Project description:Background: There is a growing interest in the role of chromatin in acquiring and maintaining cell identity. Despite the ever growing availability of genome-wide gene expression data, understanding how transcription programs are established and regulated to define cell identity remains a puzzle. An important mechanism of gene regulation is the binding of transcription factors to specific DNA sequence motifs across the genome. However, these sequences are hindered by the packaging of DNA to chromatin. Thus the accessibility of these loci for TF binding is highly regulated and determines where and when TF bind. We present a workflow for measuring chromatin accessibility in Arabidopsis thaliana, and define organ-specific regulatory sites and binding motifs of transcription factors at these sites. Results: We coupled the recently described INTACT (Isolation of Nuclei TAgged in specific Cell Types) and ATAC-seq (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with highthroughput sequencing) as a genome-wide strategy to uncover accessible regulatory sites in Arabidopsis, based on their accessibility to nuclease digestion. By applying this pipeline in Arabidopsis roots, we revealed 41,419 accessible sites, of which approximately half are found in gene promoters and contain the H3K4me3 active histone mark. The root-unique accessible sites from this group are enriched for root processes. Interestingly, most of the root-unique accessible sites are found in nongenic regions, but are correlated with root-specific expression of distant genes. Importantly these gene-distant sites are enriched for binding motifs of TFs important for root development, as well as motifs for TFs that may play a role as novel transcriptional regulators in roots, suggesting that these accessible loci are functional novel genedistant regulatory elements. Conclusion: By coupling the INTACT with ATAC-seq methods, we present a feasible pipeline to profile accessible chromatin in plants. We also introduce a rapid measure of the experiment quality. We find that chromatin accessibility at promoter regions is strongly associated with transcription and active histone marks. However, root specific chromatin accessibility is primarily found at intergenic regions, suggesting their predominance in defining organ identity, possibly via long-range chromatin interactions. This workflow can be rapidly applied to study the regulatory landscape in other cell types, plant species and conditions.
Project description:Background: There is a growing interest in the role of chromatin in acquiring and maintaining cell identity. Despite the ever growing availability of genome-wide gene expression data, understanding how transcription programs are established and regulated to define cell identity remains a puzzle. An important mechanism of gene regulation is the binding of transcription factors to specific DNA sequence motifs across the genome. However, these sequences are hindered by the packaging of DNA to chromatin. Thus the accessibility of these loci for TF binding is highly regulated and determines where and when TF bind. We present a workflow for measuring chromatin accessibility in Arabidopsis thaliana, and define organ-specific regulatory sites and binding motifs of transcription factors at these sites. Results: We coupled the recently described INTACT (Isolation of Nuclei TAgged in specific Cell Types) and ATAC-seq (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with highthroughput sequencing) as a genome-wide strategy to uncover accessible regulatory sites in Arabidopsis, based on their accessibility to nuclease digestion. By applying this pipeline in Arabidopsis roots, we revealed 41,419 accessible sites, of which approximately half are found in gene promoters and contain the H3K4me3 active histone mark. The root-unique accessible sites from this group are enriched for root processes. Interestingly, most of the root-unique accessible sites are found in nongenic regions, but are correlated with root-specific expression of distant genes. Importantly these gene-distant sites are enriched for binding motifs of TFs important for root development, as well as motifs for TFs that may play a role as novel transcriptional regulators in roots, suggesting that these accessible loci are functional novel genedistant regulatory elements. Conclusion: By coupling the INTACT with ATAC-seq methods, we present a feasible pipeline to profile accessible chromatin in plants. We also introduce a rapid measure of the experiment quality. We find that chromatin accessibility at promoter regions is strongly associated with transcription and active histone marks. However, root specific chromatin accessibility is primarily found at intergenic regions, suggesting their predominance in defining organ identity, possibly via long-range chromatin interactions. This workflow can be rapidly applied to study the regulatory landscape in other cell types, plant species and conditions.
Project description:We report the application of high-throughput profiling of total transcript in Col jmj28 andJMJ28np5-OE. The total RNA were extracted and analysed by NGS to identify the differential expressed genes between WT with jmj28 and JMJ28np5-OE.
Project description:1-day-old seedlings of Col-0 and vil1-1 were performed RNA-Seq to identify differentially expressed genes caused by VIL1 mutation in Arabidopsis
Project description:Transcript profiling analysis of Hydraulic conductivity of Root 1 (HCR1) mutant compared to wild type (Col-0) using ARABIDOPSIS GENE1.1ST ARRAY STRIP (901793, Affymetrix, Santa Clara, USA).
Project description:Ca2+ signaling is central to plant development, modulating gene expression to enable highly specific plant responses. While Ca2+-responsive proteins have been investigated intensely in plants, only few Ca2+ channels are known, and our understanding of how intracellular Ca2+ fluxes are facilitated remains limited. We obtained an Arabidopsis triple knockout mutant of homologues of the mammalian mitochondrial Ca2+ channel-forming MCU protein, in which mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake was severly perturbed in vivo in roots. To pinpoint the impact of the distrupted mitochondrial matrix free Ca2+ dynamcis, we performed transcriptome analysis in roots of an MCU triple knockout background (mcu123) and its corresponding wild type background (Col-0). We devised a microarray-based analysis to investigate transcriptome differences in roots of mcu123 triple knockout backgroudn and Col-0, without additional stimulation, and idenfitied distinct classes of differentially abundant transcripts.
Project description:Antiretroviral therapy suppresses HIV-1 infection but is not curative because it fails to eliminate a reservoir of intact latent proviruses that reside primarily in CD4+ T cells. This compartment is composed of rare T cells that predominantly express memory and effector memory markers. The lack of precise understanding of the latent compartment has made it challenging to develop curative strategies for HIV-1 infection. Here we report on the properties of CD4+ T cells clones carrying intact latent proviruses, expanded in vitro from single cells obtained from the reservoir of people living with HIV-1. The latent proviruses in the clones were integrated into ZNF genes, non-genic satellite and centromeric regions, frequently associated with latency. Notably, the transcriptome of the cultured clones resembled their cells of origin. Despite their descent from single cells, only a fraction of the cells ranging from 0.4-14% expressed relatively low levels of HIV-1 that did not measurably alter host gene transcriptome. Latency reversing agents (LRAs) variably increased the number and amount of expression per cell, but the effects were modest and clone and LRA specific. The results suggest that pharmacologic and immunologic approaches to clear the reservoir should be optimized to accommodate intra- and inter-clonal diversity.
Project description:CHD3 proteins are ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling factors that are components of diverse multisubunit complexes that can either repress or activate gene expression. In plants, the CHD3 protein PICKLE (PKL) is necessary for repression of seed-specific genes during germination and promotes deposition of the repressive epigenetic mark trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3). It is unknown, however, if PKL acts directly at H3K27me3-enriched loci. We undertook a microarray analysis of 14-day-old plants and found that PKL continues to play an important role in expression of H3K27me3-enriched genes and in specification of developmental identity after germination. We used microarray to identify genes that are differentialy expressed in 14-day-old pkl seedlings and used chormatin immunoprecipitation to identify genes that are the direct targets of PKL. Wild-type (Col-0) and pkl-1 seedlings were grown on 1/2 MS plates with constant light and harvsted after 14-day growth. Three biological replicates.