Project description:Approximately 1 x 10^8 GFP-HA-KERP2 expressing Entamoeba histolytica cells were cross-linked in 0.5% formaldehyde (in PBS) for 10 minutes at room temperature. Cross-linking was quenched with 125 mM glycine for 5 minutes. Cells were washed once with PBS and subjected to nuclear fractionation using nuclei isolation buffer (10 mM Hepes-KOH pH 7.9, 1.5 mM MgCl2, 10 mM KCl, 2% NP-40, 1 uM E-64, 0.5 mM PMSF, and 1x cOmplete protease inhibitor cocktail). Nuclear pellets were resuspended in sonication buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 140 mM NaCl2, 1 mM EDTA, 1% Triton X-100, 0.1% sodium deoxycholate, 5 mM DTT, 1 uM E-64, 0.5 mM PMSF, 1x cOmplete) and sonicated using a Covaris instrument. Sonicated samples were centrifuged at 16000 x g for 20 minutes. A 200 uL aliquot of supernatant was transferred to a 1.5 mL Protein LoBind tube. Remaining sample was stored as input control. For immunoprecipitation, 1 mL of ChIP dilution buffer (16.7 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 0.01% SDS, 1% Triton X-100, 1.2 mM EDTA, 167 mM NaCl, 0.5% BSA, 1x cOmplete) containing 50 uL of GFP(ab290)-antibody conjugated Dynabeads was added and rotated at 4 C for 12 hours. Beads were washed five times with low-salt wash buffer (20 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 0.1% SDS, 1% Triton X-100, 2 mM EDTA, 150 mM NaCl), followed by two washes with high-salt wash buffer (same as above, but 500 mM NaCl). DNA-protein complexes were eluted with 200 uL of ChIP elution buffer (10 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 1% SDS, 5 mM EDTA, 300 mM NaCl) at room temperature for 20 minutes. Input samples were thawed and diluted with 190 uL of elution buffer. All samples were incubated at 65 C for 8 hours to reverse cross-links, followed by RNase A treatment (1 uL) at 37 C for 1 hour and Proteinase K digestion (5 uL) at 55 C for 2 hours. DNA was purified by phenol/chloroform extraction with 1 uL glycogen as carrier, followed by ethanol precipitation overnight at -30 C. DNA pellets were washed with 80% ethanol, air-dried, and resuspended in 20 uL TE (ChIP) or 40 uL TE (input). DNA concentrations were quantified using a Qubit dsDNA High Sensitivity Assay Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Purified DNA was submitted to Rhelixa for ChIP-seq.
Project description:In this study wild-type, fur mutant, and complemented fur mutant strains of the human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae F62 were grown under high (100 uM iron) or low (100 uM desferal) iron conditions to identify genes whose expression was regulated by iron and/or Fur. This study looked at the response 3 hours after the addition of iron or desferal.
Project description:After 7 days under normal culture conditions, an iron stress was imposed by addition of iron citrate (500 uM final concentration). This time constituted the time zero (T0) of the time-course experiment.<br> Cells were collected from separate Erlenmeyer flasks at times T0, T+5 min, T+15 min, T+30 min, T+60 min, T+6 h, and T+24h.<br> After filtration, cells were washed with water twice, frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at 80C before processing for RNA extraction.
Project description:Murine pancreatic beta cell line MIN6 was growth at two different concentrations of glucose (22,2 and 5,5 mM of glucose), 37ºC, 5% CO2 and was treated at four different concentrations of human amylin (0, 1, 10 and 20 uM) during three different times (2, 12 and 24 hours) Keywords = pancreatic beta cell Keywords = amylin Keywords = glucose Keywords: time-course
Project description:Glutamate supplied to Phaeodactylum tricornutum at concentrations of 25 uM and 250 uM. Samples were taken 4 hours after glutamate addition.
Project description:We report gene expression profiles for cultures grown in minimal salts medium with 125 mM methanol with and without addition of 2 uM lanthanum chloride
Project description:We analyed the nucleosome positions by using 2 concentrations of micrococcal nuclease of haploid yeast strains that were grown in galactose containing synthetic complete media. Strains contained AID-tags at the endogeous TOP1 and TOP2 genes. One strain contained OsTIR1 and these cells were either untreated or treated for 60 min with 500 uM auxin.
Project description:Hereditary hemochromatosis and transfusional iron overload are frequent clinical conditions associated with progressive iron accumulation in parenchymal tissues leading to eventual organ failure. We have discovered a novel mechanism to reverse iron overload by pharmacological modulation of the divalent metal transporter-1 (DMT-1). DMT-1 mediates intracellular iron transport during the transferrin cycle and apical iron absorption in the duodenum. Additional functions in iron handling in the kidney and liver are less well understood. We show that the L- type calcium-channel blocker nifedipine increases DMT-1 mediated cellular iron transport 10-to 100-fold at concentrations between 1-100 uM. Mechanistically, nifedipine causes this effect by prolongation of the activity of DMT-1 to transport iron. We show that nifedipine mobilizes iron from the liver of mice with primary and secondary iron overload, and enhances urinary iron excretion. Modulation of DMT-1 function by L-type calcium-channel blockers emerges a novel pharmacological concept to treat iron overload disorders.<br> <br> In this experiment mice were subjected to dietary iron overload before being treated with nifedipine at 5 ug/g bodyweight, or mock treated with the same volume of solvent.
Project description:This study provides an evaluation of changes in gene expression associated with sodium valproate treatment of rat hepatocytes in vitro. Primary rat hepatocytes were treated for 24 and 48 hours with two doses (500 uM and 10 mM) of sodium valproate and water vehicle control. Five replicates of each treatment were performed. Cells were then extracted and RNA processed for microarray analysis.
Project description:This study provides an evaluation of changes in gene expression associated with acetominophen treatment of rat hepatocytes in vitro. Primary rat hepatocytes were treated for 24 and 48 hours with two doses (500 uM and 5 mM) of acetominophen and 1% DMSO vehicle control. Five replicates of each treatment were performed. Cells were then extracted and RNA processed for microarray analysis.