Project description:We report the transcriptome landscape of Drosophila photoreceptor neurons obtained using a tissue-specific approach at different time points after eclosion upon expression of a Clock dominant negative mutant
Project description:Glucocorticoids (GCs) are essential steroid hormones that regulate the immune system. GCs have been widely used to treat various inflammation disorders and auto-immune diseases, due to their potent immune repression properties.
Project description:We have previously shown that deprivation of essential amino acids, namely methionine/cysteine or tyrosine, leads to the transcriptional reactivation of integrated silenced transgenes, and latent HIV-1 provirus. In an effort to understand the underlying mechanisms, here we investigate the overall transcriptional profile of HeLa cells upon Met/Cys starvation for different time points, including the expression of repeated and transposable elements. HeLa cells carrying a stably integrated and silenced plasmid expressing the OA1/GPR143 gene (pcDNA3.1-OA1) were cultured in regular DMEM medium for 6-30-120 hours, or in absence of Met/Cys for 6-15-30-72-120 hours, and the changes in the expression of genes and repeated elements was evaluated by RNAseq
Project description:Oxygen is vital for the development and survival of mammals. In response to hypoxia, the brain initiates numerous adaptive responses at the organ level as well as at the molecular and cellular level, including the alteration of gene expression. Astrocytes play critical roles in the proper functioning of the brain, thus the manner in which astrocytes respond to hypoxia is likely important in determining the outcome of brain hypoxia. We used microarray gene expression profiling and data analysis algorithms to identify and analyze hypoxia-responsive genes in primary human astrocytes. We also compared the gene expression patterns in astrocytes with those in human HeLa cells and pulmonary artery endothelial cells (ECs). Remarkably, in astrocytes, 5 times as many genes were up-regulated as down-regulated, whereas in HeLa and pulmonary ECs, as many or more genes were down-regulated as up-regulated. More genes encoding hypoxia-inducible functions, such as glycolytic enzymes and angiogenic growth factors, were strongly induced in astrocytes compared to HeLa cells. The extent of induction was also greater than in HeLa cells. Further, gene ontology and computational algorithms revealed that many target genes of the EGF and insulin signaling pathways and the transcriptional regulators Myc, Jun and p53 were selectively altered by hypoxia in astrocytes and HeLa cells to a varying degree. These results provide a global view of the signaling and regulatory network mediating oxygen regulation in astrocytes, in comparison with that in HeLa cells. Keywords: response to hypoxia
Project description:To investigate the effect of HSATIII lncRNA on m6A modification, we performed m6A-RIP(RNA immuno precipitation) RNA-seq from heat shock-exposed HeLa cells upon HSATIII knockdown.