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Analysis of Trans Esnps Infers Regulatory Network Architecture
Analysis of trans eSNPs infers regulatory network architecture Anat Kreimer Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2014 © 2014 Anat Kreimer All rights reserved ABSTRACT Analysis of trans eSNPs infers regulatory network architecture Anat Kreimer eSNPs are genetic variants associated with transcript expression levels. The characteristics of such variants highlight their importance and present a unique opportunity for studying gene regulation. eSNPs affect most genes and their cell type specificity can shed light on different processes that are activated in each cell. They can identify functional variants by connecting SNPs that are implicated in disease to a molecular mechanism. Examining eSNPs that are associated with distal genes can provide insights regarding the inference of regulatory networks but also presents challenges due to the high statistical burden of multiple testing. Such association studies allow: simultaneous investigation of many gene expression phenotypes without assuming any prior knowledge and identification of unknown regulators of gene expression while uncovering directionality. This thesis will focus on such distal eSNPs to map regulatory interactions between different loci and expose the architecture of the regulatory network defined by such interactions. We develop novel computational approaches and apply them to genetics-genomics data in human. We go beyond pairwise interactions to define network motifs, including regulatory modules and bi-fan structures, showing them to be prevalent in real data and exposing distinct attributes of such arrangements. We project eSNP associations onto a protein-protein interaction network to expose topological properties of eSNPs and their targets and highlight different modes of distal regulation. -
A Genetic Screen Identifies the Triple T Complex Required for DNA Damage Signaling and ATM and ATR Stability
Downloaded from genesdev.cshlp.org on September 27, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press A genetic screen identifies the Triple T complex required for DNA damage signaling and ATM and ATR stability Kristen E. Hurov, Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino, and Stephen J. Elledge1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA In response to DNA damage, cells activate a complex signal transduction network called the DNA damage response (DDR). To enhance our current understanding of the DDR network, we performed a genome-wide RNAi screen to identify genes required for resistance to ionizing radiation (IR). Along with a number of known DDR genes, we discovered a large set of novel genes whose depletion leads to cellular sensitivity to IR. Here we describe TTI1 (Tel two-interacting protein 1) and TTI2 as highly conserved regulators of the DDR in mammals. TTI1 and TTI2 protect cells from spontaneous DNA damage, and are required for the establishment of the intra-S and G2/M checkpoints. TTI1 and TTI2 exist in multiple complexes, including a 2-MDa complex with TEL2 (telomere maintenance 2), called the Triple T complex, and phosphoinositide-3-kinase-related protein kinases (PIKKs) such as ataxia telangiectasia-mutated (ATM). The components of the TTT complex are mutually dependent on each other, and act as critical regulators of PIKK abundance and checkpoint signaling. [Keywords: TTI1; TEL2; TTI2; PIKK; TTT complex; IR sensitivity] Supplemental material is available at http://www.genesdev.org. Received April 5, 2010; revised version accepted July 22, 2010. -
Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of High-Throughput Genomic Data with Applications to Cancer Bioinformatics and Stem Cell Differentiation
BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELING OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT GENOMIC DATA WITH APPLICATIONS TO CANCER BIOINFORMATICS AND STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION by Keegan D. Korthauer A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Statistics) at the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MADISON 2015 Date of final oral examination: 05/04/15 The dissertation is approved by the following members of the Final Oral Committee: Christina Kendziorski, Professor, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Michael A. Newton, Professor, Statistics Sunduz Kele¸s,Professor, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Sijian Wang, Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Michael N. Gould, Professor, Oncology © Copyright by Keegan D. Korthauer 2015 All Rights Reserved i in memory of my grandparents Ma and Pa FL Grandma and John ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost, I am deeply grateful to my thesis advisor Christina Kendziorski for her invaluable advice, enthusiastic support, and unending patience throughout my time at UW-Madison. She has provided sound wisdom on everything from methodological principles to the intricacies of academic research. I especially appreciate that she has always encouraged me to eke out my own path and I attribute a great deal of credit to her for the successes I have achieved thus far. I also owe special thanks to my committee member Professor Michael Newton, who guided me through one of my first collaborative research experiences and has continued to provide key advice on my thesis research. I am also indebted to the other members of my thesis committee, Professor Sunduz Kele¸s,Professor Sijian Wang, and Professor Michael Gould, whose valuable comments, questions, and suggestions have greatly improved this dissertation. -
