Project description:In vertebrate muscle, loss of Dysferlin results in the activation of compensatory muscle gene expression, even at pre-pathological stages. We hypothesized that if C. elegans fer-1 is also expressed in muscle, then fer-1 mutant worms might also exhibit compensatory muscle gene expression. To test this hypothesis, we used Affymetrix microarrays to profile gene expression from synchronized wild type and fer-1 mutant adults. To improve the specificity of this approach, we profiled two well characterized loss-of-function fer-1 mutants (hc1ts and hc24ts) and considered genes that changed similarly in both mutants as fer-1-regulated transcripts.
Project description:Young adult fer-15;fem-1 Caenorhabditis elegans were infected with Staphylococcus aureus for 8 h to determine the transcriptional host response to Staphylococcus aureus. Analysis of differential gene expression in C. elegans young adults exposed to two different bacteria: E. coli strain OP50 (control), wild-type Staphylococcus aureus RN6390. Samples were analyzed at 8 hours after exposure to the different bacteria. These studies identified C. elegans genes induced by pathogen infection. Keywords: response to pathogen infection, innate immunity, host-pathogen interactions
Project description:In vertebrate muscle, loss of Dysferlin results in the activation of compensatory muscle gene expression, even at pre-pathological stages. We hypothesized that if C. elegans fer-1 is also expressed in muscle, then fer-1 mutant worms might also exhibit compensatory muscle gene expression. To test this hypothesis, we used Affymetrix microarrays to profile gene expression from synchronized wild type and fer-1 mutant adults. To improve the specificity of this approach, we profiled two well characterized loss-of-function fer-1 mutants (hc1ts and hc24ts) and considered genes that changed similarly in both mutants as fer-1-regulated transcripts. Experiment Overall Design: For each genotype, six individual replicates were performed and were hybridized to Affymetrix C. elegans Genechips using the manufacturerâs recommended protocols. The best four preparations (as determined by the overall Pearson Correlation within a genotype) were used for RNA labeling and hybridization.
Project description:Characterization of the H3K9me2 distribution in the C. elegans adult hermaphrodite genome using ChIP-Seq Examination of H3K9me2 in two different nematode strains: fer-1 control and fer-1;him-8 mutant, where the X chromosomes are unsynapsed. The fer-1 mutation prevents production of embryos.
