Project description:To gain insight on the epigenomic environment of the pegnant uterus tissues, the Hi-C assay was emloyed to comprehensively document the chromatin conformation of the genome at gestation 13.
Project description:Changes of Cytokines and chemokines profiles were sucessfully determined between mouse non-treated vs LPS treated pregnant uteri using Qiagen PCR array.
Project description:Changes of Cytokines and chemokines profiles were sucessfully determined between mouse non-treated vs LPS treated pregnant uteri using Qiagen PCR array. Pregnant mouse (FVB strain E8.5-9.5) were treated with LPS(2.5ug/mouse) or saline as control. 8h- or 16-h later, uteri tissues (N=3) were collected.
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 chromatin interaction profiles in the term pregnant not in labor human myometrial tissues at a genome-wide scale.
Project description:Background: Although genetic or epigenetic alterations have shown to affect the three-dimensional organization of genomes, the utility of chromatin conformation in the classification of human disease has never been addressed. Results: Here, we explore whether chromatin conformation can be used to classify human leukemia. We map the conformation of the HOXA gene cluster in a panel of cell lines with 5C chromosome conformation capture technology, and use the data to train and test a support vector machine classifier named 3D-SP. We show that 3D-SP is able to accurately distinguish leukemias expressing MLL-fusion proteins from those expressing only wild-type MLL, and that it can also classify leukemia subtypes according to MLL fusion partner, based solely on 5C data. Conclusions: Our study provides the first proof-of-principle demonstration that chromatin conformation contains the information value necessary for classification of leukemia subtypes. Analysis of 38 samples using 5C technology. All data normalized using a 'master' BAC consisting of 5C data from 6 samples.
Project description:In an attempt to unveil part of the molecular processes controlling porcine placentation we have investigated the pregnancy induced gene expression in the porcine endometrium at Day 14 after insemination using the Affymetrix GeneChip® Porcine Genome Array. Experiment Overall Design: At Day 14 after insemination, samples were obtained from the endometrium of pregnant sows and sows inseminated with inactivated semen for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. The uteri were removed and each uterine horn was flushed with PBS containing 1% fetal calf serum, and subsequently opened longitudinally at the anti-mesometrial side. The sites of embryonic attachment were macroscopically visual in the endometrium on the mesometrial side in form of hyperemic zones. Samples of the endometrium (lamina epithelialis, lamina propria and tela submucosa, but not tunica muscularis) were isolated from proximal (the end close to the ovaries), intermedial, and distal (next to the corpus uteri)) sections of each uterine horn. Samples were taken from the endometrium of the non-pregnant animals at comparable locations.
Project description:Background: Although genetic or epigenetic alterations have shown to affect the three-dimensional organization of genomes, the utility of chromatin conformation in the classification of human disease has never been addressed. Results: Here, we explore whether chromatin conformation can be used to classify human leukemia. We map the conformation of the HOXA gene cluster in a panel of cell lines with 5C chromosome conformation capture technology, and use the data to train and test a support vector machine classifier named 3D-SP. We show that 3D-SP is able to accurately distinguish leukemias expressing MLL-fusion proteins from those expressing only wild-type MLL, and that it can also classify leukemia subtypes according to MLL fusion partner, based solely on 5C data. Conclusions: Our study provides the first proof-of-principle demonstration that chromatin conformation contains the information value necessary for classification of leukemia subtypes. Examination of CTCF and RAD21 binding sites in THP-1 cell.
Project description:Multiplexed Chromatin Conformation Capture in Mouse Erythroid cells , from hundreds of targeted loci, using agilent oligo capture technology and high throughput sequencing. Two erythroid Ter119+ cell replicates and a mouse ES cell control