ABSTRACT: The RIKEN Mouse Gene Encyclopedia Project involves sequencing full-length complementary DNAs and the physical mapping of them to the mouse genome
Project description:We used complementary DNA microarray to analyze the gene expression profiles different between Moniezia expansa and Moniezia benedini. A total of 4056 sequences including full length and partial complementary DNAs representing novel, known, and control genes were analyzed. We utilized cDNA array for detection of gene expression profiles of different proglottids of M.expansa and M.benedini. The present study provides some interesting data that only expressed in M.expansa
Project description:We used complementary DNA microarray to analyze the gene expression profiles different between Moniezia expansa and Moniezia benedini. A total of 4056 sequences including full length and partial complementary DNAs representing novel, known, and control genes were analyzed. We utilized cDNA array for detection of gene expression profiles of different proglottids of M.expansa and M.benedini. The present study provides some interesting data that only expressed in M.expansa mature proglottids, immature proglottids, gravid proglottids of M.benedini vs common reference scolex-neck proglottids tissue of M.expansa. 2 biological replicates for each experiments.
Project description:This project consists of two experiments. The first is mapping the binding interface between the isolated m-lip domain of mouse lipin and liposomes. The second experiments is mapping the binding interface between full length mouse lipin and liposomes. Looking at the isolated m-lip domain, we found that residues 470-490 and 500-550 showed decreases in exchange upon liposome binding. The full-length lipin experiment saw decreases in exchnage in these same regions, as well as in the very C-terminus and very N-terminus regions of the protein. An order-disorder experiment was done on full length lipin where the protein was exposed to a short pulse of deuterium and compared to the fully-deuterated protein. In this instance, we established that the majority of the protein is relatively disordered and does not have secondary structure with high stability
Project description:The huge size, the redundancy and the great repeated portion of the bread wheat genome [Triticum aestivum (L.)], placed it among the most difficult species to be sequenced and dissected at the genetic, structural and evolutionary levels. To overcome the limitations, a strategy based on the genome compartmentalization in individual chromosomes and the subsequent production of physical maps was established within the frame of the International Wheat Genome Sequence Consortium. A total of 95,812 BAC clones of short (5AS) and long (5AL) arm-specific BAC libraries, were fingerprinted and assembled into contigs by complementary analytical approaches based on FingerPrinted Contigs and Linear Topological Contig. Combined anchoring approaches based on PCR marker screening, microarray and BlastN searches, applied to interlinked genomic tools, that is genetic maps, deletion bin map, high-density neighbor map, BAC end sequences, genome zipper and chromosome survey sequences, allowed the development of a high quality physical map, with an anchored physical coverage of 75% for 5AS and 53% for 5AL, with high portions (64 and 48%, respectively) ordered along the chromosome. The gene distribution along the wheat chromosome 5A compared with the closest related genomes showed a pattern of syntenic blocks belonging to different chromosomes of Brachypodium, rice and sorghum and regions involving translocations and inversions. The physical map presented here is currently the most comprehensive map for 5A chromosome and represents an essential resource for fine genetic mapping and map-based cloning of agronomically relevant traits, and a reference for the 5A sequencing projects. 55 DNA pools of short arm of chromsome 5A and 63 DNA pools of long arm of 5A. The DNAs derive from BAC clones of the Minimal Tiling Paths produced by physical assemly of BAC fingerprints.
Project description:The remarkable success observed in using genome-wide association (GWA) mapping in human cohorts to identify multiple genes linked to a wide number of traits related to complex diseases has renewed interest in applying genome-wide association mapping techniques to model organisms such as inbred laboratory mice. However, unlike humans, the limited genetic diversity present in the ancestry of laboratory mice combined with intense selection pressure over the past decades have yielded an intricate population structure within the genomes of laboratory mouse that could potentially complicate the results obtained from such a study. We sought to empirically assess the viability of genome-wide association studies in inbred mice using hundreds of expression traits where the true location of the eQTL is known a priori. Using data from a previously published experimental mouse cross (C57BL/6J x C3H/HeJ), we selected over a thousand of the strongest cis-acting expression QTLs and measured transcript abundance levels of the associated expression traits in 16 classical and 3 wild-derived inbred strains. We next perform a genome-wide association scan demonstrating the low statistical power of such studies and show empirically the large extent to which high allelic association gives rise to spurious associations. Moreover, we provide evidence illustrating that in a large fraction of cases, the marker with the most significant p-values fails to map to the location of the true eQTL; hence, as a result, selecting the most significant marker may lead to spurious findings. Finally, we demonstrate that combining linkage analysis with association mapping provides significant increases in statistical power over a stand-alone GWA study as well as significantly higher mapping resolution than either study alone. RNA preparation and array hybridizations were performed at Rosetta Inpharmatics. The custom ink-jet microarrays were manufactured by Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, CA). A custom array was designed for this study and consisted of 39,280 non-control oligonuceotides extracted from the mouse Unigene clusters and combined with RefSeq sequences and RIKEN full-length cDNA clones. Mouse liver tissues were homogenized and total RNA extracted using Trizol reagent (Invitrogen, CA) according to manufacturer’s protocol. Three µg of total RNA was reverse transcribed and labeled with either Cy3 or Cy5 fluorochrome. Labeled complementary RNA (cRNA) from each animal was hybridized against a cross-specific pool of labeled cRNAs constructed from equal aliquots of RNA from representative animals for each strain. The hybridizations were performed in fluor reversal for 24 hours in a hybridization chamber, washed, and scanned using a confocal laser scanner. Arrays were quantified on the basis of spot intensity relative to background, adjusted for experimental variation between arrays using average intensity over multiple channels, and fitted to a previously described error model to determine significance23 (type I error).