Project description:Transcriptional profiling of NTG-treated E. coli imp fabI(G93V) cells compared to control cells (E. coli imp fabI(G93V) ) in the absence or presence of sub-lethal concentration of triclosan.
Project description:IMP-3 Promotes Migration and Invasion of Melanoma Cells by Modulating the Expression of HMGA2 and Predicts Poor Prognosis in Melanoma
Project description:IMP-3 Promotes Migration and Invasion of Melanoma Cells by Modulating the Expression of HMGA2 and Predicts Poor Prognosis in Melanoma Two-condition experiment,MeWo/IMP-3 v.s. MeWo/vec. Biological replicates: 2 control replicates, 2 transfected replicates.
Project description:In this study, we employed a combination of RIP-seq and short- and long-wave iCLIP technologies to identify transcripts associated with cytoplasmic RNPs containing the RNA-binding protein Drosophila Imp. We also made a Imp knockdown vs luciferase control experiment.
Project description:The numerous neurons and glia that form the brain originate from tightly controlled growth and division of neural stem cells, regulated systemically by known extrinsic signals. However, the intrinsic mechanisms that control the characteristic proliferation rates of individual neural stem cells are unknown. Here, we show that the size and division rates of Drosophila neural stem cells (neuroblasts) are controlled by the highly conserved RNA binding protein Imp (IGF2BP), via one of its top binding targets in the brain, myc mRNA. We show that Imp stabilises myc mRNA leading to increased Myc protein levels, larger neuroblasts, and faster division rates. Declining Imp levels throughout development limit myc mRNA stability to restrain neuroblast growth and division, while heterogeneous Imp expression correlates with myc mRNA stability between individual neuroblasts in the brain. We propose that Imp-dependent regulation of myc mRNA stability fine-tunes individual neural stem cell proliferation rates.
Project description:To identify factors and pathways regulated by IMP proteins and obtain leads to the mechanism behind the phenotypic changes, we compared the gene expression profiles of IMP siRNA treated cells with mock treated cells. Triplicate gene expression profiles were generated from both the IMP(1,3)A and IMP(1,3)B siRNA sets and were compared to the mock transfected cells. cRNA was hybridized to Affymetrix human U133A arrays.
Project description:The temporal patterning of neural stem cells is a powerful mechanism to generate neural diversity. In Drosophila, the progression of post-embryonic neurogenesis is driven by RNA-binding proteins Imp (IGF2BP) and Syp (SYNCRIP), however how they achieve their function is not well understood, since little is known about their RNA targets in the brain. Here, we present comprehensive RNA interactomes of Imp and Syp at different time points during larval brain development. Imp and Syp target highly overlapping sets of mRNAs whose encoded proteins impact fate specification, stem cell maintenance and tumourigenesis. Within these transcripts, Imp and Syp footprints exhibit limited overlap, instead we show their binding sites have co-evolved, suggesting a combinatorial or cooperative mode of regulation rather than competitive binding. Further, we identify RNAs dynamically interacting with Imp/Syp across development, consisting of existing and potentially new candidates of the neurogenesis program, and loss of Imp or Syp disrupts expression of key transcripts denotative of early or late-born neurons. Together, our findings highlight a post-transcriptional regulatory network that influences temporal order, and our study is a valuable resource for future studies finely-dissecting molecular mechanisms of neuronal fate specifications.