Project description:adt12-01_uprt - plant rabt n°1 - Impact of RNA labeling by Plant RABT on plant transcriptome - Determine the incidence of RNA marking by the RABT method Plantation on the plants transcriptome. In several studies Clearly et al. have described a method referred as "4TU tagging" which can be use to study mRNA synthesis and decay either in a mixed population of cells or in a specific cell type (Cleary, Meiering et al. 2005, Zeiner, Cleary et al. 2008, Miller, Robinson et al. 2009, Rabani et al., 2011). Through the specific cell type expression in drosophila and mammalian cells of theToxoplasma gondii uracil PhosphoribosylTransferase activity and the metabolization of the uracil analog 4-thiouracil (4 TU), mRNA were selectively tagged, purified and used in microarray based analysis.
Project description:Glycine max was cultivated in China for nearly 5000 years, commonly referred to as soybeans, now it has become one of the important economic crops in the world (Li et al., 2008). Post-translational modifications are known to regulate many cellular processes, which are dynamic and reversible and can make protein functions changed.(Westermann and Weber, 2003). To date, among 400 PTMs have been detected, such as Acetylation, Ubiquitination, Phosphorylation, Malonylation, Succinylation and Methylation(Colak et al., 2013; Weinert et al., 2013).
Project description:The aim of this study was to use NGS RNAseq deep-sequencing in order to characterize the polyadenylated mRNAs and lncRNAs expressed in LNCaP cells treated with androgen hormone compared with untreated LNCaP cells (GSE79301). Trimmed reads were mapped using the hg19 genome with TopHat v.2.0.12 and Bowtie v.2.2.3. The assembly was guided by a custom GTF file created with transcripts fromhuman lncRNA annotations from GENCODE v19 (Harrow, Frankish et al.2012) and those already annotated as lincRNAs in (Cabili, Trapnell et al. 2011; Prensner, Iyer et al. 2011; Hangauer, Vaughn et al. 2013). The diferencial expression was calculated by the sum of exon read count per gene with HTSeq (Anders, Pyl et al. 2015), followed by a DESeq2 analysis (Love, Huber et al. 2014).
Project description:Histone modifications are now well-established regulators of transcriptional programs that distinguish distinct cell states. However, the kinetics of histone modification and their role in mediating rapid, signal-responsive changes in gene expression have been little studied on a genome-wide scale. Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF), a major regulator of angiogenesis, rapidly triggers changes in transcriptional activity of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Here we used chromatin immunoprecipitation and high throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq) to measure genome-wide changes in histone H3 acetylation at lysine 27 (H3K27ac), a marker of active enhancers {Kharchenko et al., 2011, Nature, 471, 480-5;Zentner et al., 2011, Genome Res, 21, 1273-83;Rada-Iglesias et al., 2011, Nature, 470, 279-83; Creyghton et al., 2010, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107, 21931-6 }, after 0, 1, 4, and 12 hours of VEGF stimulation. We show that sites with greatest H3K27ac changes were associated tightly with p300, a histone acetyltransferase. This dynamic H3K27ac signature defined transcriptional elements that are functionally linked to angiogenesis, participate in rapid VEGF-stimulated changes in chromatin conformation, and mediate VEGF-induced transcriptional responses. Dynamic H3K27ac deposition required p300 activity and did not involve altered nucleosome occupancy. Our results demonstrate that capture of dynamic changes in H3K27ac provides a new approach to define the activity of functional genomic elements and implicate epigenetic modifications in rapid signal-responsive transcriptional regulation.
Project description:Maslinic acid is a novel phytochemical reported to exert prominent anti-cancer effects and it was hypothesized that this compound induces cellular apoptosis through the activation of the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway (Martin et al, 2007) — thereby resulting in significant inhibition of cell proliferation in a dose-dependent manner (Reyes-Zurita et al, 2009). Prior studies on maslinic acid in its function as a time-dependent inhibitor in both tumorigenesis and inflammation events by targeting multiple signaling pathways; particularly the NF-ĸB, MAPK (Li et al, 2010; Yap, et al, 2011) and JNK (Reyes-Zurita et al, 2011) pathways were mostly based on proteomic analyses (Li et al, 2010; Yap et. al., 2011). However, these results may not depict an accurate scenario of the signaling networks involved due to protein degradation, alternate splicing and extensive post-translational processing. Hence, this study aimed to construct a temporal-based global gene expression profile of the effects of maslinic acid by using the microarray technology. The aim of this project is to construct the complete global mRNA profile of the effects of maslinic acid in inhibiting early-antigen formation in Raji cells.
Project description:The TNF superfamily is large, including TNF ligands (n = 19) and TNF receptors (n = 29),as determined following the completion of large-scale sequencing of the human and mouse genomes. These members not only function in immune cells but are also involved in respiratory and intestinal diseases, and some members may act as a double-edged sword. Tumor necrosis factor-like cytokine 1A (TL1A, also known as TNFSF15) is the only known death receptor 3 (DR3, also known as TNFRSF25) ligand (Meylan et al., 2011). The TL1A/DR3 axis plays a role in the regulation of intestinal immunity and fibrosis (Valatas et al., 2019), asthma airway remodeling (Zhang et al., 2022; Herro et al., 2010), and other autoimmune and inflammatory diseases (Herro et al., 2021), exacerbating disease progression. However, some researchers have proposed that the TL1A/DR3 axis has a protective role in some disease models. A novel role for TL1A/DR3 in protection against intestinal injury was reported by Jia et al (Jia et al., 2016). Yang et al. revealed a protective effect of TL1A against intracerebral hemorrhage-induced secondary brain injury and infection (Yang et al., 2021). In addition, TL1A maintains the blood–retinal barrier by modulating SHP-1-Src-VE-cadherin signaling in diabetic retinopathy, as verified by Li et al (Li et al., 2021). However, the role of TL1A/DR3 in ARDS has not been explored.
Project description:Drosophila melanogaster larvae reared on isocaloric diets with different protein/sugar ratios, exhibit different developmental times and the eclosed adults show different metabolite pools of glycogen and triglycerides (Matzkin et al., 2011, PMID: 21525254). To investigate the effect of larval diet on adult neurological processes at the gene expression level we performed high throughout RNA sequencing of fly heads reared in two different protein/sugar ratio diets.