Project description:Transcriptional profiling of C.elegans purified touch receptor neuron precursors, comparing cells expressing mutant Huntingtin N-terminal fragment to normal Huntingtin N-terminal fragment, both fused to GFP under mec-3 promoter. As a control the same experiment has been done with comparing cell expressing normal Huntingtin to GFP only. Goal was to determine the specific effect of expanded polyglutamines on gene expression in purified cell population. Three-condition experiment: mutant Huntingtin (128Q) versus normal Huntingtin (19Q), and normal Huntingtin versus GFP only, 3 biological replicates of each. Cells were purified based on GFP fluorescence using a cell sorter.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of C.elegans purified touch receptor neuron precursors, comparing cells expressing mutant Huntingtin N-terminal fragment to normal Huntingtin N-terminal fragment, both fused to GFP under mec-3 promoter. As a control the same experiment has been done with comparing cell expressing normal Huntingtin to GFP only. Goal was to determine the specific effect of expanded polyglutamines on gene expression in purified cell population.
Project description:The molecular identity of touch sensation is still largely unknown. We choose an extrem and very specific example, touch sensation of pennis glan, to study this problem. It's known from previous retro-grade labeling result that only one DRG in rat innervate the pennis glan, which makes it idea for microarry analysis. To clone the mechanosensory receptor specifically or highly expressed in the primary sensory neurons innervating pennis glan. There is a specific mechanosensory receptor in the primary sensory neurons innervating pennis glan. 1. Retrograde labeling the innervating nerve by DiI 2. Dissect DRGs, dissociate neurons and pick up the fluorescent cells. 3. Pool around 20 positive cells and 50 control cells (big diameter neuron and small to medium diameter neuron respectively), purify total RNA. 4. Two rounds of amplification 5. Affymetrix analysis Keywords: dorsal root ganglion, touch sensatiion
Project description:The molecular identity of touch sensation is still largely unknown. We choose an extrem and very specific example, touch sensation of pennis glan, to study this problem. It's known from previous retro-grade labeling result that only one DRG in rat innervate the pennis glan, which makes it idea for microarry analysis. To clone the mechanosensory receptor specifically or highly expressed in the primary sensory neurons innervating pennis glan. There is a specific mechanosensory receptor in the primary sensory neurons innervating pennis glan. 1. Retrograde labeling the innervating nerve by DiI; 2. Dissect DRGs, dissociate neurons and pick up the fluorescent cells. 3. Pool around 20 positive cells and 50 control cells (big diameter neuron and small to medium diameter neuron respectively), purify total RNA. 4. Two rounds of amplification; 5. Affymetrix analysis
Project description:Huntington's disease is caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the huntingtin gene, yeilding a Huntingtin protein with an expanded polyglutamine tract. Patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can help understand disease; however, defining pathological biomarkers in challanging. Here we used LC-MS/MS to determine differences in mitochondrial proteome between iPSC-derived neurons from healthy donors and Huntington's disease patients.
Project description:By culturing and isolating wild-type and mec-3 mutant cells from embryos and applying their amplified RNA to DNA microarrays, here we have identified genes that are known to be expressed in touch receptors, a previously uncloned gene (mec-17) that is needed for maintaining touch receptor differentiation, and more than 50 previously unknown mec-3-dependent genes. Set of arrays organized by shared biological context, such as organism, tumors types, processes, etc. Computed
Project description:GFP-labeled touch receptor neurons from C. elegans were dissociated then sorted into Trizol (10,000+ cells per replicate) followed by polyA-enrichment and RNA-seq