Project description:We compared the mRNAs expression profile of HeLa cells between two phases of the mitotic cell cycle: S and G2/M phases. Results provide insight into the regulation of transcript levels during mitotic cell cycle progression. HeLa cells were synchronized with double thymidine blockade (12 hours with 2 mM thymidine, 12 hours release, and 12 hours with 2 mM thymidine), and cells were taken after 2 hours release (S phase) and 8 hours release (G2/M phase). Keywords: time course Comparison of mRNAs measured at S phase (2 hours release after double thymidine blockade) and at G2/M phase (8 hours release after double thymidine blockade); 3 biological replicates at each of the two time points; two technical replicates with dye swapping per comparison; additional comparison between G2/M (8h) and S (2h).
Project description:We compared the mRNAs expression profile of HeLa cells between two phases of the mitotic cell cycle: S and G2/M phases. Results provide insight into the regulation of transcript levels during mitotic cell cycle progression. HeLa cells were synchronized with double thymidine blockade (12 hours with 2 mM thymidine, 12 hours release, and 12 hours with 2 mM thymidine), and cells were taken after 2 hours release (S phase) and 8 hours release (G2/M phase). Keywords: time course
Project description:We compared the poly(A) tail length status of mRNAs of HeLa cells between two phases of the mitotic cell cycle: S and G2/M phases. Hundreds of mRNAs were found to be regulated by changes in their poly(A) tail length during mitotic cell cycle in a phase specific manner. Many of these differentially polyadenylated mRNAs encode proteins related to cell death, cell cycle and cellular growth and proliferation. HeLa cells were synchronized with double thymidine blockade (12 hours with 2 mM thymidine, 12 hours release, and 12 hours with 2 mM thymidine), and samples were taken after 2 hours release (S phase) and 8 hours release (G2/M phase). For each condition total RNA was purified by two different procedures: poly(U) chromatography and oligo(dT)-chromatography. Poly(U)-chromatography (Jacobson, 1987): 100 μg of total RNA were bound to poly(U)-sepharose (Sigma) and eluted at 35ºC to isolate mRNAs with short poly(A) tail (<30As, SHORT fraction). Oligo(dT) chromatography: mRNAs were purified independently of their poly(A) tail length with Ambion Poly(A)Purist kit from 20 μg total RNA (ALL fraction). Jacobson, A. Purification and fractionation of poly(A)+ RNA. Methods in Enzymology (1987) 152: 254-261. Keywords: time course Comparison of ALL fraction mRNAs and SHORT fraction mRNAs measured after 2 hours (S phase) and 8 hours release (G2/M) from double thymidine blockade; 3 biological replicates at each of the two time points; two technical replicates with dye swapping per comparison.
Project description:Gene expression must be reconfigured rapidly during the subsequent phases of the cell cycle to execute the cellular functions specific of each phase. Post-transcriptional regulation has a predominant role in modulating gene expression during the mitotic cell cycle, including among other mechanisms, protein phosphorylation and ubiquitination, differential protein stability and mRNA localization and translatability. Regulation at the transcriptional level is also important, as studies conducted in synchronized plant cell suspension cultures have identified hundreds of genes with periodic patterns of genes expression across the phases of the cell cycle. We describe here an alternative strategy to cell suspension cultures to profile the transcriptome of Arabidopsis root cells in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle. Through fluorescence activated cell sorting we first isolated cells in G2/M using CYCB1;1-GFP, a reporter of a mitotic cyclin. The analysis of the transcriptome of these cells allowed us to identify hundreds of genes whose expression is depleted or enriched in G2/M cells.
