{"id":319,"date":"2020-07-26T20:01:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T17:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/?page_id=319"},"modified":"2021-11-26T13:19:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T10:19:33","slug":"research-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/index.php\/en\/research-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u0399. Development of techniques to study chromatin conformation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_133\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"wp-image-133\" src=\"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig3.eps_-300x274.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig3.eps_-300x274.png 300w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig3.eps_-1024x934.png 1024w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig3.eps_-768x701.png 768w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig3.eps_-600x547.png 600w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig3.eps_.png 1220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\">Example of T2C (adapted and modified from Kolovos et al., 2018)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Development of techniques which study the spatiotemporal chromatin architecture in various biological systems. Techniques such as 3C-seq (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nprot.2013.018?page=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stadhouders, <em>et al<\/em>., 2013<\/a>) and T2C (<a href=\"https:\/\/epigeneticsandchromatin.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/1756-8935-7-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kolovos <em>et al<\/em>., 2014<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nprot.2017.132?proof=trueIn%25EF%25BB%25BF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kolovos <em>et al<\/em>., 2018<\/a>), unveil the chromatin organization<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">T2C (<a href=\"https:\/\/epigeneticsandchromatin.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/1756-8935-7-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kolovos <em>et al<\/em>., 2014<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nprot.2017.132?proof=trueIn%25EF%25BB%25BF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kolovos <em>et al<\/em>., 2018<\/a>) allows to study the spatiotemporal chromatin organization, the compartmentalization and the interactome at high resolution (0.4 kbp), high coverage, without the need to bin the reads and with low cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u0399I. Chromatin architecture and the bimodal role of Transcription Factors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_143\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143\" class=\"wp-image-143\" src=\"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig2-300x237.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig2-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig2-1024x810.png 1024w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig2-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig2-600x475.png 600w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Fig2.png 1259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\">(Adapted and modified from Kolovos et al., 2016)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The study of the dynamics and of role of the transcription factors and the role of chromatin architecture in biological systems such as the hematopoietic differentiation (Kolovos <em>et al<\/em>., <em>in preparation<\/em>) and inflammation response of endothelial cells (<a href=\"https:\/\/genomebiology.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s13059-014-0536-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diermeier, <em>et al<\/em>. 2014<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/genome.cshlp.org\/content\/26\/11\/1478.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kolovos <em>et al<\/em>., 2016<\/a>). These revealed a combinatorial network of transcription factors which control gene regulation and expression via predetermined chromatin interactions (looping)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u0399I\u0399. Regulation of gene expression in response to signalling pathways<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_486\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-486\" class=\"wp-image-486\" src=\"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture1-e1603266555628-300x278.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture1-e1603266555628-300x278.png 300w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture1-e1603266555628.png 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\">Bimobal role of NF\u03baB in HUVECs (results concern Kolovos et al., 2016)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The study and the analysis of the dynamics of enhancers\/promoters (poised\/active\/silenced) and of the 3D\u00a0 chromatin organization in response\u00a0 to signalling pathways such as TNF\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 TGF, through various transcription factors active in these pathways and their role in regulation of gene expression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>V\u0399. Epigenetics in relation to regulation of gene expression<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_452\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-452\" class=\"wp-image-452 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kolovos_Nishimura_Sankar_et_al_Fig5.v2-1-300x151.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kolovos_Nishimura_Sankar_et_al_Fig5.v2-1-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kolovos_Nishimura_Sankar_et_al_Fig5.v2-1-1024x515.png 1024w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kolovos_Nishimura_Sankar_et_al_Fig5.v2-1-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kolovos_Nishimura_Sankar_et_al_Fig5.v2-1-1536x772.png 1536w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kolovos_Nishimura_Sankar_et_al_Fig5.v2-1-600x301.png 600w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kolovos_Nishimura_Sankar_et_al_Fig5.v2-1.png 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\">(Adapted and modified from Kolovos et al., 2020)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The polycomb proteins <span class=\"st\">(PRC1\/2) are important for the proper regulation of gene expression. We study the relationship of Polycomb repressive de-ubiquitinase (PR-DUB) with PRC1\/2 and its role in the maintenance of chromatin in an optimal state, through epigenetic mechanism, in order to control the proper gene expression of genes important various functions of the organisms <\/span><span class=\"st\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/genome.cshlp.org\/content\/30\/8\/1119.full\">Kolovos <em>et al<\/em>., 2020<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>V. Identification of new Transcription Factors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Screening approaches with state-of-the-art techniques (CRISPR-Cas9) in order to identify new transcription factors and their role in hematopoiesis. The aim is to unveil the underlying mechanisms of hematopoietic differentiation in order to understand the molecular backbone of hematopoiesis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_668\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"wp-image-668\" src=\"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screenshot-2021-11-26-at-10.07.23-AM-300x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screenshot-2021-11-26-at-10.07.23-AM-300x284.png 300w, https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screenshot-2021-11-26-at-10.07.23-AM.png 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\">Circular genome map of L. plantarum L125 (Adapted from Tegopoulos et al., 2021)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">VI. Analysis of microbiome and bacteria genome<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Developing methodologies to analyze the microbiome and bacteria genome, in order to <em>in silico<\/em> taxonomically and phylogenetically clasify them, as well as to<em> in silico<\/em> analyze their genome predicting their potential probiotic, health or other properties resulting in an easier and more targeted <em>in vitro<\/em> verification <span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fmicb.2021.746659\/full\">Stergiou <em>et al<\/em>., 2021<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2227-9059\/9\/11\/1718\/htm\">Tegopoulos <em>et al<\/em>., 2021<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0399. Development of techniques to study chromatin conformation Development of techniques which study the spatiotemporal chromatin architecture in various biological systems. Techniques such as 3C-seq (Stadhouders, et al., 2013) and T2C (Kolovos et al., 2014; Kolovos et al., 2018), unveil the chromatin organization T2C (Kolovos et al., 2014; Kolovos et al., 2018) allows to study&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/index.php\/en\/research-en\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-319","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systems.mbg.duth.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}