Project description:MYB Binding: Protein 1 A (MYBBP1A) is hemizygous in a majority of PDAC due to chromosome 17p deletion which also affects TP53. We generated isogenic homozygous and hemizygous MYBBP1A knockout cell lines to elucidate MYBBP1A function in cancer. As the function of MYBBP1A at the chromatin is unclear, we performed MYBBP1A ChIPseq in MYBBP1A wild-type and hemizygous cells. Surprisingly, despite the hemizygous cells expressing decreased MYBBP1A expression, the whole genome binding profile is largely similar compared to MYBBP1A wild-type cells.
Project description:We report on the analyses of four unrelated patients with de novo, overlapping, hemizygous deletions of the long arm of chromosome 10. These include two small terminal deletions (10q26.2 to 10qter), a larger terminal deletion (10q26.12 to 10qter), and an interstitial deletion (10q25.3q26.13). Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) studies (Illumina 550 K) established that these deletions resulted in the hemizygous loss of approximately 6.1, approximately 6.1, approximately 12.5, and approximately 7.0 Mb respectively. Additionally, these data establish that Patients 1, 2, and 3 share common, distal, hemizygous deleted regions of 6.09 Mb containing 37 RefSeq genes. Patients 3 and 4 share a 2.52 Mb deleted region corresponding to the proximal deleted region of Patient 3 and the distal deleted region of Patient 4. This common, hemizygous region contains 20 RefSeq genes including two H6 family homeobox genes (HMX2 and HMX3). Based on previous reports that Hmx2/Hmx3 knockout mice have vestibular anomalies, we propose that hemizygous deletions of HMX2 and HMX3 are responsible for the inner ear malformations observed from CT images, vestibular dysfunction, and congenital sensorineural hearing loss found in Patients 3 and 4.
Project description:CTCF is a highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed protein involved in several fundamental processes such as fine-tuning gene expression, imprinting, X-chromosome inactivation and 3D chromatin organisation. To understand the impact of differences in the concentration of CTCF abundance on these processes, we exploit a CTCF hemizygous mouse model with a stable reduction in the concentration of this protein. We derived independent primary lines of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) from wildtype and CTCF-hemizygous mouse E13.5 embryos. For three biological replicates, cells were fixed in DMEM containing 2% fresh formaldehyde and incubated at room temperature for 10 min, quenched with 1M glycine for 5 min, and washed twice with ice cold PBS, before being flash-frozen at -80°C. Cross-linked cells were lysed, followed by chromatin HindIII digestion, biotinylataion, ligation, proteinase K treatment, DNA purification, sonication, end repair, biotin pull-down, adapter ligation, and PCR amplification. Pooled indexed libraries were sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq4000 to produce paired-end 150bp reads. On the same MEF lines we have performed RNAseq and ChIPseq for CTCF, H3K4me3 and H3K27ac.
Project description:CTCF is a highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed protein involved in several fundamental processes such as fine-tuning gene expression, imprinting, X-chromosome inactivation and 3D chromatin organisation. To understand the impact of differences in the concentration of CTCF abundance on these processes, we exploit a CTCF hemizygous mouse model with a stable reduction in the concentration of this protein. We derived twelve independent primary lines of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) from six wildtype and six CTCF-hemizygous mouse E13.5 embryos. MEFs were fixed in DMEM containing 1% fresh formaldehyde and incubated at room temperature for 10 min, quenched with 250mM glycine for 10 min, and washed twice with ice cold PBS, before being flash-frozen at -80°C. Cross-linked cells were lysed and sonicated on a Bioruptor Plus (Diagenode) sonicator to fragment chromatin to an average length of 300bp. 10 ug of the following antibodies were used for immunoprecipitation: CTCF (rabbit polyclonal, Merk Millipore 07-729, lot 2517762); H3K4me3 (mouse monoclonal IgG clone CMA304, Merck Millipore 05-1339, lot 2603814); H3K27ac (rabbit polyclonal IgG, Abcam 4729, lot GR244014-1). Immunoprecipitated DNA or 50 ng of input DNA was used for library preparation using the ThruPLEX DNA-Seq library preparation protocol (Rubicon Genomics, UK). Library fragment size was determined using a 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent). Libraries were quantified by qPCR (Kapa Biosystems). Pooled libraries were sequenced on a HiSeq4000 (Illumina) according to manufacturer’s instructions using single-end 50 bp reads. On the same MEF lines we have performed RNAseq and HiC (see related accession numbers).
