Project description:Ionizing radiations are categorized by linear energy transfer (LET) into low-LET and high-LET. High-LET is considered to have a higher relative biological effectiveness (RBE) than low-LET radiations. However, the details of the effects have not been clearly determined. The aim of this study was to characterize the difference between high-LET and low LET radiations. The global effects of the three types of high-LET radiations (fast neutron, heavy ion (C) and thermal neutron) were compared with the low-LET radiation (gamma ray) using yeast DNA microarrays. Highly induced genes by the three types of high-LET radiations were those genes related to oxidative stress. Oxidative stress was one of the common factors associated with the four types of radiations. Oxidative stress induced by high-LET radiations may be more serious than that induced by gamma rays. Additionally, genes related to protein synthesis and the ubiquitin and proteasome system were detected. This suggests that more protein damages can be induced by high-LET radiation that denatures the proteins in yeast cells. The genes specifically altered by each type of high-LET radiation were also studied. Keywords: stress response
Project description:Chronic exposure to sunlight is linked to premature aging (photoaging) and UV radiations is implicated to be the main contributor of this phenomenon. It causes changes to dermal collgen through two major pathways; promotion of collagen breakdown and lost of collagen content via the inhibition of collagen biosynthesis. The absorption of UV radiations by skin molecules generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) which lead to oxidative damage of cellular components such as cell walls, lipid membranes, mitochondria and DNA. Therefore, this research involve the identification of key genes in biological processes through high throughput RNA Sequencing technology to identify genes and pathways underlying skin aging health and diseases due to UV exposure, ultimately leading to novel ways of managing, diagnose, treat and prevent/slow down skin aging illnesses/wrinkles.The results from this study produces huge amount of differential expressed genes (DEG) as a result of UV exposure which were subsquently validated with qPCR.
Project description:Plant cultivation on spacecraft or planetary outposts is a promising and actual perspective both for food and bioactive molecules production. To this aim, plants response to ionizing radiations, as an important component of space radiation, must be assessed through on-ground experiments due to the potentially fatal effects on living systems. Hereby we investigated the effects of X-rays and -rays exposure on tomato ‘hairy root’ cultures (HRCs), which represent a solid platform for the production of pharmaceutically relevant molecules, including metabolites and recombinant proteins. In a space application perspective, we used a HRC system previously fortified through the accumulation of anthocyanins, which are known for their anti-oxidant properties. Roots were independently exposed to different photon radiations, namely X-rays (250 kV) and -rays (Co60, 1.25 MeV), both at the intensity of 0.5, 5 and 10 Gy. Molecular changes induced in the proteome of HRCs were investigated by a comparative approach based on Two-Dimensional Difference In-Gel electrophoresis (2D-DIGE) technology and mass spectrometry.
Project description:The goals of this study is to compare transcriptome profiles (RNA-seq) of synchronized and non-synchronized neurons in zebrafish dorsal pallium in response to CAS treatment.Tg(HuC:H2B-GCaMP6f) fish of 4-5 weeks old were were fixed in a recording chamber containing extracellular fluid, and neurons with synchronized or non-synchronized calcium activity after CAS treatment were identified by two-photon imaging and collected separately with glass pipette. Single cells were transferred to the lysis buffer solution. Total RNA was extracted using TRIzol (Invitrogen) and then purified on RNeasy columns (Qiagen). Total RNA quality was assessed on a bioanalyzer (Thermofisher). RNA-Seq libraries (N=10) for each group were prepared using the Illumina TruSeq Strand mRNA Prep Kit according to the manufacturer's instructions. RNA-Seq libraries were sequenced using Illumina NextSeq 500, generating 75 bp paired-end reads for each sample. RNA-Seq reads untrimmed. Differential expression analysis was performed using the CPM (counts per million) function in the Bioconductor package edgeR (v 3.14.0). Low expression genes were excluded to make a simple correction for gene counts. Genes with P-value (instead of adjusted P-value) < 0.05 were assigned as differentially expressed. We identified differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between synchronized and non-synchronized neurons in zebrafish dorsal pallium in response to CAS treatment. Synchronized neurons expressed much higher level of glutamate transporter genes (slc17a7a, slc17a6a), while non-synchronized neurons showed significantly higher expression of gad1b, suggesting that synchronized neurons are primarily glutamatergic, while non-synchronized neurons are mainly GABAergic.
Project description:affy_ams_maize - aafy_ams_maize - Main objectives of this study: - role of plant cell wall during AM symbiosis - regulation pattern during AM symbiosis - understanding of the original mycorrhizal phenotype of bm4 - search of candidate-genes to study AM symbiosis-After 7 days in phytochambers, plantlets were transplanted in 2L of humidified bedrock with 3000 spores for inoculation conditions or without spore for mock conditions then plants have grown in greenhouse. Maize roots have been sampled 7 weeks post-inoculation and freezed in liquid nitrogen then stocked at -80M-BM-0C. Total RNA was isolated from frozen root tissue by using the RNeasy Plant Mini Kit (Qiagen) following the manufacturerM-bM-^@M-^Ys instructions. Keywords: treated vs untreated comparison 8 arrays - maize