scholarly journals Genome-Wide Analyses of the Genetic Screening of C2H2-Type Zinc Finger Transcription Factors and Abiotic and Biotic Stress Responses in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) Based on RNA-Seq Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingting Zhao ◽  
Tairu Wu ◽  
Jia Zhang ◽  
Ziyu Wang ◽  
Tong Pei ◽  
...  
2013 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 761-775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuke Nakai ◽  
Yoichi Nakahira ◽  
Hiroki Sumida ◽  
Kosuke Takebayashi ◽  
Yumiko Nagasawa ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Wang ◽  
Gang Ren ◽  
Ni Hong ◽  
Wenfei Jin

Abstract Background: CCCTC-Binding Factor (CTCF), also known as 11-zinc finger protein, participates in many cellular processes, including insulator activity, transcriptional regulation and organization of chromatin architecture. Based on single cell flow cytometry and single cell RNA-FISH analyses, our previous study showed that deletion of CTCF binding site led to a significantly increase of cellular variation of its target gene. However, the effect of CTCF on genome-wide landscape of cell-to-cell variation is unclear. Results: We knocked down CTCF in EL4 cells using shRNA, and conducted single cell RNA-seq on both wild type (WT) cells and CTCF-Knockdown (CTCF-KD) cells using Fluidigm C1 system. Principal component analysis of single cell RNA-seq data showed that WT and CTCF-KD cells concentrated in two different clusters on PC1, indicating gene expression profiles of WT and CTCF-KD cells were systematically different. Interestingly, GO terms including regulation of transcription, DNA binding, Zinc finger and transcription factor binding were significantly enriched in CTCF-KD-specific highly variable genes, indicating tissue-specific genes such as transcription factors were highly sensitive to CTCF level. The dysregulation of transcription factors potentially explain why knockdown of CTCF lead to systematic change of gene expression. In contrast, housekeeping genes such as rRNA processing, DNA repair and tRNA processing were significantly enriched in WT-specific highly variable genes, potentially due to a higher cellular variation of cell activity in WT cells compared to CTCF-KD cells. We further found cellular variation-increased genes were significantly enriched in down-regulated genes, indicating CTCF knockdown simultaneously reduced the expression levels and increased the expression noise of its regulated genes. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to explore genome-wide landscape of cellular variation after CTCF knockdown. Our study not only advances our understanding of CTCF function in maintaining gene expression and reducing expression noise, but also provides a framework for examining gene function.


Author(s):  
Grace Armijo ◽  
Carmen Espinoza ◽  
Rodrigo Loyola ◽  
Franko Restovic ◽  
Claudia Santibáñez ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 413-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Signorelli ◽  
Łukasz Paweł Tarkowski ◽  
Wim Van den Ende ◽  
Diane C. Bassham

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