Project description:These are the ribosomal subunit fractions from the polysome gradients. investigating effect of heat shock on procyclic-form trypanosomes.
Project description:JN54 (wild-type) cells were incubated in YPD medium at 30 degrees C to a logarithmic phase (OD660=1), followed by treatment with mild heat-shock at 43 degrees C for 30 min in pre-warmed (43 degrees C) 100ml of YPD medium using 500 ml Erlenmeyer flask. JN54 (wild-type) cells were incubated in YPD medium at 30 degrees C to a logarithmic phase (OD660=1), followed by treatment with mild heat-shock at 43 degrees C for 60 min in pre-warmed (43 degrees C) 100ml of YPD medium using 500 ml Erlenmeyer flask. Keywords: Stress response
Project description:hCINAP is essential for human 18S rRNA processing and ribosome assembly. hCINAP is highly expressed in human cancers and promotes cancer cell growth. To connect the role of hCINAP in ribosome biogenesis and tumor growth, genome-wide polysome profiling was performed to detect the regulation of hCINAP on ribosome assembly and translation control. The results showed taht hihgly expressed hCINAP promotes ribosome biogenesis and selectively modulates cancer-associated translatome to promote malignancy. This result provides important insights into the molecular mechanism underlying the role of hCINAP in tumorigenesis. For the transcriptional profile, MCF7 cells transfected with control vector or GFP-hCINAP were collected and total RNA was extracted. For the polysoem profile, MCF7 cells with stably expressed GFP or GFP-hCINAP were subjected to surcose gradient fractionation. Ribosome profiles were obtained by measuring the absorbance of the sucrose gradient at a wavelength of 254 nm using a BioComp Gradient Fractionator. The fractions corresponding to subpolysome and polysome were collected and RNA was extracted. The cDNA library was generated and sequenced via Illumina HiSeqTM 2000. The clean reads were mapped to the UCSC hg19 reference genome and FPKM was assigned to calculate expression levels. The recruitment to polysome of each mRNA was calculated according to their FPKM values in the monsome and polysome.
Project description:African trypanosome procyclic forms multiply in the midgut of tsetse flies, and are routinely cultured at 27°C. Heat shocks of 37°C and above result in general inhibition of translation, and severe heat shock (41°C) results in sequestration of mRNA in granules. The mRNAs that are bound by the zinc-finger protein ZC3H11, including those encoding refolding chaperones, escape heat-induced translation inhibition. At 27°C, ZC3H11 mRNA is predominantly present as an untranslated cytosolic messenger ribonucleoprotein particle, but after heat shocks of 37°C-41°C, the ZC3H11 mRNA moves into the polysomal fraction. To investigate the scope and specificities of heat-shock translational regulation and granule formation, we analysed the distributions of mRNAs on polysomes at 27°C and after 1 hour at 39°C, and the mRNA content of 41°C heat shock granules. We found that mRNAs that bind to ZC3H11 remained in polysomes at 39°C and were protected from sequestration in granules at 41°C. As previously seen for starvation stress granules, the mRNAs that encode ribosomal proteins were excluded from heat-shock granules. 70 mRNAs moved towards the polysomal fraction after the 39°C heat shock, and 260 increased in relative abundance. Surprisingly, many of these mRNAs are also increased when trypanosomes migrate to the tsetse salivary glands. It therefore seems possible that in the wild, temperature changes due to diurnal variations and periodic intake of warm blood might influence the efficiency with which procyclic forms develop into mammalian-infective forms.
Project description:Procyclic trypanosomes (strain 427 lister) were grown in culture under standard conditions at 27ºC in SDM79 medium with 10% foetal bovine serume (Brun and Schnenberger, 1979), in a gazed incubator (5% CO2). Logarithmically growing procyclic cells (at about 5*10^6 cells/ml, at 27°C) were added to one volume medium that had been heated to 53°C and incubated at 41ºC for 60 minutes in a waterbath in a closed tube (41ºC sample). The control cells were added to one volume medium at 27ºC and also incubated for 60 minutes in a closed tube at 27°C. Cells were harvested and washed once in PBS. The harvesting was done within 8 minutes.
Project description:Translational profiling of mouse cardiac tissue treated with 25mg/kg DMNQ in 10 ml/kg arachis oil over an acute time course (0.5-120 hours) compared to time matched control animals treated with 10ml/kg saline Two colour microarrays with time matched controls vs 25mg/kg DMNQ cardiac tissue. Before microarray analysis RNA separated on a sucrose density gradient into those mRNAs activitly undergoing translation (polysomes) and those not (monosomes) with control monosomes and treated monosomes on one set of arrays, and polysome control and polysome treated on another set of microarrays. The normalized Log2 of the monosomes was subtracted from the respective Log2 of the polysomes (on Series record). Time points studied were 0.5, 1, 2, 12, 24 and 120 hours following dosing, biological replicates n=3 independent animals at each time point, technical replicates (reverse labelling) n<1. One array printed onto two slides (A and B), one replicate per array.
Project description:Translational profiling of mouse cardiac tissue treated with 15mg/kg doxorubicin in 10 ml/kg saline over an acute time course (0.5-120 hours) compared to time matched control animals treated with 10ml/kg saline. Two colour microarrays with time matched controls vs 15mg/kg doxorubicin cardiac tissue. Before microarray analysis, RNA is separated on a sucrose density gradient into those mRNAs activity undergoing translation (polysomes) and those not (monosomes) with control monosomes and treated monosomes on one set of arrays, and polysome control and polysome treated on another set of microarrays. Thealized Log2 of the monosomes was subtracted from the respective Log2 of the polysomes (on Series record). Time points studied were 0.5, 1, 2, 12, 24 and 120 hours following dosing, biological replicates n=3 independent animals at each time point, technical replicates (reverse labelling) n<1. One array printed onto two slides (A and B), one replicate per array.