Project description:CREPT was demonstrated as a key regulator of intestinal stem cells. To figure out the role of CREPT on transcription level, a ChIP-seq experiment was performed to identify the CREPT down-stream genes in intestinal crypt cells.
Project description:Polycomb-mediated gene repression plays an important role in adult stem cell maintenance. Direct targets of the Polycomb repressive complex PRC2 in th intestinal epithelium were revealed by performing ChIP-sequencing on crypt samples isolated from wild type murine small intestines. The resulting list of H3K27me3-enriched genes were compared with RNA-sequencing data from wild type and Eed knockout crypts. Crypts were isolated from wild type murine intestinal epithelium and subjected to ChIP using anti-H3K27me3 and anti-H3K27Ac antibodies, after which DNA isolated from extracted immunocomplexes was sequenced.
Project description:Intestinal stem cells (ISCs) residing in the crypts are critical for the continual self-renewal and rapid recovery of intestinal epithelium. The regulatory mechanism of ISCs is not fully understood. Here we report that CREPT, a recently identified tumor-promoting gene, is preferably expressed in the crypts, where the ISCs reside, but not in the villi. The Lgr5+ ISCs have much higher CREPT protein level than Lgr5- cells. To explore the function of CREPT in ISCs, we isolated WT and CREPT deleted Lgr5+ ISCs (Lgr5-CREPTKO) to perform Next generation sequencing.
Project description:Intestinal stem cells (ISCs) residing in the crypts are critical for the continual self-renewal and rapid recovery of intestinal epithelium. The regulatory mechanism of ISCs is not fully understood. Here we report that CREPT, a recently identified tumor-promoting gene, is preferably expressed in the crypts, where the ISCs reside, but not in the villi. To explore the function of CREPT in ISCs, we isolated crypts to perform Next generation sequencing.
Project description:To assess the role of LSD1 in mouse small intestinal epithelium, we isolated small intestinal crypts from wild type (WT) (Villin-Cre -; Lsd1f/f) and intestinal-epithelial-specific knock-out (KO) (Villin-Cre+; Lsd1f/f) mice. We dissociated crypts into single cells, and FACS sorted Epcam+ cells, to avoid immune-cell contamination. RNA was directly isolated from these sorted cells, and this was used for RNA seq. As KO crypts are different from WT crypts (KO crypts lack Paneth cells), identifying genes specifically regulated by LSD1 helps us to identify how LSD1 regulates intestinal crypt biology. Specifically, because we were able to combine this with ChIP-seq of the same cells, to identify where H3K4me1 levels (target of the histone demethylase LSD1) were different in the genome.
Project description:Intestinal stem cells (ISCs) residing in the crypts are critical for the continual self-renewal and rapid recovery of intestinal epithelium. The regulatory mechanism of ISCs is not fully understood. Here we report that CREPT, a recently identified tumor-promoting gene, is preferably expressed in the crypts, where the ISCs reside, but not in the villi. The Lgr5+ ISCs have much higher CREPT protein level than Lgr5- cells. To explore the function of CREPTduring regeneration, we isolated irradiated WT and CREPT deleted intestines (Vil-CREPTKO) to perform Next generation sequencing.
Project description:We wanted to assess the role of a specific smooth muscle protein (MMP17) in two different intestinal compartments, the epithelium (crypts) and the smooth muscle. To do that we isolate intestinal crypts from wild-type (WT) and knockout (KO, Mmp17-/-) mice, and obtained clean strips of smooth muscle. After muscle dissociation, we obtained RNA directly from crypts and muscle, and it was used for RNA-seq. By comparing WT and KO samples we observed a higher impact in gene expression affecting crypts, even though MMP17 is only expressed in muscle. This helped us to identify altered signaling pathways in KO crypts that linked MMP17 with SMAD4 and BMP signaling.
Project description:Polycomb-mediated gene repression plays an important role in adult stem cell maintenance. Direct targets of the Polycomb repressive complex PRC2 in th intestinal epithelium were revealed by performing ChIP-sequencing on crypt samples isolated from wild type murine small intestines. The resulting list of H3K27me3-enriched genes were compared with RNA-sequencing data from wild type and Eed knockout crypts.
Project description:To investigate the role of RAD21 in the transcriptional regulation of global gene expression at early stage of colorectal cancer developments, we peformed the genome-wide analysis to map genomic regions bound by Rad21 in normal small testinal crypts and tumors (adenomas) harvested from Apc Min/+ mice using ChIP-seq. ChIP-seq naalysis identified high confidence RAD21 binding sites unique to normal crypts or adenomas, as well as those common to both tissues. We further performed RNA-seq to profile the changes in gene expression from normal WT crypts to adenomas at the very early stage of adenomagenesis in the context of Rad21 heterozygous loss. mRNA profiles of normal small intestinal crypts (WT) and adenomas from Apc Min/+ and Apc Min/+:Rad21+/- double mutant mouse; Mapping of Rad21 genomic binding sites in normal intestinal crypts (WT) and Apc Min/+ adenomas
Project description:Polycomb-mediated gene repression plays an important role in adult stem cell maintenance. We knocked out (using the inducible AhCre-LoxP system) Polycomb genes Eed and Ezh2 in the intestine for 6 weeks, after which crypts - the small intestinal stem cell zone - were harvested and RNA sequenced. We found Wnt, Notch and cell cycle pathways to be affected in Eed knockout (KO) but not Ezh2 KO crypts. Direct targets of Eed were determined by comparing this data with ChIP-sequencing. Small intestinal crypt mRNA profiles of 6 weeks-induced 12 weeks old Eed KO, Ezh2 KO and WT mice (all triplicates) as well as 10 days-induced Eed KO and WT organoids (duplicates) were generated by RNA sequencing over two runs and using IlluminaHiseq2000 and Hiseq2500.