Project description:Stranded, single-end, polyA+, transcriptional profiles were created from ovaries of sterile and fertile sov heteroallelic mutants and Gal4 driven sov RNAi knockdowns.
Project description:H3K27me3 profiles using Cleavage under targets and Release using nuclease (Cut&Run) in control and KD Drosophila melanogaster ovaries. We examined the impact on chromatin profiles in Drosophila melanogaster ovaries in which the lid, the Sin3a, the Snr1 or the mod(mdg4) gene have been selectively knocked down by tissue-specific shRNA expression. We additionally explored H3K27me3 and H3K9me3 in control and dhd mutant ovaries either carrying or not a transgene.
Project description:Foxl2 is a forkhead transcription factor expressed only in the female, but not in the male gonad. We have created mice homozygous mutant for the Foxl2 gene (KO) as well as mice carrying a conditional mutant Foxl2 allele (floxed). The expression profiles of conventional Foxl2 knockout and wildtype ovaries were compared at P3, using the Affy Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array. Adult wildtype and conditional mutant (Foxl2 floxed x RosaCre-EBD treated with tamoxifen) ovaries were compared to adult wildtype testes using the Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST Array. Both experiments (KO/WT P3 and Mutant/WT/Testis Adult were also compared to each other.)
Project description:We performed RNAseq on l(3)mbt mutant somatic ovaries to gain a genome-wide view of tissue-specific gene expression changes in L(3)mbt-depleted somatic ovaries.
Project description:Developmental gene expression results from the orchestrated interplay between genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Here, we describe upSET, a transcriptional regulator encoding a SET domaincontaining protein recruited to active and inducible genes in Drosophila. However, unlike other Drosophila SET proteins associated with gene transcription, UpSET is part of an Rpd3/Sin3-containing complex that restricts chromatin accessibility and histone acetylation to promoter regions. In the absence of UpSET, active chromatin marks and chromatin accessibility increase and spread to genic and flanking regions due to destabilization of the histone deacetylase complex. Consistent with this, transcriptional noise increases, as manifest by activation of repetitive elements and off-target genes. Interestingly, upSET mutant flies are female sterile due to upregulation of key components of Notch signaling during oogenesis. Thus UpSET defines a class of metazoan transcriptional regulators required to fine tune transcription by preventing the spread of active chromatin. Total mRNA from wildtype and epic mutant ovaries was extracted, labeled and hyb on a custom tiling arrays. Two biological replicates were performed.
Project description:Here, we explored the circRNA expression profiles of adult and neonatal mouse ovaries by high-throughput sequencing. A total of 28,000 circRNAs were identified in adult and neonatal ovaries The results showed that 343 circRNAs were up-regulated and 146 circRNAs were down-regulated in adult ovaries compared with neonate ovaries.
Project description:Nuclear lamina (NL) contributes to tissue homeostasis. In Drosophila, compromised NL blocks differentiation and causes loss of germline stem cells (GSCs) due to activation of the Chk2 checkpoint kinase. Checkpoint activation occurs upon loss of the NL protein Drosophila emerin or its partner Barrier-to-autointegration factor (BAF). As NL has long been thought to interact with specific genomic loci and regulate transcription, we examined transcriptional changes in emerin-/- and baf KD ovaries. We found thousands of genes are mis-regulated upon loss of emerin or BAF in GSCs. Remarkably, more than 90% of mis-regulated genes are shared between emerin-/- and baf KD. Finally, we show that transcriptional changes are downstream of Chk2 activation, as transcription are restored in chk2, emerin double mutant ovaries.