Project description:In the early zebrafish embryo, the developing genome profile can be interfered with by exposure to pentachlorophenol, and some specific sets of genes are up-regulated or down-regulated. We used microarrays to detail the global program of gene expression underlying cellularisation and identified distinct classes of up-regulated genes during this process. Zebrafish embryos were selected at successive stages of early development for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. We selected embryos exposed to 20 ug/L pentachlorophenol (C1), 50 ug/L pentachlorophenol (C2), and deionized water control (C3) at the gastrula stage (about 8hpf).
Project description:We measured the response of S. cerevisiae to arrest in the presence of alpha factor. These were collected in support of a related DNaseI-sequencing study. Keywords: Alpha-factor arrest S.cerevisiae R276 (MATa ura3Δ0 leu2Δ0 his3Δ1 met15Δ0 bar1Δ::KanMX) (C. Boone, University of Toronto; S288c background derived from BY4741), was cultured overnight in 50 ml rich medium (YPD) at 30°C, diluted into 500 ml fresh YPD to an OD660 of ~0.8, and treated with yeast α-factor (Sigma-Aldrich) at a final concentration of 50 ng / ml. This culture was incubated at 30°C with shaking for 3 hours (final OD660 ~1). After this treatment, approximately 90% of the cells had formed mating projections when checked by light microscopy. Total RNA from these cells was isolated using hot acidic phenol. 50 μg of total RNA was treated with Turbo Dnase (Ambion), and checked for integrity using a Bioanalyzer 2100 (Agilent). Total RNA was labeled according to the manufacturer’s protocol and applied to Affymetrix Yeast 2.0 arrays. Data were analyzed using the “affy” package from Bioconductor.
Project description:Primary human hepatocytes were treated with 2 non-cytotoxic concentrations of sulforaphane (SFN; 10 and 50 uM) phenethyl isothiocyante (PEITC; 10 and 25 uM), 3,3'-diindolylmethane (DIM; 10 and 50 uM), or one concentration of oltipraz (OPZ; 30 uM) for 48 hours. Given the considerable heterogeneity of the human population, it was essential that each experiment was performed with hepatocytes from the same liver, i.e. each liver served as its own control. Each treatment was performed on three batches of human hepatocytes, each derived from a separate liver.
