Project description:We identified known and unknown transposon elements in the cells from healthy donors, FXD patients, and ALL patients by long-read RNA-sequencing. Using these identified TEs, we analyzed the expression of TE-derived genes by shot-read (illumina) RNA-sequencing. We found that expression of some specific TE-derived genes were changed in FXD compared to those in healthy donors. These findings suggested the involvement of modified expressions of TE-derived genes in the pathogenesis of FXD.
Project description:We identified known and unknown transposon elements in the cells from healthy donors, FXD patients, and ALL patients by long-read RNA-sequencing. Using these identified TEs, we analyzed the expression of TE-derived genes by shot-read (illumina) RNA-sequencing. We found that expression of some specific TE-derived genes were changed in FXD compared to those in healthy donors. These findings suggested the involvement of modified expressions of TE-derived genes in the pathogenesis of FXD.
Project description:TE-Array is a custom Agilent microarray that probes for transposable elements in both sense and antisense orientations in humans and mice. TE-Array was used to study expression levels of transposable elements (TE) in a panel of normal mouse tissues. TE-Array comprises of 4 different custom Agilent 4X44K designs. These 4 different designs have probes for human sense orientation, human antisense orientation, mouse sense orientation and mouse antisense orientation transposable elements. These array designs were used to study the transposon abundance profile in 7 different mouse tissue samples, 2 mouse cell lines and 1 transposon transfected versus untransfected human cell line.