Effects of ploidy and sex - locus genotype
on gene expression patterns in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta.
The application of transgenesis and other genetic methods - in conjunction with total genome sequence and database information
on gene expression patterns, morphological changes during development, and mutant phenotypes - should significantly enhance our ability to unravel the multilayered networks that control gene expression and differentiation.
They examined the effect of meditation
on gene expression patterns in both novice and regular meditators.
Not exact matches
In the clearest possible case, the ANT - OAR cell would differ from a zygote
on all of the parameters noted above: The ANT - OAR cell would have a
pattern of
gene expression that is clearly distinct from a zygote; it would generate a homogeneous population of cells rather than multiple cell types; it would undergo simple cleavage divisions and not produce any multicellular structures.
Once the
pattern of
expression of these
genes had been identified, Prof. Khatri and his colleagues tested it out
on the remaining 900 samples from patients with different tropical diseases and from healthy people.
Indeed, the group found that the affected
gene, named left - right dynein (lrd), comes
on in the «node» — a key source of
patterning signals — just before the appearance in the mouse embryo of the first known left - right asymmetries, the left - sided
expression of two
genes called nodal and lefty.
Another version, the CTC - iChip, rapidly isolates CTCs in a way that does not rely
on preidentified tumor antigens, allowing capture of cells with
gene expression patterns that may be missed by the antibodies used in the HBCTC - Chip.
Horvath and Tell observed that there are many clearly visible
patterns of common
gene expression — where certain
genes are turned
on and certain
genes are turned off — in the basal - like cancers.
In cells grown
on flat culture dishes, the
expression of thousands of
genes didn't match up with their normal
patterns, explaining why the cells from those dishes had been unable to generate new hair follicles.
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.
The epigenetic
pattern consists of molecules known as methyl groups, which are placed
on the
genes and affect their function and
gene expression.
But brain cells that had been created using the direct conversion technique had different
patterns of
gene expression depending
on whether they were created from young donors or older adults.
Bhaduri then used statistical algorithms to cluster different cells based
on their
patterns of
gene expression.
Because
genes on the Y chromosome often vary slightly in sequence — and even function — from the corresponding
genes on the X, males could have slightly different
patterns of
gene expression throughout the body compared with females, due to not only their hormone levels, but also their entire Y chromosome.
They are driven by stem cells with the proneural
pattern of
gene expression and depend
on rapid cell division and angiogenesis — creation of new blood vessels.
Still others are working to overlay
gene -
expression patterns, electrophysiological measurements or other functional data
on those maps.
A careful examination of tassel development in the maize BR mutants, and evaluation of
gene expression patterns during BR loss and GA supplementation, may help shed light
on links between these two systems.
The process used by NIH to select the mouse lines involved a rigorous scientific review process that evaluated information
on the knocked out
gene, the reliability of the method used to produce the knockout, and whether the mouse line possesses a «reporter»
gene, which enables researchers to analyze the
pattern of the knockout
gene's
expression in various mouse tissues.
A dizzying number of genetic transcripts, proteins and other molecular players alternatively glom together or fall apart, turning
on or tuning down countless
patterns of
gene expression that keep our cells, organs and bodies humming along with the Earth's daily rotations.
«The authors went
on to study the resulting blastocysts for aneuploidy (frequency of abnormal chromosomes), and
pattern of
gene expression (which
genes are active and at what level).
By arraying nearly 18,000
genes on a glass chip about twice the size of a postage stamp and recording the
expression patterns of those
genes, researchers have obtained detailed molecular portraits of...
Further discussion
on detectable and tissue specificity
expression and
gene expression patterns across tissues can be found here25.
A reliability score is set manually for all
genes and indicates the level of reliability of the analyzed protein
expression pattern based
on available protein / RNA /
gene characterization data from both HPA and the UniProtKB / Swiss - Prot database.
The
gene - of - interest is first inspected
on three aspects in the BXD GRP, i.e. the existence of genetic variations, e (p) QTLs, and its
expression pattern across strains.
A reliability score is set for all
genes and indicates the level of reliability of the analyzed protein
expression pattern based
on available protein / RNA /
gene characterization data.
This
gene was confirmed as the Nasonia ortholog of doublesex based
on protein domains,
expression pattern, sex specific splice forms, and experimental demonstration that splice forms are associated with sex in a gynandromorph producing line [18].
We identify no overt
pattern in the
expression of either VR or OR
genes based
on cluster or genomic location (Figure 4, 5).
«So far, we have been comparing the
expression patterns of normal, preneoplastic and tumor tissue
on chips that let us look at 7,000
genes at once,» Chen said.
It has been demonstrated that the composition of the medium used for embryo culture has a profound effect
on the methylation
pattern in the resultant two - cell embryos [10], indicating that, in addition to imprinted
genes, other epigenetic alterations may intensely modify
gene expression.
After clicking
on any of the panels, for example
on the top left panel marked with a red asterisk, the
expression profiles of the individual
genes that follow the corresponding
pattern as well as their names appear in a new window (as shown in B).
These include: a) Global Clusters that consist of a small, tight subset of
genes that are co-expressed under the entire spectrum of experimental conditions; b) Time Series of
gene expression profiles during successive days of standard ES cell differentiation; c) Specific Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database clust
gene expression profiles during successive days of standard ES cell differentiation; c) Specific Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database
expression profiles during successive days of standard ES cell differentiation; c) Specific
Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database clust
Gene Classes based
on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d)
Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database
Expression Waves of
genes with characteristic
expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database
expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of
genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the
expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database
expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate
genes with various FunGenES database clusters.
During development,
genes within specific cell types are turned
on and off to trigger the necessary
expression patterns that create a whole animal.
The authors identify ten sub-regions based
on differential
gene expression, combining the
expression patterns of GAL4 driver lines and RNA seq. of dissected segments of the gut.