Project description:Lumen formation and inflation are crucial for tubular organ morphogenesis, yet the underling mechanism remains largely unrevealed. Here, we applied 4D proteomics to screen the lumenogenesis-related proteins and reveal the potentially biological pathways that are involved in lumen inflation during notochord lumen formation in ascidian Ciona savignyi.
Project description:Expression profiling of mouse embryos at E2.5, E3.5, E4.25, E4.5, E5.5 E6.0 to identify genes regulated during development of the ICM (inner cell mass), TE (Trophectoderm) and PrE (Primative endoderm) Keywords: development dupicate analysis of time points
Project description:We investigated the transcriptomic features of the Visceral Endoderm during early post-implantation mouse embryonic development by means of Single Cell RNA-Sequencing (RNA-Seq). To enrich for Visceral Endoderm cells, we labelled the outer cells of the embryo with a fluorescent membrane-labelling dye, before single-cell dissociation and FACS to select the labelled population.
Project description:We describe a simple, plate-based method to analyze the secretomes of microorganisms growing on insoluble substrates that allows harsh sample preparation methods promoting desorption, and subsequent identification, of substrate-bound proteins, while minimizing contamination with non-secreted proteins from leaking or lysed cells. The method described here enables rapid large-scale comparative studies of the secretomes of filamentous fungi and other microorganisms growing on a variety of solid substrates, which eventually may have implications for our understanding of enzymatic lignocellulose degradation.
Project description:This study presents statistical analyses of gene expression in 5, 10 and 15 day post-fertilization (dpf) embryos of the teleost Fundulus heteroclitus treated with control vehicle (DMSO) or a potent non-ortho-PCB (PCB-126; 3,3’,4,4’,5-pentachlorobiphenyl). The embryos were from two populations: a clean, reference population (SC, Scorton Creek, MA USA) and a polluted Superfund population (N, New Bedford Harbor, MA USA). For each site, eggs from 8 females (~1100 total) were fertilized using minced testes from 5 males. After non-fertile eggs were culled, embryos were exposed to vehicle (DMSO; 0.1%) or PCB-126 (50 nM) in filtered seawater (salinity 25 part per thousand, 65 embros per 20 ml in glass petri dish) for 4 hr at 20º C. After exposure, the embryos were washed in filtered seawater and incubated at 20º C under a 14-h light, 10-h dark cycle. At 5-, 10-, and 15-dpf, embryos were collected as three pools of 20 embryos from each treatment group and flash frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80º C until used for RNA isolation. A loop design was used for the microarray hybridizations where each sample is hybridized to 2 arrays using both Cy3 and Cy5 labeled fluorophores. We used three loops in which each loop consisted of Cy3- and Cy5-labeled embryo aRNAs from 12 samples: one sample from each population-treatment-time combination. Within a population-treatment-time, embryos were randomly assigned to one of the three loops. In total, 36 embryos were hybridized to 36 microarrays. The loops formed were SC5C→ SC5P → NBH5C→ NBH5P →SC10C→ SC10P→ NBH10C→ NBH10P → SC15C→ SC15P → NBH15C → NBH15P → SC5C, where each arrow represents a separate hybridization (array) with the biological sample at the base of the arrow labeled with Cy3 and the biological sample at the head of the arrow labeled with Cy5. SC represents the Scorton Creek, Sandwich, MA population (reference), NBH represents the New Bedford Harbor, MA population, C represents control dose (DMSO), P represents the PCB-126 dose, 5 represents 5 dpf, 10 represents 10 dpf and 15 represents 15 dpf.
Project description:Single Cell Microarray <br>E10.5 genital ridges (TM at E7.5) incubated in 0.5mM EDTA/ PBS for 20 minutes at 37ï¾°C were transferred to 2% BSA/ PBS. PGCs were collected from the genital ridges pierced with fine glass needles. Released PGCs were identified by their morphological characteristics and transferred into lysis buffer with a mouth pipette. PGCs were genotyped with the remaining genital ridges. The amplified cDNA library of each PGC was classified by qPCR-based expression analyses of Nanog, Oct4, and Stella/Dppa3 (Kurimoto et al., 2007). cDNAs were labeled by in vitro transcription (Affymetrix). The cRNAs were hybridized with the GeneChip Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (Affymetrix). Data were analyzed using the Microsoft Excel and MeV (multiple experimental viewer) software. <br>
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of mouse embryos spanning the 8-cell morula stage to E5.5 postimplantation epiblast was performed using lineage-specific RNA-seq.
