Project information
Human genome structure
- Project Identification
- IAA5004306
- Project Period
- 1/2003 - 12/2007
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Grants of distinctly investigative character focused on the sphere of research pursued at present particularly in the ASCR
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Informatics
- Keywords
- nuclear architecture; chromosome structure; FISH; high-resolution cytometry;
- Cooperating Organization
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Institute of Biophysics
- Responsible person doc. RNDr. Stanislav Kozubek, DrSc.
One of the main directions of human genome research in the post-genomic eta is the study of its higher-order structure that became the key to understanding of the most important cellular processes such as cell differentiation or transformation. Using high-resolution cytometry developed in our laboratory, nuclear and territorial topography of genetic elements will be systematically investigated in normal and malignant human cell types. The topography and its changel will be correlated with local acetylation of histones, methylation of DNA and expression of gene clusters. In addition, changes of the structure of chromosome terriories or whole human genome in the cell nucleus during differentiation and cancerogenesis will be determined and an attempt will be made to find the basic psrinciples of the epigenetic regulation of gene expression. The practical goal of the project is the use of experimental results and technology developed in our laboratory in diagnostics ant therapy of cancer.
Results
The practical goal of the project is the use of experimental results and technology developed in our laboratory in diagnostics and therapy of cancer.
Publications
Total number of publications: 32
2004
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Gene expression in colorectal carcinoma determined by cDNA microarrays using a combination of several evaluation approaches.
Biophysics of the Genome, year: 2004
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Image analysis of the movement of sub-cellular structures
Biophysics of the Genome, year: 2004
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Rapid Image Acquisition of Living Cells and its Limits
Biophysics of the Genome, year: 2004
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Relationship of HP1 proteins to centromeric heterochromatin characterized by the presence of H3(K9) and absence of H3(K4) dimethylation
Biophysics of the Genome, year: 2004
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Topographic characterization of telomeres in healthy and various tumor cell lines determined in situ and in vivo
Year: 2004, type: Conference abstract
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Topography of genetic loci in the nuclei of cells of colorectal carcinoma and adjacent tissue of colonic epithelium
Chromosoma, year: 2004, volume: 112, edition: 5
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Towards a Fully Automated Tissue Cell Segmentation Method
Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, year: 2004
2003
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Cytogenetics and cytology of retinoblastomas
J Cancer Res. Clin.Oncol., year: 2003, volume: 129, edition: 2
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Detailed studies of the human genome 3D structure
Biophysics of the Genome, year: 2003
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Chromosomal territory segmentation in apoptotic cells
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, year: 2003, volume: 60, edition: 5