Project description:Here we report the transcriptional profile of the developing Drosophila ovaries and transcriptional changes caused by dLmx1a mutation
Project description:Proteome analysis of developing grain in indica rice "Naba" (S1) and "Puluik Arang" (S2). Ovary samples at 10 days after flowering were used.
Project description:We have sequenced anterior part of the adult Drosophila ovary. The sample includes cells from the stem cell compartment (germarium) and up to stage 9 follicles.
Project description:We use single cell RNA sequencing approach to identify and characterize all cell types in developing Drosophila ovaries at late third instar larval stage (LL3).
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. Cells from developing Drosophila wing epithelium, and cultured S2 cells are FACS sorted into G1 and G2 populations based on DNA content and compared in triplicate on Affymetrix microarrays to identify differences in the transcriptional program of the cell cycle by cell type.
Project description:Genome regulation involves complex and highly regulated protein interactions that are often mediated through post-translational modifications (PTMs). SUMOylation – the covalent attachment of the small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) – is a conserved PTM in eukaryotes that has been implicated in a number of essential processes such as nuclear import, DNA damage repair, transcriptional control, and chromatin organization. In Drosophila, SUMO is essential for viability and its depletion from the female germline causes infertility associated with global loss of heterochromatin, and illicit upregulation of transposons and lineage-inappropriate genes. However, the specific targets of SUMO and its mechanistic role in different cellular pathways are still poorly understood. Here, we developed a proteomics-based strategy to characterize the SUMOylated proteome in Drosophila that allowed us to identify ~1500 SUMO sites in 843 proteins in the fly ovary. A high confidence set of SUMOylated proteins is highly enriched in factors involved in heterochromatin regulation and the piRNA pathway that represses transposons. Furthermore, SUMOylation of several piRNA pathway proteins occurs in a Piwi-dependent manner, indicating a functional implication of this modification in the cellular response to transposon activity. Together, these data highlight the impact of SUMOylation on epigenetic regulation and reveal an unexpectedly broad role of the SUMO pathway in the cellular defense against genomic parasites. Finally, this work provides a valuable resource and a system that can be adapted to the study of SUMOylation in other Drosophila tissues.