Transcriptional profiling of genes regulated by PaWRKY1 transcription factor
Characterization of the early response of the orchid, Phalaenopsis amabilis, to Erwinia chrysanthemi infection using expression profiling.
Specimen part
View SamplesTfh and B cells were cultured together with or without Tfr cells. After 4 days Tfh and B cells were sorted and prepared for 3'' targeted RNA-seq. Overall design: Examination of transcriptional changes upon suppression of Tfh and B cells.
Suppression by T<sub>FR</sub> cells leads to durable and selective inhibition of B cell effector function.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesTfh and B cells were cultured together with or without Tfr cells and IL-21. After 4 days Tfh and B cells were sorted and prepared for 3'' targeted RNA-seq. Overall design: Examination of transcriptional changes upon IL-21 rescue of B cell suppression
Suppression by T<sub>FR</sub> cells leads to durable and selective inhibition of B cell effector function.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesConditional knockout of Snai1 in the mouse intestinal epithlium results in apoptotic loss of crypt base columnar cells and bias towards differentiation of secretory lineages. In vitro organoid cultures derived from Snail conditional knockout mice also undergo apoptosis when Snai1 is deleted.
Snai1 regulates cell lineage allocation and stem cell maintenance in the mouse intestinal epithelium.
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View SamplesIncreasing evidence across malignancies suggests that infiltrating T cells at the site of disease are crucial to tumor control. We hypothesized that marrow-infiltrating immune populations play a critical role in response to donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI), an established and potentially curative immune therapy whose precise mechanism remains unknown. We therefore analyzed marrow-infiltrating immune populations in 29 patients (22 responders, 7 nonresponders) with relapsed chronic myelogenous leukemia who received CD4+ DLI in the pre-tyrosine kinase inhibitor era.
Reversal of in situ T-cell exhaustion during effective human antileukemia responses to donor lymphocyte infusion.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesGenomic imprinting results in the preferential expression of the paternal, or maternal allele of certain genes. We have performed a genome-wide characterization of imprinting in the mouse embryonic and adult brain using F1 hybrid mice generated from reciprocal crosses of CASTEiJ and C57BL/6J mice. We also uncovered genes associated with sex specific parental effects in the adult mouse brain. Our study identified preferential selection of the maternally inherited X chromosome in glutamatergic neurons of the female cortex. Overall design: Examination of allele specific expression in the brains of reciprocal crosses of F1 hybrid mice from CASTEiJ and C57BL/6J crosses. Processed data files (GenomicAligned, SNP_calls, TranscriptomeAligned, fRNAdbAligned) and README file linked below as supplementary files.
Sex-specific parent-of-origin allelic expression in the mouse brain.
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View SamplesHMGN1 contributes to the shortened latency of liver tumorigenesis by changing a chromatin structure and expression of relevant genes
Loss of the nucleosome-binding protein HMGN1 affects the rate of N-nitrosodiethylamine-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in mice.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesAlefacept treatment is highly effective in a select group patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis, and is an ideal candidate to develop systems to predict who will respond to therapy. A clinical trial of 22 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis treated with alefacept (7.5mg weekly i.v. x12 weeks) was conducted in 2002-2003, as a mechanism of action study. Patients were classified as responders or non-responders to alefacept based on histological criteria. Microarray data from PBMCs of 16 of these patients was analyzed to generate a treatment response classifier. We used a discriminant analysis method that performs sample classification from gene expression data, via nearest shrunken centroid method''. A disease response classifier using 23 genes was created to accurately predict response to alefacept (12.3% error rate in favour of responders). This preliminary study may provide a useful tool to predict response of psoriatic patients with alefacept.
Personalized medicine in psoriasis: developing a genomic classifier to predict histological response to Alefacept.
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesTranscription can be quite disruptive for chromatin so cells have evolved mechanisms to preserve chromatin integrity during transcription, hence preventing the emergence of cryptic transcript from spurious promoter sequences. How these transcripts are regulated and processed by cells remains poorly characterized. Notably, very little is known about the termination of cryptic transcription. Here we used RNA-Seq to identify and characterize cryptic transcripts in Spt6 mutant cells (spt6-1004) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We found polyadenylated cryptic transcripts running both sense and anti-sense relative to genes in this mutant. Cryptic promoters were enriched for TATA boxes, suggesting that the underlying DNA sequence defines the location of cryptic promoters. While intragenic sense cryptic transcripts terminate at the terminator of the genes that host them, we found that anti-sense cryptic transcripts preferentially terminate at the 3’-end of upstream genes. These findings led us to demonstrate that most terminators in yeast are bidirectional, leading to termination and polyadenylation of transcripts coming from either direction. We propose that S. cerevisiae has evolved this mechanism in order to prevent spurious transcription from invading neighbouring genes, a feature particularly critical for organisms with small compact genomes. Overall design: Cells from spt16-1004 and its respective WT strain were grown to an OD600 of 0.5 at 30°C and shifted to 37°C for 80 min before RNA extraction. Total RNA was extracted using the hot phenol method. Prior to library preparation, total RNA was either depleted for ribosomal RNA using the Ribo-zero Gold yeast kit (Epicentre-Illumina) or enriched for polyadenylated RNA using the NEBnext Poly(A) kit (New England Biolabs). Strand specific RNA-seq libraries were prepared using the KAPA stranded RNA-Seq library preparation kit prior to paired-end sequencing on an Illumina Hi-Seq2000. Reads were mapped to the sacCer3 assembly of the S. cerevisiae genome using Tophat2 (23). Intron length range was set at 50 to 1000 bp and a reference annotation file was provided to guide the assembly.
Bidirectional terminators in Saccharomyces cerevisiae prevent cryptic transcription from invading neighboring genes.
Cell line, Subject
View SamplesObesity is linked to the development of metabolic disorders. Expansion of white adipose tissue (WAT) from hypertrophy of pre-existing adipocytes and/or differentiation of precursors into new mature adipocytes contributes to obesity. We found that Nck2 expression is largely restricted to WAT, raising the hypothesis that it may play a unique function in that tissue. Using mice lacking Nck2, we found that Nck2 regulates adipocyte hypertrophy thus contributing to increased adiposity and progressive glucose intolerance, insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis. These findings were recapitulated in humans such that Nck2 expression in omental WAT was inversely correlated with the degree of obesity. Mechanistically, Nck2 deficiency promoted the induction of an adipocyte differentiation program and signaling by the PERK-eIF2a-ATF4 pathway in agreement with a role for the unfolded protein response in adipogenesis. These findings uncover Nck2 as a novel regulator of adipogenesis and that perturbation in its functionality contributes to adiposity-related metabolic disorders. Overall design: Differential gene expression profile between epididymal white adipose tissue of Nck2-/- and Nck2+/+ mice by RNA sequencing (Illumina HiSEq 2000)
Nck2 Deficiency in Mice Results in Increased Adiposity Associated With Adipocyte Hypertrophy and Enhanced Adipogenesis.
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