Project description:P. nigra × P. maximowiczii plants were grown in the field, each in monoculture and in stands mixed with Robinia pseudoacacia, at two locations differing in soil nutrient levels. After 3 years of growing under ambient weather conditions, leaf samples were harvested and analyzed by RNA-seq.
Project description:P. nigra × P. maximowiczii plants were grown in the field, each in monoculture and in stands mixed with Robinia pseudoacacia, at two locations differing in soil nutrient levels. After 4 years of growing under ambient weather conditions, leaf samples were harvested and analyzed by RNA-seq.
Project description:Detect the global transcriptional changes occuring during spreading and maintenance of systemic post transcriptional silencing . Test the hypothesis that activation of systemic PTGS induces parallel antiviral defense pathways. Gene expression was analysed by MACE method (Massive Analysis of cDNA Ends) on total RNA extracted from leaf tissues of WT plants (WT), and GFP6.4 presenting no-silencing (NS sample), ongoing spreading of silencing (OS) and maintenance of silencing (SS). Plants were grown in parallel, and silencing state was monitored under UV. After 3 weeks of growth, total RNAs were extracted using the Trizol method from leaf tissues of 2-3 leaf stage plants. A total of 4 plants were sampled per variable (WT/NS/OS/SS). RNA from 4 plants were pooled and sequenced.
Project description:Subtelomeric chromatin is subject to evolutionarily conserved complex epigenetic regulation and is implicated in numerous aspects of cellular function including formation of heterochromatin, regulation of different stress response pathways, and control of lifespan. Subtelomeric DNA is characterized by the presence of specific repeated segments that serve to propagate silencing activities or to protect chromosomal regions from spreading epigenetic control. Using condition-specific genome wide chromatin immunoprecipitation and expression data, we show that several yeast transcription factors regulate subtelomeric silencing in response to various environmental stimuli through conditional association with proto-silencing regions called X elements. In this context, some factors control the propagation of silencing toward centromeres in response to stimuli affecting stress responses and metabolism, whereas others appear to influence boundaries of silencing, regulating telomere-proximal genes in Y’ elements. The factors implicated here have previously been shown to control adjacent genes at intrachromosomal positions, suggesting dual functionality of the factors and a possible mechanism of coordinating intrachromosomal gene expression with subtelomeric silencing. These data suggest a fundamental mechanism to coordinate telomere biology related to aging and adaptation with cellular environment and the activities of other cellular processes. These are Chip-CHIP data for myc tagged Oaf1p transcription factor from S. cerevisiae grown in the presence or absence of the fatty acid oleate. ChIP-CHIP analysis was performed to determine the genomic distribution of Oaf1p transcription factor in the BY4742 yeast strain after growth in 0.1% glucose, or in the presence of the fatty acid oleate. Three biological replicates for each growth condition (in the presence of low glucose or 5 h after a shift to medium containing oleate as a carbon source). ChIP samples were amplified by PCR, labelled and hybridized to 50-mer tiling arrays covering both strands of the entire yeast genome at a 64 bp resolution.
Project description:Roots were collected from young trees outplanted in three regions in Germany (Schorfheide, Swabian Alb, Hainich) and used for RNA extraction. In each region four plots were sampled. Two plants used from each plot. The RNA of the plants per plot was pooled. Four technical replicates were prepared.
Project description:P. maximowiczii × P. trichocarpa (Hybride 275), P. maximowiczii × P. trichocarpa (Matrix 11), P. nigra × P. maximowiczii (Max 1) and P. trichocarpa plants were grown in the field, each in monoculture and in stands mixed with Robinia pseudoacacia, at two locations differing in soil nutrient levels. After 2 years of growing under ambient weather conditions, leaf samples were harvested and analyzed by RNA-seq.
Project description:Top-Down proteomics pilot experiment of unfractionated Bovine Heart Mitochondria (BHM) using ultra high resolution Q-ToF tandem mass spectrometry (maXis 4G ETD, Bruker Daltonics).
Project description:Metabolite concentrations can regulate gene expression, which can in turn regulate metabolic activity. The extent to which functionally related transcripts and metabolites show similar patterns of concentration changes, however, remains unestablished. We have therefore measured and analyzed the metabolomic (previously published in Brauer et al., PMID 17159141) and transcriptional responses (presented here) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to carbon and nitrogen starvation. The transcriptomes of filter cultures of FY4 (a prototrophic, Mata derivative of S288C presented by Winston et al., PMID 7762301) were sampled during exponential growth in minimal media and at 10, 30, 60, 120, 240, and 480 minutes following a switch to media lacking ammonium (nitrogen starvation) or D-glucose (carbon starvation). Transcriptional profiles were measured using an Agilent Yeast Oligo Microarray (V2), with the zero timepoint (i.e. exponential growth) as the reference sample. This yielded 2 time-courses of 6 time-points each. Further information is available in the accompanying manuscript.
Project description:S. cerevisiae S288C and S. pastorianus KBY011 were fermented at 20C for 48 hrs, respectively. The difference of transcription profiling between them was examined using samples harvested at 0, 6, 24, and 48 hrs during fermentation.
Project description:Prenatal nutrition as influenced by nutritional status of the mother has been identified as a determinant of adult disease. Feeding low-protein diets during pregnancy in rodents is a well-established model to induce “programming” events in offspring. We hypothesized that protein restriction would influence fetal lipid metabolism by inducing epigenetic adaptations. Methodology/Principal Findings: Pregnant C57BL/6J OlaHsd mice were exposed to a protein restriction protocol (9% vs. 18% casein). Shortly before birth, dams and fetuses were sacrificed. To identify putative epigenetic changes, CpG island methylation microarrays were performed on DNA isolated from fetal livers. 10 fetal livers: 5 mice from protein-restriction group (mice 1-5, labeled with alexa 647) and 5 mice from control group (mice 6-10, labeled with alexa 555). 5 arrays were used for the mice combinations 1/6, 2/7, 3/8, 4/9, 5/10. All arrays were run at the UHN Microarray Centre, Toronto.