Project description:BAC pool DNA hybridisation of barley to 44k Agilent microarrays. We have used two-channel Agilent expression microarrays to address thousands of gene sequences to individual BAC clones and contigs that form part of an emerging physical map of the large and unsequenced 5300 Mbp barley genome. By using two-colour processing, each array allows simultaneous co-hybridization of two independent BAC pools (SP), for which the data is analysed separately. As a general approach the method represents a cost-effective, highly parallel alternative to traditional gene-to-BAC addressing methods. By coupling the BAC address-data with gene-based genetic maps we were able to anchor thousands of BACs to the barley genetic map.
Project description:To improve our understanding of the organization and evolution of the wheat gene space, we established the first map of genes of the wheat chromosome 1BS by hybridizing the newly developed INRA GDEC Triticum aestivum NimbleGen 12x40k unigenes microarray (A-MEXP-2314) with 3D-pools of MTP BACs of from the 1BS physical map. By hybridizing the BAC pools with the wheat NimbleGen 40K unigenes chip we managed to map almost 1063 unigenes on the wheat chromosome 1BS BACs. By comparison with 454 sequences and Illumina survey sequence contigs from the sorted chromosome 1BS, we confirmed the assignation of 849 unigenes in individual BACs from the chromosome 1BS. This data allowed us to study the organization of the wheat gene space along chromosome 1BS. The sequences of the unigenes helped to perform synteny and evolutionary analyses of these unigenes. DNA from MTP clones were pooled into 3D manner: library of MTP clones was stored in 17 plates of 384 wells (24 columns x 16 rows); plate1 pool consist of mixture of DNA from all MTP clones situated in plate 1, Row A pool consist of mixture of DNA from all MTP clones situated in Rows A (from all 17 plates, etc). The set of positive plate, column and row pools for the unigene (represented in microarray) allow to detect the list of putative positive clones (clones from the intersection of positive pools, cleaned using information on physical intersection clones based on clone fingerprints). Hence, all 57 experiments (17 for plate pools, 24 for column pools, and 16 for row pools) have the same experimental factor.
Project description:High resolution BAC array used to study changes in the copy number of chromosome 21 in Acute Meyloid Leukemia patients Genomic DNA from patients as well as from normal donors were differentially labelled and hybridized on the array 36 RPCI-11 BAC clones covering the q-arm of chromosome21 from position15.1MB(close to the centromere)to the telomeric position 46.9 MB with an average gap between clones of 800 kb (range 346-1593 kb)In addition 23 randomly selected clones, each representing 1 of the remaining chromosomes1-20,22,X and YPositions of genes and BAC clones were determined according to the NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview) 59 BAC clones spotted in 6 replicas for a total 354 spots on GAPII corning glass slides using Affymetrix GMS417 Affymetrix Arrayer with 4-ring&pin configuration. (Affymetrix,Santa Clara, CA). Purified clones spotted in 50%DMSO DNA Isolation of these clones was performed from bacterial culture (250ml) using Qiagen midi kit (Qiagen, Valencia CA) gDNA from AML patients and healthy controls was extracted and labelleb according to the published protocol by JR Pollack in Nature Genetics vol.23 Sep.99, also available http://cmgm.stanford.edu/pbrown/protocols/4_genomic.html Fluorescence intensity ratios were measured in control experiments (reference versus reference hybridization) to weight DNA Amplification or deletion Fluorescence ratio >1 indicates amplification, Fluorescence ratio <1 indicate deletion Mean of the background corrected pixel-by-pixel fluorescence ratio between the two dyes at each spot was obtained by genePix software. Series_platform_id: my_array13 Series_submitter weblink: www.dnaarrays.org Keywords: other
Project description:To improve our understanding of the organization and evolution of the wheat gene space, we established the first map of genes of the wheat chromosome 1BL by hybridizing the newly developed INRA GDEC Triticum aestivum NimbleGen 12x40k unigenes microarray (A-MEXP-2314) with BAC pools from the 1BL physical map as well as with genomic DNA of the sorted chromosome 1BL. By hybridizing the BAC pools with the wheat NimbleGen 40K unigenes chip we managed to map almost 1615 unigenes on the wheat chromosome 1BL BACs. By hybridizing the genomic DNA of the 1BL sorted chromosome and by comparison with 454 sequences from the sorted chromosome 1BL, we confirmed the assignation of 1223 unigenes in individual BACs from the chromosome 1BL. This data allowed us to study the organization of the wheat gene space along chromosome 1BL. The sequences of the unigenes helped to perform synteny and evolutionary analyses of these unigenes.
