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2021-06-01 | E-MTAB-9439 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are cyanobacteria-dominated microbial communities that cover extensive portions of the world’s arid and semi-arid deserts. The infrequent periods of hydration are often too short to allow for dormancy strategies based on sporulation; consequently, survival is based on the unique capabilities of vegetative cells to resuscitate from and re-enter a stress resistant dormant state, one of which is migration within the crust layers in response to hydration. In this study, we sought to characterize the events that govern the emergence of the dominant cyanobacterium from dormancy, its subsequent growth, and the events triggered by re-desiccation and a transition back to dormant state. We performed a 48 hour laboratory wetting experiment of a desert BSC and tracked the response of Microcoleus vaginatus using a whole genome transcriptional time-course including night/day periods. This allowed the identification of genes with a diel expression pattern, genes involved uniquely in the signaling after hydration and those that contribute primarily to desiccation preparation. Desert BSC samples collected from Moab, UT, were hydrated over a period of 48 hours followed by drying induced by removal of water. At periodic times soil samples were harvested and used for RNA extraction and whole genome expression analysis using an expression array representing genes from two strains of M. vaginatus (PCC 9802 and FGP-2)
2012-10-30 | E-GEOD-40188 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Gene deserts spanning more than 500kb of non-protein coding genomic sequence are considered evolutionarily ancient and stable and are enriched in the vicinity of developmental regulator genes (Ovcharenko 2005). These extensive genomic regions typically harbor numerous conserved elements with predicted gene regulatory potential pointing to critical tissue-specific functions during development. Nevertheless, the biological necessity and underlying funtional enhancer landscapes of most gene deserts near developmental transcription factors (TFs) remain unknown, and it is unclear how precise pleiotropic expression patterns emerge from gene desert sequence. Here, we investigated the cis-regulatory architecture and function of a gene desert flanking the mouse Shox2 transcriptional regulator which itself is essential for embryonic limb, craniofacial, and cardiac pacemaker development. By combining epigenomic enhancer prediction, transgenic reporter validation and region-specific chromatin capture (C-HiC), we define the embryonic in vivo enhancer landscape and chromatin topology of the Shox2 gene desert. Targeted and context-specific genomic deletions uncover the gene desert not only as a regulator of embryonic survival through enhancer-mediated control of cardiac Shox2 expression, but also link distinct subsets of tissue-specific gene desert enhancers to the regulation of craniofacial patterning and proximal limb development. Our results hence identify the Shox2 gene desert as a fundamental genomic unit indispensable for pleiotropic patterning, robust organ morphogenesis and embryonic development progression by serving as a dynamic hub for tissue-specific developmental enhancers.
2024-06-01 | GSE232883 | GEO
Project description:Gene deserts spanning more than 500kb of non-protein coding genomic sequence are considered evolutionarily ancient and stable and are enriched in the vicinity of developmental regulator genes (Ovcharenko 2005). These extensive genomic regions typically harbor numerous conserved elements with predicted gene regulatory potential pointing to critical tissue-specific functions during development. Nevertheless, the biological necessity and underlying funtional enhancer landscapes of most gene deserts near developmental transcription factors (TFs) remain unknown, and it is unclear how precise pleiotropic expression patterns emerge from gene desert sequence. Here, we investigated the cis-regulatory architecture and function of a gene desert flanking the mouse Shox2 transcriptional regulator which itself is essential for embryonic limb, craniofacial, and cardiac pacemaker development. By combining epigenomic enhancer prediction, transgenic reporter validation and region-specific chromatin capture (C-HiC), we define the embryonic in vivo enhancer landscape and chromatin topology of the Shox2 gene desert. Targeted and context-specific genomic deletions uncover the gene desert not only as a regulator of embryonic survival through enhancer-mediated control of cardiac Shox2 expression, but also link distinct subsets of tissue-specific gene desert enhancers to the regulation of craniofacial patterning and proximal limb development. Our results hence identify the Shox2 gene desert as a fundamental genomic unit indispensable for pleiotropic patterning, robust organ morphogenesis and embryonic development progression by serving as a dynamic hub for tissue-specific developmental enhancers.
2024-06-01 | GSE232882 | GEO