Project description:Maternal caloric restriction during the last week of gestation resulted in low birth weight (LBW) and increased risk of LBW-associated metabolic diseases in adult life. The metabolic phenotypes transmitted to F2 generation by paternal manner without additional altered nutrition. To investigate the mechanism of this intergenerational inheritance, two Cohorts were exposed to different magnitudes of undernutrition both in utero during the last week of gestation and/or postnatal until weaning. We performed MeDIP-seq on the genomic DNA from sperm collected from these mice.
Project description:Maternal caloric restriction during the last week of gestation resulted in a low birth weight (LBW) and increased risk of LBW-associated metabolic diseases in adult life. The metabolic phenotypes transmitted to F2 generation by paternal manner without additional altered nutrition. To investigate the mechanism of this intergenerational inheritance, two Cohorts were exposed to different magnitudes of unternourition both in utero during the last week of gestation and/or post nataly until weaning. We performed small RNA-seq on non-coding RNA from sperm collected from these mice. Small RNA libraries were size-selected to be between 132 to 200 bp (including adapter) after library amplification.
Project description:This study includes raw data of blastocyst single-embryo SMART-seq profiles generated by IVF using sperm derived from mature (50-57 weeks) and young (9-11 weeks) males of C57BL/6N background. After SMART-seq library preparation of single embryos, indexed samples were pooled and sequenced on the NextSeq 2000 using a P3 flow cell in 50bp paired-end mode, targeting an average of 5 million reads per sample.
Project description:cis-Apc+/Delta716/Smad4+/- mice spontaneously develop multiple invasive intestinal carcinomas due to loss of heterozygosity and manifest symptoms associated with cancer cachexia within four months of age. To investigate the role of the liver in cachexia pathophysiology, we compared the transcriptomes of cachexia and control mouse livers. We isolated total RNA from livers of four C57BL/6N mice and four cis-Apc+/Delta716/Smad4+/- mice. Total RNA samples were then employed to perform microarray analysis (Agilent SurePrint G3 Mouse GE 8x60K Microarray).
Project description:Analysis of proteins under the influence of the quorum sensing (QS) system in the nonpathogenic Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain 6N2, and the influence of the bacterial QS system in the proteome of the yeast Meyerozyma guilliermondii strain 6N.
Project description:Mammalian embryonic stem (ES) cells and sperm exhibit unusual chromatin packaging that plays important roles in cellular function. Here, we extend a recently developed technique, based on deep paired-end sequencing of lightly digested chromatin, to assess footprints of nucleosomes and other DNA-binding proteins genome-wide in murine ES cells and sperm. In ES cells, we recover well-characterized features of chromatin such as promoter nucleosome depletion, and further identify widespread footprints of sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins such as CTCF, which we validate in knockdown studies. We document global differences in nuclease accessibility between ES cells and sperm, finding that the majority of histone retention in sperm preferentially occurs in large gene-poor genomic regions, with only a small subset of nucleosomes being retained over promoters of developmental regulators. Finally, we describe evidence that CTCF remains associated with the genome in mature sperm, where it could play a role in organizing the sperm genome. We use Micrococcal Nuclease (MNase) to map chromatin structure in mouse ES cells and sperm. Specifically, we generate paired-end deep-sequencing libraries that are able to distinguish DNA digestion products by size, thus allowing us to simultaneously map nucleosomes as well as other DNA-binding proteins such as transcription factors.
Project description:Proteomic investigations of spermatozoa provide practical tools for distinguishing normal, functional spermatozoa from abnormal spermatozoa. Indeed, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) applies high-throughput industrial applications to identify sperm-specific proteins indicative of chemical exposure. As such, a direct comparison of protein expression profiles between control and exposed cells returned a set of protein markers. Because mature mammalian spermatozoa are virtually incapable of protein synthesis, the predicted protein biomarkers in spermatozoa offer considerable stability for use in clinical application. In the current study, we applied 2-DE coupled with ESI-MS/MS to investigate the modified protein profile in F1 capacitated spermatozoa due to gestational bisphenol-A (BPA) exposure to ascertain whether these proteomic modifications could explain the observed functional alterations in spermatozoa.
Project description:We reported RNA profiles of mice spermatozoa, a total of 35,288,825 reads matching 33,039 transcripts, including 27,310 coding transcripts, were obtained. RNA profiles of the spermatozoa of 9-10 weeks adult mice were sequenced by RNA-seq,using Illumina GAIIx.
Project description:This study includes raw data of sperm smallRNA profiles from treated (nABX & LPHS, with nABX: non-absorbable antibiotics ; LPHS: low-protein, high sugar diet) and control (CON) males across FVB and C57BL/6J genetic backgrounds and mature (76-78 weeks (>1yr)) and young (10-11 weeks) ages. Sequencing was conducted at 100 bp, single-end on a Nextseq2000, resulting in approximately 1-5 million reads for most samples.