Project description:High resolution BAC array used to study changes in the copy number of chromosome 21 in Acute Meyloid Leukemia patients Genomic DNA from patients as well as from normal donors were differentially labelled and hybridized on the array 36 RPCI-11 BAC clones covering the q-arm of chromosome21 from position15.1MB(close to the centromere)to the telomeric position 46.9 MB with an average gap between clones of 800 kb (range 346-1593 kb)In addition 23 randomly selected clones, each representing 1 of the remaining chromosomes1-20,22,X and YPositions of genes and BAC clones were determined according to the NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview) 59 BAC clones spotted in 6 replicas for a total 354 spots on GAPII corning glass slides using Affymetrix GMS417 Affymetrix Arrayer with 4-ring&pin configuration. (Affymetrix,Santa Clara, CA). Purified clones spotted in 50%DMSO DNA Isolation of these clones was performed from bacterial culture (250ml) using Qiagen midi kit (Qiagen, Valencia CA) gDNA from AML patients and healthy controls was extracted and labelleb according to the published protocol by JR Pollack in Nature Genetics vol.23 Sep.99, also available http://cmgm.stanford.edu/pbrown/protocols/4_genomic.html Fluorescence intensity ratios were measured in control experiments (reference versus reference hybridization) to weight DNA Amplification or deletion Fluorescence ratio >1 indicates amplification, Fluorescence ratio <1 indicate deletion Mean of the background corrected pixel-by-pixel fluorescence ratio between the two dyes at each spot was obtained by genePix software. Series_platform_id: my_array13 Series_submitter weblink: www.dnaarrays.org
Project description:To obtain further insights into the role of bacterial activity in BAC filter performance, the expressed proteins of the bacterial community residing in the BAC filter were identified by a metaproteomic approach.
Project description:P. aeruginosa is the leading cause of death in patients with cystic fibrosis patients and one of the most problematic bacterial pathogens responsible for hospital-acquired infections. This pathogen has a high capacity to form biofilms on inert and living surfaces. This lifestyle allows it to persist in various hospital niches or on medical device which become vectors of contamination. Chronic infections are extremely complicated to eradicate due to the remarkable antimicrobial resistance of biofilms leading to a persistence in the tissue and an immune system exhaustion. It is therefore becoming essential to understand the mechanisms of biofilm formation to find new therapeutic targets in order to develop effective antibiofilm strategies. We previously identified in P. aeruginosa PA01 biofilms an accumulation of a hypothetical protein named PA3731 and its deletion impacted the biofilm formation. Similarly, to PspA, a protein from the well-known Psp system of E. coli, PA3731 is a has a predicted structure mostly helical, a PspA/IM30 domain and was accumulated during an osmotic shock. In P. aeruginosa genome, PA3731 appears to form a cluster with 3 genes (PA3732 to PA3729) that we named BAC system for “Biofilm Associated Cluster”. Here we worked on the PA14 strain and focus our study on PA14_16140, the PA3732 homologue. Using a ∆16140 mutant and phenotypic approach, we confirmed the role of the BAC system in the virulence and biofilm formation. We added supplementary genes coding the BAC system and demonstrate that altogether they form an operonic structure regulates by RpoN. We get further insight the role PA14_16140 by proteomic quantitative approach revealing an accumulation of the BAC system proteins in ∆16140 biofilms suggesting its regulatory role of the bac operon. Moreover, we present here the first crystallographic structure of PA14_16140. To summarise, according to our studies, and although further analysis is still required, this newly discovered operon appears composed firstly of its regulator and then of a homologous PspA.