Project description:Over 2000 publicly accessible human and mouse ChIP-Seq datasets for about 250 Transcription Factors and chromatin complexes from various databases (ENCODE, GEO) were mapped to custom-made human and mouse genomes containing a reference rDNA sequence of the appropriate species (Genbank U13369.1 for human, BK000964.3 for mouse). The read mapping density across the rDNA sequence was then extracted and normalized to the median in that dataset. Unbiased clustering and analysis, followed by curation, was performed to identify high-confidence patterns of rDNA occupancy for numerous hematopoietic TFs and TF families at canonical TF motif sequences. ************************ Data processing steps: FASTQs were trimmed using Trimmomatic with the following parameters: LEADING:3 TRAILING:3 SLIDINGWINDOW:4:15 MINLEN:30 Reads were mapped to customized genomes (containing additional rDNA sequence) using Bowtie2 using the following parameter: -X 2000 Read density across the rDNA sequence was extracted using igvtools ************************
Project description:Purpose: To understand the bile salts resistance mechanisms in L. paracasei L9 Methods: Samples from L9 cultured with or without bile salts were sequenced on an Illumina Hiseq platform. Three independent biological replicates were produced including 6 samples in total. Results: Raw data were firstly processed through in-house perl scripts to generate clean data, and then clean date were mapped to the reference genome, getting about 8-10 million total mapped reads per sample.
Project description:Purpose:Bifidobacteria are common inhabitants of the human gastrointestinal tract. In order to colonize in the gut, it is important to adapt to the physiological concentrations of bile salts. The global response to bile in B. longum BBMN68, isolated from a healthy centenarian in the Bama County of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China, has been investigated through RNA-seq transcriptomics sequencing in our previous work. However, a long-term bile salts treatment is more suitable to simulate the human gastrointestinal tract environment. The goals of this study are to invstigated the global response to a long-term treatment of bile salts in B. longum BBMN68. Methods: Samples from BBMN68 cultured with or without 0.75 g liter-1 ox-bile for 24 hours were sequenced on an Illumina Hiseq platform. Three independent biological replicates were produced including 6 samples in total. Results: Raw data were firstly processed through in-house perl scripts to generate clean data, and then clean date were mapped to the reference genome, getting about 11-13 million total mapped reads per sample.
Project description:Cholangiocyte organoids provide a powerful tool for characterizing bile duct epithelium and expanding cholangiocytes for tissue engineering purposes. However, this involves invasively obtained tissue-biopsies via surgery which is not preferential and limits the patient-specific capacities of these cultures. To overcome this, organoid culture were initiated from minimal invasive bile-samples obtained during routine clinical procedures. Characterization revealed that these bile-cholangiocyte organoids originate from the extrahepatic bile duct and are capable to repopulate human extrahepatic bile duct scaffolds. With this, bile duct tissue engineering as well as personalized disease modelling is in sight.