Project description:p/CIP binds to many nuclear receptors and plays a major role in hormone dependent transcription of genes. Recently, p/CIP was shown to affect mouse stem cell pluripotency. Microarray gene expression analysis was conducted to assess the role of p/CIP in mouse embryonic stem cells.
Project description:p/CIP binds to many nuclear receptors and plays a major role in hormone dependent transcription of genes. Recently, p/CIP was shown to affect mouse stem cell pluripotency. Microarray gene expression analysis was conducted to assess the role of p/CIP in mouse embryonic stem cells. p/CIP was downregulated using two different siRNAs and total RNA was extracted and hybridized to a microarray. As control, wild type cells were transfected with pooled non specific siRNAs. The expression difference was calculated between the control wild-type cells and cells having p/CIP downregulation. The experiments were carried out at London Regional Genomic Centre (http://www.lrgc.ca/).
Project description:A transcriptome study in mouse hematopoietic stem cells was performed using a sensitive SAGE method, in an attempt to detect medium and low abundant transcripts expressed in these cells. Among a total of 31,380 unique transcript, 17,326 (55%) known genes were detected, 14,054 (45%) low-copy transcripts that have no matches to currently known genes. 3,899 (23%) were alternatively spliced transcripts of the known genes and 3,754 (22%) represent anti-sense transcripts from known genes.
