Abstract

Many human eye (and also ear) tissues and those of important animal models have now been analyzed. In addition NEIBank collaborations have added data on other sensory tissues, ear and taste bud. Recent eye additions include human optic nerve and human pterygium. This DNA resource has been used to create cDNA microarrays with 13,000 non-redundant human eye expressed sequences and 6500 sequences from mouse eye. These are being used in analysis of human cellular responses and genetically modified mouse models.? A powerful addition to the informatics tools for eye research is EyeBrowse, a dedicated genome browser for eye-expressed genes, produced in collaboration with CIT. http://eyebrowse.cit.nih.gov/genome/. Major additions are an annotated database of human eye disease genes and databases of candidate eye disease regions of the genome which are displayed in EyeBrowse with all known human eye-derived cDNAs and SAGE data, indicating expression profiles specific to eye.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Eye Institute (NEI)
Type
Intramural Research (Z01)
Project #
1Z01EY000320-10
Application #
7734608
Study Section
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
Budget End
Support Year
10
Fiscal Year
2008
Total Cost
$1,002,533
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
U.S. National Eye Institute
Department
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City
State
Country
United States
Zip Code

  Publications

Wistow, Graeme; Peterson, Katherine; Gao, James et al. (2008) NEIBank: genomics and bioinformatics resources for vision research. Mol Vis 14:1327-37
Harding, Rachel L; Howley, Sinead; Baker, Lee J et al. (2008) Lengsin expression and function during zebrafish lens formation. Exp Eye Res 86:807-18
Purkiss, Andrew G; Bateman, Orval A; Wyatt, Keith et al. (2007) Biophysical properties of gammaC-crystallin in human and mouse eye lens: the role of molecular dipoles. J Mol Biol 372:205-22
Popp, Michael P; Liu, Li; Timmers, Adrian et al. (2007) Development of a microarray chip for gene expression in rabbit ocular research. Mol Vis 13:164-73
Wyatt, Keith; White, Helen E; Wang, Luchun et al. (2006) Lengsin is a survivor of an ancient family of class I glutamine synthetases re-engineered by evolution for a role in the vertebrate lens. Structure 14:1823-34
Bowes Rickman, Catherine; Ebright, Jessica N; Zavodni, Zachary J et al. (2006) Defining the human macula transcriptome and candidate retinal disease genes using EyeSAGE. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 47:2305-16
Wistow, Graeme (2006) The NEIBank project for ocular genomics: data-mining gene expression in human and rodent eye tissues. Prog Retin Eye Res 25:43-77
Vihtelic, Thomas S; Fadool, James M; Gao, James et al. (2005) Expressed sequence tag analysis of zebrafish eye tissues for NEIBank. Mol Vis 11:1083-100
Rabinowitz, Yaron S; Dong, Lijin; Wistow, Graeme (2005) Gene expression profile studies of human keratoconus cornea for NEIBank: a novel cornea-expressed gene and the absence of transcripts for aquaporin 5. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 46:1239-46
Ozyildirim, Aylin M; Wistow, Graeme J; Gao, James et al. (2005) The lacrimal gland transcriptome is an unusually rich source of rare and poorly characterized gene transcripts. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 46:1572-80

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