Project description:Genotyping studies suggest that there is genetic variability among P. gingivalis strains, however the extent of variability remains unclear, and the regions of variability have only partially been identified. We previously used heteroduplex analysis of the ribosomal operon intergenic spacer region (ISR) to type P. gingivalis strains in several diverse populations, identifying 6 predominant heteroduplex types and many minor ones. In addition we used ISR sequence analysis to determine the relatedness of P. gingivalis strains to one another, and demonstrated a link between ISR sequence phylogeny and the disease-associated phenotype of P. gingivalis strains. The availability of whole genome microarrays based on the genomic sequence of strain W83 has allowed a more comprehensive analysis of P. gingivalis strain variability, using the entire genome. The objectives of this study were to define the phylogeny of P. gingivalis strains using the entire genome, to compare the phylogeny based on genome content to the phylogeny based on a single locus (ISR), and to identify genes that are associated with the strongly disease-associated strain W83 that could be important for virulence. Keywords: Comparative genomic hybridization
Project description:The assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (ATAC-seq) at single-cell level can provide different perspectives of regulatory patterns based on cell type-specific accessible regions. While human genomic elements have been well studied, understanding how nuclear acid sequence regulates the expression of target genes in a genome-wide level in other organisms remains a major challenge. Batch effects, expensive machines are still constraints nowadays to build a cross-species landscape for further analysis, a platform with high throughput and low cost will be extremely required.Here, we constructed a cross-species accessible chromatin landscape by combinatorial-hybridization-based single-cell ATAC-seq, a single-cell ATAC-seq platform with high throughput and signal-noise ratio using fresh nuclei as input.