Project description:To examine the effects of microRNAs including miR-223 on murine neutrophil function, small RNAs cloning and sequencing from neutrophils were performed. Neutrophils were isolated from a wild-type mouse and total RNAs were prepared. Small RNAs were cloned and sequenced by Solexa/Illumina genome analyzer.
Project description:The importance of unanchored Ub in innate immunity has been shown only for a limited number of unanchored Ub-interactors. We investigated what additional cellular factors interact with unanchored Ub and whether unanchored Ub plays a broader role in innate immunity. To identify unanchored Ub-interacting factors from murine lungs, we used His-tagged recombinant poly-Ub chains as bait. These chains were mixed with lung tissue lysates and protein complexes were isolated with Ni-NTA beads. Sample elutions were subjected to mass spectrometry (LC-MSMS) analysis.
Project description:Small RNAs are emerging as important molecules for cross-species communication. Thanks to available and affordable sequencing technologies it is now possible to sequence small RNAs (sRNA-Seq) present in samples of interacting organisms. A first step when analyzing sRNA-Seq of two interacting species is to determine which sequences are being produced by which organism. Due to their small size (18-30), small RNAs could easily map to both host and parasite genomes. Here we produced data for Mus musculus intestinal epithelial cells treated with Extracellular Vesicles (EV) produced by the parasitic nematode Heligmosomoides bakeri.
Project description:Right ventricular small RNA profiles from 22 patients with Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) and small RNA-seq profiles from the left and right ventricle (LV and RV, respectively) of 4 healthy unaffected individuals (NH) were generated. The total RNA was isolated from the 30 human heart samples using TRIzol. Small RNAs were isolated from total RNA and prepared for microRNA sequencing using Illumina Kit FG-102-1009 according to the manufacturer's protocol (Preparing Samples for Analysis of Small RNA Illumina 2007). The sequencing libraries were generated using a non-strand-specific library construction method. The purified DNA fragments were used directly for cluster generation, and 36 cycles of single-end read sequencing were performed using the Illumina Genome Analyzer. Sequencing reads were extracted from the image files using the open source Firecrest and Bustard applications (Illumina Genome Analyzer pipeline 1.3.2).