Project description:We applied Single Molecule Real-Time long-read whole-genome sequencing in Dux knockout mouse and confirmed the success of our Dux knockout mouse model.
Project description:We tested the transcriptome of embryos from WT and Dux KO mice including zygotes (hCG 28h), early 2-cell (hCG 31-32h), middle 2-cell(hCG 41-42h), late 2-cell(hCG 47-48h) and, Dux mRNA injected embryos including zygote(5h after injection, hCG 28h), early 4-cell(6h after injection, hCG 54h) and late 4-cell (17h after injection, hCG 65h) using the Covaris DNA shearing protocol for Smart-seq sequence library generation. We found that the activation of Dux is important but not essential for ZGA, but the silencing and elimination of Dux is strictly necessary for early embryonic development.
Project description:We report both DUX4 and Dux toxicity depend upon their ability to bind DNA and activate transcription. Chromatin immunoprecipitation of V5 epitope tagged human DUX4 and mouse Dux was performed in human myoblasts was analyzed using ChIP-Seq to identify their subsequent binding sites. We found that DUX4 and Dux bind 4-8% of identical sequences, while majority of the binding sites are unique to either DUX4 or Dux. Although small, this overlap could be due to their conserved abilioty to regualte primordial pathways that were essential for life and therefore maintained in both proteins despite their separate evolutionary paths. We performed ChIP-Seq analysis of human myoblasts transfected with plasmids encoding either epitope tagged human DUX4 (1 sample) and mouse Dux (1 sample). Illumina sequencing libraries were prepared from the ChIP and Input DNA, then resulting DNA libraries were quantified and sequenced and aligned to the human genome (hg19).
Project description:We report the RNA-seq experiments performed in human myoblasts transfected with human DUX4 and mouse Dux. Comparison of genes up- and down-regulated by DUX4 and Dux in human myoblasts to identify pathways similiarly regulated by both transcription factors.
Project description:To determine whether DUX domain binding to SMARCC1 influence chromatin reodeling at DUX binding sites, we performed ATAC-seq We know DUX binding sites are open at the time of expression, but we do not know which domains are required to be present with the discovery of the C-terminal repeats and 14 amino acid tail
Project description:We propose LongQC as an easy and automated quality control tool for genomic datasets generated by third generation sequencing (TGS) technologies such as Oxford Nanopore technologies (ONT) and SMRT sequencing from Pacific Bioscience (PacBio). Key statistics were optimized for long read data, and LongQC covers all major TGS platforms. LongQC processes and visualizes those statistics automatically and quickly.