Project description:Hypoxia inducible transcription factor HIF is the master regulator of hypoxia response in metazoans. The stability and activity of HIF are tightly regulated. In the model organism C. elegans, the homolog of HIF is HIF-1. The stability and activity of HIF-1 are negatively regulated by vhl-1, egl-9, rhy-1 and swan-1 when HIF-1 is stabilized by vhl-1 mutation. Here, we are using Affymetrix microarray to measure the immediate gene expression changes under short-term hypoxia treatment (2 hours of 0.5% oxygen treatment). We also want to understand whether the HIF-1 acvitity negative regulators function in common pathway(s) to regulate HIF-1 activity or not. We find that gene expression patterns in these HIF-1 activity negative regulator mutants are extraordinarily similar, which supports the model that they function in common pathway(s) to regulate HIF-1 activity.
Project description:Our study focuses in undersatnding the chromatin-associated function of the c. elegans IKB homologues nfki-1 and ikb-1. We this objective, we have generated different worm mutant strains and then analyzed by ChIP-seq possible changes in H3K36me3 and H3K27me3 marks in the WT , nfki-1, ikb-1 and double c elegans mutants.
Project description:We used RNA-seq to identify gene expression changes in C. elegans pals-22 mutants, pals-22 pals-25 double mutants, and pals-25 mutants
Project description:The WDR-23 protein regulates the transcription factor SKN-1 directly. C. elegans wdr-23 mutants have highly active SKN-1 and are stress resistant, long-lived, small, and reproduce poorly. We used microarrays to measure global gene expression in wdr-23 mutants and to indentify genes regulated by SKN-1.