Project description:We compared the poly(A) tail length status of mRNAs of HeLa cells between two phases of the mitotic cell cycle: S and G2/M phases. Hundreds of mRNAs were found to be regulated by changes in their poly(A) tail length during mitotic cell cycle in a phase specific manner. Many of these differentially polyadenylated mRNAs encode proteins related to cell death, cell cycle and cellular growth and proliferation. HeLa cells were synchronized with double thymidine blockade (12 hours with 2 mM thymidine, 12 hours release, and 12 hours with 2 mM thymidine), and samples were taken after 2 hours release (S phase) and 8 hours release (G2/M phase). For each condition total RNA was purified by two different procedures: poly(U) chromatography and oligo(dT)-chromatography. Poly(U)-chromatography (Jacobson, 1987): 100 μg of total RNA were bound to poly(U)-sepharose (Sigma) and eluted at 35ºC to isolate mRNAs with short poly(A) tail (<30As, SHORT fraction). Oligo(dT) chromatography: mRNAs were purified independently of their poly(A) tail length with Ambion Poly(A)Purist kit from 20 μg total RNA (ALL fraction). Jacobson, A. Purification and fractionation of poly(A)+ RNA. Methods in Enzymology (1987) 152: 254-261. Keywords: time course
Project description:We compared the poly(A) tail length status of mRNAs of HeLa cells expressing a CPEB1 shRNA (CPEB1 knockdown) versus a control shRNA, and expressing a CPEB4 shRNA (CPEB4 knockdown) versus a control shRNA. Results provide insight into the extent of gene regulation mediated by CPEB1 and CPEB4 activity during mitotic cell cycle progression. The different shRNA expressing cells were synchronized with double thymidine blockade (12 hours with 2 mM thymidine, 12 hours release, and 12 hours with 2 mM thymidine), and samples were taken after 8 hours release (G2/M phase). For each shRNA expressing HeLa cell line total RNA was purified by two different procedures: poly(U) chromatography and oligo(dT)-chromatography. Poly(U)-chromatography (Jacobson, 1987): 100 μg of total RNA were bound to poly(U)-sepharose (Sigma) and eluted at 35ºC to isolate mRNAs with short poly(A) tail (<30As, SHORT fraction). Oligo(dT) chromatography: mRNAs were purified independently of their poly(A) tail length with Ambion Poly(A)Purist kit from 20 μg total RNA (ALL fraction). Jacobson, A. Purification and fractionation of poly(A)+ RNA. Methods in Enzymology (1987) 152: 254-261. Keywords: knock-down experiment
Project description:Temporal and spatial regulation of cell division is central for generating multicellular organs with predictable sizes and shapes. However, it remains largely unclear how genes with mitotic functions are transcriptionally regulated during organogenesis in plants. Here, we showed that a group of R1R2R3-Myb transcription factors are responsible for developmentally controlled downregulation of variety of mitotic genes in Arabidopsis. Loss of their functions resulted in elevated expression of mitotic genes in quiescent cells including those underwent terminal differentiation. Concomitantly, their mutations enhanced cell division activities in various aspects of plant development, generating organs with increased sizes and irregular architectures. In addition, we showed that this type of R1R2R3-Myb proteins are required for oscillated expression of G2/M-specfiic genes, most likely by inhibiting transcription outside of G2/M in the cell cycle. Our finding uncovered a novel plant-specific mechanism in which scheduled expression of G2/M-specific genes may require their global repression both in the cell cycle and during development.
Project description:Temporal and spatial regulation of cell division is central for generating multicellular organs with predictable sizes and shapes. However, it remains largely unclear how genes with mitotic functions are transcriptionally regulated during organogenesis in plants. Here, we showed that a group of R1R2R3-Myb transcription factors are responsible for developmentally controlled downregulation of variety of mitotic genes in Arabidopsis. Loss of their functions resulted in elevated expression of mitotic genes in quiescent cells including those underwent terminal differentiation. Concomitantly, their mutations enhanced cell division activities in various aspects of plant development, generating organs with increased sizes and irregular architectures. In addition, we showed that this type of R1R2R3-Myb proteins are required for oscillated expression of G2/M-specfiic genes, most likely by inhibiting transcription outside of G2/M in the cell cycle. Our finding uncovered a novel plant-specific mechanism in which scheduled expression of G2/M-specific genes may require their global repression both in the cell cycle and during development. Seedlings (9d-old) or leaves (5d or 15d-old) of the wild type or myb3r mutants were sampled for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:The retinoblastoma tumour suppressor, Rb, has two major functions. First, it represses genes whose products are required for S-phase entry and progression, thus stabilizing cells in G1. Second, Rb synergizes with factors that induce cell cycle exit and terminal differentiation. Dictyostelium lacks a G1 phase in its cell cycle but it has a retinoblastoma orthologue, rblA. Using mRNA-Seq transcriptional profiling, we show that rblA strongly represses hundreds of genes whose products are involved in S-phase and mitosis. Both S-phase and mitotic genes are expressed at a single point in late G2 and again in mid-development, near the time when cell cycling is reactivated. RblA also activates a set of genes unique to slime moulds that function in terminal differentiation. Like its mammalian counterpart, Dictyostelium RblA plays a dual role, regulating cell cycle progression and transcriptional events leading to terminal differentiation. In the absence of a G1 phase, however, RblA functions in late G2 controlling the expression of both S-phase and mitotic genes.