Project description:Saliva based diagnostics is a rapidly evolving field due to the large potential of saliva and the simple sample collection. A systematic comparison of IgG antibody profiles in saliva and plasma is currently lacking in scientific literature. Our hypothesis is that IgG profiles are equal in blood and saliva. By showing the equality of the profiles and relative IgG antigenic reactivities towards proteins and peptides we provide evidence that plasma IgG reactivities can be inferred from saliva IgG reactivities. IgG antibodies were isolated from human saliva and plasma samples. The reactivities of IgG isolates were analysed on peptide microarrays displaying linear epitopes of EBV (EBNA1 protein) and HBV (Large envelope protein) virus. Peptide arrays were printed by JPT Peptide Technologies (Berlin, Germany). We show high similarity of saliva and plasma IgG profiles on these two platforms and argue for generalisation from this subset to the whole immunological IgG antibody profile.
Project description:Saliva based diagnostics is a rapidly evolving field due to the large potential of saliva and the simple sample collection. A systematic comparison of IgG antibody profiles in saliva and plasma is currently lacking in scientific literature. Our hypothesis is that IgG profiles are equal in blood and saliva. By showing the equality of the profiles and relative IgG antigenic reactivities towards proteins and peptides we provide evidence that plasma IgG reactivities can be inferred from saliva IgG reactivities. IgG antibodies were isolated from human saliva and plasma samples. The reactivities of IgG isolates were analysed on peptide microarrays displaying linear epitopes of EBV (EBNA1 protein) and HBV (Large envelope protein) virus. Peptide arrays were printed by JPT Peptide Technologies (Berlin, Germany). We show high similarity of saliva and plasma IgG profiles on these two platforms and argue for generalisation from this subset to the whole immunological IgG antibody profile.
2018-07-17 | GSE117140 | GEO
Project description:Microbial eDNA from grassland soils in Berlin, Germany
Project description:Blood samples were taken at 1:00 pm +/- 1 h (Potassium-EDTA-monovettes, Sarstedt, Numbrecht, Germany) to control for circadian influences on gene expression. Blood was taken from normal male controls, normal female controls as well as different patients with disorders of sex development leading to a dissection of sex chromosomes and external genital phenotype. All samples were analyzed by a blood cell counter (Beckmann-Coulter, Krefeld, Germany) and white blood cell counts did not differ between the normal males and the normal females (by t-test). PBMCs were isolated from whole blood using PBS (pH 7.2) and Ficoll (Biochrom, Berlin, Germany) gradient centrifugation. A reference experiement design type is where all samples are compared to a common reference. Disease State: diagnosis Genotype: sex genotype Age: age at blood sample collection (yrs;mo) Phenotype: external genitalia (Prader classification) Keywords: reference_design
Project description:Microarray study of iBAT gene expression comparing a) adult male offspring of control and 3,3’,5-triiodothyronine (T3)-treated mothers during pregnancy and b) adult male offspring of control and maternal thyroid hormone receptor (TR) β signaling (TRb) treated mothers during pregnancy. Microarrays were conducted by Atlas Biolabs (Berlin, Germany) on GeneChip Clariom S arrays (Affymetrix/Thermofisher, Germany).
Project description:Three strains, P. zopfii genotype 1 (SAG 2063), P. zopfii genotype 2 (SAG 2021) and P. blaschkeae (SAG 2064) from the culture collection at the Institute of Animal Hygiene and Environmental Health, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany were cultured six times independently at 37°C in Sabouraud dextrose liquid medium until OD600 measurement reached 0.6 to 0.9. Following the cell harvest by brief centrifugation, the cells were lysed and label free quantitative proteomics analysis were carried out to investigate the differences between these strains.
Project description:The alterations in myometrial biology during labor are not well understood. The myometrium is the contractile portion of the uterus and contributes to labor, a process that may be regulated by the steroid hormone progesterone. Thus, human myometrial tissues from term pregnant in-active-labor (TIL) and term pregnant not-in-labor (TNIL) subjects were used for genome-wide analyses to elucidate potential future preventive or therapeutic targets involved in the regulation of labor. Using myometrial tissues directly subjected to RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), progesterone receptor (PGR) chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq), and histone modification ChIP-seq, we profiled genome-wide changes associated with gene expression in myometrial smooth muscle tissue in vivo. In TIL myometrium, PGR occupied predominatly promoter regions including the classical progesterone response element, whereas it bound predominantly to intergenic regions in TNIL myometrial tissue. Differential binding analysis uncovered over 1700 differential PGR-bound sites between TIL and TNIL with 1361 sites gained and 428 lost in labor. Functional analysis identified multiple pathways involved in cAMP-mediated signaling enriched in labor. A three-way integration of the data for ChIP-seq, RNA-seq and active histone marks uncovered the following genes associated with PGR binding, transcriptional activation and altered mRNA levels: ATP11A, CBX7, and TNS1. In vitro studies showed that ATP11A, CBX7, and TNS1 are progesterone responsive. We speculate that these genes may contribute to the contractile phenotype of the myometrium during various stages of labor. In conclusion, we provide novel labor associated genome-wide events and PGR-target genes that can serve as targets for future mechanistic studies.
Project description:We compare the transcriptome of gnotobiotic Ae. aegypti generated by contaminating axenic (bacteria-free) larvae with bacterial isolates found in natural mosquito breeding sites. We focused on four bacterial isolates (Lysobacter, Flavobacterium, Paenibacillus and Enterobacteriaceae) and found that different gnotobiotic treatments resulted in massive transcriptomic changes throughout the mosquito development.
Project description:Myometrial biopsies were collected from 20 women undergoing primary cesarean sections in well-characterized clinical scenarios: 1) term labor of spontaneous onset (TL, n=5); 2) term non-labor (TNL, n=5); 3) spontaneous PTB in the setting of chorioamnionitis (PTB-HCA) and 4) indicated preterm birth (PTB) non-labor (PTB-NL, n=5). RNAs were profiled using 2nd-generation RNA sequencing.
Project description:The maintenance of coordinated powerful episodic contractions of the uterus is the crucial factor for normal labor. The uterine contractility is gradually enhanced with the progression of labor, which is related to the gene expression of myometrium, competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) can also regulate the gene expression. To better understand the role of ceRNA network in labor, transcriptome sequencing was performed on the myometrium of 17 parturients at different labor duration. Furthermore, an correlated analysis was performed to identify mRNA, long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), circular RNA (circRNA), and microRNA (miRNA) which correlated with their expression levels and labor duration. Then, targeting relationships between mRNAs, lncRNAs, circRNAs and miRNAs were predicted, and the ceRNA regulatory network was established.This analysis identified 934 RNAs positively correlated with labor duration (859 mRNAs, 28 lncRNAs, 45 circRNAs, and 2 miRNAs) and 153 RNAs negatively correlated with labor duration (122 mRNAs, 28 lncRNAs, and 3 miRNAs).