Project description:The H3K27me3 ChIP-seq data for the human bladder transitional cell carcinoma cell line CL1207 were generated in order to detect regions of regional epigenetic silencing in this cell line and test the performance of several peak calling tools: CCAT (Xu et al., 2010) and HMCan (Ashoor et al., "HMCan – a tool to detect chromatin modifications in cancer samples using ChIP-seq data", submitted).
Project description:The H3K27me3 ChIP-seq data for the human bladder transitional cell carcinoma cell line CL1207 were generated in order to detect regions of regional epigenetic silencing in this cell line and test the performance of several peak calling tools: CCAT (Xu et al., 2010) and HMCan (Ashoor et al., "HMCan M-bM-^@M-^S a tool to detect chromatin modifications in cancer samples using ChIP-seq data", submitted). The human bladder cancer cell line CL1207 was derived from a muscle-invasive bladder cancer (De Boer et al., 1997). 5x105 cells were immunoprecipitated per ChIP assay with 4 M-NM-<g of rabbit polyclonal antibodies against trimethyl histone H3 lysine 27 (Upstate Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA) and DynabeadsM-BM-. Protein A (Invitrogen, Cergy Pontoise, France) in dilution buffer containing 1% Triton X-100, 150 mM NaCl, 2 mM EDTA, 20 mM TrisM-bM-^@M-^SHCl at pH 8.0, and protease inhibitors. Six ChIP assays in the same experimental conditions were necessary to perform one ChIP-Seq experiment, so the total of 3x106 cells for each of the duplicates.
Project description:1,322 morphologically unidentified fragmentary bone specimens were analyzed using MALDI-TOF and a subset of 341 bone specimens with LC-MS/MS in order to characterize their proteome for species identification and potential hominin specimens related to the LRJ transitional period derived from the site Ilsenhöhle Ranis, Germany (50°39.7563’N, 11°33.9139’E).
Project description:Gene expression profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells with hTERT/E6/E7 transfected MSCs. hTERT may change gene expression in MSCs. Goal was to determine the gene expressions of immortalized MSCs.
Project description:We have sequenced miRNA libraries from human embryonic, neural and foetal mesenchymal stem cells. We report that the majority of miRNA genes encode mature isomers that vary in size by one or more bases at the 3’ and/or 5’ end of the miRNA. Northern blotting for individual miRNAs showed that the proportions of isomiRs expressed by a single miRNA gene often differ between cell and tissue types. IsomiRs were readily co-immunoprecipitated with Argonaute proteins in vivo and were active in luciferase assays, indicating that they are functional. Bioinformatics analysis predicts substantial differences in targeting between miRNAs with minor 5’ differences and in support of this we report that a 5’ isomiR-9-1 gained the ability to inhibit the expression of DNMT3B and NCAM2 but lost the ability to inhibit CDH1 in vitro. This result was confirmed by the use of isomiR-specific sponges. Our analysis of the miRGator database indicates that a small percentage of human miRNA genes express isomiRs as the dominant transcript in certain cell types and analysis of miRBase shows that 5’ isomiRs have replaced canonical miRNAs many times during evolution. This strongly indicates that isomiRs are of functional importance and have contributed to the evolution of miRNA genes
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of human mesenchymal stem cells comparing normoxic MSCs cells with hypoxic MSCs cells. Hypoxia may inhibit senescence of MSCs during expansion. Goal was to determine the effects of hypoxia on global MSCs gene expression.