Modulating Mistranslation Potential of Trnaser in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLE | INVESTIGATION Modulating Mistranslation Potential of tRNASer in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Matthew D. Berg,*,1 Yanrui Zhu,* Julie Genereaux,* Bianca Y. Ruiz,† Ricard A. Rodriguez-Mias,† Tyler Allan,* Alexander Bahcheli,* Judit Villén,† and Christopher J. Brandl*,1 *Department of Biochemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada and †Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 ORCID IDs: 0000-0002-7924-9241 (M.D.B.); 0000-0002-1005-1739 (J.V.); 0000-0001-8015-9668 (C.J.B.) ABSTRACT Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) read the genetic code, translating nucleic acid sequence into protein. For tRNASer the anticodon does not specify its aminoacylation. For this reason, mutations in the tRNASer anticodon can result in amino acid substitutions, a process called mistranslation. Previously, we found that tRNASer with a proline anticodon was lethal to cells. However, by incorporating secondary mutations into the tRNA, mistranslation was dampened to a nonlethal level. The goal of this work was to identify second-site substitutions in tRNASer that modulate mistranslation to different levels. Targeted changes to putative identity elements led to total loss of tRNA function or significantly impaired cell growth. However, through genetic selection, we identified 22 substi- tutions that allow nontoxic mistranslation. These secondary mutations are primarily in single-stranded regions or substitute G:U base pairs for Watson–Crick pairs. Many of the variants are more toxic at low temperature and upon impairing the rapid tRNA decay pathway. We suggest that the majority of the secondary mutations affect the stability of the tRNA in cells. The temperature sensitivity of the tRNAs allows conditional mistranslation. -
A Computational Approach for Defining a Signature of Β-Cell Golgi Stress in Diabetes Mellitus
Page 1 of 781 Diabetes A Computational Approach for Defining a Signature of β-Cell Golgi Stress in Diabetes Mellitus Robert N. Bone1,6,7, Olufunmilola Oyebamiji2, Sayali Talware2, Sharmila Selvaraj2, Preethi Krishnan3,6, Farooq Syed1,6,7, Huanmei Wu2, Carmella Evans-Molina 1,3,4,5,6,7,8* Departments of 1Pediatrics, 3Medicine, 4Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology, 5Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, the 6Center for Diabetes & Metabolic Diseases, and the 7Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202; 2Department of BioHealth Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, 46202; 8Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN 46202. *Corresponding Author(s): Carmella Evans-Molina, MD, PhD ([email protected]) Indiana University School of Medicine, 635 Barnhill Drive, MS 2031A, Indianapolis, IN 46202, Telephone: (317) 274-4145, Fax (317) 274-4107 Running Title: Golgi Stress Response in Diabetes Word Count: 4358 Number of Figures: 6 Keywords: Golgi apparatus stress, Islets, β cell, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes 1 Diabetes Publish Ahead of Print, published online August 20, 2020 Diabetes Page 2 of 781 ABSTRACT The Golgi apparatus (GA) is an important site of insulin processing and granule maturation, but whether GA organelle dysfunction and GA stress are present in the diabetic β-cell has not been tested. We utilized an informatics-based approach to develop a transcriptional signature of β-cell GA stress using existing RNA sequencing and microarray datasets generated using human islets from donors with diabetes and islets where type 1(T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) had been modeled ex vivo. To narrow our results to GA-specific genes, we applied a filter set of 1,030 genes accepted as GA associated. -
Conserved and Novel Properties of Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis in Dictyostelium Discoideum" (2012)
