Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below. The experiments are described in 2 papers: PMID 30137431 and PMID 30507376
Project description:Atypical PKCiota/lambda is a key effector of the PAR polarity complex which is considered a master determinant of apico-basal polarity in single-layered epithelial cells. In polarized epithelial cells aPKC is exquisitely localized by the PAR6 partner to a belt nearby the tight junctions. Surprisingly, tissue specific knock out of the transgenic floxed version with villin-CRE showed a chronic inflammation phenotype. The observations were made in three different independent transgenic mouse lines and published by three different groups including ours (PMID: 27226486; PMID: 30552022; PMID: 21744423 ), which is reassuring for reproducibility. An additional double KO in both aPKC isoforms further confirmed the results (PMID: 30552022 ). The animals were viable and there was not strong diarrheal or constipation phenotype characteristic of polarity defects in intestinal epithelia. With few exceptions such as ezrin localization, apical polarity markers were generally well polarized. There were changes in cytokine expression by epithelial cells and infiltration of CD8+ T cells (PMID: 27226486; PMID: 30552022). The goal of the study was to get an unbiased catalog of the transcriptional changes induced by aPKC iota/lambda defect in intestinal epithelial cells to understand the ontology of gene expression downstream of the PAR polarity complex. The results are consistent with broad changes in NF-kB and IFN dependent transcriptional pathways, possibly mediated by ROCK and Med17 downstream of aPKCiota/lambda (PMID: 2722648; PMID: 33596087). This study was published in PMID: 33596087.
Project description:Osteblastic loss of Ezh2 was achieved by breeding Ezh2flox/flox (Su et al., PMID: 12496962) with Osx-Cre (Rodda et al., PMID:16854976).
Project description:Erythrocyte invasion is an essential step in the life cycle of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum that involves specific interactions between host cell receptors and parasite ligands. How the parasite regulates the expression of invasion-related genes is to date largely unknown. Here we show that a novel, parasite-specific bromodomain protein (PfBDP1) binds to chromatin at the transcriptional start site of invasion-related genes and directly controls their expression. Conditional PfBDP1 knockdown causes a dramatic defect in parasite invasion and growth and results in transcriptional down-regulation of multiple invasion-related genes at a time point critical for invasion. This is the first report of a histone binding protein that activates genes in P. falciparum and our data place PfBDP1 in a central position for controlling the coordinated expression of invasion genes. Bromodomains are emerging therapeutic targets and drugs that specifically inhibit PfBDP1 could be an invaluable tool in the effort to eradicate malaria. P. falciparum 3D7 parasites over-expressing PfBDP1-3xHA (3D7/PfBDP1 OE) [PMID: 23181666] were grown in presence of 5μg/ml BSD-S-HCl. The parasite line 3D7/cam [PMID: 22435676.] grown under the same conditions and expressing hDHFR instead of PfBDP1-3xHA from the same promoter was used as control. RNA extracted from these samples at four consecutive time points each was processed for microarray analysis.
Project description:DISCLAIMER: This project actually contains two separate and independent assays by mistake. They should be not be considered together.</br></br>Assay 9769 - Bradyrhizobium japonicum proteomic reference map PMID : 20806226</br>Assay 15318 - Vigna mungo leaf proteome map PMID : 23587433
Project description:When applying deconvolution methods to bulk RNAseq data, a limitation of most prior studies is the lack of paired scRNA-seq and bulk RNA-seq data from the same samples to serve as ground truth for deconvolution. Our UC cohort, containing matched scRNA-seq and bulk RNA-seq data therefore provided a unique opportunity. (The scRNAseq datasets have been published before [PMID: 32111252 PMID: 36129800 PMID: 36099881 PMID: 33837006 ]. Please see linked manuscript for details) We assembled a scRNA-seq dataset of 100,667 cells from 30 UC tissue samples (20 unique patients). Bulk RNA sequencing was performed on a subset of patients(14) in the single-cell RNA sequencing cohort due to tissue availability.
