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SRP102184
Mus musculus
16 Downloadable Samples
Illumina HiSeq 2500
Description
Follicular T-helper (TFH) cells are essential for germinal center (GC) responses. TFH localization in GCs is controlled by chemo-guidance cues and antigen-specific adhesion. Here we define an antigen-independent, contact-dependent, adhesive guidance system for TFH cells. Unusual for amoeboid cell migration, the system is composed of transmembrane plexin B2 (PlxnB2) molecule that is highly expressed by GC B cells and its transmembrane binding partner semaphorin 4C (Sema4C) that is upregulated on TFH cells. Instead of effectuating repulsion as a ligand, Sema4C serves as the receptor to sense PlxnB2 and bias TFH migration inward at the GC edge to penetrate the GC territory. The absence of PlxnB2 from the GC or Sema4C from TFH cells causes TFH accumulation along the GC border, impairs TFH -B cell interactions and is associated with defective plasma cell production and affinity maturation. Therefore, Sema4C and PlxnB2 regulate GC TFH recruitment and function and optimal antibody responses. Overall design: Plxnb2+/+ or Plxnb2-/- CFP-expressing MD4 B cells were co-transferred together with OT-II T cells into B6 recipients that were subsequently immunized with HEL-OVA subcutaneously. MD4 cells of the 7-AAD-CD19+IgD-GL7hiFashi GC phenotype were FACS-sorted from pooled draining lymph nodes on day 5. To conduct transcriptomic RNA-seq analyses on these cells, a protocol initially developed for single-cell RNA-seq (Tang et al., 2011) was modified to accommodate 400 sorted cells by doubling reaction volumes with extra buffers until the step for second strand DNA synthesis. Cells were directly sorted into the lysis buffer, and reverse transcription was carried out for individual sorts within 20 minutes after isolation to preserve sample integrity. SE-100 sequencing was conducted for all samples on a HiSeq 2500 sequencer (Illumina) at the Tsinghua. Sequence reads were aligned to the Mus musculus reference genome using TopHat2 and assembled by Cufflinks to calculate the FPKM for each transcript. Genes with an average read number of at least 1 were subjected to differential expression analysis by the DESeq2 software (Bioconductor) with a call threshold set at padj<0.1.
Publication Title
Plexin B2 and Semaphorin 4C Guide T Cell Recruitment and Function in the Germinal Center.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 9 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST Array (mogene10st)
Description
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Publication Title
Transcriptional dominance of Pax7 in adult myogenesis is due to high-affinity recognition of homeodomain motifs.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 9 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST Array (mogene10st)
Description
This data set contains 3 replicates each for a Pax7 overexpression, Pax3 overexpression and an empty vector Control
Publication Title
Transcriptional dominance of Pax7 in adult myogenesis is due to high-affinity recognition of homeodomain motifs.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Rattus norvegicus
- 12 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Rat Genome 230 2.0 Array (rat2302)
Description
The myogenic regulatory factor MRF4 is expressed at high levels in myofibers of adult skeletal muscle, but its function is unknown. Here we show that knockdown of MRF4 in adult muscle causes hypertrophy and prevents denervation-induced atrophy. This effect is accompanied by increased protein synthesis and the widespread activation of genes involved in muscle contraction, excitation-contraction coupling and energy metabolism, many of which are known targets of MEF2 transcription factors. Genes regulated by MEF2 represent the top-ranking gene set enriched after Mrf4 RNAi, and a MEF2 reporter is inhibited by co-transfected MRF4 and activated by Mrf4 RNAi. The role of MEF2 in mediating the effect of MRF4 knockdown is supported by the finding that Mrf4 RNAi-dependent increase in fiber size is prevented by dominant negative MEF2, while constitutively active MEF2 is able to induce myofiber hypertrophy. The nuclear localization of the MEF2 co-repressor HDAC4 is impaired by Mrf4 knockdown, suggesting that MRF4 acts by stabilizing a repressor complex that controls MEF2 activity. The demonstration that fiber size in adult skeletal muscle is controlled by the MRF4-MEF2 axis opens new perspectives in the search for therapeutic targets to prevent muscle wasting, in particular sarcopenia and cachexia.
Publication Title
MRF4 negatively regulates adult skeletal muscle growth by repressing MEF2 activity.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix HT Human Genome U133A Array (hthgu133a)
Description
RhoB null mice show decreases in pathological angiogenesis in the ischemic retina and reduces angiogenesis in response to cutaneous wounding, but enhances lymphangiogenesis following both dermal wounding and inflammatory challenge.
Publication Title
RhoB controls coordination of adult angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis following injury by regulating VEZF1-mediated transcription.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Specimen part
View Samples- Arabidopsis thaliana
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Arabidopsis ATH1 Genome Array (ath1121501)
Description
BP and ER encode proteins that act synergistically to regulate Arabidopsis inflorescence architecture. To search for genes/proteins that influence the BP/ER signaling pathways, we conducted mutagenesis of the bp er double mutant and found that a mutation in FILAMENTOUS FLOWER (FIL) suppresses many of the morphological/developmental defects in bp er. Given that FIL encodes a Zn-finger containing transcription factor, microarray analysis was conducted on bp er vs. the bp er fil line to identify genes that are misregulated and which might implicate specific genes/proteins/pathways that are involved in regulating inflorescence development.
