Project description:This project is focused on isolation and characterization of polar tube proteins (PTPs) of Anncaliia algerae using diverse bioinformatic and experimental methodologies - from mass spectrometry to heterologous expression to antibody production and immunolocalization. A novel protein was isolated from A. algerae polar tube extracts named PTP6 which could participates in recognition of host cell receptors as well.Moreover the obtained data on immunolabeling of the polar tubes in the process of extrusion, strongly support one of three hypothetical mechanisms for spore firing, namely the “everting-like-a-glove finger” model. The practical result of this fundamental research is the elaboration of the novel workflow that allows identification and isolation of PTPs in a given microsporidian species wich unites different approaches, such as homology search, sporal protein extractions by thiol-reducing agents, antibody-based approaches, as well as a protocol for purification of extruded polar tubes combined with mass spectrometry to identify new polar tube components.
Project description:The DNA isolated from 44 either frozen or FFPE Neuroendocrine Neoplasm (NEN) was analysed by NGS, to identify genes more likely to be subject to sequence variations among 523 cancer-related ones.
Project description:Plasma DNA from 558 malignancies, 263 benign and borderline tumors and 367 healthy control samples were collected and subjected to random short-gun whole genome sequencing.
Project description:This study aims to investigate the DNA methylation patterns at transcription factor binding regions and their evolutionary conservation with respect to binding activity divergence. We combined newly generated bisulfite-sequencing experiments in livers of five mammals (human, macaque, mouse, rat and dog) and matched publicly available ChIP-sequencing data for five transcription factors (CEBPA, HNF4a, CTCF, ONECUT1 and FOXA1). To study the chromatin contexts of TF binding subjected to distinct evolutionary pressures, we integrated publicly available active promoter, active enhancer and primed enhancer calls determined by profiling genome wide patterns of H3K27ac, H3K4me3 and H3K4me1.