Project description:Comparison of gene expression from expanded bovine blastocysts collected 7 days after fertilization and produced in vivo vs in vitro-SOF-OPU
Project description:The project aims to use photocycle mutants to understand the importance of phot2 autophosphorylation for signaling leading to chloroplast accumulation and avoidance. The second part is focused on the identification of new interacting proteins for phot2.
Characterization of proteins important for signaling leading to chloroplast avoidance. PHOT2-GFP wild type and PHOT2-V392L-GFP muteins were immunoprecipitated from leaves of transgenic Arabidopsis plants, either dark-adapted or irradiated with low or high blue light. Proteins identified by Mass Spectrometry as interacting with wild-type PHOT2-GFP and PHOT2-V392L-GFP were compared to identify proteins putatively involved in chloroplast avoidance. Phosphorylation profiles of PHOT2-GFP wild type and PHOT2-V392L-GFP were analyzed to distinguish between phosphorylation sites characteristic for chloroplast accumulation and avoidance.
Project description:The Poaceae family, also known as the grasses, includes agronomically important cereal crops such as rice, maize, sorghum, and wheat. Previous comparative studies have shown that much of the gene content is shared among the grasses; however, functional conservation of orthologous genes has yet to be explored. To gain an understanding of the genome-wide patterns of evolution of gene expression across reproductive tissues, we employed a sequence-based approach to compare analogous transcriptomes in species representing three Poaceae subgroups including the Pooideae (Brachypodium distachyon), the Panicoideae (sorghum), and the Ehrhartoideae (rice). Our transcriptome analyses reveal that only a fraction of orthologous genes exhibit conserved expression patterns. A high proportion of conserved orthologs include genes that are upregulated in physiologically similar tissues such as leaves, anther, pistil, and embryo, while orthologs that are highly expressed in seeds show the most diverged expression patterns. This experiment is related to E-MTAB-4401 (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/experiments/E-MTAB-4401/) and E-MTAB-4402 (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/experiments/E-MTAB-4402/)
