Project description:Gene regulatory elements such as enhancers have profound effects on cellular function, health, and disease. Our understanding of mammalian enhancer function is limited by the lack of a technology that would allow for a rapid and thorough test of their cell type-specific function. Here, we describe a novel Cas9-effector system that enables rapid testing and functional annotation of native enhancers in embryonic stem cells.
Project description:Gene regulatory elements such as enhancers have profound effects on cellular function, health, and disease. Our understanding of mammalian enhancer function is limited by the lack of a technology that would allow for a rapid and thorough test of their cell type-specific function. Here, we describe a novel Cas9-effector system that enables rapid testing and functional annotation of native enhancers in embryonic stem cells. Total RNA obtained from R26 dCas9-effector mESC lines after viral delivery of sgRNAs directed against proximal promoter or enhancer regions
Project description:Gene regulatory elements such as enhancers have profound effects on cellular function, health and disease. Our understanding of mammalian enhancer function is limited by the lack of technology that would allow for a rapid and thorough test of their cell type-specific function. Here we describe a novel Cas9-effector system that enables rapid testing and functional annotation of native enhancers in embryonic stem cells. V6.5 mouse ES cells according to the protocol as described
Project description:Gene regulatory elements such as enhancers have profound effects on cellular function, health and disease. Our understanding of mammalian enhancer function is limited by the lack of technology that would allow for a rapid and thorough test of their cell type-specific function. Here we describe a novel Cas9-effector system that enables rapid testing and functional annotation of native enhancers in embryonic stem cells.
Project description:The zur regulon in Neisseria meningitidis was elucidated in the strain MC58 using a zur knockout strain and conditions which activate Zur ( zinc supplementation in the medium)
Project description:Microarray comparative genome hybridization (mCGH) data was collected from one Neisseria cinerea, two Neisseria lactamica, two Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and 48 Neisseria meningitidis isolates. For N. meningitidis, these isolates are from diverse clonal complexes, invasive and carriage strains, and all major serogroups. The microarray platform represented N. meningitidis strains MC58, Z2491, and FAM18 and N. gonorrhoeae FA1090.
Project description:Neisseria meningitidis is an obligate commensal colonising the human nasopharynx and occasionally invades the bloodstream causing life-threatening meningitis and septicaemia. The gene NMB0419 on the genome of N. meningitidis MC58 encodes a putative Sel1-like repeat (SLR) containing protein, which has been implicated in mediating meningococcal invasion of epithelial cells. We prepared RNA samples from N. meningitidis MC58 (WT) and its isogenic mutant of NMB0419 grown to log phase in in-vitro culture. The RNA samples were subjected to RNA sequencing. The resulting transcriptomes were compared to determine the genes that differentially expressed in NMB0419 mutant.
Project description:Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of bacterial meningitis and septicemia worldwide. Seven new serogroup C meningococci were isolated from two provinces of China in January, 2006. Their PorA VR types were P1.20, 9. Multilocus sequence typing results indicated that they all belonged to ST-7. It is a new serogroup C N. meningitidis sequence type clone identified in China. Here we also present the results of a genomic comparison of these isolates with other 15 N. meningitidis serogroup A and B isolates, which belonged to ST-7, based on comparative genomic hybridization analysis. The data described here would be helpful to monitor the spread of this new serogroup C meningococci sequence type clone in China and worldwide. Keywords: comparative genomic hybridization