Project description:Recent improvements in the analysis ancient biomolecules from human remains and associated dental calculus have provided new insights into the prehistoric diet and past genetic diversity of our species. Here we present a “multi-omics” study, integrating genomic and proteomic analyses of two post-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) individuals from San Teodoro cave (Italy), to reconstruct their lifestyle and the post-LGM resettlement of Europe. Our analyses show genetic homogeneity in Sicily during the Palaeolithic, representing a hitherto unknown Italian genetic lineage within the previously identified “Villabruna cluster”. We argue that this lineage took refuge in Italy during the LGM, followed by a subsequent spread to central-western Europe. Analyses of dental calculus using genomics and proteomics showed a similar oral microbiome composition as Neandertals, but distinct from later foragers and farmers, revealing also a diet based on mammals, fish and plants. Our results demonstrate the power of using a multi-omics approach in the study of prehistoric human populations.
Project description:Analysis of organic residues from different typologies of ancient funerary pottery found in graves at two archaeological sites of Campania Region in southern Italy and dating back to the age of the Italic populations during the first millennium BC. Several analytical techniques have been exploited. Proteomics was decisive for the characterization of the proteins and the assignment of the species of origin. Samples were encrustations on two bowls of the 3rd-4th century BC unhearted in Capua and one Phoenician-type amphora with unusual shape, found in a grave at the necropolis of the Greek colony in Cuma (7th century BC). Concretions on bowls were identified with the decisive contribution of proteomics as bovine bone. The amphora contained 2,500 years old bovine milk.
2022-06-23 | PXD030736 | Pride
Project description:Grillo Soils Sicily
| PRJNA655455 | ENA
Project description:Detection of an unreported SARS-CoV-2 sequence in Sicily (Italy) belonging to B.1.1 variant
Project description:Grapevine (Vitis spp., family Vitaceae) is characterized by a marked phenotypic plasticity and its ability to withstand various environmental conditions depends on the activation of highly coordinated responses, resulting from the interaction among genotypes (G) and environmental factors (E). Understanding genotype by environment (GxE) interplays is highly complex and challenging, and often the outcome of the genetic responses to field performance is not straightforward also due to the difficulties to reach a precise definition of the E component in field studies. In this work, the transcriptome of commercially ripe berries of Cabernet sauvignon and Aglianico genotypes grown in open-field at three different sites of central-southern Italy (Campania, Molise and Sicily) was analyzed by RNAseq. These transcriptomic data were integrated with a comprehensive set of climatic indices, forming an “environmentome”, through Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis (WGCNA). A total of 11,887 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) have been retrieved, most of them found in the Aglianico genotype, suggesting that Aglianico transcriptome is largely influenced by the environment. Furthermore, the comparisons involving the Sicilian site exhibited the highest number of DEGs for both genotypes. WGCNA suggested that most of the climatic data (such as daily maximum air temperature, relative humidity, air pressure, dew point, hours of sun radiation) significantly correlated with “lightcyan1” module. Among these eingengenes, the low expression of ACA10 cation transporter is suggested to be indirectly related to the low anthocyanin content in Cabernet sauvignon in Campania, thus confirming WGCNA as powerful approach to identify gene of high biological interest. Similarly, transcriptome was also correlated with quality trait, such as total soluble solids and polyphenol content, leading to the discovery of hub genes that might function as markers of wine quality.
Project description:All cell lines were purchased from ATCC (LGC Standards S.r.l., Milan, Italy), except T-47D and MDA-MB-468 that were obtained from the National Cancer Institute Developmental Therapeutics Program (Frederick, MD).
Project description:This Series contains data from 845 participants (188 men and 657 women) in the EPIC-Italy cohort that was produced at the Human Genetics Foundation (HuGeF) in Turin, Italy. At the last follow-up (2010), 424 participants remained cancer-free, 235 had developed primary breast cancer, 166 had developed primary colorectal cancer, and 20 had developed other primary cancers. Anthropometric measurements, and dietary and lifestyle information obtained by questionnaire are also available.