Rockefeller University Digital Commons @ RU Student Theses and Dissertations 2012 Conserved and Novel Properties of Clathrin- Mediated Endocytosis in Dictyostelium Discoideum Laura Macro Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/ student_theses_and_dissertations Part of the Life Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Macro, Laura, "Conserved and Novel Properties of Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis in Dictyostelium Discoideum" (2012). Student Theses and Dissertations. Paper 163. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ RU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Student Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ RU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CONSERVED AND NOVEL PROPERTIES OF CLATHRIN- MEDIATED ENDOCYTOSIS IN DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Rockefeller University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Laura Macro June 2012 © Copyright by Laura Macro 2012 CONSERVED AND NOVEL PROPERTIES OF CLATHRIN- MEDIATED ENDOCYTOSIS IN DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM Laura Macro, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University 2012 The protein clathrin mediates one of the major pathways of endocytosis from the extracellular milieu and plasma membrane. Clathrin functions with a network of interacting accessory proteins, one of which is the adaptor complex AP-2, to co-ordinate vesicle formation. Disruption of genes involved in clathrin-mediated endocytosis causes embryonic lethality in multicellular animals suggesting that clathrin-mediated endocytosis is a fundamental cellular process. However, loss of clathrin-mediated endocytosis genes in single cell eukaryotes, such as S.cerevisiae (yeast), does not cause lethality, suggesting that clathrin may convey specific advantages for multicellularity. -
Genetic and Genomic Analysis of Hyperlipidemia, Obesity and Diabetes Using (C57BL/6J × TALLYHO/Jngj) F2 Mice
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Nutrition Publications and Other Works Nutrition 12-19-2010 Genetic and genomic analysis of hyperlipidemia, obesity and diabetes using (C57BL/6J × TALLYHO/JngJ) F2 mice Taryn P. Stewart Marshall University Hyoung Y. Kim University of Tennessee - Knoxville, [email protected] Arnold M. Saxton University of Tennessee - Knoxville, [email protected] Jung H. Kim Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_nutrpubs Part of the Animal Sciences Commons, and the Nutrition Commons Recommended Citation BMC Genomics 2010, 11:713 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-713 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Nutrition at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Nutrition Publications and Other Works by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Stewart et al. BMC Genomics 2010, 11:713 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/713 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Genetic and genomic analysis of hyperlipidemia, obesity and diabetes using (C57BL/6J × TALLYHO/JngJ) F2 mice Taryn P Stewart1, Hyoung Yon Kim2, Arnold M Saxton3, Jung Han Kim1* Abstract Background: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is the most common form of diabetes in humans and is closely associated with dyslipidemia and obesity that magnifies the mortality and morbidity related to T2D. The genetic contribution to human T2D and related metabolic disorders is evident, and mostly follows polygenic inheritance. The TALLYHO/ JngJ (TH) mice are a polygenic model for T2D characterized by obesity, hyperinsulinemia, impaired glucose uptake and tolerance, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia. -
Genetic Analysis of Over One Million People Identifies 535 New Loci Associated with Blood 2 Pressure Traits
1 Genetic analysis of over one million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood 2 pressure traits. 3 4 Table of Contents 5 SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES LEGENDS……………………………………………………………………………….…….3 6 SUPPLEMENTARY FIGURES LEGENDS ........................................................................................ 6 7 SUPPLEMENTARY METHODS ................................................................................................... 10 8 1. UK Biobank data .................................................................................................................................... 10 9 2. UKB Quality Control ............................................................................................................................... 10 10 3. Phenotypic data ..................................................................................................................................... 11 11 4. UKB analysis ........................................................................................................................................... 11 12 5. Genomic inflation and confounding ....................................................................................................... 12 13 6. International Consortium for Blood Pressure (ICBP) GWAS .................................................................... 12 14 7. Meta-analyses of discovery datasets ..................................................................................................... 13 15 8. Linkage Disequilibrium calculations ...................................................................................................... -
Rationale for the Development of Alternative Forms of Androgen Deprivation Therapy
