Project description:The effects of low dose irradiation on the gene expression on the neural cell development using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPS cells).
Project description:The effects of low dose irradiation on the gene expression on the neural cell development using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPS cells).
Project description:Gene expression profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells with hTERT/E6/E7 transfected MSCs. hTERT may change gene expression in MSCs. Goal was to determine the gene expressions of immortalized MSCs.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of human mesenchymal stem cells comparing normoxic MSCs cells with hypoxic MSCs cells. Hypoxia may inhibit senescence of MSCs during expansion. Goal was to determine the effects of hypoxia on global MSCs gene expression.
Project description:Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are now being used for both disease modeling and cell therapy. However, efficient homologous recombination (HR) is often crucial to develop isogenic control or reporter lines. Here we show that limited low dose irradiation (LDI) using either γ-ray or X-ray exposure (0.4 Gy) significantly enhances HR frequency, possibly through induction of DNA repair/recombination machinery including ataxia-telangiectasia mutated, Histone H2A.X and RAD51 proteins. LDI could also increase HR efficiency by over 30- fold when combined with the targeting tools zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activatorâ??like effector nucleases (TALENs), and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs). Whole exome sequencing confirmed that the LDI to hPSCs did not induce gross genomic alterations, or affect cellular viability. Irradiated and targeted lines were karyotypically normal and made all differentiated lineages that continued to express green fluorescent protein targeted at the AAVS1 locus. This simple method allows higher throughput of new targeted hPSC lines that are crucial for the research community as this growing field develops. 4 samples
Project description:Gene methylation profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells comparing HPV E6/E7-transfected MSCs cells with human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT)- and HPV E6/E7-transfected MSCs. hTERT may increase gene methylation in MSCs. Goal was to determine the effects of different transfected genes on global gene methylation in MSCs.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells with hTERT/E6/E7 transfected MSCs. hTERT may change gene expression in MSCs. Goal was to determine the gene expressions of immortalized MSCs. One-condition experment, gene expression of 3A6
Project description:We have sequenced miRNA libraries from human embryonic, neural and foetal mesenchymal stem cells. We report that the majority of miRNA genes encode mature isomers that vary in size by one or more bases at the 3’ and/or 5’ end of the miRNA. Northern blotting for individual miRNAs showed that the proportions of isomiRs expressed by a single miRNA gene often differ between cell and tissue types. IsomiRs were readily co-immunoprecipitated with Argonaute proteins in vivo and were active in luciferase assays, indicating that they are functional. Bioinformatics analysis predicts substantial differences in targeting between miRNAs with minor 5’ differences and in support of this we report that a 5’ isomiR-9-1 gained the ability to inhibit the expression of DNMT3B and NCAM2 but lost the ability to inhibit CDH1 in vitro. This result was confirmed by the use of isomiR-specific sponges. Our analysis of the miRGator database indicates that a small percentage of human miRNA genes express isomiRs as the dominant transcript in certain cell types and analysis of miRBase shows that 5’ isomiRs have replaced canonical miRNAs many times during evolution. This strongly indicates that isomiRs are of functional importance and have contributed to the evolution of miRNA genes