Project description:Comparison of freshwater tolerant (accession CCAP 1310/196, origin Hopkins River Falls, Victoria, Australia) and strictly marine strain (accession CCAP 1310/4, origin San Juan de Marcona, Peru) of E. siliculosus under different salinites
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE10058: Microarray assay of the genetic response of Picea abies to Heterobasidion annosum infection - Loop1 GSE10059: Microarray assay of the genetic response of Picea abies to Heterobasidion annosum infection - Loop2 The hypothesis of the experiment is that infected trees of high resistance express a wider variety of resistance genes than infected trees of low resistance, and that the level of expression of these resistance genes differs between infected and healthy branches. Also, some genes highly expressed in the infected state not expressed in the healthy state may be in response to the wounding rather than the actual infection. By comparing these expressions to that of wounded, uninfected branches, this could also be clarified. Refer to individual Series
Project description:The hypothesis of the experiment is that infected trees of high resistance express a wider variety of resistance genes than infected trees of low resistance, and that the level of expression of these resistance genes differs between infected and healthy branches. Also, some genes highly expressed in the infected state not expressed in the healthy state may be in response to the wounding rather than the actual infection. By comparing these expressions to that of wounded, uninfected branches, this could also be clarified. Three different Picea abies clones, of increasing resistance to fungal attack, have been infected. For all clones, three rametes have been infected with Heterobasidion of 1 month, by means of cutting the cambium and inoculating a piece of fungus growing in agar in the wound. For the low and medium resistant clone, a fourth ramete has been cut and inoculated with agar not containing any fungal material.
Project description:The hypothesis of the experiment is that infected trees of high resistance express a wider variety of resistance genes than infected trees of low resistance, and that the level of expression of these resistance genes differs between infected and healthy branches. Also, some genes highly expressed in the infected state not expressed in the healthy state may be in response to the wounding rather than the actual infection. By comparing these expressions to that of wounded, uninfected branches, this could also be clarified. Three different Picea abies clones, of increasing resistance to fungal attack, have been infected. For all clones, three rametes have been infected with Heterobasidion of 1 month, by means of cutting the cambium and inoculating a piece of fungus growing in agar in the wound. For the low and medium resistant clone, a fourth ramete has been cut and inoculated with agar not containing any fungal material.
Project description:Organismal ageing is associated with loss of immune function and higher incidence of cancer. Whether the γδ T cell pool changes upon organismal ageing is not known. In this study we have characterized γδ T cells in peripheral lymph nodes from old and young mice. We found that the γδ T cell pool is severely altered in old mice. The IL-17 producing γδ lineage becomes dominating while IFN-γ producing γδ1 T cells are declining. γδTCR sequencing revealed no collapse in diversity but oligoclonal expansions in Vγ4 γδ17 subsets. Pro-tumourigenic invariant Vγ6 cells are present only in aged lymph nodes, represent the majority of γδ T cells in the tumour, and are associated with faster tumour progression.
Project description:Improved Smart-Seq for sensitive full-length transcriptome profiling in single cells. Cells of four different origins were profiled using commercial SMARTer and compared to five variants of an improved protocol (Smart-Seq2).
Project description:Gene expression studies from hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) populations purified to variable degrees have defined a set of stemness genes. The present study describes the construction and comparative molecular analysis of l-phage cDNA libraries from highly purified primitive HSCs (PHSCs) which retained their long term repopulating activities (LTRAs), and from maturing HSCs (MHSCs) which were largely depleted of LTRAs. Library inserts were amplified and tagged by a T7 RNA polymerase promoter and used to generate biotinylated cRNA for Microarray hybridization. Microarray analysis of the libraries confirmed previous results but also revealed an unforseen preferential expression of translation and metabolism associated genes in the PHSCs. Therefore these data indicate that HSCs are quiescent only in regard of proliferative activities, but are in a state of readiness to provide the metabolic and translational activities required following induction of proliferation by factors which induce differentiation and exit from the HSC pool. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression distinguishing primitive and maturing hematopoietic stem cells from mouse bone marrow and identified distinct classes of up- and down-regulated genes. Experiment Overall Design: To compare the transcriptosomes of primitive and maturing hematopoietic stem cells from mouse bone marrow, cDNA libraries were generated from RNA isolated from highly purified stem cell populations and used to generate biotinylated cRNA for Affymetrix microarray analysis.
Project description:Flower-lotus with many attractive floral characteristics has been studied and discussed the most. These characteristics are used as the standards of the classification in most cases, and always attracted the attention of lotus breeders on improvement program because of associating with ornamental and economic values of lotus. However, molecular mechanisms underlying the formation of these attractive floral features still remain largely unknown. Transcriptome sequencing technique has been established as an efficient approach for gene discovery and expression pattern identification. For some plants, a lot of important genes involved in plant critical metabolisms have been successfully identified by this technique. In the study, mass sequence data obtained from the deep sequencing of a mixed flower-bud cDNA pool from three individuals of N. nucifera provide a platform to comprehensively understand the processes of flower formation and development at the molecular level, and will greatly facilitate the genetic improvement of ornamental characteristics and the directive molecular breeding for lotus in the future. A mixed cDNA pool from young flower-buds (35-40mm in length) of three accessions of N. nucifera were used for deep sequencing using 454 GS-FLX Titanium.
Project description:A "Cartes d'Identite des Tumeurs" (CIT) project from the french Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (http://cit.ligue-cancer.net). Hepatoblastoma, the most common pediatric liver cancer, is tightly linked to excessive Wnt/C/B?B=-catenin signaling. Microarray analysis identifitwo tumor subclasses resembling distinct phases of liver development typified by gains of chromosomes 8q and 2p and upregulated Myc signaling.
Project description:The virtual transcriptome of G. intraradices (based on >430,000 reads) served as the basis for the design of an EST expresson array and for a number of analyses of gene expression in germinating spores, extraradical mycelium (ERM) and symbiotic root tissues. The G. intraradices EST expression array (4 x 72K) manufactured by Roche NimbleGen Systems Limited (Madison, WI) (http://www.nimblegen.com/products/exp/index.html) contained three independent, non identical, 60-mer probes per sequence. Included in the oligoarray were 22,402 G. intraradices sequences, 5785 random 60-mer control probes and labeling controls. We performed 12 hybridisations with samples from germinating spores (three biological replicates), extraradical mycelium (three biological replicates), symbiotic root tissues from Medicago (three biological replicates) and rice (1 replicate) as well as from microdissected arbuscule-colonized cortical cells of Medicago and rice (1 replicate each).