ABSTRACT: Fly strains: All transgenes are P[+] in w strains. w+;+;Act 5c > CD2 > GAL4 UAS-GFP (Neufeld et al. 1998 ); y w hs-FLP122; +; UAS-dMyc (Zaffran et al. 1998 ). y w hs-FLP122; +; +. Adult flies and larvae were raised in regular fly food consisting of cornmeal and molasses at 25°C. Larvae overexpressing either UAS-regulated dMyc;GFP or GFP alone transgenes were generated using the Flp/Gal4 method (Struhl and Basler 1993 ; Pignoni and Zipursky 1997 ; Neufeld et al. 1998 ). Larvae were staged from hatching and raised at a density of 50 per vial at 25°C. Third instar larvae (110 h after egg deposition, AED) were heat shocked at 37°C for 2 h, and larvae were collected 7 h after heat shock (~120 h AED). Total RNA was isolated using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen) as described by manufacturer followed by RNeasy (Qiagen) clear up. cRNA targets were generated using a standard amino-allyl labeling protocol, where 30 µg each of "experimental" (dMyc;GFP: hs-FLP122; Act-GAL4, UAS-GFP; UAS-dMyc) and "reference" (GFP only :ywhs-FLP122; Act-GAL4, UAS-GFP; +) total RNAs were coupled to either Cy3 or Cy5 fluorophores. Paired labeled targets were processed on microarrays using protocols described elsewhere (Fazzio et al. 2001 ). Posthybridized arrays were scanned using a GenePix 4000 scanner (Axon Instruments). Data were generated from five independent replicates (two with one dye orientation and three with the reversed dye orientation) at 7h and 14h Keywords: repeat sample
Project description:Fly strains: All transgenes are P[+] in w strains. w+;+;Act 5c > CD2 > GAL4 UAS-GFP (Neufeld et al. 1998 ); y w hs-FLP122; +; UAS-dMyc (Zaffran et al. 1998 ). y w hs-FLP122; +; +. Adult flies and larvae were raised in regular fly food consisting of cornmeal and molasses at 25°C. Larvae overexpressing either UAS-regulated dMyc;GFP or GFP alone transgenes were generated using the Flp/Gal4 method (Struhl and Basler 1993 ; Pignoni and Zipursky 1997 ; Neufeld et al. 1998 ). Larvae were staged from hatching and raised at a density of 50 per vial at 25°C. Third instar larvae (110 h after egg deposition, AED) were heat shocked at 37°C for 2 h, and larvae were collected 7 h after heat shock (~120 h AED). Total RNA was isolated using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen) as described by manufacturer followed by RNeasy (Qiagen) clear up. cRNA targets were generated using a standard amino-allyl labeling protocol, where 30 µg each of "experimental" (dMyc;GFP: hs-FLP122; Act-GAL4, UAS-GFP; UAS-dMyc) and "reference" (GFP only :ywhs-FLP122; Act-GAL4, UAS-GFP; +) total RNAs were coupled to either Cy3 or Cy5 fluorophores. Paired labeled targets were processed on microarrays using protocols described elsewhere (Fazzio et al. 2001 ). Posthybridized arrays were scanned using a GenePix 4000 scanner (Axon Instruments). Data were generated from five independent replicates (two with one dye orientation and three with the reversed dye orientation) at 7h and 14h
Project description:CbtOE (Tim-gal4; UAS-cbtFLAG), Tim-gal4 (control for CbtOE), cbtRNAi (Tim-gal4-UAS-Dcr2-UAS-cbtIR-cbtE1) and Tim-gal4;UAS-Dcr2 (control for CbtRNAi) flies. Flies were entrained in LD (light: dark) condition for 3-4 days and harvested at six time points: ZT3, ZT7, ZT11, ZT15, ZT19, ZT23 Fly heads were collected, RNA was extracted and RNA-seq libraries were prepared as previously described (Engreitz et al., 2013)
Project description:Expression profile for hemocytes from hml-Gal4, UAS-2xEGFP larvae were compared to hemocytes from hml-Gal4, UAS-2xEGFP; UAS-Idh-R195H larvae
Project description:A 2-hour heat-shock at 37C was used to activate hs-FLP and an actin5C-FRT-stop-FRT-GAL4 transgene in larvae carrying any possible combination of the genetic elements UAS-Myc, UAS-Atu-IR, Max-/-. 48 hours later 16-27 wing imaginal discs were isolated from wandering L3 larvae and polyA-RNA was processed for sequencing.
