Project description:Single-cell RNA-sequencing was performed on the tumor microenvironment of the glioblastomas isolated from PDOX models (Golebiewska et al., Acta Neuropathologica, 2020; Oudin et al., STAR Protocols 2021). Sample names correspond to PDOX models. Normal mouse brain was used as a contol. One PDOX model was treated with temolozomide (P3TMZ).
Project description:Toal 13 patient samples (Iliac or pyramidal cancellous) were collected with lung cancer who were pathologically diagnosed in Dazhou Central Hospital from June 2020 to January 2021. Patients were monitored by a professional orthopaedic surgeon in the interventional room prior to collecting the samples. This study was approved by the ethics committee and informed consent of patients (IRB2020023). The obtained samples are quickly placed into an Eppendorf tube with PBS buffer for flushing the blood. Then, the samples were cleaned in a cell preservation solution. Finally, the cleaned samples were placed into a sterile EP tube with 2 mL cell preservation solution before being stored in a refrigerator at 4 ° C. Further, the samples with two replicates were sequenced in a 10x genomic chromium platform with a chemistry library (Single Cell 3; v3). The samples were sequenced at BGI (https://www.bgi.com).
Project description:While DNA methylation is an important gene regulatory mechanism in mammals (Razin and Riggs 1980; Moore, Le, and Fan 2013), its function in arthropods remains poorly understood. Studies in eusocial insects have argued for its role in caste development by regulating gene expression and splicing (Elango et al. 2009; Lyko et al. 2010; Bonasio et al. 2012; Flores et al. 2012; Foret et al. 2012; Li-Byarlay et al. 2013; Marshall, Lonsdale, and Mallon 2019; Shi et al. 2013)(Alvarado et al. 2015; Kucharski et al. 2008). However, such findings are not always consistent across studies, and have therefore remained controversial (Arsenault, Hunt, and Rehan 2018; Cardoso-Junior et al. 2021; Harris et al. 2019; Herb et al. 2012; Libbrecht et al. 2016; Oldroyd and Yagound 2021b; Patalano et al. 2015). Here we use CRISPR/Cas9 to mutate the maintenance DNA methyltransferase DNMT1 in the clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi. Mutants have greatly reduced DNA methylation but no obvious developmental phenotypes, demonstrating that, unlike mammals (Brown and Robertson 2007; En Li, Bestor, and Jaenisch 1992; Jackson-Grusby et al. 2001; Panning and Jaenisch 1996), ants can undergo normal development without DNMT1 or DNA methylation. Additionally, we find no evidence of DNA methylation regulating caste development. However, mutants are sterile, while in wildtypes, DNMT1 is localized to the ovaries and maternally provisioned into nascent oocytes. This supports the idea that DNMT1 plays a crucial but unknown role in the insect germline (Amukamara et al. 2020; Arsala et al. 2021; Bewick et al. 2019; Schulz et al. 2018; Ventós-Alfonso et al. 2020; Washington et al. 2020).