Project description:H. seropedicae wild-type or ntrC mutant were grown on three different nitrogen conditions: nitrogen limiting, ammonium shock and nitrate shock.
Project description:Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is formed by heterogeneous ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament. The patho-mechanism of OPLL is still largely unknown. Recently, disorders of metabolism are thought to be the center of many diseases such as OPLL. Advanced glycation end product (AGE) are accumulated in many extracellular matrixes such as ligament fibers, and it can functions as cellular signal through its receptor (RAGE), contributing to various events such as atherosclerosis or oxidative stress. However, its role in OPLL formation is not yet known. Therefore, we performed high-through-put RNA sequencing on primary posterior longitudinal ligament cells treated with different doses of AGEs (1µM, 5µM and negative control), with or without BMP2 (1µM). mRNA profiles of Primary human posterior longitudinal ligament cells stimulated with various stimuli (Control, 1µM AGE-BSA, 5µM AGE-BSA, 1µM AGE-BSA with BMP2, 5µM AGE-BSA with BMP2) were generated by deep sequencing on Ion Proton
Project description:MicroRNAs are important negative regulators of protein coding gene expression, and have been studied intensively over the last few years. To this purpose, different measurement platforms to determine their RNA abundance levels in biological samples have been developed. In this study, we have systematically compared 12 commercially available microRNA expression platforms by measuring an identical set of 20 standardized positive and negative control samples, including human universal reference RNA, human brain RNA and titrations thereof, human serum samples, and synthetic spikes from homologous microRNA family members. We developed novel quality metrics in order to objectively assess platform performance of very different technologies such as small RNA sequencing, RT-qPCR and (microarray) hybridization. We assessed reproducibility, sensitivity, quantitative performance, and specificity. The results indicate that each method has its strengths and weaknesses, which helps guiding informed selection of a quantitative microRNA gene expression platform in function of particular study goals.
Project description:Genetic heterogeneity can provide tumors with opportunities for therapy evasion, however the degree of genetic heterogeneity within metastatic melanomas has not been thoroughly investigated. We therefore isolated DNA from different regions of formalin fixed paraffin embedded metastatic melanoma tissue samples and subjected them to amplicon sequencing-based profiling of mutations in a panel of well known cancer genes using the Ion Ampliseq Cancer Panel.
Project description:Naïve and activated T-cells has a different response to antigenic challenge. We examine whether a cytokine like IL-6 induces different responses through the Jak-STAT pathway to affect the functional characteristics of a given CD4 T‑cell subset. We isolated naïve and effector memory (Tem) CD4 T-cells to investigated STAT1 and STAT3 binding after 1-hour treatment with 20ng/ml IL-6 in the presence of anti-CD3/CD28.
Project description:The aim of this data set is to measure the effect of rofecoxib and celecoxib on the transcription profile in an in vitro inflammation model. Transcription profiling was carried out using Affymetrix HG U-133A v2 microarrays.