Project description:We used whole bodies of four different adult fire ant morphs (alate queens, workers, haploid males, and diploid males) from a single polygyne colony to generate single-base resolution DNA methylation maps. DNA was extracted from whole bodies of individual males, individual queens, and pooled workers. Bisulfite conversion and sequencing was performed by Beijing Genomics Institute (Shenzhen, China). Unmethylated enterobacteria phage lambda DNA (GenBank accession: J02459.1) was added to each genomic DNA sample as a control for bisulfite conversion efficiency.
Project description:We sought to determine the genomic binding profile of the Drosophila Hox protein AbdA in a homogenous cell system. S2-DRSC cells that have no Hox expression were stably transfected with HA-tagged AbdA under the control of a metallothionein promoter. Upon AbdA expression, we identified high enrichment of AbdA at a large number transcription start sites that colocalises with the GAGA and M1BP. Genes targeted by GAGA and M1BP contain paused RNA polymerase II and show enrichment of PcG proteins. Upon AbdA binding at M1BP-target sites, a significant reduction in PcG protein binding is observed with a concomitant reduction in RNA Pol II pausing. These data suggest that AbdA targets both GAGA- and M1BP-controlled genes, and at M1BP-controlled genes, AbdA binding is sufficient to release PcG-mediated RNA Pol II pausing to induce gene transcription.
Project description:Proteogenomics is the alliance of proteomics and genomics with the aim of better annotating structural genes based on protein experimental pieces of evidence established by tandem mass spectrometry. While on average more than one tenth of N-termini of proteins are incorrectly annotated, there is a crucial need for methodological approaches to systematically establish translational starts of polypeptides and their maturations such as N-terminal methionine processing and peptide signal excision. Here, we describe a straightforward strategy to specifically label protein N-termini with a positively charged TMPP label, selectively capture these entities with in-house developed anti-TMPP antibodies coupled to magnetic beads, and analyze them by nanoLC-MS/MS. While most N-terminomics-oriented approaches are based on depletion of internal peptides to retrieve N-terminal peptides, this enrichment approach is fast and results highly specific for improved ionizable TMPP-labeled peptides. The whole proteome of the model marine bacterium Roseobacter denitrificans was analyzed.
Project description:To investigate the effect of supergene status and social environment pre- and post-pupation, we used RNA-sequencing of fire ant ant workers to assess gene expression differences.
2022-12-21 | GSE205680 | GEO
Project description:Population genomics of Vachellia drepanolobium ant-plants
| PRJNA544717 | ENA
Project description:Population genomics of the invasive Argentine ant
Project description:The goal of this study was to assay the extent of variation in chromatin organization between 3 ant castes (major and minor female workers and males) in one colony of Camponotus floridanus carpenter ant using ChIPseq. 45 samples total: 30 ChIP samples and 3 inputs for total histone H3, 7 histone H3 PTMs and RNA Pol II in major, minor, and male ants; CBP in major and minor ants; the major H3K27ac sample was replicated. 4 ChIP samples for H3 and H3K27ac in brains of majors and minors, and 2 inputs. 2 RNAseq samples for major and minor ants head+thorax; 4 RNAseq samples for brain (majors and minors with 2 replicates each).
Project description:ChIPseq experiment revealed that HIRA binds to GAGA rich DNA sequence in the embryonic heart and is enriched at the common enhancer of Tnni2/Tnnt3 (TTe)