248 S Kumari, D Senapati et al. New approaches to inhibit 24:8 R275–R295 Review AR action Rationale for the development of alternative forms of androgen deprivation therapy Sangeeta Kumari1,*, Dhirodatta Senapati1,* and Hannelore V Heemers1,2,3 1Department of Cancer Biology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Correspondence 2Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA should be addressed 3Department of Hematology/Medical Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA to H V Heemers *(S Kumari and D Senapati contributed equally to this work) Email [email protected] Abstract With few exceptions, the almost 30,000 prostate cancer deaths annually in the United Key Words States are due to failure of androgen deprivation therapy. Androgen deprivation f androgen receptor therapy prevents ligand-activation of the androgen receptor. Despite initial remission f prostate cancer after androgen deprivation therapy, prostate cancer almost invariably progresses while f nuclear receptor continuing to rely on androgen receptor action. Androgen receptor’s transcriptional f coregulator output, which ultimately controls prostate cancer behavior, is an alternative therapeutic f transcription target, but its molecular regulation is poorly understood. Recent insights in the molecular f castration mechanisms by which the androgen receptor controls transcription of its target genes f hormonal therapy are uncovering gene specificity as well as context-dependency. Heterogeneity in the Endocrine-Related Cancer Endocrine-Related androgen receptor’s transcriptional output is reflected both in its recruitment to diverse cognate DNA binding motifs and in its preferential interaction with associated pioneering factors, other secondary transcription factors and coregulators at those sites. This variability suggests that multiple, distinct modes of androgen receptor action that regulate diverse aspects of prostate cancer biology and contribute differentially to prostate cancer’s clinical progression are active simultaneously in prostate cancer cells. -
Sexual Dimorphism in Brain Transcriptomes of Amami Spiny Rats (Tokudaia Osimensis): a Rodent Species Where Males Lack the Y Chromosome Madison T
Ortega et al. BMC Genomics (2019) 20:87 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-5426-6 RESEARCHARTICLE Open Access Sexual dimorphism in brain transcriptomes of Amami spiny rats (Tokudaia osimensis): a rodent species where males lack the Y chromosome Madison T. Ortega1,2, Nathan J. Bivens3, Takamichi Jogahara4, Asato Kuroiwa5, Scott A. Givan1,6,7,8 and Cheryl S. Rosenfeld1,2,8,9* Abstract Background: Brain sexual differentiation is sculpted by precise coordination of steroid hormones during development. Programming of several brain regions in males depends upon aromatase conversion of testosterone to estrogen. However, it is not clear the direct contribution that Y chromosome associated genes, especially sex- determining region Y (Sry), might exert on brain sexual differentiation in therian mammals. Two species of spiny rats: Amami spiny rat (Tokudaia osimensis) and Tokunoshima spiny rat (T. tokunoshimensis) lack a Y chromosome/Sry, and these individuals possess an XO chromosome system in both sexes. Both Tokudaia species are highly endangered. To assess the neural transcriptome profile in male and female Amami spiny rats, RNA was isolated from brain samples of adult male and female spiny rats that had died accidentally and used for RNAseq analyses. Results: RNAseq analyses confirmed that several genes and individual transcripts were differentially expressed between males and females. In males, seminal vesicle secretory protein 5 (Svs5) and cytochrome P450 1B1 (Cyp1b1) genes were significantly elevated compared to females, whereas serine (or cysteine) peptidase inhibitor, clade A, member 3 N (Serpina3n) was upregulated in females. Many individual transcripts elevated in males included those encoding for zinc finger proteins, e.g. -
Integrating Protein Copy Numbers with Interaction Networks to Quantify Stoichiometry in Mammalian Endocytosis
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.29.361196; this version posted October 29, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. Integrating protein copy numbers with interaction networks to quantify stoichiometry in mammalian endocytosis Daisy Duan1, Meretta Hanson1, David O. Holland2, Margaret E Johnson1* 1TC Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218. 2NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892. *Corresponding Author: [email protected] bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.29.361196; this version posted October 29, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. Abstract Proteins that drive processes like clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) are expressed at various copy numbers within a cell, from hundreds (e.g. auxilin) to millions (e.g. clathrin). Between cell types with identical genomes, copy numbers further vary significantly both in absolute and relative abundance. These variations contain essential information about each protein’s function, but how significant are these variations and how can they be quantified to infer useful functional behavior? Here, we address this by quantifying the stoichiometry of proteins involved in the CME network. We find robust trends across three cell types in proteins that are sub- vs super-stoichiometric in terms of protein function, network topology (e.g. -
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