Project description:CCAT1-L is a highly expressed long noncoding RNA located in the colorectal cancer specific super enhance region about 500 kb upstream of MYC gene. Knockdown of CCAT1-L significantly down-regulated interaction frequency between CCAT1 and MYC locus and repress MYC expression, suggesting a long-range chromatin interaction between CCAT1-L and MYC locus maintained by CCAT1-L underlie the MYC regulation. To further validate this hypothesis, multiplexed 3C sequencing (3C-seq) was employed to evaluate chromatin interaction strength between CCAT1-L and MYC locus in CCAT1-L knockdown and scramble knockdown (Scr) HT29 cells. The 3C-Seq design and data analysis were performed according to Stadhouders et al, Nat Protoc. 2013, 8:509-524. A series of bait sequences accommodating different locus around CCAT1-L and MYC were selected. Through integrating with specific sample barcodes, bait-specific primer sets were designed to construct relevant 3C-seq libraries in CCAT1-L knockdown and scramble knockdown (Scr) HT29 samples. All of the 3C sample libraries from different treatment, including CCAT1-L knockdown and scramble knockdown (Scr), were then pooled together for high-throughput sequencing. Two technical 3C-seq were performed (CCAT1_myc_3C_1.txt.gz and CCAT1_myc_3C_2.txt.gz) and then combined together to get enough reads for further analysis. 3C-seq reads from different samples were divided according to sample barcodes (CCAT1-L knockdown: ATGTCA; Scr: GCCAAT) and different bait sequences, and then mapped to human reference genome to assess chromatin interaction strength between CCAT1-L and MYC locus in different treatments. In our study, one representative bait-specific sequencing data (CTTCTACTGATTGGCCCTAAACACTTTTCCAAAGCTT) was select to generate bedgraph files and upload to UCSC for visualization to show the chromatin interaction between CCAT1-L and Myc locus in CCAT1-L knockdown (CCAT1-L_knockdown_out.bedgraph) and scramble knockdown (Scr_out.bedgraph) samples.
Project description:CCAT1-L is a highly expressed long noncoding RNA located in the colorectal cancer specific super enhance region about 500 kb upstream of MYC gene. Knockdown of CCAT1-L significantly down-regulated interaction frequency between CCAT1 and MYC locus and repress MYC expression, suggesting a long-range chromatin interaction between CCAT1-L and MYC locus maintained by CCAT1-L underlie the MYC regulation. To further validate this hypothesis, multiplexed 3C sequencing (3C-seq) was employed to evaluate chromatin interaction strength between CCAT1-L and MYC locus in CCAT1-L knockdown and scramble knockdown (Scr) HT29 cells.
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: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.