Not exact matches
Those data were then combined with information about functional
changes in cell behavior to develop a nanomechanical profile, or
phenotype, for specific
cellular states.
Environmental factors interact with the different subgenomes to modify the transcription of their component genes and to modulate the translation of protein products and their posttranslational modification, yielding
changes in protein and
cellular function and metabolism, and defining an intermediate
phenotype.
In order to dissect these defects, we utilize a unique approach including deep assessment of patient
phenotype, clinical genetic testing to identify underlying genetic contributions to these features, and the application of combinatorial functional omics (transcriptome, metabolome, etc.) to uncover the pathological
cellular states that result from these genetic
changes.
We hypothesize that upon retinal neuronal damage MG or RPE cells undergo defined and controlled
changes in
cellular and molecular
phenotype towards a cell with progenitor properties — this process that we are studying we call regenerative reprogramming.