Project description:Higher temperature conditions during the final stages of rice seed development (seed filling and maturation) are known to cause damage to both rice yield and rice kernel quality. Japan, especially western and central parts, has seen record high temperatures in the last decade, and the rice kernel quality has decreased; specifically a reduction the first-grade of rice has been seen. In this study, we specifically looked at the harvested rice in a town of the central Kanto-plains (Japan) during the year 2010, which saw day-time temperatures go above the critical limits ranging from 34 to 38C at the final stages of seed development and maturity to investigate high-temperature effects in the actual field condition. Three sets of dry mature rice seeds (commercial) were obtained Japan Agriculture (JA Zen-Noh) branch in Ami-town of Ibaraki prefecture in September 2010, as grade 1 (labeled as Y1), grade 2 (labeled as Y2), and grade 3 (out-of-grade, labeled as Y3). The research objective was to examine in particular alterations in gene expressions genome-wide in grade 2 (Y2) and grade 3 (Y3) seeds over the grade 1 (Y1) following the high-temperature spike using a high-throughput omic-approach DNA microarray (Agilent 4 x 44K rice oligo DNA chip) in conjunction with MapMan bioinformatics analysis. Rice seed quality analysis revealed, as expected, low quality in Y3 > Y2 over Y1, in taste, amylose, protein and fatty acid degree, but not in water content. Transcriptome profiling data revealed 124 and 373 up-regulated and 106 and 129 down-regulated genes in Y2 and Y3, respectively. Bioinformatics analysis of differentially expressed genes revealed changes in function of genes related to metabolism, including starch metabolism (e.g., alpha amylase), defense/stress response, fatty acid biosynthesis and hormones. This research provides for the first time the seed transcriptome profile for the classified low grades (2 and out-of-grade) of rice under an actual stressed environmental condition of high temperature.
Project description:Tadpoles of the anuran species Rana pirica can undergo predator-specific morphological responses. Exposure to a predation threat by larvae of the salamander Hynobius retardatus results in formation of a bulgy body (bulgy morph) with a higher tail. Whereas, dragon fly also induced higher tail tadpole. The tadpoles revert to a normal phenotype upon removal of the larval salamander or dragon fly threat. The objective of the present study was to use Affymetrix Xenopus Genechip to profile gene expression in the tail tissue by different predation threat. Tadpoles of Rana pirica treated with larvae salamander for 8days (S1, S2, S3) or dragon fly for 8days (Y1,Y2, Y3) were analyzed with triplicate. Removal experiments were also treated with predators for 4days and then removed predators from tadpoles (-S1,-S2, -S3) or (-Y1,-Y2,-Y3). Controls were cultured for 8days without predators (C2, C3). Tails from tadpoles after 8days of each treatment were dissected for RNA extraction and gene expression analysis using Affymetrix Xenopus Genechip arrays.
Project description:MicroRNA profile comparison of the corneal endothelium of young and old mice: implications for senescence of the corneal endothelium We collected the corneal endothelia from 30 mice aged 10-13 weeks and the corneal endothelia from 30 mice aged 2 years. The samples were pooled into six groups (y1, y2, y3 and s1, s2, s3). Each group comprised corneal endothelia from ten mice, and these six groups were used for a genome-wide microRNA microarray study.
Project description:Mitosis in early embryos often proceeds at a rapid pace, but how this pace is achieved is not understood. Here we show that cyclin B3 is the dominant driver of rapid embryonic mitoses in the C. elegans embryo. Cyclins B1 and B2 support slow mitosis (NEBD to Anaphase ~600s) but the presence of cyclin B3 dominantly drives the ~3-fold faster mitosis observed in wildtype. Multiple mitotic events are slowed down in Cyclin B1&B2-driven mitosis and cyclin B3-associated Cdk1 H1 kinase activity is ~25-fold more active than cyclin B1-associated Cdk1. Addition of cyclin B1 to fast cyclin B3-only mitosis introduces an ~60s delay between completion of chromosome alignment and anaphase onset; this delay, which is important for segregation fidelity, is dependent on inhibitory phosphorylation of the anaphase activator Cdc20. Thus, cyclin B3 dominance, coupled to a cyclin B1-dependent delay that acts via Cdc20 phosphorylation, sets the rapid pace and ensures mitotic fidelity in the early C. elegans embryo.
