Project description:Ribosome profiling was used to investigate how Schizosaccharomcyes pombe cells modulate gene expression in response to hydrogen peroxide
Project description:Ribosome profiling was used to investigate how Schizosaccharomcyes pombe cells modulate gene expression in response to cadmium exposure
Project description:Ribosome profiling was used to investigate how Schizosaccharomcyes pombe cells modulate gene expression in response to osmotic shock
Project description:Ribosome profiling was used to investigate how Schizosaccharomcyes pombe cells modulate gene expression in response to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS)
Project description:CHX is an inhibitor of translation elongation often used in ribosome profiling experiments. There is evidence that CHX treatment of cells may cause artefacts in the distribution of ribosomes on mRNAs. We investigate this possibility in S. pombe by performing ribosome profiling in the presence and absence of this drug.
Project description:Translation complexes are stabilised in vivo using formaldehyde. Cells are lysed, and cell extracts are treated with RNase I to produce protected RNA fragments (FPs or footprints). Extracts are then run through sucrose gradients to separate small ribosomal subunits and full ribosomes. FPs are isolated from each of these fractions and analysed by sequencing. Note this is a modified version of ribo-seq (a.k.a. ribosome profiling)
Project description:MECP2 is critical for proper brain development and expressed at near-histone levels in neurons, but the mechanism of its genomic localization remains poorly understood. Using high-resolution MeCP2 binding data, we show that genetic features alone can predict binding with 88% accuracy. Integrating MeCP2 binding and DNA methylation in a probabilistic graphical model, we demonstrate that previously reported methylation preferences may be due to MeCP2âs affinity to GC-rich chromatin, a result replicated using published data. Furthermore, MeCP2 co-localized with nucleosomes, and Mecp2 deletion led to nucleosome repositioning. Finally, MeCP2 binding downstream of promoters correlated with increased expression in Mecp2 deficient neurons. Study of genetic and epigenetic determinants of MeCP2 binding using MeCP2 ChIP-seq, MNase-seq, Bisulfite-seq and RNA-seq. Please see individual sample record for details on experimental design.