Project description:Transcriptomic analysis and identification of differentially expressed genes in control vs KD Drosophila melanogaster ovaries. We compared gene expression profiles in Drosophila melanogaster ovaries in which the Snr1 or the mod(mdg4) gene have been selectively knocked down by tissues specific shRNA expression.
Project description:Transcriptomic analysis and identification of differentially expressed genes in wt vs KD Drosophila melanogaster ovaries. We compared gene expression profiles in Drosophila melanogaster ovaries in which the lid or the sin3A gene have been selectively knocked down by tissues specific shRNA expression.
Project description:To investigate the functions of each singular copy of snRNA genes in Drosophila melanogaster, we focused on the U1 snRNA and systematically investigated all the five Drosophila U1 genes. We constructed two series of U1-gene strains, one is transgenic strains of U1 promoter-driven gfp that allows for detection of each U1-gene’s expression in various developmental stages and tissues, the other is the CRISPR/Cas9-mediated precise U1-gene deletion strains that allows for investigation of phenotypes and effects on multiple RNA processing steps, including transcription, splicing and 3'-end formation. Further in vitro pulldown assay reveal the Drosophila U1 variants have different activity in binding with Sm proteins.
Project description:Thermal acclimation study on Drosophila melanogaster reared at 3 different temperatures (12, 25, and 31oC). The proteomic profiles of D. melanogaster under these different temperatures were analyzed and compared using label-free tandem mass spectrometry.
Project description:The serine hydrolase (SH) superfamily is perhaps, one of the largest functional enzyme classes in all forms of life, and consists of proteases/peptidases, lipases, and carboxylesterases as representative members. Consistent with the name of this superfamily, all members, without any exception to date, use a nucleophilic serine residue in the enzyme active site to perform hydrolytic-type reactions via a two-step ping-pong mechanism involving a covalent enzyme intermediate. Given the highly conserved catalytic mechanism, this superfamily has served as a classical prototype in the development of several platforms of the chemical proteomics technique, activity-based protein profiling (ABPP), to globally interrogate the functions of its different members in various native, yet complex, biological settings. While ABPP-based proteome-wide activity atlas’ for SH activities are available in numerous organisms, including humans, to the best of our knowledge, such an analysis for this superfamily is lacking in any insect model. To address this, here, we first report a bioinformatics analysis towards the identification and classification of non-redundant SHs in Drosophila melanogaster. Following up on this in silico analysis, leveraging discovery chemoproteomics, we identify and globally map the activities of the SH superfamily during various developmental stages and in different adult tissues of Drosophila. Finally, as proof of concept of the utility of this activity atlas, we highlight sexual dimorphism in SH activities across different tissues in adult Drosophila melanogaster, and together, we prospect new research directions, resources and tools that this study can provide to the fly community.
Project description:Genetic analyses suggest that alterations in gene expression at the molecular and tissue levels can have profound effects on aging for multi-cellular organisms. However, much remains unknown about the normal pattern of genetic changes in different tissues and how these tissues interact during aging. To investigate tissue-specific aging systematically, we measured expression profiles of aging in Drosophila melanogaster in seven tissues representing nervous, muscular, digestive, renal, reproductive, and storage systems. In each tissue, we identified hundreds of age-related genes mostly showing gradual changes of transcript levels with age. Age-relatedgenes showed clear tissue-specific transcriptional patterns; less than 10% of age-related genes in each tissue shared expression patterns with any other tissue; less than 20% of age-related biological processes were shared between tissues. A significant portion of tissue-specific age-related genes are those involved in physiological functions regulated by the corresponding tissue. However, limited overlaps of age-related function groups among tissues particularly those involved in proteasome function suggest some common mechanisms of transcription regulation in aging across tissues. This study defined global, temporal and spatial changes associated withaging at the molecular and tissue levels. Analyses indicated that different tissues might age in different patterns or at different rates. This study addressed comprehensively the relationship of age-related changes among different tissues in one organism, providing a foundation to address tissue-specific regulation in aging. RNA was then amplified by a one-step linear amplification protocol to generate amplified RNA (aRNA). Experiment aRNA refers to amplified RNA from flies of 15, 20, 30, 45 and 60 days old, and reference aRNA refers to amplified RNA from flies of 3 days old, and experiment and reference aRNAs were labeled with fluorescent dye Cy3 and Cy5, respectively. For each tissue, RNA from the corresponding tissue of 3-day old flies was used as the reference RNA and expression profiles at each of the five age-points was measured twice by using independently prepared duplicated samples. Keywords: Drosophila melanogaster; Tissue-specific; Brain; Muscle; Gut; Malpighian tubule; Accessory gland; Testis; Adipose tissue; Genome-wide, aging
Project description:Employ affinity purification approach to capture different stages of glial-specific information on gene expression, nucleosome occupancy and histone modifications (HMs) in Drosophila melanogaster embryo