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SRP014006
Drosophila melanogaster
8 Downloadable Samples
Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx, Illumina HiSeq 2000
Description
mRNA sequencing was used to identify genome wide transcriptional changes occuring in fly heads in response to spermidine feeding. This study shed light on the molecular mechanisms through wich spermidine can protect against age-dependent memory impairment. Overall design: mRNA profiles from 3 and 10 day old Drosophila melanogaster heads were generated in duplicate by deep sequencing using Illumina GAIIx. mRNA profiles from flies that were fed food with 5mM spermidine were compared to profiles from flies that had no spermidine in thier food.
Publication Title
Restoring polyamines protects from age-induced memory impairment in an autophagy-dependent manner.
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Age, Specimen part, Subject
View Samples- Drosophila melanogaster
- 8 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2000
Description
The aim of the study was to generate transcriptome of wild-type and G9a mutant adult flies (females) 24h post-infection with Drosophila C Virus (DCV). Overall design: We generated 8 different data sets. For wild-type controls and G9a mutants, we performed both mock and DCV infection, and collected both whole flies and fat bodies. All flies were 3-5 days old females.
Publication Title
The epigenetic regulator G9a mediates tolerance to RNA virus infection in Drosophila.
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Specimen part, Subject, Time
View Samples- Drosophila melanogaster
- 12 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2000
Description
Purpose: Investigating the role of Drosophila G9a in oxidative stress responses. Methods: Flies were collected after eclosion and allowed to recover from CO2 exposure for 5 days prior to paraquat exposure. Paraquat (Methyl viologen dichloride hydrate 98 %; Sigma 856177) was mixed into the flyfood at 40 °C to a final concentration of 50 mM. For OS induction, 5-9 day old flies were transferred to paraquat containing food and incubated at 25 °C and 70 % humidity. At each time point, flies were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen followed by vortexing and filtering through a series of sieves to isolate heads from other body parts. 200 fly heads per sample were used for RNA extraction using QIAGEN lipid mini tissue kit. The TruSeq RNA Sample Preparation Kit v2 (Illumina) was used to prepare adapter ligated PCR fragments for sequencing. PCR was used to selectively enrich the fragments containing the adapters. The PCR fragments were validated using Agilent 2200 TapeStation. Single indexed samples were multiplexed and sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencing system (Illumina) in single-end mode with a read length of 35 bp. Quality of sequenced reads was assessed with FastQC. The RNAseq experiments were conducted on two biological duplicates for each condition. Sequenced reads were aligned with Burrows-Wheeler algorithm (BWA) (Li & Durbin, 2010) to the Drosophila reference genome (BDGP.5, http://www.fruitfly.org/) and per gene read counts were generated with HTSeq count (Anders et al, 2015). 25–30 million reads with high quality alignment were obtained for each sample and used for differential expression analysis. DESeq (Anders & Huber, 2010) was used to obtain library size-normalized read counts and to calculate differential expression of genes in 4 pairwise comparisons: 0 h versus 6 h and 0 h versus 12 h after OS in both G9a mutants and controls (fold change =1.5, adjusted p-value= 0.05, Benjamini-Hochberg). Results: We found 2731 genes to be differential expressed in at least one of the four pairwise comparisons. The largest group of differentially expressed (DE) genes are highly augmented upon OS induction in the G9a mutant (41.7 % of all DE genes). The second largest group of DE genes (23.9 % of all DE genes) were more downregulated in G9a mutant in response to OS. Genes that are over-activated in G9a mutants are predominantly involved in OS response and OS mediated damage, whereas genes that are downregulated in G9a mutants are involved in energy metabolism. Conclusions: Our data suggest that G9a provides an epigenetic mechanism that safeguards an appropriate transcriptional response to OS and preserves immediately available energy, thereby acting as a critical regulatory hub between the transcriptional and physiological responses to oxidative stress. Overall design: fly-head mRNA libraries of 5-9 days old male G9aDD1 mutant and control during 0, 6 and 12 hours of paraquat oxidative stress exposure were sequenced in duplicate on Hi-seq 2000.
Publication Title
The histone methyltransferase G9a regulates tolerance to oxidative stress-induced energy consumption.
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Specimen part, Treatment, Subject
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 9 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST Array (hugene10st)
Description
We identified two isoforms of human MKL1 that differ in their N-terminal domains. Since MKL1 is a transcriptional coactivator of SRF and regulates many SRF target genes, we wanted to analyze if transcription is differentially regulated by the two isoforms upon stimulation of the Rho-actin-MKL1-SRF pathway.
Publication Title
TGF-β-induced differentiation into myofibroblasts involves specific regulation of two MKL1 isoforms.
