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:RNA-seq on ECC-1 greater than 200bp polyA+ treated with genistein at 100nM for 4 hours. Note- This experiment previously referred to its biosample as ECC-1, however it has been found that all currently available ECC-1 are actually Ishikawa cells. For data usage terms and conditions, please refer to http://www.genome.gov/27528022 and http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/ENCODE/ENCODE_Data_Use_Policy_for_External_Users_03-07-14.pdf
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: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:Epidemiological data indicate that consumption of soy-based food significantly reduces the cancer risk in human through interaction with estrogen receptors and the ‘phytoestrogen’ genistein present in the soy is responsible for this chemopreventive activity. The epigenome regulatory effect of genistein also reported but the key mechanism behind this effect remain elusive. In this current project, we reported the epigenome modulation effect of genistein using MDA-MB231 cells. Cells were treated with low-dose genistein for >1 month and the stable epigenetic alterations were analyzed by partial MNase digestion and TMT-based quantitative proteomics based chromatome mapping approach. We identified a total of 3177 chromatin-bound proteins with high confidence, including 882 proteins that displayed altered binding topology after cell conditioning with genistein. Prolonged phytochemical exposure permanently modified the binding topology of the key epigenetic regulators and preserved their binding topology in untreated progeny. Genistein induced altered epigenome modulation negatively regulates the expression of cell proliferation genes and suppress cell growth. In contrast, previously exposed cells displayed reduced expression of DNA repair genes and enhanced genotoxic stress upon genistein withdrawal.
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