Project description:Transcriptional profiling of chicken embryo fibroblast (CEF) cells comparing CEF derived immortal chicken embryo fibroblast cell line (DF-1). Goal was to determine differentially expressed genes of CEF which were changed responding DF-1.
Project description:RNAs were analysed from a pool of day 7 chicken embryos, the DF-1 chicken fibroblast cell line and chicken bone marrow-derived macrophages (stimulated with CSF-1).
Project description:Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is an avian paramyxovirus that causes major economic losses to the poultry industry around the world, with NDV pathogenicity varying due to strain virulence differences. However, the impact of intracellular viral replication and the heterogeneity of host responses among cell types are unknown. Here, we investigated the heterogeneity of lung tissue cells in response to NDV infection in vivo and that of chicken embryo fibroblast cell line DF-1 to NDV infection in vitro using single-cell RNA sequencing.
Project description:The spontaneously immortalised chicken DF-1 cell line is rapidly replacing its progenitor primary chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) in studies on avian viruses but no comprehensive study has as yet been reported comparing their immune phenotype. We conducted microarray analysis of the DF-1 and CEF, in both normal and stimulated conditions using recombinant chicken chIFN-α and the CEF-adapted infectious bursal disease virus vaccine strain PBG98.
Project description:We report the transcriptomes of 10 different chicken (Gallus gallus) cell/tissue types. The goal of this project was to determine similarities and differences between different cell/tissue types, with respect to protein coding genes, lncRNA, isoform counts, and differential gene expression. We provide raw data and bigWig files for UCSC visualization. The findings described here will be useful towards a complete annotation of chicken tissue and cellular transcriptomes.
Project description:MarekM-bM-^@M-^Ys disease (MD) is an economically significant disease in chickens caused by the highly oncogenic MarekM-bM-^@M-^Ys disease virus (MDV). A major unanswered question is the mechanism of MDV-induced tumor formation. Meq, a bZIP transcription factor discovered in the 1990s, is critically involved in viral oncogenicity but only a few of its host target genes have been described impeding our understanding of MDV-induced tumorigenesis. Using ChIP-seq and microarray analysis, a high confidence list of Meq-binding sites in the chicken genome and a global transcriptome of Meq-responsive genes was generated. Meq binding sites were found to be enriched in the promoter regions of up-regulated genes, but not in those of down-regulated genes. ChIP-seq was also performed for c-Jun, a known heterodimeric partner of Meq. Close location of binding sites of Meq and c-Jun was noted, suggesting cooperativity between these two factors in modulating transcription. Pathway analysis indicated that Meq transcriptionally regulates many genes that are part of several signaling pathways include the ERK/MAPK, Jak-STAT, and ErbB pathways that are critical for oncogenesis and/or include signaling mediators involved in apoptosis. Meq activates oncogenic signaling cascades by transcriptionally activating major kinases in the ERK/MAPK pathway and simultaneously repressing phosphatases, as verified using inhibitors of MEK and ERK1/2 in a cell proliferation assay. This study provides significant insights into the mechanistic basis of Meq-dependent cell transformation. Transcript profiling of DF-1 (a chicken embryo fibroblast cell line) and Meq-DF-1 clone 5G (DF-1 stably expressing Meq driven by the CMV promoter) using Affymetrix chicken GeneChips