Project description:During mammalian postimplantation development, primitive erythroblasts (EryP) or red blood cells are the first cell type to be specified from nascent mesoderm, late in gastrulation. EryP arise in the yolk sac from a transient wave of progenitors, enter the circulation soon thereafter, and continue to mature in a stepwise and synchronous fashion. We have taken advantage of a transgenic mouse line in which a green fluorescent reporter is expressed specifically in the EryP lineage to identify and purify EryP at different stages of maturation from E7.5 through E12.5. A transcriptional profile that encompasses key developmental landmarks of this lineage was determined using a genome-wide microarray analysis (Illumina platform). Dataset is a lineage-specific transcription profiling of EryP development on consecutive days from E7.5 through E12.5. At least 3 independent biological replicates were used for each developmental time point.
Project description:Eight different types of sample (three samples each) were used in this study of cardiac cell migration in the tunicate Ciona intestinalis. The B7.5 lineage cells were isolated by Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) at the tailbud stage, when the cardiac precursors (anterior B7.5 lineage cells) are migrating into the trunk, while their sister cells (posterior 7.5 lineage cells) remain in the tail, where they form muscle cells. Cells were sorted at the late gastrula stage, prior to migration induction and after manipulation of the FGF-MAPK-Ets signaling pathway (targeted expression of dominant negative FGF receptor and Ets:VP16 fusion protein, targeted expression was achieved using the Mesp cis-regulatory DNA), FoxF function (a direct target of FGF-MAPK-Ets signaling, required primarily for cell migration) by targeted expression of FoxF:VP16 (constitutive activator) or FoxF:WRPW (constitutive repressor, dominant negative), Mesp function (over-expression of Mesp:VP16 inhibits primarily cell migration). Finally, the "whole embryo" samples were collected from dissociated whole tailbud embryos, without FACS. in summary the eight conditions are: "wt (files LC-wt-1,-2,-3)": wild_type B7.5 lineage cells, expressing GFP, sorted at the tailbud stage "Ets:VP16 (files LC-EV-1,-2,-3)": B7.5 lineage cells, expressing GFP and Ets:VP16, sorted at the tailbud stage "DnFGFR (files LC-dnFGFR-1,-2,-3)": B7.5 lineage cells, expressing GFP and dominant-negative FGF receptor, sorted at the tailbud stage. "FoxF:VP16 (files LC-FV-1,-2,-3)": B7.5 lineage cells, expressing GFP and FoxF:VP16, sorted at the tailbud stage. "FoxF:WRPW (files LC-FW-1,-2,-3)": B7.5 lineage cells, expressing GFP and FoxF:WRPW, sorted at the tailbud stage". "Mesp:VP16 (files LC-MV-1,-2,-3)": B7.5 lineage cells, expressing GFP and Mesp:VP16, sorted at the tailbud stage. "Late Gastrula (files LC-LG-1,-2,-3)": wild_type B7.5 lineage cells, expressing GFP, sorted at the late gastrula stage "whole embryo (files LC-whole-1,-2,-3": whole embryos, dissociated at the tailbud stage, not sorted.
Project description:The epiblast (EPI) is the origin of all somatic and germ cells in mammals, and of the spectrum of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) in vitro. To explore the ontogeny of human/primate pluripotency, we performed comprehensive single-cell RNA sequencing for pre- and post-implantation EPI development in cynomolgus monkeys. Here we show that after specification in the blastocysts [embryonic day (E)7], cyEPI undergoes major transcriptome changes upon implantation. Thereafter, cyEPI, while generating gastrulating cells (~E13), maintains its transcriptome relatively stably over a week, retaining a unique set of pluripotency genes while acquiring properties for âneuron differentiation.â h/cyPSCs show the highest similarity to post-implantation late cyEPI (~E17), which, despite co-existing with gastrulating cells, bears characteristics of pre-gastrulating mouse EPI (E5.5) and epiblast-like cells (EpiLCs) in vitro. These findings not only reveal divergence/coherence of EPI development, but also identify a developmental coordinate of the spectrum of pluripotency among key species, providing a basis for better regulation of human pluripotency in vitro. Single cell transcriptome analysis of cynomolgus monkey embryo E6-17 and mouse embryo E4.5 - E6.5 as well as of cynomogus monkey embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and mouse ESC, epiblast like cells (EpiLCs), using SC3-seq technology.