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High-throughput Epigenetic Regulatory Organisation In Chromatin

Objetivo

The completed genetic code of many organisms gives science the chance at last to understand how genes build organisms. Unfortunately, like all truly great codes simply decoding the letters does not explain how life is manifest since buried deep in the primary genetic code is a second regulatory code that we need to decipher to understand how the genome works. This regulatory code is encrypted in chromatin and 3D nuclear organization and functions to regulate accessibility of the primary genetic information. We know that there is linear genome organization and that genes subject to similar regulatory controls are adjacent to each other. What we do not yet know is the extent of these 'genome domains' if domains operate between different chromosomes, or, how domains are set up and maintained. Answers to these questions will depend upon global and long-range genome strategies that need the development of high throughput technologies. HEROIC will take a two-pronged approach. First, HEROIC will develop global biochemical and high throughput genomic tools and screens that will identify novel gene regulators and determine when and where transcription factors, histone modifying enzymes and chromatin remodeling proteins, interact with the primary genetic code. Second, well-characterized progenitor-differentiation systems such as pluripotent mouse ES cells and paradigm silencing models from genomic imprinting and X inactivation will be studied using high throughput ChIP-on-chip, chromosome interaction and whole genome nuclear localization assays to provide basic information on linear and 3D genome organization. HEROIC will provide knowledge that contributes to a functional understanding of gene regulation in a genome context. It will inject epigenetic research with high throughput technology on a genome-wide scale, thus making a wider contribution to understanding the primary genetic code that will eventually allow society the full benefit expected from its decryption.

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FP6-2004-LIFESCIHEALTH-5
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IP - Integrated Project

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STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT
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Toernooiveld 1
NIJMEGEN
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