Project description:Comparison of gene expression between the virulent Rickettsia rickettsii R strain and avirulent Rickettsia rickettsii Iowa. Keywords: virulent vs avirulent Virulent Rickettsia rickettsii R strain in triplicate was compared to avirulent Rickettsia rickettsii Iowa in triplicate
Project description:Comparison of gene expression between the virulent Rickettsia rickettsii R strain and avirulent Rickettsia rickettsii Iowa. Keywords: virulent vs avirulent
Project description:Stamen development is an important developmental process that directly affects the yield of Prunus sibirica. In this study, the male sterile flower buds and male fertile flower buds of Prunus sibirica were used as materials to performed RNA-Seq analyses to compare transcription differences. The results would provide a theoretical basis for further investigation of the formation mechanism of male sterile flower.
Project description:Rickettsia spp. can cause mild to severe human disease. These intracellular bacteria are associated with arthropods, nematodes and trematodes, and usually, are efficiently transmitted transovarially to the progeny of the invertebrate host. We recently demonstrated foreign gene acquisition by lateral gene transfer in Rickettsia genomes. The unexpected presence of laterally transferred toxin-antitoxin (TA) genetic elements (including vapBC) in several Rickettsia genomes has not been connected with the pathogenic process or the host-bacteria relationship. We suspect that vapBC are selfish genetic elements that addict eukaryotic hosts to Rickettsia. We identified a statistical link between the transovarial transmission of Rickettsia in invertebrate hosts and the presence of TA operons, specifically vapBC, in the Rickettsia genome. These TA are neighboring to type IV secretion genes. Tunel assays and whole-genome expression of infected cells showed that antibiotic eradication of TA-containing Rickettsia from the host in cell culture initiates a proapoptotic program. Rickettsia VapC toxins inhibit the growth of transformed Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Rickettsia toxin presents in vitro RNase activity. Annexin-V staining and time-lapse video showed that intracytoplasmic injections of VapC toxins in cells cause apoptosis. These data demonstrate that host cells may develop a dependence on Rickettsia spp. expressing the vapBC operon. This would constitute a new evolutionary “mafia strategy” of intracellular bacteria based on host addiction.
Project description:Pistil development is an important developmental process that directly affects the yield of Prunus sibirica. Through transcriptome sequencing analysis of clones with abortive pistil (No. 595) and normal pistil (No. 28) of Prunus sibirica, a total of 1950 significantly differentially expressed genes were obtained, among which 1000 genes were up-regulated and 950 genes were down-regulated. The results provide a theoretical basis for further investigation of the formation mechanism of pistil abortion.
Project description:We will use high-throughput sequencing technology to study gene expression under NaCl treatment, screen for differential expressed genes, and then analyze the gene regulation features. Nitraria sibirica Pall. seedlings were treated by 0, 100 and 400 mM NaCl with 3 replicates,and the leaves were harvested after treated 3 days. Extracting total RNA of leaves and then sequencing by Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencing platform. Our study provides a basis for the study of salt-tolerant gene resources in Nitraria sibirica Pall.
Project description:The green rice leafhopper Nephotettix cincticeps have two mutualistic symbiotic bacteria (Candidatus Sulcia muelleri and Candidatus Nasuia deltocephalinicola) in its symbiont special organ bacteriome and are also infected to rickettsia. In order to determine immune challenge is induced or not by rickettsia infection in N. cincticeps, we investigated gene expression between rickettsia-infected and rifampicin treated uninfected N. cincticeps colonies.