Project description:Data sets are used for benchmarking, pChem, a modification-centric, blind-search tool to provide a streamlined pipeline for unbiased assessing of the performance of chemoproteomic probes. Data were produced from the IPM-based QTRP (quantitative thiol reactivity profiling) applications in various species, including Arabidopsis thaliana, Escherichia coli, Homo sapiens, Rattus norvegicus, Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, Psedomonas syringae, and Mus musculus. IPM is a clickable thiol reactive reagent with the iodoacetamide warhead.
Project description:Data sets are used for benchmarking, pChem, a modification-centric, blind-search tool to provide a streamlined pipeline for unbiased assessing of the performance of chemoproteomic probes. Data were produced from the IPM-based QTRP (quantitative thiol reactivity profiling) applications in various species, including Arabidopsis thaliana, Escherichia coli, Homo sapiens, Rattus norvegicus, Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, Psedomonas syringae, and Mus musculus. IPM is a clickable thiol reactive reagent with the iodoacetamide warhead.
Project description:In this experiment, we've examined chromatin conformation of zebrafish embryos at 24 and 48 hours post-fertilization (hpf), as well as 48 hpf fibroblasts. The aim of this study was to characterise the 3D chromatin structure of zebrafish and perform an evolutionary comparison with mammalian genomes (Homo sapiens and Mus musculus) focusing on syntenic regions and zebrafish ohnologs (duplicated genes that were kept in the genome after the third round of whole-genome duplication).
Project description:The amniote pallium, a vital component of the forebrain, has undergone considerable evolutionary divergence across species and is critical for a variety of functions including sensation, memory and learning. The relationship between pallial subregions in different species remain elusive, particularly regarding the identification of homologous neurons and their similar or distinct signatures. Here, we utilized single-nucleus RNA sequencing to examine over 130,000 nuclei from macaque (Macaca fascicularis) neocortex, alongside datasets from human (Homo sapiens), mouse (Mus musculus), zebra finch(Taeniopygia guttata), turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii), and lizard (Pogona vitticeps), for a cross-species comparison.
Project description:We investigated the global microRNA expression patterns in normal pancreas, pancreatic endocrine tumours and acinar carcinomas to evaluate their involvement in transformation and malignant progression of these tumour types. A neoplastic cellularity higher than 90% was obtained by cryostat enrichment. RNA was extracted with Trizol (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) from 10 20-μm thick cryostat sections, checking the cell composition of the sample every five sections. RNA integrity was confirmed using the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA). microRNA microarray (Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, version 2.0) contains probes for 460 mature microRNAs spotted in quadruplicate (235 homo sapiens, 222 mus musculus, and three Arabidopsis thaliana) with annotated active sites. Often, more than one probe set exists for a given mature microRNA.
Project description:STAT3 is a transcription factor playing a crucial role in inflammation, immunity and oncogenesis, able to induce distinct subsets of target genes in different cell types or under different conditions. Identification of direct transcriptional targets however has only defined a relatively limited set of genes, not sufficient to explain its variegated functions. In order to improve our understanding of the STAT3 transcriptional network we decided to develop a computational approach for the discovery of STAT3 functional binding sites. Upon generating a Positional Weight Matrix to define STAT3 binding sites, we applied a loglikelihood ratio scoring function and were able to assign affinity scores with very high specificity (93.5%) as measured by EMSA. STAT3 binding sites scoring above a stringent threshold have been identified genome-wide in Homo sapiens and Mus musculus and selected for phylogenetic conservation by genomic sequence alignment using eight vertebrate species. Validation was carried out on a subset of predicted sites within genes previously identified as STAT3-responsive by microarray analysis. The high percentage of sites able to bind STAT3 in vivo, as assessed by Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) analysis, revealed the high predictive power of our method.
Project description:We compared gene expression differences in the polytypic species complex Mus musculus (Mus musculus musculus, Mus musculus domesticus, Mus musculus castaneus and Mus musculus ssp) with that of Mus spretus via oligonucleotide microarrays representing more than 20,000 genes. Analysis of the results by two way ANOVA statistics suggests that the most genes with significant differences in expression levels among the subspecies are found in liver and kidney and the least in testis. This picture is different when one compares with Mus spretus, where the largest number of differences is found in testis. Keywords: multi-species comparison
Project description:STAT3 is a transcription factor playing a crucial role in inflammation, immunity and oncogenesis, able to induce distinct subsets of target genes in different cell types or under different conditions. Identification of direct transcriptional targets however has only defined a relatively limited set of genes, not sufficient to explain its variegated functions. In order to improve our understanding of the STAT3 transcriptional network we decided to develop a computational approach for the discovery of STAT3 functional binding sites. Upon generating a Positional Weight Matrix to define STAT3 binding sites, we applied a loglikelihood ratio scoring function and were able to assign affinity scores with very high specificity (93.5%) as measured by EMSA. STAT3 binding sites scoring above a stringent threshold have been identified genome-wide in Homo sapiens and Mus musculus and selected for phylogenetic conservation by genomic sequence alignment using eight vertebrate species. Validation was carried out on a subset of predicted; sites within genes previously identified as STAT3-responsive by microarray analysis. The high percentage of sites able to bind STAT3 in vivo, as assessed by Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) analysis, revealed the high predictive power of our method. Experiment Overall Design: Three prototypic situation were investigated using two replications for each experimental point: STAT3+/+ versus STAT3-/- MEFs , STAT3+/+ versus STAT3+/+ treated with OSM and STAT3-/- versus STAT3-/- treated with OSM.
Project description:Whole-genome single-base resolution methylcytosine map reveals profound changes that occur after Lsh deletion during embryonic development in primary WT and Lsh-/- MEFs. Lsh deletion leads to widespread decreases of CG methylation level at uniquely mapped genomic regions compared to wild type, including TSSs at protein-coding genes, and non-coding RNA genes. MethylC-Seq from Mus musculus primary MEFs.
Project description:Homo sapiens fresh whole blood was infected with Candida parapsilosis. RNA-pool of both species extracted at 0min (control), 15, 30, 60, 120, 240 min. Samples are rRNA depleted. Measurement of Homo sapiens gene expression.