By functionally linking the signal transduction of melanopsin to the control circuit of the nuclear factor of activated T cells, we have designed a synthetic signaling cascade enabling light - inducible transgene
expression in different cell lines grown in culture or bioreactors or implanted into mice.
Not exact matches
In his second semester, he started doing research in three different labs, including that of Carolyn Decker, a molecular biologist who was investigating how the cell controls gene expression through the destruction of messenger RN
In his second semester, he started doing research
in three different labs, including that of Carolyn Decker, a molecular biologist who was investigating how the cell controls gene expression through the destruction of messenger RN
in three
different labs, including that of Carolyn Decker, a molecular biologist who was investigating how the
cell controls gene
expression through the destruction of messenger RNA.
Molecular characterization of the
cells that undergo
cell fate transition upon oncogenic Pik3ca
expression demonstrated a profound oncogene - induced reprogramming of these newly formed
cells and identified gene
expression signatures, characteristic of the
different cell fate switches, which was predictive of the cancer
cell of origin, tumour type and clinical outcomes
in women with breast cancers.
«We were starting to understand a lot about circuits and
cells, and we had the tools to look at gene
expression in different kinds of
cells?
This system plays a major role
in the regulation of gene activity, and enables the selective
expression of
different functions
in differentiated
cell types.
The researchers have compared various processes involved
in gene
expression, such as gene transcription and chromatin modification, and have repeated this
in different tissues and
cell types from both humans and mice.
Transcription factors are responsible for either inhibiting or promoting the
expression of genes, and master regulatory transcription factors are like transcription factors on steroids: their actions regulate thousands of genes
in different kinds of
cells.
Previous work from Dekker and colleagues had shown that points of interaction along the chromosome influence gene
expression and are the reason why
different cell types are organized differently
in three dimensions.
Different abnormalities such as cleft palates, small skulls, and problems with higher brain function were seen depending on which
cell types lacked Smc3
expression, but the phenotypes were similar to those seen
in CdLS patients.
«Signaling pathways and gene
expression profiles are very
different in cells that grow
in 2D and 3D cultures,» says Oksana Sirenko, a research scientist at Molecular Devices
in Sunnyvale, California.
That exposes DNA to
different proteins, thereby dampening gene
expression;
in this particular case, that disrupts proper
cell division.
It plays an important role
in how
cells sense their neighbors and, by controlling gene
expression, determines which
cells should develop into
different types and how much they should grow - like a master controller.»
Surprisingly, they found that although the patterns of gene
expression — as shown by the RNA sequencing — differed between the hepatocellular carcinomas and the liver cancers with biliary phenotype and depended on the histological type, the overall pattern of mutations
in the
cells was actually similar between the tumors — of either type — that had emerged
in patients who had had infections with either hepatitis C or B, and were
different in patients without such infections.
«This is because while both
cell types show hydroxyurea - induced gene
expression, collision with replication occurs differentially because replication forks have progressed to
different extent
in these
cells,» said Feng.
In their study, the team working with Zavolan exposed yeast
cells to
different stress conditions, measured their lifespan, protein synthesis rates and Gcn4
expression.
«Our study reveals important differences and specificities
in the mechanism of action of high - and low - dose aspirin
in metastatic and nonmetastatic cancer
cells with
different tumor origins and suggests that the ability of aspirin to prevent platelet - induced c - MYC [an oncoprotein]
expression might be selective for a nonmetastatic phenotype.»
PARTICLE acts
in three
different ways to prevent
expression of the MAT2A gene: 1) by winding around the MAT2A gene to create a DNA: RNA triple helix structure locking down the MAT2A gene promoter, 2) by binding the messenger RNA product of the MAT2A gene and preventing it being used for MAT2A protein synthesis and 3) transferring MAT2A messenger RNA into intracellular vesicles that are subsequently ejected from the
cell.
The analysis of
different tissues demonstrated MOCOS
expression in the brain
cells and intestine of several species, and notably the C. elegans worm and mammals.
In their new Science paper, the researchers analyzed gene expression in single cells across key developmental time points and from different regions of the brai
In their new Science paper, the researchers analyzed gene
expression in single cells across key developmental time points and from different regions of the brai
in single
cells across key developmental time points and from
different regions of the brain.
Another provocative observation from the new study was that transient gene
expression events during brain development set up broad distinctions
in neural fate between
cells in different areas
in the cerebral cortex.
For example, the researchers were able to identify previously unknown gene
expression differences between the neural stem
cells that give rise to the brain's deep structures versus its neocortical surface, and to show that molecular signatures of
different neural
cell types arise much earlier
in brain development than previously realized.
The researchers discovered that the activity of this electric signal is necessary
in different aspects of normal regeneration, namely for the
expression of crucial genes, formation of a mass of
cells capable of growth and regenerate, and proper tissue innervation.
The transmission of
different states of gene
expression through multiple
cell divisions and across generations has been termed «epigenetic,» since the underlying DNA sequence is identical
in both states.
The generality of this observation was further confirmed by examining the
expression of miR - 7
in 2
different cell lines, CN34 and MCF7, and their metastatic variants, CN34BoM, CN34BrM, and MCF7BoM.
Not only were levels of metabolic compounds
different, but the
expression of certain genes involved
in metabolism was turned up, and the epigenome of the
cells — molecular markers on DNA that change gene
expression on a broader scale — was altered.
C, miR - 7
expressions in both parental
cells and CSCs from
different cell lines were measured by TaqMan PCR.
A research team, led by Chao Cheng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
in the Department of Genetics at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, used gene
expression data from breast cancer patients to computationally infer the presence of
different types of immune
cells.