Project description:Here we describe a genome-wide analysis of copy number variations (CNVs) in Chinese domestic cattle by using array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) and quantitative PCR (qPCR). We conducted array CGH analysis on 30 male cattle individuals, animals from consisting of 12 breeds of Bos taurus/Bos indicus, 1 Bos grunniens and and two ones of Bubalus bubalis breeds for with beef, and/or dairy or dual purpose. We identified over 470 candidate CNV regions (CNVRs) in Bos B. taurus/B. indicus; 118 candidate CNV regions (CNVRs) in B. grunniens, 139 CNVRs in B. bubalis. Furthermore, based on the Y haplotypes of B. taurus/ B. indicus, Wwe also identified 69, 337, and 251 candidate CNV regions (CNVRs) in the sub-groups of Y1, Y2 and Y3 haplotypes.
Project description:The yeast calibration curve dataset was acquired to compare the accuracy of DIA tools with decreasing contents of target peptides. Four samples (Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4) with decreasing contents (200, 100, 50 and 25 ng, respectively) of analytes (yeast tryptic peptides) and a high content of background peptides (800 ng human tryptic peptides constantly) were analyzed in triplicate using LC-DIA-MS/MS. The DIA data were processed by different DIA tools based on the spectral library generated from the DDA data. The accuracy of different DIA tools was compared.
Project description:A large number of oncofetal molecules were found through expression profiling of a total of lncRNAs(35923)+coding genes(24881) from 17.5-day-old embryonic livers (three independent replicate samples named A1, A2, and A3), 2-month-old adult male mouse livers (three independent replicate samples named B1, B2, and B3) and one-year-old male mouse liver cancer tissues (three independent replicate samples named C1, C2, and C3) using a microarray analysis.
Project description:We performed Hi-C on untreated Jurkat T cells growing in culture. We obtained contact maps with a final resolution of 5 kb where Topologically Associated Domains (TADs) are clearly visible. We identified 3D sub-compartments, characterized by enriched Hi-C contacts within themselves compared to contacts with other compartments. Our results suggest that the A compartment, associated with ongoing transcription, consists of two distinct sub-compartments called A1 and A2; and that the B compartment, associated with lack of transcription, consists of three sub-compartments called B1, B2 and B3. Genes in the A1 and A2 compartments are typically expressed at the same level, but chromatin marks associated with transcription, such as H3K4me2 or H3K27ac, are typically more abundant in A1 than in A2. The B1, B2 and B3 sub-compartments correspond to Polycomb, HP1 and lamina-associated chromatin, which were previously identified types of silent chromatin. Overall, these results suggest that spatial neighborhoods of the Jurkat nucleus correspond to homogeneous chromatin types, and that transcriptionally active regions are in fact two distinct types.
Project description:Three innate (B1-B, NKT, CD8aaT cells) and adaptive (B2-B, CD4T, CD8abT cells) cell-types were sorted by FACS. Three biological replicates for NKT, CD4T, CD8aaT, CD8abT cells and two biological replicates for B1 and B2 cells were generated and the expression profiles were determined using Affymetrix Mu74Av2 chip. Comparisons between the sample groups allow the identification of genes differentially expressed between the innate and adaptive cell-types. Experiment Overall Design: 3 biological replicates for NKT, CD4T, CD8aaT, CD8abT cells and 2 biological replicates for B1, B2 cells were analyzed
Project description:Thymoma and thymic carcinoma represent the two most characterized types of Thymic epithelial tumors (TET) which arise from epithelial cell of thymus. According to the different morphological features, lymphocytes and epithelial cells ratio and grade of malignancy, TET are divided in thymoma A, AB, B1, B2, and B3 and thymic carcinoma. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression distinguishing tumoral and normal thymic tissue, thus identifying networks of correlated mRNAs-lncRNAs.