Project description:LincRNA-EPS is a long noncoding RNA that is expressed in macrophages and downregulated upon exposure to diverse microbial products. Analysis of macrophages from lincRNA-EPS-deficient mice revealed a specific role for this lincRNA in restraining immune response gene (IRG) expression. Mechanistically, lincRNA-EPS associates with chromatin at regulatory regions of IRGs to repress their transcription. To gain insight into the molecular function of lincRNA-EPS on chromatin, we generated ATAC-Seq libraries from wildtype and lincRNA-EPS-deficient macrophages stimulated with LPS.
Project description:RNA-seq was performed in biological replicates (2 mice per group) of wild-type and lincRNA-EPS-/- BMDMs at 0, 2, and 6 hours after LPS treatment (100 ng/ml). RNA-seq libraries were prepared as described (Heyer et al., 2015). Briefly, ribosomal RNA (rRNA) was depleted using the Ribozero rRNA removal kit (Epicentre). Purified mRNAs were fragmented with RNA fragmentation reagent (Life Technologies) for 4 minutes and 30 seconds at 70C to obtain 100-150 nt long RNA fragments. After ethanol precipitation and washing, RNAs were re-suspended in 5 l of water and the 3 ends dephosphorylated using PNK (New England BioLabs) for 1 hr at 37C. RNA fragments with a 3 OH were then ligated to a preadenylated DNA adaptor using T4 RNA ligase 2, truncated K227Q (NEB). Following this, ligated RNAs were reverse-transcribed with Superscript III (Invitrogen) using a bar-coded reverse-transcription primer that anneals to the preadenylated adaptor. After reverse-transcription, gel purified cDNAs were circularized using CircLigase I (Epicentre) and PCR amplified using paired-end primers PE1.0 and PE2.0 (Illumina) for 14 cycles. PCR amplicons were gel purified and submitted for sequencing on the Illumina Hiseq2000. Tophat version 2.0.12 was used to align single sequence reads to version 73 of the Ensembl mouse genome (mm10) with options: --library-type fr-firststrand -g 1 -x 1 --read-mismatches 2. Cufflinks version 2.1.1 was used to estimate RNA abundances with Ensembl version 73 GTF and the --library-type fr-firststrand option. The Cuffdiff program was used to perform differential expression analysis between wild-type BMDMs and lincRNA-EPS-/- BMDMs at each corresponding time (0,2, and 6 hours after LPS treatment). To compute fold-change values for genes/transcripts with FPKM values of zero, a pseudocount of 1 was added to all FPKM values first.
Project description:It has become clear that long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) are an important layer of genome regulation. Thousands have been identified in mammals, yet only a few have been tested through genetic ablation in animal models. Of the few that have, many yields weak to unobservable phenotypes, raising the question of their in vivo relevance. To more broadly investigate the functional relevance of lincRNAs in physiological conditions, we developed a collection of 18 lincRNA knockout strains. We found that two knockout strains, linc-Sox2 and linc-Foxf1a (Fendrr), exhibit perinatal lethal phenotypes in addition to multiple developmental abnormalities. Notably, in depth analysis of a third mutant strain, linc-Brn1b-/-, revealed defects in brain development, with distinct abnormalities in class-specific generation of upper layer II/III-IV neurons in the neocortex. Thus far, we found at least 6 of 18 mutant strains exhibit distinct developmental or lethality phenotypes. Therefore, this study demonstrates that lincRNAs are required for life and play critical roles during mammalian development, highlighting the importance of studying them further to better understand the molecular mechanisms leading to disease. Minimum 2 replicates each of select wild type and lincRNA knockout embryonic and postnatal tissues for three distinct lincRNA knockout mouse strains.
Project description:To investigate whether and what miRNAs expression might be regulated by VSV (vesicular stomatitis virus?) challenge, we analyzed the miRNA expression profile of mouse primary peritoneal macrophages infected with VSV by using an array-based miRNA profiling. After the infection of VSV at MOI 10 for 48 h, the array revealed that many miRNAs were up-regulated in macrophages?