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Cell line
View Samples- Rattus norvegicus
- 18 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Rat Gene 1.0 ST Array (ragene10st)
Description
Cyclosporin A induces expression of proapoptotic factors when cells are challenged by increased tonicity
Publication Title
Cyclosporin-A induced toxicity in rat renal collecting duct cells: interference with enhanced hypertonicity induced apoptosis.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Treatment
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 4 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Our understanding of how mesodermal tissue is formed, has been limited by the absence of specific and reliable markers of early mesoderm commitment. We report that mesoderm commitment from human embryonic stem cells (hESC) is initiated by Epithelial to Mesenchymal transition (EMT) as shown by gene expression profiling and by reciprocal changes in expression of the cell surface proteins, EpCAM/CD326 and NCAM/CD56. Molecular and functional assays reveal that CD326negCD56+ cells, generated from hESC in the presence of activin A, BMP4, VEGF and FGF2, represent a novel, multi-potent mesoderm-committed progenitor population. CD326negCD56+ progenitors are unique in their ability to generate all mesodermal lineages including hematopoietic, endothelial, mesenchymal (bone, cartilage, fat, fibroblast), smooth muscle and cardiomyocytes, while lacking the pluripotency of hESC. CD326negCD56+ cells are the precursors of previously reported, more lineage-restricted mesodermal progenitors. These findings present a novel approach to study how germ layer specification is regulated, and offer a unique target for tissue engineering.
Publication Title
Mapping the first stages of mesoderm commitment during differentiation of human embryonic stem cells.
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Cell line
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 19 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430A 2.0 Array (mouse430a2)
Description
Desmin is a cytoskeletal protein in muscle involved in integrating cellular space and transmitting forces. In this study we sought to determine the combinatory effects of desmin deletion, aging and eccentric exercise on skeletal muscle at the transcriptional level across many pathways of muscle physiology.
Publication Title
Role of the cytoskeleton in muscle transcriptional responses to altered use.
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Specimen part, Treatment
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 8 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array (mouse4302)
Description
Maintenance and maturation of primordial germ cells is controlled by complex genetic and epigenetic cascades, and disturbances in this network lead to either infertility or malignant aberration. Transcription factor Tcfap2c / TFAP2C has been described to be essential for primordial germ cell maintenance and to be upregulated in several human germ cell cancers. Using global gene expression profiling, we identified genes deregulated upon loss of Tcfap2c in primordial germ cell-like cells. We show that loss of Tcfap2c affects many aspects of the genetic network regulating germ cell biology, such as downregulation maturation markers and induction of markers indicative of somatic differentiation, cell cycle, epigenetic remodeling, and pluripotency associated genes. Chromatin-immunoprecipitation analyses demonstrated binding of Tcfap2c to regulatory regions of deregulated genes (Sfrp1, Dmrt1, Nanos3, c-Kit, Cdk6, Cdkn1a, Fgf4, Klf4, Dnmt3b and Dnmt3l) suggesting that these genes are direct transcriptional targets of Tcfap2c in primordial germ cells. Since Tcfap2c deficient primordial germ cell like cells display cancer related deregulations in epigenetic remodeling, cell cycle and pluripotency control, the Tcfap2c-knockout allele was bred onto 129S2/Sv genetic background. There, mice heterozygous for Tcfap2c develop germ cell cancer with high incidence. Precursor lesions can be observed as early as E16.5 in developing testes displaying persisting expression of pluripotency markers. We further demonstrate, that mice with a heterozygous deletion of the Tcfap2c target gene Nanos3 are also prone to develop teratoma. These data highlight Tcfap2c as a critical and dose-sensitive regulator of germ cell fate.
Publication Title
Transcription factor TFAP2C regulates major programs required for murine fetal germ cell maintenance and haploinsufficiency predisposes to teratomas in male mice.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Caenorhabditis elegans
- 51 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix C. elegans Genome Array (celegans)
Description
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Publication Title
DAF-16/FOXO and EGL-27/GATA promote developmental growth in response to persistent somatic DNA damage.
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Treatment
View Samples- Caenorhabditis elegans
- 36 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix C. elegans Genome Array (celegans)
Description
Genome maintenance defects cause complex disease phenotypes characterized by developmental failure, cancer susceptibility and premature aging. It remains poorly understood how DNA damage responses function during organismal development and maintain tissue functionality when DNA damage accumulates with aging. Here we show that the FoxO transcription factor DAF-16 is activated in response to DNA damage during development while the DNA damage responsiveness of DAF-16 declines with aging. We find that in contrast to its established role in mediating starvation arrest, DAF-16 alleviates DNA damage induced developmental arrest and even in the absence of DNA repair promotes developmental growth and enhances somatic tissue functionality. We demonstrate that the GATA transcription factor EGL-27 co-regulates DAF-16 target genes in response to DNA damage and together with DAF-16 promotes developmental growth. We propose that EGL-27/GATA activity specifies DAF-16 mediated DNA damage responses to enable developmental progression and to prolong tissue functioning when DNA damage persists.
Publication Title
DAF-16/FOXO and EGL-27/GATA promote developmental growth in response to persistent somatic DNA damage.
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Treatment
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