Project description:Two different strains of Aedes aegypti mosquito, Moyo-in-dry and Moyo-S, are profiled for their response through time to infection with Dengue 2 virus. Expression is measured using a two-colour custom spotted cDNA array. A mixed strain uninfected sample is hybridized as the reference.
Project description:Comparison of expression profile of two 3D7 isogenic clones : 3D7AH1S2 and 3D7S8.4 at three different stages of intraerythrocytic cycle: ring, trophozite and schizont stage
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE17425: Csac growth on monosaccharides found in lignocellulose GSE17427: Csac growth on model substrates found in lignocellulose Refer to individual Series
Project description:Transcriptome analysis of of wt and PerR mutant Group A streptococcus strain 003Sm grown in the presence or absence of hydrogen peroxide, at early and late log
Project description:The CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) in colorectal tumors can be recognized by an increased frequency of aberrant methylation in a specific set of genomic loci. Because of the strong association of CIMP with high microsatellite instability (MSI-H), the identification of CIMP+ tumors within microsatellite stable (MSS) colorectal cancers may not be straightforward. To overcome this potential limitation, we have built an improved 7-loci set of methylation markers that includes CACNA1G, IGF2, RUNX3, HTR6, RIZ1, MINT31 and MAP1B. This new set of CIMP markers revealed a bimodal distribution of methylation frequencies in a group of 95 MSS colorectal cancers, which allowed a clearer separation between CIMP classes. Correlation of CIMP+ tumors with bio-pathological traits revealed significant associations with location to the proximal colon, mucinous histology and chromosomal stability. Although not statistically significant, a trend toward an adverse prognosis for CIMP+ cases was observed. Microarray analysis revealed that CIMP+ tumors are characterized by a unique expression profile, a result that confirms that CIMP+ tumors represent a distinct molecular class within MSS colorectal cancers. Moreover, our results suggest that this expression pattern may represent the molecular background for the development of CIMP+ tumors that, in turn, develop MSI when aberrant methylation occurs at the MLH1 gene promoter.
Project description:Macrophage activation during the innate immune response is tightly regulated to prevent tissue damage while activating the defense to cellular attack. Using a mouse model where Trim33 is specifically deleted in mature myeloid cells, we show that TRIM33 is essential for two aspects of the inflammatory response in vivo. Loss of TRIM33 attenuates the initiation of macrophage activation by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and TRIM33 is necessary to switch off transcription of inflammatory genes during late stages of LPS activation. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled to deep sequencing, we provide a link between TRIM33 binding, RNA Polymerase II occupancy and H3K4me3 spreading on inflammatory genes in macrophages and reveal novel insights concerning the transcriptional regulation of Ifn-beta where TRIM33 exerts a repressive function via a distal regulatory region during late stages of LPS activation of macrophages. These findings pinpoint TRIM33 as a major regulator of the resolution of inflammation and indicate that transcriptional regulators can fine-tune H3K4me3 spreading. To study the role of TRIM33 in the transcriptional response induced by pathogen receptors, we analyzed whether lack of TRIM33 in macrophages affected the TLR-mediated regulation of proinflammatory and antimicrobial genes. To study this role, we bred TRIM33fl/fl mice with Lyz-Cre mice (obtained from The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA) where the Cre recombinase gene is under the regulatory sequences of the Lyz gene that is expressed only in mature myeloid cells. Bone marrow cells from 2 LyzCre/Trim33+/+ mice and 2 LyzCre/Trim33flox/flox mice were then differentiated in macrophages and treated during 0h, 4h, 12h and 24h with LPS. Total RNA was extracted from macrophages and analysed using cDNA microarrays. The set of gene expression consists of 16 samples of RNA of bone marrow derived macrophages activated with 100ng/ml of LPS during 0h, 4h, 12h, 24h, 8 samples from 2 LyzCre/Trim33+/+ mice and 8 samples from 2 LyzCre/Trim33flox/flox mice.