ABSTRACT: RNA-seq was performed of S. cerevisiae harboring human chr7 YACs in order to gauge the frequency and form of transcription in naïve DNA (i.e. DNA that did not evolve in the host cell)
Project description:Imprinted genes are monoallelically expressed according to parental inheritance. The maternally and paternally inherited alleles are distinguished epigenetically by DNA methylation and histone modifications. Chromosome-wide Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and MIRA analysis of MatDup.dist7 and PatDup.dist7 MEFs provided a panoramic map of reciprocal allele-specific histone modifications and DNA methylation at imprinted genes along distal chromosome 7 and 15. ChIP-chip and MIRA-chip was done to map histone modifications and DNA methylation along distal chr7 in the maternal allele and paternal allele in Matdup.dist7 and Patdup.dist7 MEFs, respectively, using Nimblegen tiling arrays for distal chr7.
Project description:Imprinted genes are monoallelically expressed according to parental inheritance. The maternally and paternally inherited alleles are distinguished epigenetically by DNA methylation and histone modifications. Chromosome-wide Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and MIRA analysis of MatDup.dist7 and PatDup.dist7 MEFs provided a panoramic map of reciprocal allele-specific histone modifications and DNA methylation at imprinted genes along distal chromosome 7 and 15. ChIP-chip and MIRA-chip was done to map histone modifications and DNA methylation along central chr7 in the maternal allele and paternal allele in Matdup.dist7 and Patdup.dist7 MEFs, respectively, using Nimblegen tiling arrays for central chr7.
Project description:Mapping deletions of Chr7 in human iPSC and ESCs derived from patients cells through reprogramming or chromosome engineering Two-condition experiment, normal diploid hPSCs vs del7q-hPSCs
Project description:Mapping deletions of Chr7 in human iPSC derived from patients cells through reprogramming Two-condition experiment, normal diploid iPSCs vs del7q-iPSCs
Project description:Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been widely used as a model system for studying physiological and pharmacological action of small-molecular drugs. Here, a heterozygous diploid S. cerevisiae strain QSS4 was generated to determine whether drugs could induce chromosomal instability by determining the frequency of mitotic recombination. In combination of a custom SNP microarray, the patterns of chromosomal instability induced by drugs could also be explored at a whole genome level in QSS4. Using this system, we found Zeocin (a member of bleomycin family) treatment resulted in hundreds-fold higher rate of genomic alterations, including aneuploidy, loss of heterozygosity (LOH), and chromosomal rearrangement.
Project description:To gain insight into the host cell types, cellular and molecular pathways possibly involved in the differential permissiveness to pulmonary replication of M. tuberculosis, we carried out transcript profiling studies on M. tuberculosis-infected lungs from congenic and parental strains. We were particularly interested in two groups of transcripts. The first group consists of transcripts which expression in the lung is regulated in response to M. tuberculosis infection (global response to infection), and that is obtained by comparing transcripts profiles of infected vs. uninfected lungs. The second group of transcripts is associated with increased resistance to M. tuberculosis infection of B6 and D2.B6-Chr7 mice. That list consists in the overlap between the lists commonly expressed in response to infection between resistant B6 and D2.B6-Chr7 but that show a significant difference in modulation when compared to infected susceptible D2.<br><br> In these experiments, B6, D2 as well as the D2.B6-Chr19, and D2.B6-Chr7 congenic lines were infected with M. tuberculosis and lungs were harvested at day 30 and day 70, and RNA was prepared. Three independent RNA samples from each group were converted to labeled cDNAs and hybridized to Affymetrix oligonucleotides arrays (Mouse Genome 430 2.0 array). Hybridization results were analyzed with the Genesifter analysis program to characterize changes in gene expression.