Project description:Metagenomic analysis of viruses in toilet waste from long distance flights – A new procedure for global infectious disease surveillance
Project description:Here we show that regions of the honeybee brain involved in visual processing and learning and memory show a genomic response to distance information. Using a method that separates effects of perceived distance from effects of actual distance flown, we found that individuals forced to shift from a short to a perceived long distance to reach a feeding site showed differences in gene expression in the optic lobes and mushroom bodies relative to individuals that continued to perceive flying a short distance.
Project description:In plants, the genomic structure of hybrids changed compared with their parents. However, the effects of genomic structure changes on heterotic expression in hybrids remain elusive. By comparing interspecific hybrids between Col×C24 and their backcross C24×Col in Arabidopsis with Hi-C analysis, we found that the three-dimensional (3D) chromatin organization had more long-distance interactions relative to parents. The compartment strength related to the increased A-B compartment interactions decreased in hybrids. In the boundaries of topologically associated domains (TADs) like regions in hybrids, the values of Interchromosomal Fraction of Interactions (ICF) and Distal-to-Local [log2] (DLR) were higher than or close to the highest value of their parents. While in the hybrids of CURLY LEAF (clf) mutants, which affects the long-distance interactions, the heterosis phenotype disappeared and the ICF and DLR in hybrids were lower than their parents. In addition, compared with the clf mutant, the differential expressed genes located in TAD boundaries and loop regions in the wild type changed more obviously. In the long-distance interaction and the loop region between WT and clf, there were obvious differences in the functional enrichment for DEGs. The genes with cell cycle and mitotic related process were specifically enriched in clf. By analyzing ChIP-seq data, we found that the enrichment of H3K27me3 were higher in the hybrids in WT, which may lead to more long-distance interactions. Our findings may therefore propose a new epigenetic explanation of the heterotic expression in Arabidopsis hybrids and provide new insights into crop breeding and yield increasing.
Project description:In plants, the genomic structure of hybrids changed compared with their parents. However, the effects of genomic structure changes on heterotic expression in hybrids remain elusive. By comparing interspecific hybrids between Col×C24 and their backcross C24×Col in Arabidopsis with Hi-C analysis, we found that the three-dimensional (3D) chromatin organization had more long-distance interactions relative to parents. The compartment strength related to the increased A-B compartment interactions decreased in hybrids. In the boundaries of topologically associated domains (TADs) like regions in hybrids, the values of Interchromosomal Fraction of Interactions (ICF) and Distal-to-Local [log2] (DLR) were higher than or close to the highest value of their parents. While in the hybrids of CURLY LEAF (clf) mutants, which affects the long-distance interactions, the heterosis phenotype disappeared and the ICF and DLR in hybrids were lower than their parents. In addition, compared with the clf mutant, the differential expressed genes located in TAD boundaries and loop regions in the wild type changed more obviously. In the long-distance interaction and the loop region between WT and clf, there were obvious differences in the functional enrichment for DEGs. The genes with cell cycle and mitotic related process were specifically enriched in clf. By analyzing ChIP-seq data, we found that the enrichment of H3K27me3 were higher in the hybrids in WT, which may lead to more long-distance interactions. Our findings may therefore propose a new epigenetic explanation of the heterotic expression in Arabidopsis hybrids and provide new insights into crop breeding and yield increasing.
Project description:We applied a meta-analysis of datasets from seven different microarray studies on lung cancer for differentially expressed genes related to survival time (under 2 y and over 5 y). Systematic bias adjustment in the datasets was performed by distance-weighted discrimination (DWD). We identified a gene expression signature consisting of 64 genes that is highly predictive of which stage I lung cancer patients may benefit from more aggressive therapy. Keywords: disease state analysis
Project description:We applied a meta-analysis of datasets from seven different microarray studies on lung cancer for differentially expressed genes related to survival time (under 2 y and over 5 y). Systematic bias adjustment in the datasets was performed by distance-weighted discrimination (DWD). We identified a gene expression signature consisting of 64 genes that is highly predictive of which stage I lung cancer patients may benefit from more aggressive therapy. Experiment Overall Design: RNA was extracted from frozen tissue of primary stage I Non-Small Cell lung tumors for gene array analysis
Project description:We describe here a sensitive and novel method of identifying endogenous DNA-DNA interactions. Capture of Associated Targets on CHromatin (CATCH) uses efficient capture and enrichment of specific genomic loci of interest through hybridization and subsequent purification via complementary biotinylated oligonucleotide. The CATCH assay requires no enzymatic digestion or ligation, requires little starting material, provides high quality data, has excellent reproducibility and is completed in less than 24 hours. Efficacy is demonstrated through capture of three disparate loci, which demonstrate unique subsets of long-distance chromatin interactions enriched for both enhancer marks and estrogen receptor binding sites. In each experiment, CATCH-seq peaks representing long-distance chromatin interactions were centered near the TSS of genes, and critically, the genes identified as physically interacting are shown to be transcriptionally co-expressed. These interactions could potentially create transcriptional hubs for the regulation of gene expression programs.
Project description:By 4C-seq protocol we investigated DNA contacts across the genome by the FLC gene in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana in order to explore a potential role of long-distance chromosomal interactions in the regulation of flowering.