Project description:Transcriptional profiling of IAS subjects Lymphoblasts RNA isolated from Iowa Adoption Study participants to compare the relationship between DNA methylation and gene expression on a genome-wide scale
Project description:DNA methylation profiling of IAS subjects Lymphoblasts RNA isolated from Iowa Adoption Study participants to compare the relationship between DNA methylation and gene expression on a genome-wide scale
Project description:DNA methylation profiling of IAS subjects Lymphoblasts RNA isolated from Iowa Adoption Study participants to compare the relationship between DNA methylation and gene expression on a genome-wide scale
Project description:Timely control of parturition is crucial for maternal and fetal health. Failures on this biological process often result in pregnancy complications including preterm birth, labor dystocia, and health disorders on newborn babies. The myometrium is the muscular structure of the uterus maintaining uterine structural integrity and providing contractile force for parturition. The myometrial structure changes in adaptation to the pregnancy via stage-specific transcriptomic profiles. Data from the mouse model indicate that changes of myometrial epigenomic landscape precedes the adoption of stage-specific gene expression pattern at term. The present study documents the transcriptomic profile and putative enhancer landscape of term pregnant myometrial tissues.
Project description:RNA-Seq provides an effective way to annotate and measure the transcriptome, but the combination of cost, analysis and end-mapping challenges has limited its adoption for high-throughput quantitation and annotation. Here, we present an integrated experimental and computational suite for transcriptome annotation and quantitation based on the sequencing of mRNA ends. It consists of: a novel, simple, one-step, strategy 5' RNA-Seq; an optimized library construction method for strand-specific 3' RNA-seq that reduces costs and time; and a complete computational analysis toolkit. We demonstrate the power and versatility of our approach to study the transcriptome of LPS stimulation in mouse dendritic cells, promoter structure of the TCRb locus in mouse T cells, and gene expression in circadian cycles in Drosophila. Our platform provides a comprehensive solution for high-throughput, cost-effective transcriptome quantification and end annotation. A study of 5' and 3' end RNA sequencing methods
Project description:The intrahepatic milieu is inhospitable to intraportal islet allografts, limiting their applicability to ameliorate Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). Islet viability in the subcutaneous space represents an unfulfilled paradigm that is crucial to ensure widespread adoption and safety of clinical islet transplantation. Herein we report that human islets transplanted subcutaneously uniformly promote long-term euglycemia when admixed with a device-free Islet Viability Matrix (IVM), through a previously unknown anti-apoptotic mechanism.
Project description:We identify c-Maf as an essential factor regulating adoption of RORgamma t+ and T follicular regulatory phenotypes in effector Tregs. Differential expression analysis demonstrates reduced signatures of both ROR gamma t+ Tregs and T follicular regulatory cells following regulatory T cell-specific c-Maf deletion.