Project description:The some biomarkers can be found by pairwise comparison. They can distinguish between extremely severe Hand,foot and mouth disease and mild Hand,foot and mouth disease,moreover,they can applied to diagnose extremely severe Hand,foot and mouth disease mild Hand,foot and mouth disease vs.control; extremely severe Hand,foot and mouth disease vs.control; extremely severe Hand,foot and mouth disease vs.mild Hand,foot and mouth disease,verification by qRT-PCR
Project description:The some biomarkers can be found by pairwise comparison. They can distinguish between extremely severe Hand,foot and mouth disease and mild Hand,foot and mouth disease,moreover,they can applied to diagnose extremely severe Hand,foot and mouth disease
Project description:Identification of genes enriched in the presumptive primary mouth. Dissected tissues from the primary mouth anlage and two other anterior regions for comparison, the anterior dorsal and ventral plus cement gland.
Project description:The cuticles of arthropods, including aquatic crustaceans like Daphnia, provide an interface between the organism and its environment. Thus, the cuticle’s structure influences how the organism responds to and interacts with its surroundings. Here, we used label-free quantification proteomics to provide a proteome of the molted cuticle of Daphnia magna, which has long been a prominent subject of studies on ecology, evolution, and developmental biology, anddetected 278 high confidence proteins. Using protein sequence domain and functional enrichment analyses, we identified chitin-binding structural proteins and chitin modifying enzymes as most abundant protein groups in the cuticle proteome.Structural cuticular protein families showed a similar distribution to those found in other arthropods and indicated proteins responsible for the soft and flexible structure of the Daphnia cuticle . Finally, cuticle protein genes were clustered as tandem gene arrays in the Daphnia genome, indicating their importance for adaptation to environmental change. The cuticle proteome presented here will be a valuable resource to the Daphnia research community, informing investigations on diverse topics such as the genetic basis of interactions with predators and parasites.
Project description:The cuticles of arthropods, including aquatic crustaceans like Daphnia, provide an interface between the organism and its environment. Thus, the cuticle’s structure influences how the organism responds to and interacts with its surroundings. Here, we used label-free quantification proteomics to provide a proteome of the molted cuticle of Daphnia magna, which has long been a prominent subject of studies on ecology, evolution, and developmental biology, anddetected 278 high confidence proteins. Using protein sequence domain and functional enrichment analyses, we identified chitin-binding structural proteins and chitin modifying enzymes as most abundant protein groups in the cuticle proteome.Structural cuticular protein families showed a similar distribution to those found in other arthropods and indicated proteins responsible for the soft and flexible structure of the Daphnia cuticle . Finally, cuticle protein genes were clustered as tandem gene arrays in the Daphnia genome, indicating their importance for adaptation to environmental change. The cuticle proteome presented here will be a valuable resource to the Daphnia research community, informing investigations on diverse topics such as the genetic basis of interactions with predators and parasites.
Project description:Identification of genes enriched in the presumptive primary mouth. Dissected tissues from the primary mouth anlage and two other anterior regions for comparison, the anterior dorsal and ventral plus cement gland. Experiment Overall Design: tissues were dissected and pooled from 75-100 embryos and total RNA extracted.
Project description:Nematodes show an extraordinary diversity of mouth structures and strikingly different feeding strategies, which has enabled an invasion of all ecosystems. However, nearly nothing is known about the structural and molecular architecture of the nematode mouth (stoma). Pristionchus pacificus is an intensively studied nematode that exhibits unique life history traits, including predation, teeth-like denticle formation, and mouth-form plasticity. Here, we used a large-scale genetic screen to identify genes involved in mouth formation. We identified Ppa-dpy-6 to encode a Mucin-type hydrogel-forming protein that is macroscopically involved in the specification of the cheilostom, the anterior part of the mouth. We used a recently developed protocol for geometric morphometrics of miniature animals to characterize these defects further and found additional defects that affect mouth form, shape, and size resulting in an overall malformation of the mouth. Additionally, Ppa-dpy-6 is shorter than wild-type with a typical Dumpy phenotype, indicating a role in the formation of the external cuticle. This concomitant phenotype of the cheilostom and cuticle provides the first molecular support for the continuity of these structures and for the separation of the cheilostom from the rest of the stoma. In Caenorhabditis elegans, dpy-6 was an early mapping mutant but its molecular identity was only determined during genome-wide RNAi screens and not further investigated. Strikingly, geometric morphometric analysis revealed previously unrecognized cheilostom and gymnostom defects in Cel-dpy-6 mutants. Thus, the Mucin-type protein DPY-6 represents to the best of our knowledge, the first protein involved in nematode mouth formation with a conserved role in cuticle deposition. This study opens new research avenues to characterize the molecular composition of the nematode mouth, which is associated with extreme ecological diversification.
Project description:To investigate the function of small RNAs in cuticle biosynthesis in B. napus, we constructed four small RNA libraries from stem epidermis of wax-deficient and wild-type materials for sequencing. Subsequently, a total of 43,840,451 clean reads were generated and 24nt sequences represented the dominant percentage. Totally, 300 unique conserved miRNAs were identified and 8 of them showed differentially expressed. In addition, the expression of six novel miRNAs were also changed. After target prediction and function annotation, three miRNAs (aly-miR165a-5p, aly-miR408-5p, and novel-mir2) might influence cuticle morphogenesis not only by repressing the biosynthesis of cuticular substrates and components, but also blocking the transmembrane transport processes. The expression level of aly-miR408-5p and aly-miR165a-5p were increased in glossy materials examined by stem-loop qRT-PCR, while their predicted target genes (BnaC04g29170D, BnaA01g25630D, BnaA06g40560D) were down-regulated. These results suggested that miRNAs might influence cuticle biosynthesis by repressing cuticle-related genes expression in B. napus. Both the biosynthesis and secretion processes of cuticlular components might be influenced by miRNAs. These results will promote the study of post-transcriptional regulation mechanisms of cuticle biosynthesis in B. napus and provide new direction for further research.
Project description:The brown planthopper (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens) is the most destructive pest of rice and causes serious economic damage in Asia. Understanding the composition of Nilaparvata lugens cuticle protein will help pest control. In this study, Nilaparvata lugens cuticle was disserted, and underwent shotgun MS/MS analysis.