Publication Title
A novel Filamentous Flower mutant suppresses brevipedicellus developmental defects and modulates glucosinolate and auxin levels.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 8 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST Array (mogene10st)
Description
Varied genes may be responsible for the functional differences of distinct subsets of T cells. As a result, it is possible that regulatory T cells and pathogenic T cells may display a different set of gene profile regulating their functional status.
Publication Title
Killer cell Ig-like receptor (KIR) 3DL1 down-regulation enhances inhibition of type 1 diabetes by autoantigen-specific regulatory T cells.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 19 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Direct reprogramming of human fibroblasts to a pluripotent state has been achieved through ectopic expression of the transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, and either cMYC and KLF4 or NANOG and LIN28. Little is known, however, about the mechanisms by which reprogramming occurs, which is in part limited by the low efficiency of conversion. To this end, we sought to create a doxycycline-inducible lentiviral system to convert primary human fibroblasts and keratinocytes into human induced pluripotent stem (hiPS) cells. hiPS cells generated with this system were molecularly and functionally similar to human embryonic stem (hES) cells, demonstrated by gene expression profiles, DNA methylation status, and differentiation potential. While expression of the viral transgenes was required for several weeks in fibroblasts, we found that 10 days was sufficient for the reprogramming of keratinocytes, suggesting that the kinetics of reprogramming are cell-type dependent. Using our inducible system, we developed a strategy to induce hiPS cell formation at high frequency by generating differentiated cells that contain the viral transgenes in a pattern that enables successful induction of pluripotency. Upon addition of doxycycline to differentiated hiPS-derived cells, we obtained secondary hiPS cells at a frequency at least 100-fold greater than the initial conversion. The ability to reprogram cells with high efficiency provides a unique platform to dissect the underlying molecular and biochemical processes that accompany nuclear reprogramming.
Publication Title
A high-efficiency system for the generation and study of human induced pluripotent stem cells.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 9 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2500
Description
ß1-integrin is the major ß-integrin subunit expressed in both lens epithelial and fiber cells. Our previous research indicated that ß1-integrin is essential for the maintenance of lens epithelial integrity and survival in late embryonic lens development (Simirskii et al, 2009). Lack of ß1-integrin in the lens will lead to severe micropthalmia and lack of lens in adult mice. In order to study the mechanisms involved, high throughput RNA sequencing (RNAseq) was performed to determine the genes that are differentially expressed between E15.5 wild type (WT) lenses and lenses that lack ß1-integrin expression due to the action of MLR10 CRE (ß1-cKO). The methodology used here is similar to the other RNAseq experiments that were previously performed in our lab (Manthey et al., 2014a and Audette et al, 2015) (Geo accession: GSE 49949 and GSE69940) . Meanwhile, the filtering criteria and processing procedures were also published (Manthey et al., 2014b). Compared to WT, 120 genes were found to be differentially expressed in ß1-cKO lenses. Moreover, bioinformatics tools (DAVID (the database for Annotation, Visulization and Integrated Discovery), and PANTHER (Protein Analysis through Evolutionary Relationship) classification system) as well as manual literature searching was applied for further data analysis. It showed that genes involved in EMT and stress-responses were differentially expressed in ß1-cKO compared to that of WT. Description of filtering criteria: To identify the differentially expressed genes, pair-wise qCML method exact tests with a Benjamini Hochberg false discovery rate correction greater than the threshold of P<0.05 was applied, which identified 5120 genes. As previously described (Manthey et al., 2014b), most of the genes differentially expressed between inbred C57Bl/6 <har> and mice with a mixed background were below a threshold of 2.5 fold change. Therefore, all differentially expressed genes with a less than 2.5 fold change were filtered out. Further, genes whose expression level were not high enough to be biologically significant were also filtered out, based on the RPMK (Reads per Kilobase per million reads) value. Any gene in the final list has RPKM greater that 2 in either WT or ß1-cKO samples, a value that corresponds to approximately 1 mRNA molecule per cell. By applying a combination of these filtering criteria, 120 differentially expressed genes were found, which could potentially elucidate the molecular connections between conditional deletion of ß1-intergrin from the lens and the observed phenotypic abnormalities. Manthey, A. L., Lachke, S. A., FitzGerald, P. G., Mason, R. W., Scheiblin, D. A., McDonald, J. H. and Duncan, M. K. (2014a) ''Loss of Sip1 leads to migration defects and retention of ectodermal markers during lens development'', Mech Dev 131: 86-110. Manthey, A. L., Terrell, A. M., Lachke, S. A., Polson, S. W. and Duncan, M. K. (2014b) ''Development of novel filtering criteria to analyze RNA-sequencing data obtained from the murine ocular lens during embryogenesis'', Genom Data 2: 369-374. Overall design: RNA-Seq comparison of C57Bl/6 <har> wild type controls and ß1-integrin conditional knockout lenses at E15.5, three biological replicates were used in each group
Publication Title
β1-Integrin Deletion From the Lens Activates Cellular Stress Responses Leading to Apoptosis and Fibrosis.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Subject
View Samples- Arabidopsis thaliana
- 8 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2000
Description
Purpose: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been used to study the gene expression in different samples under air and ethylene treatment. The goal of this study is to uncover how ENAP1 and H3K23Ac dynamically coordinate with EIN3 to regulate gene expression in response to ethylene. Overall design: Whole seedling mRNA profiles of 3-day old ein2, ein3eil1, ENAP1ox/ein2 and ENAP1ox/ein3eil1 (in COL background) were generated by sequencing, in 2 replications, using Illumina HiSeq 2000
Publication Title
EIN2 mediates direct regulation of histone acetylation in the ethylene response.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Subject
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