Project description:A functional study of genes that might play a role in DNA repair/recombination and in the response to oxidative stress (Microarrays expression studies, Microbiological assays, In planta functional studies). Which Arabidopsis thaliana genes are induced by ionising radiations? Comparison of SADE transcriptome data (Af1999083) and micro-arrays transcriptome data.
Project description:Meiotic recombination is carried out through a specialized pathway for the formation and repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) made by the Spo11 protein. The present study shed light on the functional role of Cyclin, CYC2, in Tetrahymena thermophila which has transcriptionally high expression level during meiosis process. Knocking out the CYC2 gene results in arrest of meiotic conjugation process at 2.5â??3.5 h after conjugation initiation, before the meiosis division starts, and in company with the absence of DSBs. To investigate the underlying mechanism of this phenomenon, a complete transcriptome profile was performed between wild-type strain and CYC2 knock-out strain. Functional analysis of RNA-Seq results identifies related differentially expressed genes (DEGs) including SPO11 and these DEGs are enriched in DNA repair/mismatch repair (MMR) terms in homologous recombination (HR), which indicates that CYC2 could play a crucial role in meiosis by regulating SPO11 and participating in HR. We performed mRNA profiling on both wild-type strains and CYC2-knocking out strains at four different stages during meiosis prohase of Tetrahymena thermophila.
Project description:The critical role of the alternative end joining (AEJ) repair mechanism in V(D)J recombination for B and T lymphocyte development, particularly in the absence of the key non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) component Ku70, is not well understood. AEJ involves functionally redundant factors such as Parp1 vs Polθ and Lig3 vs Lig1, making it unclear which factors are responsible for repairing V(D)J recombination. Additionally, the regulatory mechanism of AEJ remains enigmatic. In this study, we utilized the murine Igκ antigen locus as a model and employed gene editing and HTGTS-Seq pipelines to systematically evaluate potential factors involved in V(D)J recombination. We assessed various aspects of recombination, including efficiency, V gene usage, end resection, joining fidelity, repair patterns, and inter-chromosome translocation. Our findings highlight the Parp1-XRCC1-Lig3 axis as a key mediator of V(D)J recombination, regulated by 53BP1 and ATM. This study advances our understanding of AEJ in DNA damage repair and contributes to our knowledge of lymphocyte development in immunology.
Project description:The critical role of the alternative end joining (AEJ) repair mechanism in V(D)J recombination for B and T lymphocyte development, particularly in the absence of the key non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) component Ku70, is not well understood. AEJ involves functionally redundant factors such as Parp1 vs Polθ and Lig3 vs Lig1, making it unclear which factors are responsible for repairing V(D)J recombination. Additionally, the regulatory mechanism of AEJ remains enigmatic. In this study, we utilized the murine Igκ antigen locus as a model and employed gene editing and HTGTS-Seq pipelines to systematically evaluate potential factors involved in V(D)J recombination. We assessed various aspects of recombination, including efficiency, V gene usage, end resection, joining fidelity, repair patterns, and inter-chromosome translocation. Our findings highlight the Parp1-XRCC1-Lig3 axis as a key mediator of V(D)J recombination, regulated by 53BP1 and ATM. This study advances our understanding of AEJ in DNA damage repair and contributes to our knowledge of lymphocyte development in immunology.
Project description:The critical role of the alternative end joining (AEJ) repair mechanism in V(D)J recombination for B and T lymphocyte development, particularly in the absence of the key non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) component Ku70, is not well understood. AEJ involves functionally redundant factors such as Parp1 vs Polθ and Lig3 vs Lig1, making it unclear which factors are responsible for repairing V(D)J recombination. Additionally, the regulatory mechanism of AEJ remains enigmatic. In this study, we utilized the murine Igκ antigen locus as a model and employed gene editing and HTGTS-Seq pipelines to systematically evaluate potential factors involved in V(D)J recombination. We assessed various aspects of recombination, including efficiency, V gene usage, end resection, joining fidelity, repair patterns, and inter-chromosome translocation. Our findings highlight the Parp1-XRCC1-Lig3 axis as a key mediator of V(D)J recombination, regulated by 53BP1 and ATM. This study advances our understanding of AEJ in DNA damage repair and contributes to our knowledge of lymphocyte development in immunology.