Project description:ChIP-seq study in human, macaque, mouse, rat and opossum for CTCF (milipore: 07-729 and custom AB in opossum), STAG1 in opossum (abcam: ab4457)
Project description:Homologous vertebrate tissues express a highly conserved set of transcribed genes; paradoxically, expression of tRNAs that are required to translate mRNAs into proteins have been reported to be divergent. To resolve this paradox, we mapped the genome-wide occupancy of pol III in primary tissues isolated from six mammals. We confirmed that the specific tRNA genes bound by pol III, as well as the extent and stability of binding, can vary substantially among mammalian tissues, and we discovered that this divergence is far greater between species. We combined pol III occupancy from genomically discrete tRNA loci into collective binding into isoacceptor classes and then into amino acid-based isotype classes, and at each step we found increasing conservation. At the level of amino acid isotypes, pol III binding is almost invariant among all the tissues and species profiled. Thus, the basal transcriptional machinery is constrained collectively in its synthesis of functional tRNA isotypes, despite rapid divergence of polymerase binding to specific tRNA genes. Part of experiment series: RNA-Seq E-MTAB-424, ChIP-Seq E-MTAB-957
Project description:Five-vertebrate ChIP-seq reveals the evolutionary dynamics of trancription factor binding. The SRF files for this experiment can be found in the European Read Archive with study accession number ERP000054. The fastq files can be found in the raw archives and for some assays links to the ENA runs and ENA fastq files are provided.
Project description:To test the conservation and evolution of long non-coding RNAs across multiple rodent species by transcriptome sequencing and histone modification mapping. Part of experiment series: E-MTAB-867 RNA-Seq, E-MTAB-959 ChIP-Seq.
Project description:This experiment provides chromatin immunoprecipitation input sequences (i.e. no antibody was added during the ChIP protocol), suitable for use as input for ChIP experiments on C57BJ/6J mice.
Project description:∼40,000 HNF6 binding sites were identified in mouse liver chromatin, including several thousand sites showing significant differences in level of HNF6 binding between male and female mouse liver. These sex-biased HNF6 binding sites showed strong enrichment for sex-biased DNase hypersensitive sites and for proximity to genes showing local sex-biased chromatin marks and a corresponding sex-biased expression. ~90% of genome-wide CUX2 binding sites identified previously in female mouse liver (Conforto TL, Zhang Y, Sherman J, Waxman DJ., Mol Cell Biol. 2012;32(22):4611-4627) were also bound by HNF6, giving evidence for genome-wide competition between HNF6 and CUX2 for chromatin binding in female mouse liver. These HNF6/CUX2 common binding sites were enriched for genomic regions more accessible in male than in female mouse liver chromatin, and showed strongest enrichment for male-biased genes, suggesting HNF6 displacement by CUX2 as a mechanism to explain the observed CUX2 repression of male-biased genes in female liver. However, HNF6 binding was sex-independent at a majority of its binding sites, and peak regions of HNF6 binding were frequently associated with co-binding by multiple other liver transcription factors, consistent with HNF6 playing a global regulatory role in both male and female liver. Livers were excised from individual male and female mice, cross-linked and sonicated, then used to identify HNF6 binding sites by ChIP-Seq using antibody specific to HNF6 (sc-13050; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc).
Project description:Definition of functional regulatory regions in the vast non-coding fractions of mammalian genomes remains a daunting challenge that underscores our limited understanding of mammalian gene regulation. Genome sequencing of many mammals has recently been exp
Project description:∼40,000 HNF6 binding sites were identified in mouse liver chromatin, including several thousand sites showing significant differences in level of HNF6 binding between male and female mouse liver. These sex-biased HNF6 binding sites showed strong enrichment for sex-biased DNase hypersensitive sites and for proximity to genes showing local sex-biased chromatin marks and a corresponding sex-biased expression. ~90% of genome-wide CUX2 binding sites identified previously in female mouse liver (Conforto TL, Zhang Y, Sherman J, Waxman DJ., Mol Cell Biol. 2012;32(22):4611-4627) were also bound by HNF6, giving evidence for genome-wide competition between HNF6 and CUX2 for chromatin binding in female mouse liver. These HNF6/CUX2 common binding sites were enriched for genomic regions more accessible in male than in female mouse liver chromatin, and showed strongest enrichment for male-biased genes, suggesting HNF6 displacement by CUX2 as a mechanism to explain the observed CUX2 repression of male-biased genes in female liver. However, HNF6 binding was sex-independent at a majority of its binding sites, and peak regions of HNF6 binding were frequently associated with co-binding by multiple other liver transcription factors, consistent with HNF6 playing a global regulatory role in both male and female liver.
Project description:Animal models of parenchymal liver injury by bile duct ligation (BDL) and all forms of liver diseases including neonatal hepatitis and clinical obstructive cholangiopathies such as biliary atresia have the pathological features of cholestasis and liver dysfunction. Hepatocyte nuclear factors 6 (HNF6) is important to the transcriptional regulation, expression and function of essential hepatic genes involved in the differentiated as well as the adaptive response to liver injury. Using HNF6 conditional knock out mice where HNF6 is functionally deleted in the liver, we established that HNF6 is required for proper liver function of cholesterol clearance, improvement of cholestasis and hepatocyte regeneration. Enhancing HNF6 expression in wild type mice also diminished hepatic apoptosis and fibrosis. In this proposal, we propose to further characterize the biological function of HNF6 by testing the HYPOTHESIS that HNF6 direct transcriptional regulation of antiapoptotic and antifibrotic pathways contributes to hepatoprotection during bile duct injury. This hypothesis will be tested in two specific aims.