Project description:High-throughput sequencing of small RNAs in chicken somite embryos Dissected tissue white leghorn chicken embryos was disaggregated and RNA extracted using the miRVana kit (Ambion). Small RNA fraction between 19 and 24 nt was isolated from 15% denaturing polyacrylamide gel and 15 micro gram was ligated to Solexa adaptors (Illumina) without de-phosphorylating and re-phosphorylating. The short RNAs were converted to DNA by RT-PCR following the Illumina protocol.
Project description:We applied Illumina sequencing to identify microRNAs (miRNAs) and piwi-interacting small RNAs (piRNAs) in the pre- and post-gastrula chicken embryos, and simultaneously obtain a comprehensive expression profile of miRNAs at diverse developmental stages.
Project description:We applied Illumina sequencing to identify microRNAs (miRNAs) and piwi-interacting small RNAs (piRNAs) in the pre- and post-gastrula chicken embryos, and simultaneously obtain a comprehensive expression profile of miRNAs at diverse developmental stages. Discovery and characterization of small RNA species from pre-gastrula and post-gastrula chicken embryos through deep sequencing
Project description:Capture-C from in situ HiC libraries in tailbud tissue containing pre-somitic mesoderm (PSM) dissected from Smchd1GFP/GFP, Smchd1MD43-GFP/MD43-GFP, Smchd1+/+ and Smchd1MD43/MD43 embryos E8.5 embryos at the 7-9 somite stage of development. Somite stage is a good indicator of the precise stage of embryonic development.
Project description:Integrins are a major class of heterodimeric adhesion receptors composed of an a and b subunit that mediate cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix (ECM). The extracellular matrix protein fibronectin is important for early vertebrate development, and Integrin a5b1 and aVb3 are the two primary fibronectin receptors. To better define the integrin – ECM protein network at 10-13 somite stage of zebrafish development, we performed co-immunoprecipitation and Mass Spectrometry (MS) based proteomics using FLAG-tagged Integrin a5, aV, and aVb3 expressed in maternal zygotic a5 mutant (MZa5-/-) embryos. We found that Integrin a5b1 and aVb1 are the functional fibronectin receptors, whereas Integrin aVb3 displayed low affinity to both fibronectins (Fn1a and Fn1b). In addition, basement membrane ligands Laminins (lama1, lamb1a, lamc1) are roughly equal in all three datasets while Thrombospondins (thbs3b, thbs4b) and cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (comp/thbs5) are found exclusively in the aV dataset. Our results suggest a diverse role of aV class integrins in ECM protein recruitment.
Project description:In order to profile periderm-specific nucleosome free regions of zebrafish periderm cells at 4-somite stage, we isolated the equal number of GFP-positive cells and GFP-negative cells from Tg(krt4:GFP) embryos and perform ATAC-seq. This study revealed the landscape of zebrafish periderm-specific nucleosome free regions at 4-somite stage.
Project description:The DMDD Programme (Deciphering the Mechanisms of Developmental Disorders, https://dmdd.org.uk/) provides a free online database of morphological and molecular phenotypes from embryonic-lethal mouse gene knockouts (http://www.dmdd.org.uk/). Embryos are imaged using HREM, placentas are examined by histology and mutant embryo mRNA expression profiles are compared to wild type. To underpin these investigations we have produced a comprehensive time series of gene expression through normal embryo development. Total RNA was extracted from somite number staged, second generation genotypically wild type, C57BL/6N embryos of mixed G0 linages from the Mouse Genetics Programme (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/collaboration/mouse-resource-portal) and DNase treated. Stranded RNA-seq libraries were constructed using the Illumina TruSeq Stranded RNA protocol with oligo dT pulldown.<br> Notes about samples and libraries: </br><br>(1) A combination of litter identifier and embryo identifier within a litter will unambiguously identify a single embryo used in this study. </br><br>(2) There is a margin of error for the somite-stage information (+/- 1 somite) because some embryos could be in between somite stages. </br><br> (3) All knockouts in the parents or grandparents are for embryonic lethal genes. </br><br>(4) There are four biological replicates per somite-stage, with the exception of the 4-somite embryos (three biological replicates only). Altogether 111 embryos were sourced, of which 14 were sequenced twice to generate enough read depth/coverage. No new libraries were prepared for the repeated sequencing, despite the assays being assigned new ERX* accessions. </br><br> (5) Sex of the embryos was determined post-RNA-seq by looking at the expression of Xist (strong expression in females only). </br><br> (6) Library constructon batch refers to batch of sample handling post RNA-extraction (size selection, PCR amplification during library preparataion). </br><br>(7) Superbatch gathers 17 representative embryos out of the 111 embryos post RNA-extraction, and put them through the library construction pipeline as one single batch. The generated data is intended to be used for normalisation using the remove unwanted variation (RUV) method. </br> <br> This data is part of a pre-publication release. For information on the proper use of pre-publication data shared by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (including details of any publication moratoria), please see http://www.sanger.ac.uk/datasharing/ .</br>