Project description:In order to discover the targets of Foxj1, we made transgenic zebrafish in which Foxj1 is ubiquitously overexpressed in response to heat [Tg(hsp70::foxj1a)]. Transgenic embryos and wild type control embryos were collected, given two heat shocks (at 18 hours post fertilization (hpf) and 20 hpf), then analyzed at 22 hpf. Gene expression profiles of embryos overexpressing Foxj1a were compared to gene expression profiles of wild type embryos using Nimblegen whole transcriptome zebrafish microarrays.
Project description:To identify genes regulated by Rx3 during optic vesicle morphogenesis, adult zebrafish carriers of a null rx3 mutation were mated. Before 13 hours post fertilization (hpf), the earliest time point at which optic vesicle evagination phenotypes could be reliably detected, offspring were phenotypically separated into pools comprising of mutants with an absence of optic vesicles or siblings exhibiting a wild-type phenotype. Three replicates of pooled RNA samples from 13 hpf eyeless mutants (rx3-/-) or phenotypically wild-type siblings (rx3+/+ or rx3+/-), and one replicate of 13 hpf wild-type zebrafish larva were collected for whole transcriptome sequencing.
Project description:To identify genes regulated by Rx3 during optic vesicle morphogenesis, adult zebrafish carriers of a null rx3 mutation were mated. Before 13 hours post fertilization (hpf), the earliest time point at which optic vesicle evagination phenotypes could be reliably detected, offspring were phenotypically separated into pools comprising of mutants with an absence of optic vesicles or siblings exhibiting a wild-type phenotype. Three replicates of pooled RNA samples from 13 hpf eyeless mutants (rx3-/-) or phenotypically wild-type siblings (rx3+/+ or rx3+/-), and one replicate of 13 hpf wild-type zebrafish larva were collected for whole transcriptome sequencing. Whole transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) was performed on zebrafish rx3-/- mutants, wild-type siblings and wild-type AB strains at 13 hpf
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of zebrafish embryos comparing wild type untreated embryos with embryos injected with morpholino of zf-grna. This assay is used for the determination of expression profiling at 22 hpf under GRN-A deficiency.
Project description:To determine the molecular basis for the reduced blood cells in circulation in ezh2 mutant zebrafish, we performed high-throughput sequencing at 28 hpf. Results revealed 893 up-regulated genes and 425 down-regulated genes in the ezh2 mutant zebrafish compared with wild-type zebrafish. We found that some hematopoietic genes are down-regulated in ezh2 mutant zebrafish, which was reconfirmed with qRT-PCR.
Project description:By using transgenic zebrafish lines Tg(nxk2.5:GFP) (Witzel et al. 2012) and Tg(myl7:EGFP) (D'Amico et al. 2007), we have characterized transcriptomic profile of FACS-isolated CM (GFP+) from developing zebrafish heart at 24, 48 and 72 hpf, corresponding to heart tube formation, chamber formation and differentiation and heart maturation, respectively. GFP- cells were used as a control. We have identified cardiac regulatory networks playing a crucial role in heart morphogenesis. To validate their importance in heart development, we employed zebrafish mutants of cardiac transciption factors Gata5, Hand2 and Tbx5a, the disruption of which were previously linked to impaired migration of the cardiac primordia to the embryonic midline, reduced number of myocardial precursors and failure of heart looping, respectively (Reiter et al. 1999; Yelon et al. 2000; Garrity et al. 2002). RNA-seq was performed from homozygous gata5tm236a/tm236a, tbx5am21/ m21, hand2s6/s6 mutant 72 hpf embryos in Tg(myl7:EGFP) genetic background. Homozygous mutant embryos for analyses were selected on the basis of their phenotypes of cardia bifida (gata5tm236a/tm236a, hand2s6/s6) or heart-string (tbx5am21/ m21) .
Project description:We have developed a pitx2 knockout zebrafish line (c.190_197delATGTCGAC, p.(Met64*)) that recapitulates the characteristic phenotypes of PITX2-mediated Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome (ARS) as well as displays some unique ocular phenotypes that in humans have implicated possible PITX2 involvement.To begin to ascertain the downstream pathways that are disrupted in pitx2M64* homozygous mutants, RNA from 23-hpf wild-type and pitx2M64* homozygous eyes only was submitted for microarray analysis.To collect embryonic ocular tissues from mutant and wild-type embryos, whole eyes of 23-hpf embryos were dissected; wild-type and pitx2M64* homozygous mutant whole eyes were then pooled together respectively for RNA extractions. RNA was extracted from the collected eyes using TRIzol, assessed for quality and assigned RNA Integrity Numbers (RINs), and submitted as three independent collections each to OakLabs (Hennigsdorf, Germany) for transcriptome and statistical analysis.
Project description:By using transgenic zebrafish lines Tg(nxk2.5:GFP) (Witzel et al. 2012) and Tg(myl7:EGFP) (D'Amico et al. 2007), we have characterized chromatin accessibility of FACS-isolated CM (GFP+) from developing zebrafish heart at 24, 48 and 72 hpf, corresponding to heart tube formation, chamber formation and differentiation and heart maturation, respectively. GFP- cells were used as a control. We have identified cardiac regulatory networks playing a crucial role in heart morphogenesis. To validate their importance in heart development, we employed zebrafish mutants of cardiac transciption factors Gata5, Hand2 and Tbx5a, the disruption of which were previously linked to impaired migration of the cardiac primordia to the embryonic midline, reduced number of myocardial precursors and failure of heart looping, respectively (Reiter et al. 1999; Yelon et al. 2000; Garrity et al. 2002). ATAC-seq was performed from homozygous gata5tm236a/tm236a, tbx5am21/ m21, hand2s6/s6 mutant 72 hpf embryos in Tg(myl7:EGFP) genetic background. Homozygous mutant embryos for analyses were selected on the basis of their phenotypes of cardia bifida (gata5tm236a/tm236a, hand2s6/s6) or heart-string (tbx5am21/ m21) .