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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Activation of endogenous full-length active LINE-1 RNA using CRISPR activation to study its role during somatic cell reprogramming

Alsolami, Amjad 11 1900 (has links)
The repetitive sequence composes nearly half of human and mouse genome, most of which are scattered repeats of transposable elements (TEs). The non-LTR retrotransposons are the most accumulated TEs in the mammalian genome and L1s are the most active and abundant autonomous retrotransposons. L1s are highly activated during the epigenetic reprogramming of early mammalian embryos and have the highest level of expression among all retrotransposons throughout the preimplantation state. Moreover, the reprogramming of somatic cells into iPSCs is associated with an increase in L1 expression. The transcription of L1 during the early embryogenesis is necessary to regulate developmental genes and prevent heterochromatin formation to maintain cellular pluripotency state, that guarantying an appropriate future differentiation. However, the role of L1 reactivation during the somatic cell reprogramming remains unclear. Therefore, aim of this work is to study the impact of L1 transcription during the reprogramming process of the iPSCs. We used CRISPR-mediated gene activation (CRISPRa) system that fuse a deactivated Cas9 (dCas9) with transactivation domains (VPR). We confirm the ability to overexpress L1 in Human Embryonic Kidney cells (HEK293) and Human Dermal Fibroblasts (HDFs) by utilizing CRISPR activation system and this will provide a good opportunity to study the role of L1 transcripts during the reprogramming of HDFs into iPSCs. Furthermore, we established stable HDFs that able to express combinations of “Yamanaka” reprogramming factors. The model system will allow to investigate the effect of overexpressing L1 with reprogramming factors to answer the question of whether L1 can trigger or facilitate the reprogramming processes and its underlying mechanism.
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Systems biology approaches to somatic cell reprogramming reveal new insights into the order of events, transcriptional and epigenetic control of the process

Scharp, Till 03 November 2014 (has links)
Die Reprogrammierung somatischer Zellen hat sich kürlich als leistungsfähige Technik für die Herstellung von induzierten pluripotenten Stammzellen (iPS Zellen) aus terminal differenzierten Zellen bewährt. Trotz der großen Hoffnung, die sie speziell im Bezug auf patientenspezifische Stammzelltherapie darstellt, gibt es viele Hindernisse auf dem Weg zur Anwendung in der Humanmedizin, die sich von niedrigen Effizienzen bei der technischen Umsetzung bis hin zur unerwünschten Integration von Onkogenen in das menschliche Genom erstrecken. Aus diesem Grund ist es unabdingbar, unser Verständnis der zugrundeliegenden Prozesse und Mechanismen zu vertiefen. Durch neue Datengewinnungsmethoden und stetig wachsende biologische Komplexität hat sich der Denkansatz der Systembiologie in den letzten Jahrzehnten stark etabliert und erfährt eine fortwährende Entwicklung seiner Anwendbarkeit auf komplexe biologische und biochemische Zusammenhänge. Verschiedene mathematische Modellierungsmethoden werden auf den Reprogrammierungsprozess angewendet um Engpässe und mögliche Effizienz-Optimierungen zu erforschen. Es werden topologische Merkmale eines Pluripotenznetzwerkes untersucht, um Unterschiede zu zufällig generierten Netzen und so topologische Einschränkungen des biologisch relevanten Netzwerkes zu finden. Die Optimierung eines Booleschen Modells aus einem selbst kuratierten Netzwerk in Bezug auf Genexpressionsdaten aus Reprogrammierungsexperimenten gewährt tiefgreifende Einblicke in die ersten Schritte und wichtigsten Faktoren des Prozesses. Der Transkriptionsfaktor SP1 spielt hierbei eine wichtige Rolle zur Induktion eines intermediären, transkriptionell inaktiven Zustands. Ein probabilistisches Boole''sches Modell verdeutlicht das Zusammenspiel epigenetischer und transkriptioneller Kontrollprozesse zusammen, um Pluripotenz- und Zelllinien-Entscheidungen in Reprogrammierung und Differenzierung zu treffen. Erklärungen für die geringe Effizienz werden versucht. / Somatic Cell Reprogramming has emerged as a powerful technique for the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from terminally differentiated cells in recent years. Although holding great promises for future clinical development, especially in patient specific stem cell therapy, the barriers on the way to a human application are manifold ranging from low technical efficiencies to undesirable integration of oncogenes into the genome. It is thus indispensable to further our understanding of the underlying processes involved in this technique. With the advent of new data acquisition technologies and an ever-growing complexity of biological knowledge, the Systems Biology approach has seen an evolution of its applicability to the elaborate questions and problems of researchers. Using different mathematical modeling approaches the process of somatic cell reprogramming is examined to find out bottlenecks and possible enhancements of its efficiency. I analyze the topological characteristics of a pluripotency network in order to find differences to randomly generated networks and thus deduce constraints of the biologically relevant network. The optimization of a Boolean model from a curated network against early reprogramming gene expression profiles reveals profound insights into the first steps and most important factors of the process. The transcription factor SP1 emerges to play an important role in the induction of an intermediate, transcriptionally inactive state. A probabilistic Boolean network (PBN) illustrates the interplay of transcriptional and epigenetic regulatory processes in order to explain pluripotency and cell lineage decisions in reprogramming and differentiation. Explanations for the low reprogramming efficiencies are tried.

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