Project description:Bacteria possess many small noncoding RNAs whose regulatory roles in pathogenesis are little understood due to a paucity of macroscopic phenotypes in standard virulence assays. Here, we use a novel Dual RNA-seq approach for a single-step simultaneous RNA profiling in both pathogen and host to reveal molecular phenotypes of sRNAs during infection with Salmonella Typhimurium. We identify a new PhoP/Q-activated small RNA which upon bacterial internalization acts to temporally control the expression of both, invasion-associated effectors and virulence genes required for intracellular survival. This riboregulatory activity is shown to adjust the human response to replicating Salmonella, and have a pervasive impact on host RNA expression both inside and outside protein-coding regions including infection-specific alterations of an array of long noncoding RNAs. Our study provides a paradigm for a comprehensive RNA-based analysis of intracellular bacterial pathogens without their physical purification from a host and a new discovery route for hidden functions of pathogen genes. sRNA profiling in various cell types
Project description:Bacteria possess many small noncoding RNAs whose regulatory roles in pathogenesis are little understood due to a paucity of macroscopic phenotypes in standard virulence assays. Here, we use a novel Dual RNA-seq approach for a single-step simultaneous RNA profiling in both pathogen and host to reveal molecular phenotypes of sRNAs during infection with Salmonella Typhimurium. We identify a new PhoP/Q-activated small RNA which upon bacterial internalization acts to temporally control the expression of both, invasion-associated effectors and virulence genes required for intracellular survival. This riboregulatory activity is shown to adjust the human response to replicating Salmonella, and have a pervasive impact on host RNA expression both inside and outside protein-coding regions including infection-specific alterations of an array of long noncoding RNAs. Our study provides a paradigm for a comprehensive RNA-based analysis of intracellular bacterial pathogens without their physical purification from a host and a new discovery route for hidden functions of pathogen genes. Comparative RNA-seq (in vitro medium shift experiment)
Project description:Cells lacking Rb1 are deficient in differentiation. Loss of Kdm5a rescues myogenic differentiation, as judged by appearance of morphologically normal myotubes that display expression of late markers of differentiation. In order to better understand how Kdm5a loss rescues differentiation, we induced mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) of different genotypes to undergo myogenic differentiation and analyzed gene expression changes in wild-type, Kdm5a-/-, Rb1-/- and Kdm5a-/-; Rb1-/- cells. Rb1-/- cells stained single nucleated, did not exhibit morphological changes and increased expression of the myogenic marker MYHC. Except for Rb1-/- cells, all other cells were undergoing successful convertion into aligned multinucleated myotubes and were MYHC-positive. We obtained purified populations of myotubes for the wild-type and Kdm5a-/-; Rb1-/- cells. RNA-seq analysis of gene expression in Rb1 or Kdm5a deficient MEFs that were induced for myogenic differentiation.
Project description:We performed a massively parallel reporter assay on 2,396 genomic regions containing single nucleotide polymorphisms that are in high linkage disequilibrium with 97 lead variants from an obesity GWAS (PMID: 25673413). Regions were transfected into human SGBS preadipocytes, SGBS mature adipocytes, 3T3-L1 preadipocytes, HT22 hippocampal cells, and GT1-7 cells and assessed for enhancer activity. The processed file contains the MPRA barcodes.
Project description:Gene expression was studied in the presence or absence of Otx2 (RNAi) in the Rex1GFPd2 mouse embryonic stem cell line (parental line; E14Tg2a) in undifferentiated and differentiated states.
Project description:We performed a massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) of 2,034 genomic regions containing single nucleotide polymorphisms (4,587 regions tested with 96,328 barcodes) that are in high linkage disequilibrium with lead variants from an asthma GWAS (PMID: 31036433). Test sequences were transfected into 16HBE14o- Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells, and assessed for enhancer activity by comparing RNA counts to DNA input counts. The processed files contain the MPRA barcodes, read counts and activities.
Project description:Wild-type (CTRL) and CBFA2T3::GLIS2 induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) clones were differentiated into hematopoietic cells in vitro. Cells from day 13 in vitro differentiation were analysed. In addition, cells from CBFA2T3::GLIS2 iPSC were injected into immunodeficient murine recipients that developped leukemia with characteristics of patient leukemia. ATAC-seq was performed to characterize chromatin accessibility in cells from 3 conditions : - Control iPSC-derived hematopoietic cells in vitro (day 13 of differentiation) - CBFA2T3::GLIS2 iPSC-derived hematopoietic cells in vitro (day 13 of differentiation) - CBFA2T3::GLIS2 leukemic cells derived from the engraftment of day 13 CBFA2T3::GLIS2+ iPSC into immunodeficient murine recipients (in vivo).
Project description:Gene expression was studied in the presence or absence of Otx2 (RNAi) in the Rex1GFPd2 mouse embryonic stem cell line (parental line; E14Tg2a) in undifferentiated and differentiated states.
Project description:We report the changes in Tcrb interactome upon transitioning from DN to DP stage of thymocyte development Examination of the interactomes of Eb and Trbv5 viewpoints in RAG-deficient DN and DP thymocytes