Project description:The eukaryotic cell cycle, driven by both transcriptional and post-translational mechanisms, is the central molecular oscillator underlying tissue growth throughout animals. While genome-wide studies have investigated cell cycle-associated transcription in unicellular systems, global patterns of periodic transcription in multicellular tissues remain largely unexplored. Here we define the cell cycle-associated transcriptome of the developing Drosophila wing epithelium and compare it with that of cultured Drosophila S2 cells, revealing a core set of periodic genes as well as a surprising degree of context-specificity in periodic transcription. We further employ RNAi-mediated phenotypic profiling to define functional requirements for over 300 periodic genes, with a focus on those required for cell proliferation in vivo. Finally, we investigate the role of novel genes required for interkinetic nuclear migration. Combined, these findings provide a global perspective on cell cycle control in vivo, and highlight a critical need to understand the context-specific regulation of cell proliferation. Two RNAi lines of CR32027, a non-coding RNA gene identified in this study, are examined for transcriptional changes relative to wt. Transcriptional profiles of two RNAi knockdowns, CR32027-IR1 and CR32027-IR2, are examined in Drosophila wing pouch relative to OreR wt in triplicate by RNA Seq.
Project description:Genome-wide identification of the binding sites of the Drosophila transcription factors Achaete, Asense, E(spl)m3-HLH and Senseless in wing imaginal cells using DamID profiling.
Project description:We investigated the effect on mRNA expression in Drosophila melanogaster wing imaginal discs following the knockdown of the 3'-5' exoribonuclease Dis3L2.
Project description:In a genetic screen we identified that glial knockdown of small wing (sl) impacts engulfment of dying neurons. To understand the roles of glial sl further, we performed bulk transcriptomics. Here we extracted RNA from pooled Drosophila heads after sl knockdown using the repo-GAL4 driver and compared gene expression to an RNAi control.
Project description:We report the transcriptional profiling of Drosophila melanogaster gonadectomized adults following RNAi knockdown of grappa (gpp), lilliputian (lilli), or Suppressor of Triplolethal [Su(Tpl)], as well as induction of Dominant Negative (DN) allele of Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 (Cdk9), or ectopic expression of stand still (stil), with a three-component temperature sensitive system. We also included the transcriptional profiling of testes and ovaries of gppRNAi, lilliRNAi, and Su(Tpl)RNAi flies under permissive temperature. All data includes induced and non-induced sham controls.
