Project description:The transcriptome of LT-HSC (CD34+CD38-CD45RA+CD90+CD49f+) and ST-HSC (CD34+CD38-CD45RA+CD90-CD49f-) from healthy adult human Bone Marrow Cells were assessed by RNA-seq.
Project description:The C57BL/6J mouse model develops obesity and pre-diabetes when fed a high-fat diet. In this experiment, DNA methylation was assessed globally at specific CpG sites in liver tissue from mice receiving high-fat diet (45E% from fat) for 13 weeks (Control) or high-fat diet supplemented with 20% (w/w) of freeze-dried lingonberries (n=4). Our findings show that lingonberries prevent development of high-fat induced obesity, hepatic steatosis and low-grade inflammation, and the DNA was hypermethylated in mice receiving lingonberries compared to control. Genome wide hepatic DNA methylation comparison between mice fed high-fat diet with or without a lingonberry supplement (n=4/group).
Project description:Epigenetic pathways that regulate DNA methylation and chromatin modifications are frequently found to be dysregulated in human cancers. The TET methylcytosine dioxygenase 1 (TET1) enzyme is an important regulator of hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) in embryonic stem cells, neural progenitors,adult cells and reprogrammed cells. Decreased expression of TET proteins and loss of 5hmC has been reported in many tumors, suggesting a critical role for the maintenance of this epigenetic modification in normal cellular function. However, loss of TET1 function in the etiology of cancer has not been directly investigated. Here, we show that deletion of the Tet1 gene promotes the development of B cell lymphoma. Tet1 is required for maintaining normal levels of 5hmC, preventing aberrant DNA hypermethylation and for the regulation of transcriptional programs involved in B-cell lineage specification, chromosome maintenance, and DNA repair. Progenitor B cells in the absence of Tet1 accumulate DNA damage and whole-exome sequencing of Tet1-deficient tumors revealed a high correlation of mutations with those most frequently found in Non-Hodgkin B cell lymphoma (B-NHL) patients. In addition, we show that the TET1 gene is deleted, hypermethylated and transcriptionally silenced in B-NHL patients. These findings provide the first in vivo evidence of TET1 function as a tumor suppressor of hematopoietic malignancy. We did hydroxymethylation tests for two wild type mice and two Tet1 knockout mice.
Project description:SMORE-seq (Simultaneous Mapping Of RNA Ends by sequencing) is developted to simultaneously identify the strongest TSS (Transcription Start Site) and PAS (Polyadenylation Site) SMORE-seq were performed in wild type Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Project description:The thymus shapes the T cell receptor repertoire, and is one of the first organs to rapidly age, with gross changes in cellularity and architecture. To resolve the nature of these changes we used SMART-Seq2 on FACS purified thymic epithelial cells (TEC) across the first year of mouse life. We sorted 4 TEC populations in each of 5 mice at each age (1 week, 4 weeks, 16 weeks, 32 weeks and 52 weeks old).
Project description:HiPSCs were differentiated into alveolar type 2 cells (AT2s) following a stepwise differentiation protocol, mimicking lung development, using a chemically defined, serum-free, and xeno-free differentiation protocol. Samples contain biological triplicates of each developmental stage (hiPSCs, definitive endoderm, lung progenitor stage, passage 0 AT2s, early and late passage AT2s) using the same cell line. Additionally, a biological triplicate for a cell line from an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patient with a homozygous surfactant protein C mutation was done for late-passage AT2s comparison.
Project description:We tested two batches of transfection with the iPS2-seq pool plasmid library. iPS2seq allows the identification of transfected clones with a dual barcoding technology: a UCI or clonal identifier is a barcode generated during the plasmid preparation and identifies each plasmid in a single way, then a shRNA barcode identifying the targeting shRNA. We tested for clonal drifting after culture of the transfected cells from early passage (passage 3) and then after 5 and 10 additional passages. We performed a PCR to amplify the targeting region and added indexing adapters to build a library, according to the cell QC protocol provided with the publication.
Project description:In the young field of single-cell proteomics (scMS), there is a great need for improved global proteome characterization, both in terms of proteins quantified per cell and quantitative performance thereof. The recently introduced real-time search (RTS) on the Orbitrap Eclipse Tribrid mass spectrometer in combination with SPS-MS3 acquisition has been shown to be beneficial for the measurement of samples that are multiplexed using isobaric tags. Multiplexed single-cell proteomics requires high ion injection times and high-resolution spectra to quantify the single-cell signal, however the carrier channel facilitates peptide identification and thus offers the opportunity for fast on-the-fly precursor filtering before committing to the time intensive quantification scan. Here, we compared classical MS2 acquisition against RTS-SPS-MS3, both using the Orbitrap Eclipse Tribrid MS with the FAIMS Pro ion mobility interface and we present a new acquisition strategy termed RETICLE (RTS Enhanced Quant of Single Cell Spectra) that makes use of fast real-time searched linear ion trap scans to preselect MS1 peptide precursors for quantitative MS2 Orbitrap acquisition. Here we show that classical MS2 acquisition is outperformed by both RTS-SPS-MS3 through increased quantitative accuracy at similar proteome coverage, and RETICLE through higher proteome coverage, with the latter enabling the quantification of over 1000 proteins per cell at a MS2 injection time of 750ms using a 2h gradient.