Project description:We report on the analyses of four unrelated patients with de novo, overlapping, hemizygous deletions of the long arm of chromosome 10. These include two small terminal deletions (10q26.2 to 10qter), a larger terminal deletion (10q26.12 to 10qter), and an interstitial deletion (10q25.3q26.13). Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) studies (Illumina 550 K) established that these deletions resulted in the hemizygous loss of approximately 6.1, approximately 6.1, approximately 12.5, and approximately 7.0 Mb respectively. Additionally, these data establish that Patients 1, 2, and 3 share common, distal, hemizygous deleted regions of 6.09 Mb containing 37 RefSeq genes. Patients 3 and 4 share a 2.52 Mb deleted region corresponding to the proximal deleted region of Patient 3 and the distal deleted region of Patient 4. This common, hemizygous region contains 20 RefSeq genes including two H6 family homeobox genes (HMX2 and HMX3). Based on previous reports that Hmx2/Hmx3 knockout mice have vestibular anomalies, we propose that hemizygous deletions of HMX2 and HMX3 are responsible for the inner ear malformations observed from CT images, vestibular dysfunction, and congenital sensorineural hearing loss found in Patients 3 and 4. Four cases were identified as having hemizygous 10q deletions through g-banding. These were analyzed with SNP microarrays as well as parents (controls) for cases 1 and 4.
Project description:CTCF is a highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed protein involved in several fundamental processes such as fine-tuning gene expression, imprinting, X-chromosome inactivation and 3D chromatin organisation. To understand the impact of differences in the concentration of CTCF abundance on these processes, we exploit a CTCF hemizygous mouse model with a stable reduction in the concentration of this protein. We derived twelve independent primary lines of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) from six wildtype and six CTCF-hemizygous mouse E13.5 embryos. Total RNA from each MEF line was purified using QIAzol Lysis Reagent (Qiagen); DNase treatment and removal was performed using the TURBO DNA-freeTM Kit (Ambion, Life Technologies). Libraries were prepared using the TruSeq Stranded Total RNA Library Prep Kit with Ribo-Zero Gold (Illumina) and sequenced in an Illumna HiSeq4000 to produce 150bp paired-end reads. On the same MEF lines we have performed ChIPseq for CTCF, H3K4me3 and H3K27ac and HiC.
Project description:With the growing interest in studying primary tissue samples by single cell transcriptome analysis, there is an emerging demand for a preservation strategy that enables sample transportation and storage. In this study, we describe a simple and general strategy that preserves primary tissues at hypothermic temperature. Using FACS and single-cell RNAseq, we demonstrated the effectiveness of this strategy in maintaining cell viability, cell population heterogeneity, and cell transcriptome integrity for primary tissues that underwent up to 3 days of preservation.
Project description:The epithelium lining airspaces of the human lung is maintained by regional stem cells including basal cells of pseudostratified airways and alveolar type 2 pneumocytes (AT2) of the gas-exchange region. Despite effective techniques for long-term preservation of airway basal cells, procedures for efficient preservation of functional epithelial cell types of the distal gas-exchange region are lacking. Here we detail a method for cryobanking of epithelial cells from either mouse or human lung tissue for preservation of their phenotypic and functional characteristics. Flow cytometric profiling, epithelial organoid-forming efficiency, and single cell transcriptomic analysis, were used to compare cells recovered from cryobanked tissue with those of freshly dissociated tissue. Alveolar type 2 cells within single cell suspensions of enzymatically digested cryobanked distal lung tissue retained expression of the pan-epithelial marker CD326 and the AT2 cell surface antigen recognized by monoclonal antibody HTII-280, allowing antibody-mediated enrichment and downstream analysis. Isolated AT2 cells from cryobanked tissue were comparable with those of freshly dissociated tissue both in their single cell transcriptome and their capacity for in vitro organoid formation in 3D cultures. We conclude that the cryobanking method described herein allows long-term preservation of distal human lung tissue for downstream analysis of lung cell function and molecular phenotype, and is ideally suited for creation of an easily accessible tissue resource for the research community.
Project description:Chromatin modifier Swi-independent 3a (SIN3A), together with associated histone deacetylases, influences gene expression during development and differentiation through multiple transcription factors in a cell-specific manner. Sin3a is essential for the maintenance of inner cell mass cells of mouse blastocysts, embryonic fibroblasts, and myoblasts, but is not required for the survival of trophectoderm or Sertoli cells. To better understand how this transcriptional regulator modulates cells at different developmental stages within a single lineage, we used conditional gene targeting in mice to ablate Sin3a from perinatal quiescent male gonocytes and from postnatal differentiating spermatogonia. Gene expression in the whole testes of age-matched Ddx4(Vasa/Mvh)-cre mediated conditional Sin3a gene-targeted(VSKO) mice, germ cell-specific Sin3a hemizygous (HEMI) mice, and wild type (WT) mice was measured at postnatal day 0. Two biological replicate animals were used for each condition.
Project description:The goal of this study was to determine the effect of Treg-specific Pdpk1 (PDK1) deletion on the transcriptome of Treg cells. CD4+ YFP+ Treg cells from spleens and peripheral lymph nodes of hemizygous Foxp3 YFP-Cre/0 Pdpk1 +/+ (WT) and Foxp3 YFP-Cre/0 Pdpk1 FL/FL (KO) were sorted, RNA was isolated and RNA-seq libraries were constructed and sequenced by Hiseq2000. Note companion data set using Pdpk1-deleted Treg from Cre-heterozygous mice, which do not develop spontaneous inflammation.