Most of these were invalidated when challenged with experimental data generated
in Smith's laboratory, which measured gene
expression of ESCs across 23
different cell culture conditions, all of which maintained pluripotency.
«A totally normal - looking worm with a normal gene
expression and stem
cell distribution can
in fact be harbouring a [body plan] that's quite
different,» says Levin.
Elowitz's team is now examining the role stochastic gene
expression plays
in stem
cells, undifferentiated
cells that give rise to the
different tissues
in our bodies.
Expression of Snail represses expression of E-cadherin and induces EMT in different cell types, including breast cancer cells
Expression of Snail represses
expression of E-cadherin and induces EMT in different cell types, including breast cancer cells
expression of E-cadherin and induces EMT
in different cell types, including breast cancer
cells [36, 37].
In order to perform gene
expression signal deconvolution we applied CIBERSORT35 v1.04 and the LM22 gene signature to all blood samples, using gene RPKMs, with default parameters, deconvoluting the signal into 22
different cell types.
To understand why skin
cells in diverse parts of the body have
different characteristics - how
cells know their «positional identities» - a fact that guides the diagnosis and treatment of many skin diseases, Dr. Chang and his colleagues are seeking to define
in molecular terms how the
expression of
different genes
in stromal
cells determines their ability to affect the development of skin
cells.
Instead, they discovered that each V. carteri
cell type expresses orthologs of genes from
different temporal phases of the light — dark cycle
in a related unicellular alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, with somatic
cells enriched for
expression of dark - phase genes, and gonidial
cells enriched for
expression of light - phase genes.
cell types may have evolved through cooption of temporal gene regulation
in an ancestor whose
different phases were converted into germ - and soma - specific
expression programs.
These results suggest that V. carteri
cell types may have evolved through cooption of temporal gene regulation
in an ancestor whose
different phases were converted into germ - and soma - specific
expression programs.
Testing eight
different combinations of the corrective tRNAs, each designed with or without the RP import signal, its modified aminoacyl stem, or the MTS, they found that with the inclusion of all three modifications — and only with their inclusion —
expression of their constructs induced a substantial increase
in mitochondrially - encoded protein synthesis (6 -8-fold) and respiration (~ 2.5-fold)
in mutant cybrid
cells.
Research Focus: I dedicate my time and effort to develop high - throughput sequencing technologies such as single
cell transcriptomic, ChIP - Seq, ChIA - PET, and many more... The scientific rational is to understand better and with a
different angle, the mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of gene
expression in (rare) immune
cells, pathologically relevant
in many diseases such as asthma, SLE, tuberculosis...
The overall score encompass several factors: reproducibility of the antibody staining
in different cell lines (and if signal strength correlates with RNA
expression levels); assays for enhanced antibody validation by using antibodies binding to
different epitopes on the same target protein (independent antibodies), by knockdown / knockout of the target protein (genetic methods) and by matching of the signal with a GFP - tagged protein (recombinant
expression); experimental evidence for location described
in literature.
The transcription factor recognizes several
different drugs and,
in turn, triggers the
expression of a transporter that pumps the drugs out of the
cell.
Protein
expression is annotated
in 76
different normal
cell types present
in these tissue samples.
A web - based tool
in which users can upload their individual SNP data and obtain predicted
expression levels for the set of predictable genes across the 14
different cell types.
The gelatinolytic assays were carried out
in two
different ways to obtain complementary information: firstly,
cells were treated or not with the test compound and samples from these were submitted to gelatinase zymography to detect the effects of the kahweol treatment on the
expression of gelatinase activities; secondly,
in some experiments, samples from control, untreated HT - 1080 fibrosarcoma
cells were submitted to zymography and, after electrophoresis,
different concentrations of kahweol were added to the substrate buffer to determine the potential direct effect of kahweol on gelatinase activity.
Back
in 2011, for example, her lab demonstrated that beta
cells in newborn rats are immature
cells with very
different gene
expression and function than adult beta
cells.
Massively parallel RNA sequencing (RNA - Seq) was used to investigate
in an unbiased fashion the
expression of
different genes, comparing the control and DAXX K / D
expression patterns
in PC3
cells (duplicate samples).
This way it is possible to obtain and compare the
expression pattern of genes
in the FunGenES database to the
expression profiles
in other tissues, experimental settings, or
different stem
cells types.
In unc - 9 unc - 7 double mutants, the UNC - 9:: GFP signal is qualitatively different — few bright punta arise, expression is more diffuse, and the GFP signal often concentrates in the cell soma of some B motor neurons, allowing for their visualizatio
In unc - 9 unc - 7 double mutants, the UNC - 9:: GFP signal is qualitatively
different — few bright punta arise,
expression is more diffuse, and the GFP signal often concentrates
in the cell soma of some B motor neurons, allowing for their visualizatio
in the
cell soma of some B motor neurons, allowing for their visualization.
On the other hand, if human material enter the plate of sorted
cells while cDNA is being generated, human mRNA will convert to cDNA but with consistent bulk - like
expression patterns
in the
different wells.
It is important to distinguish lineage specific gene
expression shown here, which occurs at a high level and with a degree of specificity
in the
different population compartments, to the low level of genome wide transcription observed
in ES
cells by others [22], or with transcript initiation at many loci noted previously
in ES
cells [23].
I had a hunch based on this work that microRNA
expression would be
different in breast cancer stem
cells than
in more differentiated tumor
cells or normal tissue and that it would change as the stem
cells differentiated to form a tumor.