Project description:Umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplantation shows pro-angiogenic effect and contributes to symptom amelioration in animal models of cerebral infarction. OP9 is a stromal cell line used as feeder cells to promote hematoendothelial differentiation of embryonic stem cells. We co-cultured UCB 24hr with OP9 (i.e. OP9 preconditioning) and investigated its change in angiogenic properties and underlying mechanisms. Single cell RNA sequencing showed prominent phenotypic shift toward M2 in monocytic fraction of OP9 pre-conditioned UCB.
Project description:OP9 stromal cells are strong inducers of mesoendodermal differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. They acquire inductive function after prolonged post-confluence culture. The experiment is designed to determine the genes specifically expressed in these highly inductive OP9 cells compared to non-confluent OP9 cultures as well as other stromal cell lines (MS5, S17).
Project description:Evaluation of short-read-only, long-read-only, and hybrid assembly approaches on metagenomic samples demonstrating how they affect gene and protein prediction which is relevant for downstream functional analyses. For a human gut microbiome sample, we use complementary metatranscriptomic, and metaproteomic data to evaluate the metagenomic-based protein predictions.
Project description:To assess the effect of over-expression of Delta-like 1 on OP9 cells on gene expression in terms of Notch signaling and adhesion molecules, gene expressions of OP9, OP9-GFP (carrying GFP gene) and OP9-DL1 (carrying GFP and DL1 gene) cells (Immunity 2002;17:749-756) were analyzed.