Project description:This experiments follows up ChIPseq experiments and aims to investigate the role of Rad50 on gene expression in drosophila larval stage 3 CNS.
Project description:The goal of this study is to investigate the biological role of the podocyte-specific long non-coding RNA Wt1os (human ortholog WT1-AS) and its contribution to glomerular health and disease. The experimental workflow integrates both in vivo and cell culture approaches. We generated a Wt1os loss-of-function mouse model and assessed kidney morphology and function using histological techniques and high-resolution microscopy. Promoter activity was evaluated through CUT&Tag analysis of H3K27ac histone marks. This dataset contains CUT&TAG data from 3 wild type and 3 Wt1os loss-of-function mutant mice.
Project description:Patients received standardized coartem therapy. Briefly, each pill contains 20 mg of artemether and 120 mg of lumefantrine. The dose and total coarse of tablets is based on the patients body weight. Blood was drawn from patients prior to anti-malarial treatment (day 0) and after treatment (day42 for children and day 28 for adults). Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells were isolated from all patients. Briefly, for PBMC isolation, whole blood from was diluted 1:2 in sterile PBS and overlaid on Ficoll Paque-PLUS in 50 mL conical tubes and centrifuged 800xg for 15 minutes at 25°C with no brake. Resulting buffy coats were collected and washed twice in RPMI 1640 medium, and then cells were treated with Red Blood Cell Lysis Buffer for 3 minutes at room temperature. Cells were washed in RPMI and counted on a hemacytometer. Monocytes were purified from PBMC using a miltenyi Pan Monocyte Isolation negative selection kit according to the manufacturer's instructions. For each sample. 50,000 viable cells were pelleted and lysed with cold ATAC-Resuspension Buffer (RSB) containing 0.1% NP40, 0.1% Tween-20, and 0.01% Digitonin and incubated in ice for 3 minutes. The lysaste was washed with 1 ml of cold ATAC-RSB containing 0.1% Tween-20 but NO NP40 or digitonin. Nuclei were pelleted at 500 RCF for 10 min at 4 degrees celcius. The supernatant was discarded and the pellet was resuspended in 50 uL of transposition mixture (25 ul 2x TD buffer, 2.5 ul transposase (100nM final), 16.5 ul PBS,0.5 ul 1% digitonin, 0.5 ul 10% Tween-20, 5 ul H2O). The reaction was incubated for 30 minutes in a thermomixer with 1000 RPM mixing. Zymo DNA Clean and concentrator kit (cat# D4014) was used as a cleanup step. The DNA was amplified at 98 degrees C for 30 seconds, then 13 cycles of: 98 degrees C for 10 seconds, 63 degrees C for 30 seconds, 72 degrees C for 1 minute.The library was evaluated in an Agilent TapeStation system and the DNA concentration evaluated by Qubit. Sequencing was performed on Illumina Nextseq 500 with Buffer cartridge v2: Ref: 15057941, High output reagent cartridge v2: Ref: 15057934, NextSeq accessory Box v2: Ref: 15058251, and High output Flow Cell cartridge v2.5: Ref: 20022408
Project description:The plant circadian clock exerts a critical role in the regulation of multiple biological processes including responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. It is estimated that the clock regulates up to 80% of the transcriptome in Arabidopsis, thus understanding the molecular mechanisms that control this rhythmic transcriptome requires identification of the targets of each clock component. The Arabidopsis core clock is partially comprised of a transcriptional regulatory loop between the MYB domain containing transcription factors CIRCADIAN CLOCK ASSOCIATED1 (CCA1) and LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL (LHY), and TIMING OF CAB EXPRESSION1 (TOC1). As a key component of the clock, CCA1 is able to initiate and set the phase of clock-controlled rhythms. CCA1 regulates the transcription of several genes by directly binding to the evening element (EE) motif primarily found in the promoters of evening expressed genes. Using a genome-wide approach we have identified direct targets of CCA1 in plants grown in constant (LL) and driven conditions (LD). These CCA1 targets are enriched for a myriad of biological processes and stress responses. While many of these target genes are evening phased and contain the EE in their promoter regions, a significant subset is morning phased and lack an EE. Furthermore, several CCA1 targets do not cycle in either LL or LD or both. Expression analysis in CCA1 overexpressing plants confirms CCA1 regulation of analyzed targets. Our results emphasize an expanded role for the circadian clock in regulation of key pathways in Arabidopsis, and provide a comprehensive and solid resource for future functional studies. ChIP-Seq of CCA1-GFP plants under control of the CCA1 promoter in continuous light and diel conditions
Project description:Cell types are fundamental units of metazoans, however their definition remains a long-standing challenge. We here use high throughput assays allowing for unprecedented resolution and systematic analyses. The comparison of the transcriptional landscapes of related and unrelated Drosophila differentiated cell types at larval and embryonic stages allowed us to identify features that are stable and cell-specific, revealing a unique signature for each cell type. Unexpectedly, all cell types share a stage-specific signature that is even stronger than the cell-specific one. Typically, embryonic hemocytes resemble more embryonic neurons than larval hemocytes. The stage-specific signature is associated to changes in chromatin accessibility between the two analyzed stages. We identified Rad50 as a chromatin boundary associated protein crucial for the temporal regulation of gene expression and chromatin organization, revealing a function of Rad50 beyond DNA repair. The identification of cell-specific and stage-specific signatures as equally important highlights another dimension of cell identity.
Project description:We report the the identification of chrosomal regions bound by the Wilms' tumor suppressor gene WT1 during embryonic mouse kidney development. Two indepednent ChIP-Seq experiments on microdissected E18.5 developing mouse kidneys were carried out using either WT1-specific or IgG-antibodies as a negative control.
Project description:Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression from the same single cell provides critical information about cell types in a tissue and cell states during a dynamic process. These emerging multi-omics techniques help the investigation of cell-type resolved gene regulatory mechanisms. Here, we developed in situ SHERRY after ATAC-seq (ISSAAC-seq), a highly sensitive and flexible single cell multi-omics method to interrogate chromatin accessibility and gene expression from the same single cell. We demonstrated that ISSAAC-seq is sensitive and provides high quality data with orders of magnitude more features than existing methods. Using the joint profiles from thousands of nuclei from the mouse cerebral cortex, we uncovered major and rare cell types together with their cell-type specific regulatory elements and expression profiles. Finally, we revealed distinct dynamics and relationships of transcription and chromatin accessibility during an oligodendrocyte maturation trajectory.