii VEG strain. The aim is to make comparative transcriptional landscape maps of Neospora and Toxoplasma at different time points at different life cycle stages and compare levels of expression of orthologous genes in these two organisms. ArrayExpress Release Date: 2011-02-08 Person Roles: submitter Person Last Name: Service Person First Name: Submission Person Mid Initials: Person Email: datahose@sanger.ac.uk Person Phone: Person Address: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom Person Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Person Roles: Investigator Person Last Name: Reid Person First Name: Adam Person Mid Initials: Person Email: ar11@sanger.ac.uk Person Phone: 01223 834244 Person Address: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,Hinxton,Cambridge. CB10 1SA UK Person Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Person Roles: Project Coordinator Person Last Name: Sanders Person First Name: Mandy Person Mid Initials: J Person Email: mjs@sanger.ac.uk Person Phone: 01223 834244 Person Address: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,Hinxton,Cambridge. CB10 1SA UK Person Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Project description:We report the genome-wide transcriptome of soybean seeds across several stages of seed development and the entire life cycle using Illumina high-throughput sequencing technology. Specifically, we profiled whole seeds containing globular-stage, heart-stage, cotyledon-stage, early maturation-stage, mid-maturation-stage, and late-maturation-stage embryos. We also profiled dry soybean seeds, and vegetative and reproductive tissues including leaves, roots, stems, seedlings, and floral buds.
Project description:Adult zebrafish can completely regenerate a wide range of injured organs including the CNS. RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) is a high-throughput sequencing method facilitating quantification of gene expression in a precisely manner. Development of RNA-Seq technologies and their extensive data-analysis methods make investigation of regulatory genes and functional gene annotations possible under specific conditions. In this study, we reveal the whole transcriptome profiles of both the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres of the zebrafish telencephalon at early wound healing (20 hour post lesion) and early proliferative (3 day post lesion) stages of regeneration. Moreover, we uncover Wnt/β-catenin signaling as a key pathway that is activated at the early wound healing stage.
Project description:High-throughput sequencing of life stages and tissues of the flatworm Schistosoma mansoni to be used for further gene editing, gene finding and transcriptome analysis ArrayExpress Release Date: 2010-12-09 Person Roles: investigator Person Last Name: Protasio Person First Name: Anna Person Mid Initials: V. Person Email: ap6@sanger.ac.uk Person Phone: Person Address: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, Uk Person Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Person Roles: submitter Person Last Name: Service Person First Name: Submission Person Mid Initials: Person Email: datahose@sanger.ac.uk Person Phone: Person Address: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom Person Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute