Project description:B. burgdorferi isolates differ in pathogenicity, and a correlation between RST type and pathogenicity was observed: the most invasive of the isolates are associated with RST1 and the least invasive with RST3 (Wang et al. 2001, Wang et al. 2002, Wormser et al. 1999). Comparative genome hybridization employing custom B. burgdorferi 70mer oligonucleotide microarrays representing all reference strain B31MI ORFs was used to assess genome plasticity, to reveal genes that are conserved and thus may encode essential functions and to reveal elements encoding potential virulence factors in 15 B. burgdorferi isolates (B479, B515, BL206, 297, B376, B379, BL224, B331, B348, B356, B408, B418, B500, JD1, N40) representing all three RST types. Total genomic DNA for each isolate was labeled with cy3 and hybridized simultaneously with cy5-labeled B31MI DNA as reference. Each hybridization was performed in duplicate.<br> Microarray quality was determined by preliminary hybridizations with reference B31MI DNA labeled with both cy3 and cy5. The specificity of the arrays was assessed by cohybridization of cy-3 labeled DNA from strain B314, a B31 derivative lacking linear plasmids (Sadziene et al. 1993), with cy5-labeled B31MI DNA.
Project description:Genomic hallmarks of homologous recombination deficiency in invasive breast carcinomas to appear in Internationa Journal of Cancer Transcriptome analysis of 243 (plus 12 duplicates) primary breast invasive carcinoma samples of various molecular subtypes.
Project description:Fusarium oxysporum is an worldwide economically important plant fungi pathogen that can cause vascular wilt disease on a wide variety of hosts (Williamson et al., 2007). In recent years, extensive research has been conducted to interpret transcriptional regulation of virulence genes in FO. (Weiberg et al., 2013;Brandhoff et al., 2017;Wang et al., 2017;Wang et al., 2018;Porquier et al., 2019). However, gaps in the protein level studies limited deeper understanding of molecular basis of FO. pathogenesis. In this study, we conducted the first proteome-wide analysis in FO.
Project description:We have previously reported human gastrin overexpressing transgenic mice (=INS-GAS mice) and Helicobacter felis (=H.felis) infection synergistically accelerated gastric cancer in mice stomachs. (Wang et al 2000) Using this mouse model, we employed microarray analysis of gene expression profiling to identify gastric cancer-specific genes. Keywords: disease state analysis
