Project description:miRNA plays a critical role in a wide variety of biological processes Profiling miRNA expression during the differentiation of embryonic stem cells will help us to understand the regulation pathway of differentiation, therefore to explain disease mechanisms and to find possible therapeutical targets. In this study miRNA expressions were profiled during cardiomyocyte-specific differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells with high-throughput microarray platforms. Two high throughput platforms (Affymetrix and Febit) were involved in miRNA profiling in order to compare the effect of platform on miRNA profiling result as well as to increase the plausibility of target miRNA identification. Four time points (day 0, day 12, day 19, day 26) which correspond to different stages during cardiac-specific differentiation were chosen for the miRNA profiling study.
Project description:miRNA plays a critical role in a wide variety of biological processes Profiling miRNA expression during the differentiation of embryonic stem cells will help us to understand the regulation pathway of differentiation, therefore to explain disease mechanisms and to find possible therapeutical targets. In this study miRNA expressions were profiled during cardiomyocyte-specific differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells with high-throughput microarray platforms.
Project description:Two reference pools comprised of different miRNA content were hybridized to four different miRNA microarray platforms (Agilent, LC Sciences, Exiqon and a homemade chip (generated from an Inviteogen Ncode probeset)) This dataset includes the reference samples on the Agilent miRNA array. Keywords: miRNA
Project description:We compare the transcriptome of embryonic stem cells (ESCs), adult stem cells with apparent greater differentiation potential such as multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs), mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and neurospheres (NS). Mouse and rat MAPCs were used in this study and two different array platforms (Affymetrix and NIA) were used for mouse samples. Keywords: mRNA expression profiling, oligonucleotide microarrays, stem cells
Project description:High reproducibility with TaqMan microRNA array (qPCR-array) was demonstrated by comparing replicate results from the same RNA sample. Pre-amplification of the miRNA cDNA improved sensitivity of the qPCR-array and increased the number of detectable miRNAs. Furthermore, the relative expression levels of miRNAs were maintained after pre-amplification. When the performance of qPCR-array and microarrays were compared using different aliquots of the same RNA, a low correlation between the two methods (r = -0.443) indicated considerable variability between the two assay platforms. Higher variation between replicates was observed in miRNAs with low expression in both assays. Finally, a higher false positive rate of differential miRNA expression was observed using the microarray compared to the qPCR-array.
Project description:Two reference pools comprised of different miRNA content were hybridized to four different miRNA microarray platforms (Agilent, LC Sciences, Exiqon and a homemade chip (generated from an Inviteogen Ncode probeset)) This dataset includes the reference samples on the Agilent miRNA array. Keywords: miRNA Two reference pools were created from commercially available reference RNA (FirstChoice® mouse Total RNA including the small fraction (Catalogue # AM7800-AM7828, Ambion, Streetsville, ON)). Reference #1 contained equal parts of mouse testicle, ovary and 10-12 day embryo. Reference #2 contained liver, heart and lung. These references were hybridized to four different miRNA microarray platforms (two in two colour, two in one-colour, with 4 replicates each). Data from each platform were normalized by cyclic lowess and analysed by correlation analyses both within and between platforms.
Project description:Background: Clostridium thermocellum is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, thermophilic bacterium with a great potential to be a consolidated bioprocessing biocatalyst that can ferment cellulose to ethanol. To understand its physiology and genetic targets for future strain development, we have carried out several studies including ethanol-tolerant mutant resequencing and ethanol shock experiments. Methods: In this study, several approaches were applied to enrich mRNA for next-generation sequencing based RNA-Seq and the transcriptomic profiling of C. thermocellum ethanol shock responses was investigated using high-density tiling array and RNA-Seq. Correlations among different transcriptomic platforms of expression array, tiling array, and RNA-Seq were then compared, and data generated from systems biology studies were used for transcriptional architecture improvement. Results: Our results indicate that cloning-based Sanger sequencing can be used for mRNA enrichment ratio determination, and low-copy number plasmid performed better than high-copy one for cDNA library construction. In addition, high correlations were observed among same array platform using different analyses as well as those between two different array platforms of tiling and expression array when probe intensity was compared. Correlations between RNA-Seq and array results especially the one between RNA-Seq and tiling array are also high. Moreover, combining both RNA-Seq and microarray data the transcriptional architecture of C. thermocellum including the prediction and verification of novel transcript (gene), transcriptional start site (TSS), CAZyme genes, ncRNA, and operon were systematically updated and improved. Conclusions: RNA-seq has high correlation with array-based transcriptomic platforms and can provide additional information for transcriptional architecture and genome annotation improvement, which will facilitate future omics-based studies.
Project description:Cardiomyocytes can be differentiated from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) in defined conditions, but efficient and consistent cardiomyocyte differentiation often requires expensive reagents such as B27 supplement or recombinant albumin. Using a chemically defined albumin-free (E8 basal) medium, we identified heparin as a novel factor that significantly promotes cardiomyocyte differentiation efficiency, and developed an efficient method to differentiate hPSCs into cardiomyocytes. The treatment of heparin helped cardiomyocyte differentiation consistently reach at least 80% purity (up to 95%) from more than 10 different hPSC lines in chemically defined DMEM/F-12 based medium on either Matrigel or defined matrices like Vitronectin and Synthemax. One of heparinâs main functions was to act as a WNT modulator that helped promote robust and consistent cardiomyocyte production. Our study provides an efficient, reliable, and cost-effective method for cardiomyocyte derivation from hPSCs that can be used for potential large-scale drug screening, disease modeling, and future cellular therapies. 12 human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) at three different cardiac differentiation times (0 Days, 3 Days, 6 Days, 10 Days) under different culture conditions (+/- Heparin, +/- IWP2).
Project description:We have investigated the effect of exposure to 150 mg/kg benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) for 3 days on mRNA and miRNA expression levels in adult mouse liver. We used Agilent miRNA array platforms to assess effects of BaP exposure on miRNA expression levels. Our results indicate a distinct lack of effect of BaP of miRNA expression, despite widespread changes in mRNA levels. The data in the attached array files were used a positive control for the Agilent platform, to indicate that the platform was able to detect significant differences in abundance of miRNA between two samples with great differences in miRNA content. Keywords: Toxicology, miRNA