Project description:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are widespread circular forms of non-coding RNAs with largely unknown function. Because stimulation of mammary cells with the epidermal growth factor (EGF) leads to dynamic changes in the abundance of both coding and non-coding RNA molecules, and culminates in the acquisition of a robust migratory phenotype, this cellular model might disclose functions of circRNAs. Here we show that circRNAs of EGF-stimulated mammary cells are stably expressed, while mRNAs and micro-RNAs change within minutes. In general, the circRNAs we detected are relatively long-lived and weakly expressed. Interestingly, they are almost ubiquitously co-expressed with the corresponding linear transcripts, and the respective, shared promoter regions are more active compared to genes producing linear isoforms only. These findings imply that altered abundance of circRNAs, unlike changes in the levels of other RNAs, might not play critical roles in signaling cascades and downstream transcriptional networks that rapidly commit cells to specific outcomes. Histone 3 Lysine 27 Acetylation â 2 replicates
Project description:Purpose: To determine SUMO1 and SUMO2 chromatin profile in a static and dynamic manner in BMDC before and after LPS stimulation, and to determine RNAPolII chromatin occupancy in sumoylation-deficient BMDC compared to wild-type cells. Methods: SUMO1, SUMO2 and RNAPolII chromatin profiles were determined by sequencing BMDC chromatin immunoprecipitated with antibodies specific for SUMO1, SUMO2 and RNAPolII before and after LPS stimulation. Results: We show dynamic occupancy of three distal sites upstream of Ifnb1 gene by SUMO1 and SUMO2, as well as increased RNAPolII recruitment on selected genes. Conclusions: SUMO acts as a regulator of inflammatory and anti-viral gene programs. A study of SUMO and RNAPolII chromatin profile in Bone Marrow derived Dendritic Cells.
Project description:The interaction between SUMO and ZMYM2 is mediated through specific motifs found in ZMYM2 that are called SIMs (SUMO interacting motifs). We found/characterised three SIMs in ZMYM2 and in vitro experiments showed that mutation in these residues prevent the interaction with SUMO. Microarray transcription profiling was done to study the effects of disrupting the multiSUMO binding activity of ZMYM2, assessing the differences in gene expression in cells expressing wild-type or SIM2 mutant version of ZMYM2.
Project description:ChIP-seq was conducted using FACS-isolated CD11chiMHCII+CD4+ splenic WT DC and anti-Runx3 antibodies (Ab). Two biological Runx3 IP repeats and two input controls from sorted CD4 DC
Project description:Chromatin immunoprecipitation was performed using monoclonal antibodiesd. DNA was amplified, fluorescently labeled and hybridized to a series of 38 arrays containing a total of 14.6 million 50-mer oligonucleotides Keywords: ChIP-chip hES whole genome Chromatin immunoprecipitated DNA from H3K4me
Project description:Chromatin immuno-precipitation using anti-Flag (Sigma) or control IgG (Millipore) antibodies in a U2OS stable cell line. ZMYM2 has the synonym ZNF198. Note: paired-end sequencing libraires were created in this experiment but only the forward (R1) reads are available in this submission. The 'LIBRARY_LAYOUT' attribute is therefore set to be 'SINGLE' ather than 'PAIRED'.
Project description:To identify genome-wide, direct targets of HES1 in human pancreas progenitors, we performed Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by deep sequencing (ChIP-seq) of endogenous HES1 in the HUES4 PDX1GFP/+ reporter cell line on Day 13 of differentiation from both unsorted bulk populations and FACS-sorted GFP+ cells.
Project description:We previously demonstrated by genomic and bioinformatical approaches that human macrophage (MΦ) activation is best described by a spectrum model (Xue et al, Immunity, 2014). MΦ integrate exogenous input signals on transcriptional level in a unique fashion to generate specific functional programs, enabling the plasticity in disease-related pathophysiologies. Such versatile responsiveness requires fast changes of transcription mediated by transcriptional regulators (TRs) or epigenomic changes. To better understand the principles of this regulation during human MΦ activation, we assessed histone modifications including H3K4me1, H3K4me3, H3K27me3, and H3K27Ac by ChIP-sequencing allowing us to characterize the functional state of promoters (active, poised, repressed) and enhancers (active, inactive, intermediate). Using transcriptome data from our MΦ spectrum model, we generated a co-regulation network of all TRs. Next, we overlaid epigenomic information and transcriptional changes of major TRs over time onto the TR network. We observed that input signals like IFNγ or TNFα induce a specific network of TRs that are transcriptionally regulated themselves, the combination of regulated TRs changes over time with a boost of transcriptional regulation of dozens of TRs 4 to 12 hrs post input signal exposure, almost all TRs within the network show active promoters, even if the TR itself is not expressed, and similar results are obtained for enhancers with open or at least intermediated states. These findings strongly suggest that in MΦ, the TR-defined cellular â??switch panelâ?? is always accessible thereby allowing MΦ to quickly respond to the diverse input signal repertoire from the environment. Epigenetic analysis of promoter and enhancer sites in primary human macrophage subtypes and correlation to RNA-seq expression data