Project description:Barrett's esophagus is the assumed precusor to oesophageal adenocarcinoma. We profiled the open chromatin of human Barrett's biopsies to gain insight into its molecular basis.
Project description:To study the epigenetic regulation of intestinal epithelium we focus on the role of chromatin modulators. Lysine-specific histone demethylase 1a (KDM1A, LSD1) is one of the enzymes that can erase the H3K4me1/2 mark. To assess the role of LSD1 in intestinal epithelium we studied wild type (WT) (Villin-Cre -; Lsd1f/f) and intestinal-epithelial-specific knock-out (KO) (Villin-Cre+; Lsd1f/f) mice. We found that KO mice completely lack Paneth cells, and have altered stem cell characteristics compared to WT littermates. To assess genome-wide ATAC levels in WT and KO small intestines, we isolated intestinal epithelium tissue from wild type mice and LSD1 KO mice. This tissue was digested to single cells and performed ATAC seq as described in the protocols.
Project description:To determine the ability of HNF4A and GATA6 to drive open chromatin formation, either HNF4A or GATA6 were overexpressed in normal oesophageal Het1A cells and ATAC-seq was performed.
Project description:The purpose of this study was to characterise iPSC-derived human intestinal epithelial organoids (iPSCo) by comparing these cultures with primary purified intestinal epithelial cells (IEC). Intestinal epithelial organoid (IEO) cultures were derived from at least three different lines of iPSCs, RNA was extracted and gene expression was profiled using RNA-sequencing. We compared these profiles with datasets we have previously derived from purified IEC from mature terminal ileum (TI) and sigmoid colon (SC) as well as human fetal proximal gut (FPG) and fetal distal gut (FDG).
Project description:We performed ATAC-seq on iPSC-derived hypothalamic arcuate-like neuron cells to identify putative regulatory elements. All samples were derived from the same individual and from the same differentiation/cell line but ATAC-seq was performed in 3 separate experiments (3 technical replicates).
Project description:Generation of genome-wide maps of putative regulatory regions in human airway smooth muscle cells (ASMC) to aid in fine mapping of asthma GWAS. The cells were cultured and maintained in 10% FBS in PBS for 24 hours with no additional treatment given. MACS2 peaks provided in this submission were mapped to hg19.