Project description:Each experiment consisted in an artesunate-free culture (control) and an artesunate treated culture. For each time point explored, cDNA from parasites with and without the drug were labeled with different cyanines, mixed and hybridized. To analyse dynamic transcriptome alterations, two pilot experiments were performed in which RNA was harvested at 90 and 180 minutes of incubation with the drug. <br><br> Since artesunate is active on ring stages as well as on older trophozoite stages, we decided to explore different time points along the erythrocytic cycle and search for genes affected at each time point. Therefore, five drug treatment experiments, staggered between 20 hours and 30 hours of parasite development, were performed for the comparison of drug versus no drug at 90 minutes and 3 hours. <br><br> Different expression levels in artesunate-exposed vs. control unexposed cultures could reflect the added effects of the actual response to artesunate together with a possible difference in growth rate/developmental stage. To identify the developmentally regulated genes in the artesunate-free control culture, the 3 hours RNA was hybridized against the time 0 RNA (3 control experiments).
Project description:Transcription profiling by array using Streptomyces coelicolor oligomerics array to compare the gene expression of streptomyces lividans adpA mutant to the wild type at early stationary phase in YEME medium.
Project description:The objective of this study is to identify genes involved in arsenic stress and more particularly to see whether the presence of arsenic can highlight a link between mobility and oxidation
Project description:Sequencing technologies together with new bioinformatics tools have led to the complete sequencing of various genomes. However, information regarding the human transcriptome and its annotation is yet to be completed. The Human Cancer Genome Project, using ORESTES (open reading frame EST sequences) methodology, contributed to this major objective by generating data from about 1.2 million expressed sequence tags (ESTs). Approximately 30% of these sequences did not align to ESTs in the public databases and were considered no-match ORESTES. On the basis that a set of these ESTs could represent new transcripts, we constructed a cDNA microarray. This platform was used to hybridize against 12 different normal or tumor tissues. We identified 3,421 transcribed regions not associated with annotated transcripts, representing 83.3% of the platform. The total number of differentially expressed sequences, with fold differences between tumor and normal samples of at least two, in one or more different tissues, was 1,007. Also, about 28% of analyzed sequences could represent non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Our data reinforces the knowledge of the human genome being pervasively transcribed, and point out molecular marker candidates for different cancers. To reinforce our data, we confirmed, by real-time PCR, the differential expression of 3 out of 8 potentially tumor markers in prostate tissues. A list of 1,007 differentially expressed sequences, as well as the 291 potentially non-coding molecular markers for different tumors was provided. Experiments were performed in duplicate, using dye-swap method. We used linearly amplified RNA samples (T7-based protocol), derived from 56 normal or tumor tissues from 12 distincts body localization, and a pool of RNAs obtained from 15 distinct human cell lines as reference. cDNA was synthesized in the presence of aminoallyl-dUTP (Sigma-Aldrich) and labeled using Alexa Fluor 555 or Alexa Fluor 647 dyes (Invitrogen).
Project description:view of the global regulation of gene expression in Herminiimonas arsenicoxydans in response to As(III) stress, in particular those coding for arsenite oxidation.
Project description:Effects of the compound Pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC) on the gene expression of Saccharomyces cerevisiae after incubation times of 1, 3 and 5 hours with 75uM PDTC.
Project description:Identification of genome wide gene copy number polymorpisms in Plasmodium falciparum by comparative genomic hybridizations on an oligonucleotide microarray. The 3D7 strain was used as a common reference in all strain/strain comparisons. A panel of the strains were hybridized to self in order to estimate the level of noise.
Project description:The aim of this experiment was to analyse the expression of two sets of genes identified as being putatively sporophyte-specific or gametophyte-specific by a suppressive subtraction hybridisation using cDNA from immature sporophytes and immature gametophytes of the Ectocarpus strain Esil32. The expression of these genes was analysed in the sporophyte and gametophyte generations of the life cycle (again using immature algae that had not yet produces zoidangia) and in the sporophyte generation of a mutant strain, immediate upright, that exhibits gametophyte-like characteristics during the sporophyte generation.