Project description:Purpose: This study seeks to determine the role of Hedgehog signaling in larynx development. Methods: To determine how Hedgehog signaling directs larynx epithelial morphogenesis we used genomic approaches to identify a novel set of Hedgehog target genes within the early larynx. To this end, we performed bulk RNA-seq on 3-pooled E10.5 (32-35S) larynx tissues from wild-type (2 replicates) and Shh-/- (2 replicates) embryos. From this experiment we identified 1873 differentially expressed genes (p-value <0.05). Results: Hedgehog is essential for maintaining the identity of foregut-derived epithelial cells within the larynx vocal folds. In the absence of HH signaling these epithelial cells undergo specific transcriptional changes to initiate a partial epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, migrate out of the epithelial layer and under go cell death. The layer is then replaced by a different population of cells.
Project description:The larynx, trachea, and esophagus share origin and proximity during embryonic development, with clinical and experimental evidence supporting the existence of neurophysiological, structural, and functional interdependencies before birth. This investigation provides the first comprehensive transcriptional profiling of all three organs during embryonic organogenesis, where differential gene expression gradually assembles the identity and complexity of these proximal organs from a shared origin in the anterior foregut. Through the application of bulk RNA sequencing and gene network analysis of differentially expressed genes (DEGs), both within and across developing embryonic mouse larynx, esophagus, and trachea, we identified co-expressed modules of genes enriched for key biological processes. Organ-specific temporal patterns of gene activity corresponding to gene modules within and across shared tissues during embryonic development (E10.5-E18.5) are described, and the laryngeal transcriptome during vocal fold development and maturation from birth to adult is characterized in the context of laryngeal organogenesis. The findings of this study provide new insights into interrelated gene sets governing organogenesis of this tripartite organ system within the aerodigestive tract, with relevance to multiple families of disorders defined by cardiocraniofacial syndromes.
Project description:The goal of the experiment was to determine the difference in gene expression between the wild-type strain and a strain lacking rpaA (ΔrpaA). Because gene expression is not at steady-state in the wild-type -- it oscillates with a circadian period -- and we did not know a priori whether it is at steady-state in the ΔrpaA strain, we compared the time-averaged gene expression in the wild-type to the time-averaged gene expression in the ΔrpaA strain.
Project description:To study the roles of NWMN_0641, we used microarray to compare the transcriptome of the NWMN_0641 deletion strain with that of the wild-type Staphylococcus aureus Newman strain. Transcriptome of the NWMN_0641 deletion mutant strain and the wild-type Newman strain
Project description:We challenge bristol strain (wild-type), metl-9 KO strain (short as KO, has a 101bp insertion, leads to a truncated protein of 258aa) and metl-9 catalytic-activity mutated strain (short as mut, has N172K, D274G mutations in full-length protein) with P.aeruginosa (P.A14), and observe a discrepant transcriptome pattern between wild-type and KO/mut strains. Plenty of innate immune response genes show different expression patterns upon P.A14 infection between the wild-type strain and KO/mut strain. It indicates the important role of metl-9 and 6mA in worm innate immune response modulation.
