Project description:ATAC-seq in murine naive B cells, germinal center B cells, and total B cells stimulated with LPS ex vivo and transduced with empty vector or Ocab (Pou2af1) expression vector.
Project description:Changes in DNA methylation are required for the formation of germinal centers (GC), but the mechanisms of such changes are poorly understood. Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) has been recently implicated recently in DNA demethylation through its deaminase activity coupled with DNA repair. We investigated the epigenetic function of AID in vivo in germinal center B cells (GCB) isolated from wild type (WT) and AID-deficient (Aicda-/-) mice. We determined that the transit of B cells through the GC is associated with marked locus-specific loss of methylation and increased methylation diversity, both of which are lost in Aicda-/- animals. Differentially methylated cytosines (DMCs) between GCB and naïve B cells (NB) are enriched in genes that are targeted for somatic hypermutation (SHM) by AID and these genes form networks required for B cell development and proliferation. Finally, we observed significant conservation of AID-dependent epigenetic reprogramming between mouse and human B cells. ERRBS and RNA-seq of wild type and Aicda knockout murine naive and germinal center B cells. ERRBS of human naive and germinal center B cells
Project description:Gene expressions of murine germinal center and naive B cells on Affymetrix platform The experiment include 3 d14 GC B1-8, 3 d14 GC V23 and 4 NaM-CM-/ve samples
Project description:In order to assess the miRNA signature of B cells undergoing the germinal center reaction, we isolated three subsets of B cells from tonsils--naive (N), germinal center (GC), and memory (M) and looked at their miRNA profile.
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.
Project description:We report the high-throughput profiling of murine naive B cells, germinal center (dark zone and light zone) B cells, and plasma cells transcriptome. By obtaining over 5 million bases of sequence, we generated genome-wide expression maps of cell subsets from WT mice and aPIK3CD mice. We find that activated PIK3CD signaling lead to significant alteration in gene expression of plasma cells.