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Notch/Her12 signalling modulates, motile/immotile cilia ratio downstream of Fox...
Tavares, Barbara; Jacinto, Raquel; Sampaio, Pedro; Pestana, Sara; Pinto, Andreia; Vaz, Andreia; Roxo-Rosa, Mónica; Gardner, Rui; Lopes, TelmaFoxj1a is necessary and sufficient to specify motile cilia. Using transcriptional studies and slow-scan two-photon live imaging capable of identifying the number of motile and immotile cilia, we now established that the final number of motile cilia depends on Notch signalling (NS). We found that despite all left-right organizer (LRO) cells express foxj1a and the ciliary axonemes of these cells have dynein arms,...
Independent recruitment of Igh alleles in V(D)J recombination
Alves-Pereira, Clara F.; de Freitas, Raquel; Lopes, Telma; Gardner, Rui; Marta, Filipa; Vieira, Paulo; Barreto, Vasco M.How the vast majority of B cells express only one of the two alleles at their immunoglobulin loci remains a biological puzzle. Here, in mice reconstituted with a single haematopoietic stem cell, we demonstrate that each of the two immunoglobulin heavy chain (Igh) alleles has a similar probability to be the first to undergo V(H) to DJ(H) rearrangement. We also observe this similar probability in clones from mult...
A Novel Quantitative Fluorescent Reporter Assay for RAG Targets and RAG Activity
Trancoso, Inês; Bonnet, Marie; Gardner, Rui; Carneiro, Jorge; Barreto, Vasco M.; Demengeot, Jocelyne; Sarmento, Leonor M.Recombination-Activating Genes (RAG) 1 and 2 form the site specific recombinase that mediates V(D)J recombination, a process of DNA editing required for lymphocyte development and responsible for their diverse repertoire of antigen receptors. Mistargeted RAG activity associates with genome alteration and is responsible for various lymphoid tumors. Moreover several non-lymphoid tumors express RAG ectopically. A ...
Expression Profile of microRNAs Regulating Proliferation and Differentiation in...
Brás-Rosário, Luis; Matsuda, Alex; Pinheiro, Ana Isabel; Gardner, Rui; Lopes, Telma; Amaral, Andreia; Gama-Carvalho, MargaridaThe identification of cardiac cells with stem cell properties changed the paradigm of the heart as a post mitotic organ. These cells proliferate and differentiate into cardiomyocytes, endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells, providing for cardiac cell homeostasis and regeneration. microRNAs are master switches controlling proliferation and differentiation, in particular regulating stem cell biology and car...
Expression profile of microRNAs regulating proliferation and differentiation in...
Rosário, Luis Brás; Matsuda, Alex; Pinheiro, Ana Isabel; Gardner, Rui; Lopes, Telma; Amaral, Andreia; Carvalho, Margarida GamaThe identification of cardiac cells with stem cell properties changed the paradigm of the heart as a post mitotic organ. These cells proliferate and differentiate into cardiomyocytes, endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells, providing for cardiac cell homeostasis and regeneration. microRNAs are master switches controlling proliferation and differentiation, in particular regulating stem cell biology and car...
Highly dynamic host actin reorganization around developing Plasmodium inside he...
Gomes-Santos, Carina S. S.; Itoe, Maurice A.; Afonso, Cristina; Henriques, Ricardo; Gardner, Rui; Sepúlveda, Nuno; Simões, Pedro D.; Raquel, HelenaPlasmodium sporozoites are transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes and infect hepatocytes, where a single sporozoite replicates into thousands of merozoites inside a parasitophorous vacuole. The nature of the Plasmodium-host cell interface, as well as the interactions occurring between these two organisms, remains largely unknown. Here we show that highly dynamic hepatocyte actin reorganization events occur around ...
Reprogramming of DNA Methylation in Pollen Guides Epigenetic Inheritance via Sm...
Calarco, Joseph P.; Borges, Filipe; Donoghue, Mark T.A.; Van Ex, Frédéric; Jullien, Pauline E.; Lopes, Telma; Gardner, Rui; Berger, FrédéricEpigenetic inheritance is more widespread in plants than in mammals, in part because mammals erase epigenetic information by germline reprogramming. We sequenced the methylome of three haploid cell types from developing pollen: the sperm cell, the vegetative cell, and their precursor, the postmeiotic microspore, and found that unlike in mammals the plant germline retains CG and CHG DNA methylation. However, CHH...
A Rapid FACS-Based Strategy to Isolate Human Gene Knockin and Knockout Clones
Mata, João F.; Lopes, Telma; Gardner, Rui; Jansen, Lars E. T.Gene targeting protocols for mammalian cells remain inefficient and labor intensive. Here we describe FASTarget, a rapid, fluorescent cell sorting based strategy to isolate rare gene targeting events in human somatic cells. A fluorescent protein is used as a means for direct selection of targeted clones obviating the need for selection and outgrowth of drug resistant clones. Importantly, the use of a promoter-l...
FACS-based purification of Arabidopsis microspores, sperm cells and vegetative ...
Borges, Filipe; Gardner, Rui; Lopes, Telma; Calarco, Joseph P; Boavida, Leonor C; Slotkin, R; Martienssen, Robert A; Becker, Jörg DBackground: The male germline in flowering plants differentiates by asymmetric division of haploid uninucleated microspores, giving rise to a vegetative cell enclosing a smaller generative cell, which eventually undergoes a second mitosis to originate two sperm cells. The vegetative cell and the sperm cells activate distinct genetic and epigenetic mechanisms to control pollen tube growth and germ cell specifica...
Highly dynamic host actin reorganization around developing Plasmodium inside he...
Gomes-Santos, Carina S S; Itoe, Maurice A; Afonso, Cristina; Henriques, Ricardo; Gardner, Rui; Sepúlveda, Nuno; Simões, Pedro D; Raquel, HelenaPlasmodium sporozoites are transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes and infect hepatocytes, where a single sporozoite replicates into thousands of merozoites inside a parasitophorous vacuole. The nature of the Plasmodium-host cell interface, as well as the interactions occurring between these two organisms, remains largely unknown. Here we show that highly dynamic hepatocyte actin reorganization events occur around ...