The goal of this study is to simultaneously examine host and parasite gene expression programs in skin lesions of human patients infected with the intracellular parasite Leishmania. We conducted high-resolution sequencing of the transcriptomes from early and late stage cutaneous leishmaniasis biopsies using an RNA-seq approach. An array of computational tools was applied to map reads to the Leishmania and human genomes and reconstruct full-length transcripts. mRNA abundance was determined for Leishmania and human genes, helping to explain tuning of the immune response to parasite transcriptomic profiles present in the lesion microenvironment. This data provided a deeper look at the transcriptomic profile of the host response in conjunction with a novel look at the parasite transcriptome in human cutaneous lesions. These data also offer the first glimpse of Leishmania gene expression profiles specific to the cutaneous manifestation of disease in human patients. This metatranscriptomic study provides a solid framework for future functional, genomic, and clinical studies of leishmaniasis as well as intracellular pathogenesis in general.
Meta-transcriptome Profiling of the Human-Leishmania braziliensis Cutaneous Lesion.
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View SamplesDespite the availability of large-scale transcriptomics data, specific long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) expressed in specific brain regions and populations of neurons are poorly understood. Here we report analysis of expression of lncRNAs and mRNAs expressed in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (PFC), two regions of brain that are involved in memory storage and neuropsychiatric disorders. Our unbiased analyses have identified specific lncRNAs and mRNAs that are enriched in hippocampus and PFC. We have identified several regions in the chromosomes characterized by clustered lncRNA expression suggesting the transcriptional hotspots of lncRNA in the genome. We find that, a subset of lncRNAs and protein coding genes in their vicinity are uniquely co-expressed in specific brain regions and thus presumably co-regulated. Furthermore, specific brain regions and neuronal populations have characteristic lncRNA expression profile. These studies reveal unexpected complexity in the expression profiles of lncRNAs in the mammalian brain. Overall design: Examination of mRNAs and long noncoding RNAs in mouse hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of 8 adult mice.
Transcriptome analyses of adult mouse brain reveal enrichment of lncRNAs in specific brain regions and neuronal populations.
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View SamplesOxidative stress can arise when in vitro propagated plants developed under low light conditions are exposed to high light during transfer to ex vitro conditions. In such a situation, among the many potential stresses to which the transferred plant can be exposed, oxidative stress is commonly experienced, most likely brought about by absorption of light energy in excess of that required for very low levels of photosynthetic metabolism. In vitro propagated grapevine when transferred to ex vitro conditions with a 4 fold increase in PPFD shows an initial inhibition of PET accompanied by an accumulation of H2O2, suggesting a signal for the upregulation in gene expression and antioxidant enzyme activity, which peaked at 48h after transfer of in vitro grapevine to ex vitro growing conditions.
Comparative transcriptomic profiling of Vitis vinifera under high light using a custom-made array and the Affymetrix GeneChip.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesWe used microarrays to unveil the gene expression alterations upon short-term HFD administration
Dietary alterations modulate susceptibility to Plasmodium infection.
Specimen part
View SamplesAberrant expression of cancer genes and non-canonical RNA species is a hallmark of cancer. However, the mechanisms driving such atypical gene expression programs are incompletely understood. Here, our transcriptional profiling of a cohort of 50 primary clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) reveals that transcription read-through beyond the termination site is a source of transcriptome diversity in cancer cells. Amongst the genes most frequently mutated in ccRCC, we identified SETD2 inactivation as a potent enhancer of transcription read-through. We further show that invasion of neighbouring genes and generation of RNA chimeras are functional outcomes of transcription read-through. We identified the BCL2 oncogene as one of such invaded genes and detected a novel chimera, the CTSC-RAB38, in 20% of ccRCC samples. Collectively, our data highlight a novel link between transcription read-through and aberrant expression of oncogenes and chimeric transcripts that is prevalent in cancer. Overall design: RNA-seq of SETD2 mutant and wild-type ccRCC cell lines.
Pervasive transcription read-through promotes aberrant expression of oncogenes and RNA chimeras in renal carcinoma.
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Gene body methylation can alter gene expression and is a therapeutic target in cancer.
Sex, Cell line, Treatment, Time
View SamplesWe report the effect of DKK1 treatment during culture on the length and transcriptome of embryos on day 15 of development, supporting the notion that changes early in development affect later stages of development. Overall design: Bovine embryos were produced in vitro and exposed to either 0 or 100 ng/ml DKK1 from day 5 to 7 of culture. Embryos were transferred on day 7 and recovered on day 15 for evaluation of length and transciptome
Dickkopf-related protein 1 is a progestomedin acting on the bovine embryo during the morula-to-blastocyst transition to program trophoblast elongation.
Treatment, Subject
View SamplesDemethylation treatment reduce gene body methylation as well as gene expression
Gene body methylation can alter gene expression and is a therapeutic target in cancer.
Cell line, Treatment, Time
View SamplesIn gastrulation, distinct progenitor cell populations are induced and sorted into the three germ layers ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm. In order to identify genes involved in germ layer specification and morphogenesis, we identified genes differentially expressed between ectodermal and mesendodermal progenitor cells. To do so, we first generated highly enriched pools of ectodermal and mesendodermal progenitor cells. Mesendodermal cells were generated by over-expressing the Nodal signal Cyclops in wild type embryos and ectodermal cells were taken from mz-one-eyed-pinhead (oep) mutant embryos. We then compared the transcriptome of ectodermal versus mesendodermal cells taken from embryos at 7 hours post fertilization (hpf). In wild type embryos at this stage (70% epiboly), the first ectodermal and mesendodermal progenitor cells have already been sorted into their respective germ layers and ingression of mesendodermal progenitors is still ongoing.
Identification of regulators of germ layer morphogenesis using proteomics in zebrafish.
Age, Specimen part, Subject, Time
View SamplesDefine regulated genes upon 24 hours of glucosamine treatment in KMH2 and Ramos
Global mass spectrometry and transcriptomics array based drug profiling provides novel insight into glucosamine induced endoplasmic reticulum stress.
Specimen part, Cell line
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