Project description:To further elucidate the mechanism of bursal-derived bioactive peptides on avian B cell proliferation on the broad molecular level, we have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to examine gene expression patterns during BP5 and BSP-II treatment in DT40 cell culture system. Analysis of our expression microarray data in this manner defined 3163 genes up-regulated and 3539 genes down-regulated by BP5 treatment and 3117 genes up-regulated and 3531 genes down-regulated by BSP-II treatment at 95% confidence, with a commonly regulated gene set of 2253 upregulated genes and 2083 downregulated genes. Various pathways were significantly impacted by BP5 and BSP-II treatment, and gene Ontology annotations show changes in the expression of molecules involved in DT40 cell with BP5 and BSP-II treatment. Expression of 12 genes (FGF3, RAP1B, TCEB1, CSNK2A1, DNMT1, HIF1A, HDAC1, FZR1, GDF3, FGF8, IRF7, and SKP1) from this signature was quantified in the RNA samples by QRT-PCR, confirming low variability between the predicted response patterns.
Project description:To further elucidate the mechanism of bursal-derived bioactive peptides on avian B cell proliferation on the broad molecular level, we have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to examine gene expression patterns during BP5 and BSP-II treatment in DT40 cell culture system. Analysis of our expression microarray data in this manner defined 3163 genes up-regulated and 3539 genes down-regulated by BP5 treatment and 3117 genes up-regulated and 3531 genes down-regulated by BSP-II treatment at 95% confidence, with a commonly regulated gene set of 2253 upregulated genes and 2083 downregulated genes. Various pathways were significantly impacted by BP5 and BSP-II treatment, and gene Ontology annotations show changes in the expression of molecules involved in DT40 cell with BP5 and BSP-II treatment. Expression of 12 genes (FGF3, RAP1B, TCEB1, CSNK2A1, DNMT1, HIF1A, HDAC1, FZR1, GDF3, FGF8, IRF7, and SKP1) from this signature was quantified in the RNA samples by QRT-PCR, confirming low variability between the predicted response patterns. BP5 and BSP-II induced gene expressions in DT40 cell were measured at 4 hours after exposure to doses of 0.02ug/ml and 2ug/ml, respectively. Two independent experiments were performed using different cells for each experiment.Three independently generated populations of cells were used for these experiments.
Project description:To further elucidate the mechanism of BSP-II on immunity on the broad molecular level, we have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to examine gene expression patterns during BSP-II treatment in a mouse derived hybridoma culture system. Hybridoma cell was treated ex vivo, and robust normalization of the data identified 1279 differentially expressed probe sets exhibiting minimum 1.5-fold changes that distinguished between BSP-II and control samples. Various pathwayswere significantly impacted by BSP-II treatment, and gene Ontology annotations show changes in the expression of molecules involved in immune and immunocyte related cellular processes. Expression of nine genes (MS4A2, CD3D, FGF21, CD80, PTPRC, NFATC4, IL2RB, Fas and LAT) from this signature was quantified in the RNA samples by QRT-PCR, confirming low variability between the predicted response patterns.
Project description:The importance of unanchored Ub in innate immunity has been shown only for a limited number of unanchored Ub-interactors. We investigated what additional cellular factors interact with unanchored Ub and whether unanchored Ub plays a broader role in innate immunity. To identify unanchored Ub-interacting factors from murine lungs, we used His-tagged recombinant poly-Ub chains as bait. These chains were mixed with lung tissue lysates and protein complexes were isolated with Ni-NTA beads. Sample elutions were subjected to mass spectrometry (LC-MSMS) analysis.
Project description:The aim of the study was to investigate whether the trefoil peptide genes, in concerted action with a miRNA regulatory network, were contributing to nutritional maintrenance. Using a Tff3 knock-out mouse model, 21 specific miRNAs were noted to be significantly deregulated when compared to the wild type strain.
Project description:The aim of the study was to investigate whether the trefoil peptide genes, in concerted action with a miRNA regulatory network, were contributing to nutritional maintrenance. Using a Tff2 knock-out mouse model, 48 specific miRNAs were noted to be significantly deregulated when compared to the wild type strain.
Project description:To further elucidate the mechanism of BSP-II on immunity on the broad molecular level, we have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to examine gene expression patterns during BSP-II treatment in a mouse derived hybridoma culture system. Hybridoma cell was treated ex vivo, and robust normalization of the data identified 1279 differentially expressed probe sets exhibiting minimum 1.5-fold changes that distinguished between BSP-II and control samples. Various pathwayswere significantly impacted by BSP-II treatment, and gene Ontology annotations show changes in the expression of molecules involved in immune and immunocyte related cellular processes. Expression of nine genes (MS4A2, CD3D, FGF21, CD80, PTPRC, NFATC4, IL2RB, Fas and LAT) from this signature was quantified in the RNA samples by QRT-PCR, confirming low variability between the predicted response patterns. BSP-II induced gene expression in hybridoma cell was measured at 4 hours after exposure to doses of 0ug/ml and 5ug/ml. Two independent experiments were performed using different cells for each experiment.
Project description:Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant variant of Vkorc1 that introgressed from Mus spretus into European populations of Mus musculus domesticus. Here, we conducted bidirectional genome scans to characterize introgressed regions into one wild population of M. spretus from Spain and three wild populations of M. m. domesticus from France, Germany, and Iran. Despite the fact that these species show considerable intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation, introgression was observed in all individuals, including in the M. musculus reference genome (GRCm38). Mus spretus individuals had a greater proportion of introgression compared with M. m. domesticus, and within M. m. domesticus, the proportion of introgression decreased with geographic distance from the area of sympatry. Introgression was observed on all autosomes for both species, but not on the X-chromosome in M. m. domesticus, consistent with known X-linked hybrid sterility and inviability genes that have been mapped to the M. spretus X-chromosome. Tract lengths were generally short with a few outliers of up to 2.7 Mb. Interestingly, the longest introgressed tracts were in olfactory receptor regions, and introgressed tracts were significantly enriched for olfactory receptor genes in both species, suggesting that introgression may be a source of functional novelty even between species with high barriers to gene flow.