Project description:Histone modification maps of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 of meiocytes were obtained by microlibrary and high-throughput sequencing by extracting meiocytes from rice varieties Azucena and IR64. And the DNA methylation results of meiocytes and flag-leaf of Azucena and IR64 were obtained. By collating this data, the male meiocyte-specific epigenomic landscape is constructed
Project description:Infertility is a widespread problem, affecting around 15% of couples worldwide, and is defined as the inability to achieve pregnancy within one year despite unprotected intercourse 1. Infertility can be caused by either male or female reproductive issues. Various medical conditions including malignancies, infections, urogenital conditions, or genetic causes can contribute to male infertility. However, 30-40% of men in their reproductive age are affected by idiopathic infertility, according to the guidelines of European Association of Urology (EAU) 1. Towards a better understanding of male infertility, it is mandatory to achieve a comprehensive understanding of involved genes, their RNA transcripts, and regulatory factors, including miRNAs, which influence the expression level of proteins. Therefore, such proteins need to be identified to investigate their role in spermatogenesis and male infertility. Although there are numerous studies on RNAs, including miRNAs related to male infertility 2-9, there are few studies aiming to cover the whole proteome of human sperm 10. The sperm transcriptome comprises a total of 60,505 transcripts including 11,688 differentially expressed transcripts in infertile and fertile men, as reported by Joshi et al. (2022)11. The entire sperm proteome encompasses 6871 proteins, as summarized by Castillo et al. (2018)10. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of high-throughput studies aiming to identify dysregulated proteins in sperm from subfertile men. Only few studies focused on comparisons of the sperm proteome in men with asthenozoospermia and there is virtually no proteomic studies of oligoasthenozoospermic men 12. Some identified proteins in sperm have functions in maintaining sperm motility and enabling fertilization and are involved in structural composition and/or energy metabolism 12-14 and others are not yet functionally characterized. In this study, we employed Mass spectrometry (MS) technology that is still rarely used in the field of human reproductive research to investigate the proteomic landscape of human sperm and their differential expression patterns in men with subfertility.
Project description:To test the chromatin interaction landscape of the miR-146a promoter region, we performed 4C-seq in JURKAT and RAJI cell lines based on the miR-146a promoter viewpoint. (First digestion enzyme MboI, second digestion enzyme NlaIII)
Project description:Using high-throughput sequencing, we probed the H3K4me2 and H3K4me3 landscape in the bam mutant testes which are enriched with earlier stages of male germline.