Project description:In studies investigating Sonic hedgehog (Shh) mediated patterning of the ventral neural tube, a process where Shh acts as a morphogen, we have investigated the transcriptional network underlying neural tube specification. Adopting an ES-cell based Shh neuronal specification assay (embryoid body; EBs) and a FLAG-tagged Gli protein (a transcriptional effector of the Shh pathway), we identified a number of direct targets of Gli action using Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP). These results will provide a first survey of the genome level response to this critical signaling input in vertebrate patterning Keywords: ChIP-chip, Gli transcription factors, Gli1, neural specification, mouse
Project description:In the vertebrate neural tube, regional Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling invokes a time- and concentration-dependent induction of six different cell populations mediated through Gli transcriptional regulators. Elsewhere in the embryo, Shh/Gli responses invoke different tissue appropriate regulatory programs. To elucidate Shh/Gli regulation of neural fate sepcification, we performed Gli1 ChIP-Seq analysis. We further analyzed two transcription factors whose motifs were enriched in Gli1 ChIP data (Sox2 and Foxa2). Two active histone marks (H3K4me2 and H3K27ac) were additionally analyzed to study activity status of Shh-responsive cis-elements.
Project description:In the vertebrate neural tube, regional Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling invokes a time- and concentration-dependent induction of six different cell populations mediated through Gli transcriptional regulators. Elsewhere in the embryo, Shh/Gli responses invoke different tissue appropriate regulatory programs. To elucidate Shh/Gli regulation of neural fate sepcification, we performed Gli1 ChIP-Seq analysis. We further analyzed two transcription factors whose motifs were enriched in Gli1 ChIP data (Sox2 and Foxa2). Two active histone marks (H3K4me2 and H3K27ac) were additionally analyzed to study activity status of Shh-responsive cis-elements. Active enhancer histone marks and transcription factor binding patterns were obtained from neuralized emrbyoid bodies. Biological replicates were performed for Gli1 and mock FLAG chips. Histone profiling for enhancer marks were taken from time course experiment performed in parallel.
Project description:Identification of transcriptome of mouse non-neural ectoderm during nueral tube closure and gene enrichment compared to remaining neural tube tissue
Project description:We analyzed scRNA-seq data in human pluripotent stem cells derived neural tube models. This in vitro system recapitulates some key aspects of neural patterning in the entire neural tube, including both brain and SC regions, along both rostral-caudal and dorsal-ventral axes
Project description:Microarray analysis of chick embryo tissues: Hamburger Hamilton (HH) stage 3+/4 and HH6 Hensenâs node, HH 3+/4 posterior primitive streak, notochord with ventral neural tube at HH10-11, dorsal neural tube at HH10-11 and anterior and posterior thirds of the wing bud at stages HH20-21 and HH24.
Project description:This experiment was specifically designed to measure neural targets of Shh signaling, we sought to profile the genes upregulated by Hh signaling in the ventral neural tube to obtain a valid dataset. To obtain ventral-specific markers, we generated retinoic acid-treated EBs grown in the presence or absence of HH-Ag. We did not observe induction of ventral Hh markers in RA-treated constitutive Gli1FLAG EBs and used these for the control, baseline set. The presence of FoxA2, Nkx2.9 and Nkx6.1 amongst the top 10 genes based on expression levels suggests that profiling significantly enriches for Hh-dependent cell types. As expected, the benchmark standard Gli1 was not up-regulated in our array, since it is constitutively expressed in the control as well. Keywords: neural progenitors, embryoid bodies, differentiation, Hedgehog, retinoic acid
Project description:Purpose: The response to Hedgehog signaling in the limb is driven by GLI bound enhancers and the majority of Hh targets in the developing limb bud are regulated solely by the activity of GLI-repressor. Currently we do not have a comprehensive understanding of how GLI bound enhancers respond Hedgehog signaling. The goal of this study is to identify how GLI bound enhancers are regulated by Hedgehog signaling and specifically by GLI-repressor. Methods: ChIP-seq was performed in Embryonic day 11.5 mouse forelimb and hidlimbs lfrom wildtype Swiss Webster mice. Results: We identified 15,347 HDAC1 binding sites in mouse E11.5 limb buds