Project description:Wild-type Drosophila melanogaster expressing nuclear GFP-KASH fusion protein in photoreceptors for cell type-specific gene expression profiling (Rh1-Gal4>UAS-GFPKASH ; Genotype = w1118;; P{w+mC=[UAS-GFP-Msp300KASH}attP2, P{ry+t7.2=rh1-GAL4}3, ry506) were raised in 12:12h light:dark cycle at 25°C. Flies were aged for 10 or 40 days post-eclosion, and eyes were harvested from male flies for global quantitative proteomic analysis. Significantly changed proteins were identified that may contribute to age-associated retinal degeneration and loss of visual function in the aging Drosophila eye.
Project description:Purpose: To compare transcriptomic changes in 3rd instar larval eye discs following sev-GAL4 driven down- or up- regulation of hsrω lncRNAs. Method: Eye disc total RNA profiles of wandering late third instar larvae of sev-GAL4>UAS-GFP, sev-GAL4>UAS-hsrωRNAi, sev-GAL4>EP3037 were generated by sequencing, in duplicate, using Illumina Hiseq2500 platform using 50bp pair-end reads, 6 samples per lane and each sample run across 2 lanes. This resulted in a sequencing depth of ~20 million reads. The resulting sequencing FastQ files were mapped to the Drosophila genome (dm6) using Tophat with Bowtie. The aligned SAM/BAM file for each was processed for guided transcript assembly using Cufflink 2.1.1 and gene counts were determined. Mapped reads were assembled using Cufflinks. Transcripts from all samples were subjected to Cuffmerge to get final transcriptome assembly across samples. In order to ascertain differential expression of gene transcripts between different samples, Cuffdiff 2.1.1 was used (Trapnell et al., 2012). Result: Using an optimized data analysis workflow, we mapped about 20 million sequence reads per sample to the Drosophila genome (dm6) and identified 15,905 transcripts with TopHat workflow in each genotypes studied. The sev-GAL4 driven expression of RNAi for hsromega gene transcripts in eye discs resulted in differential expression of many genes, with 409 genes being down-regulated and 100 up-regulated, when compared with those in sev-GAL4>UAS-GFP eye discs. Compared to control eye discs in case of up regulation of hsrω RNA, 66 gene were up-regulated while 635 were down-regulated. Some of these (11 genes) were validated using qRT-PCR. Conclusion: Analysis of RNA-seq data revealed that a large proportion of transcripts were indeed similarly affected by down- or up-regulation of hsrω RNA in normal as well as activated Ras expression background. A comparison of transcriptomes of sev-GAL4>hsrωRNAi and sev-GAL4>EP3037 eye discs revealed that in each case the number of genes down regulated was more than those up-regulated. Interestingly, while 319 genes were commonly down regulated and 15 were commonly up-regulated in the two genotypes, only 2 genes showed opposing trends between sev-GAL4>UAS-hsrωRNAi and sev-GAL4>EP3037 eye discs.
