Project description:The presence of numerous chemical contaminants from industrial, agricultural, and pharmaceutical sources in water supplies poses a potential risk to human and ecological health. Current chemical analyses suffer from limitations including chemical coverage and high cost, and broad-coverage in vitro assays such as transcriptomics may further improve water quality monitoring by assessing a large range of possible effects. Here, we used high-throughput transcriptomics to assess the activity induced by field-derived water extracts in MCF7 breast carcinoma cells.
2024-03-05 | GSE252117 | GEO
Project description:Evolutionary and ecological dynamics of E. coli populations in long cycles of nutrient-replenishment
Project description:The ecological significance of light perception in non-phototrophic bacteria remains largely elusive. In terrestrial environments, diurnal oscillations in light are often temporally coupled to other environmental changes, including increased temperature and evaporation. Here we report that light functions as an anticipatory cue that triggers protective adaptations to tolerate a future rapid loss of environmental water in leaf-associated Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (Pss) and other terrestrial pseudomonads. Global transcriptome analyses in Pss showed that light control occurs almost entirely through a bacteriophytochrome photoreceptor that senses red, far-red and blue wavelengths and influences 30% of the Pss genome. Bacteriophytochrome-mediated light control disproportionally upregulates water-stress adaptation functions and confers enhanced fitness when cells encounter light prior to water limitation. These data demonstrate that non-phototrophic bacteria can use light as a cue to mount an adaptive anticipatory response against a physiologically unrelated but ecologically coupled stress.
Project description:We report that Zinc Replenishment Reverses Overexpression of the Proinflammatory Mediator S100A8 and Esophageal Preneoplasia in the Rat
Project description:In fish, few miRNAs have been shown to muscle specific and data on miRNA involved in myogenesis are scarce. In order to identify new miRNA involved in satellite cells differentiation, we used a methionin depletion/replenishment protocol to synchronize myogenic cell differentiation. Our results clearly validated that methionine removal (72H) from the culture medium strongly decreased myoD1 and myogenin expression indicating a differentiation arrest. In contrast, methionine replenishment rescued the expression of myoD1 and myogenin showing a resumption of the differentiation. Then, we performed a miRNA array analysis of myogenic cells from three conditions: in presence of methionine (CTRL), absence of methionine during 72h (Meth-) and absence of methionine during 48H following 24H of methionine replenishment (Meth -/+). A clustering analysis identified three clusters : the cluster I corresponds to miRNA upregulated only in Meth -/+ conditions; the cluster II corresponds to miRNA downregulated only in Meth -/+ conditions; the cluster III corresponds to miRNAs with high expression in control, low expression in absence of methionine (Meth -) and middle expression after methionine replenishment (Meth -/+). The cluster III was very interesting because it followed (?) the resumption and differentiation and contained 7 miRNAs with muscle-related function (e.g. miR-133a) and one (miR-210) with unknown function. Based on our already published miRNAs repertoire (Juanchich et al 2016), we confirmed that miR-133a had an expression only in white muscle and we showed that miR-210 had the highest expression in white muscle. We also showed that miR-210 expression was upregulated during differentiation of satellite cells suggesting that miR-210 was potentially involved in the differentiation of satellite cells in trout.
Project description:To investigate the differential genes associated with mitochondria in pulmonary fibrosis mice, we established pulmonary fibrosis mice and applied mitochondrial replenishment therapy.