Project description:The aim of this data set is to perform a differential expression analysis between wild type eye-antennal imaginal disc and discs that are homozygous glass mutant gl[60j]. This data set is used to validate Glass target gene predictions identified by i-cisTarget on a set of conserved eye-specific genes.
Project description:We obtained transcriptional profiles of third instar eye imaginal disc nuclei with or without endoplasmic reticulum stress using next generation sequencing (NGS). We employed an isolation of nuclei tagged in specific cell type (INTACT) protocol (Ma and Weake, J. of Vis. Exp., 2014) to label nuclear membranes of GMR-GAL4-expressing cells with EGFP. The experimental group also expressed a mutant allele of the membrane visual protein rhodopsin (Rh-1(G69D)), which is known to cause endoplasmic reticulum stress and initiate Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) signaling. The goal of this study was to characterize the transcriptional changes associated with endoplasmic reticulum stress responses in a commonly used platform, the eye imaginal disc.
Project description:The aim of this data set is to perform a differential expression analysis between wild type eye-antennal imaginal disc and discs that are homozygous glass mutant gl[60j]. This data set is used to validate Glass target gene predictions identified by i-cisTarget on a set of conserved eye-specific genes. RNA-seq was performed in eye-antennal imaginal discs of two D.melanogaster wild-type strains (Canton S and strain RAL-208 (Jordan et al. 2007, Ayroles et al. 2009)), representing two biological replicates; and in glass mutant (gl[60j]) discs for two technical replicates.
Project description:In order to study how ectopic Yki drives tissue overgrowth in Drosophila imaginal discs, we overexpressed the constitutively active Yki3SA and deleted wts in clones of cells in the entire eye-antennal imaginal disc, as well as specifically in eye disc proper cells using Optix-Gal4. Using the MARCM system allowed us to compare the effects of Yki3SA overexpression in wild-type and sd mutant clones.
Project description:Purpose: To compare transcriptomic changes in 3rd instar larval eye discs following sev-GAL4 driven down- or up- regulation of hsrω lncRNAs. Method: Eye disc total RNA profiles of wandering late third instar larvae of sev-GAL4>UAS-GFP, sev-GAL4>UAS-hsrωRNAi, sev-GAL4>EP3037 were generated by sequencing, in duplicate, using Illumina Hiseq2500 platform using 50bp pair-end reads, 6 samples per lane and each sample run across 2 lanes. This resulted in a sequencing depth of ~20 million reads. The resulting sequencing FastQ files were mapped to the Drosophila genome (dm6) using Tophat with Bowtie. The aligned SAM/BAM file for each was processed for guided transcript assembly using Cufflink 2.1.1 and gene counts were determined. Mapped reads were assembled using Cufflinks. Transcripts from all samples were subjected to Cuffmerge to get final transcriptome assembly across samples. In order to ascertain differential expression of gene transcripts between different samples, Cuffdiff 2.1.1 was used (Trapnell et al., 2012). Result: Using an optimized data analysis workflow, we mapped about 20 million sequence reads per sample to the Drosophila genome (dm6) and identified 15,905 transcripts with TopHat workflow in each genotypes studied. The sev-GAL4 driven expression of RNAi for hsromega gene transcripts in eye discs resulted in differential expression of many genes, with 409 genes being down-regulated and 100 up-regulated, when compared with those in sev-GAL4>UAS-GFP eye discs. Compared to control eye discs in case of up regulation of hsrω RNA, 66 gene were up-regulated while 635 were down-regulated. Some of these (11 genes) were validated using qRT-PCR. Conclusion: Analysis of RNA-seq data revealed that a large proportion of transcripts were indeed similarly affected by down- or up-regulation of hsrω RNA in normal as well as activated Ras expression background. A comparison of transcriptomes of sev-GAL4>hsrωRNAi and sev-GAL4>EP3037 eye discs revealed that in each case the number of genes down regulated was more than those up-regulated. Interestingly, while 319 genes were commonly down regulated and 15 were commonly up-regulated in the two genotypes, only 2 genes showed opposing trends between sev-GAL4>UAS-hsrωRNAi and sev-GAL4>EP3037 eye discs.