Project description:The outcome of Notch proliferation on proliferation depends on the context. In Drosophila wing imaginal discs Notch activation causes hyperplasia despite having localized inhibitory effects on proliferation. To understand te underlying mechanisms we have used genomic strategies to identify the Notch-Su(H) target genes during wing discs hyperplasis. these data are the results from expression profiling the RNAs from hyperplastic wing discs overexpressing Nicd. Direct comparison of third instar lavae wing imaginal disc Nicd (abxUbxFLPase; Act>y>Gal4, UAS GFP; FRT82B tubGal80 with UAS-Nicd; FRT82B) vs control (abxUbxFLPase; Act>y>Gal4, UAS GFP; FRT82B tubGal80 with FRT82B ). 4 Biological replicates, the 2nd replicate was performed as a dye-swap.
Project description:The yeast transcription factor GAL4 has been reported to cause cell death and to have other biological effects when expressed in Drosophila (Kramer and Staveley, 2003: Genet. Mol. Res. 2, 43; Rezaval et al., 2007: Eur. J. Neurosci. 25, 683). Using heat-shock-induced expression of GAL4 to drive expression of a UAS-senseless responder gene in transcriptional profiling experiments, we found that the underlying cause of these effects might be a genomic response to GAL4. To further characterize this response and to account for GAL4-independent changes caused by the transgene integration, GAL4 was expressed from two copies of the transgene in two independent lines, P{GAL4-Hsp70.PB}89-2-1 (short P{hs-GAL4}89) and P{hs-GAL4}X1. In addition, GAL4 was expressed from only one copy of the transgene in P{hs-GAL4}89 prepupae to account for the dosage dependence of observed effects. Prepupae carrying the hs-GAL4 transgenes were subjected to a 30-min heat shock treatment (37 °C) at 9 hours after puparium formation. RNA was isolated from salivary glands dissected from these and similarly treated w1118 control animals at 14 hours after puparium formation and subjected to microarray analysis with Affymetrix GeneChips. The microarray data identified an overlapping set of 1,009 genes that showed an at least 1.5-fold change in expression in both of the GAL4-expressing lines, defining a core set of GAL4-responsive genes in the salivary glands. This set includes genes involved in the control and execution of programmed cell death and in other important regulatory pathways. Keywords: ectopic expression experiment
Project description:RNA was isolated from Upf225G/Y; Btl-GAL4, UAS-GFP/+ and y w FRT19A/ Y; Btl-GAL4, UAS-GFP/+ L3 larvae using Trizol as described in Materials and Methods, cDNA labeled with Cy3 or Cy5 was prepared from each RNA sample and hybridized to microarrays containing ~14,000 gene probes covering the entire Drosophila genome (Gerber et al. 2006). Hybridizations were performed with two independently isolated and labeled RNA samples. Analysis was carried out using the Stanford Microarray Database (http://genome-www5.stanford.edu/ ). During analysis we noted that the Upf225G mutants were delayed in development. To avoid confounding effects of changes in gene expression that result from developmental regulation rather than more direct effects of Upf2 loss of function, we used the available wild- type developmental gene expression time course (Arbeitman et al. 2002) to filter out genes whose transcription changes more than 25% from their maximal value during 72-96 hrs of larval development. The wild-type data set includes ~33% of genes, and we used just this subset for our analysis. Furthermore, the wild-type data set is for mixed sex populations, while our microarray was performed only on males. To compensate for sex differences, we also excluded from analysis genes that differed between males and females by more than 50% based on data from male and female larvae (E. Johnson and M.A.K., unpublished). Our analysis of genes regulated by NMD is therefore conservative, covering only non-developmentally regulated and non-sex regulated genes whose expression was affected by a hypomorphic Upf2 allele, and thus provides only a lower estimate on genes regulated by NMD. Set of arrays organized by shared biological context, such as organism, tumors types, processes, etc. Keywords: Logical Set
Project description:Control (+/cbtE1-UAS-cbt RNAi) or cabut RNAi flies (Tim-gal4, UAS-cbt RNAi) were starved for 16 hours and then exposed to food containing different concentrations of sucrose: 0, 25, 50 and 100 % for 18 hours. Fly heads were collected, RNA was extracted and RNA-seq libraries were prepared as previously described (Engreitz et al., 2013)