Project description:To dissect differences in gene expression profile of soybean roots and root nodules, we have employed microarray analysis. Seeds of soybean (Glycine max L. cv. Nourin No. 2) were inoculated with rhizobia (Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens USDA110) and were hydroponically cultivated under controlled conditions with nitrogen free culture solution (Saito et al. 2014). At 19 days after planting, each plant were treated with or without 5 mM nitrate for 24 hours. Roots and nodules from three plants were pooled with three biological replications, and total RNA was extracted.
Project description:Here we performed a transcriptomic study on the effect of sodium nitroprusside (SNP) on cucumber leaves under alkali stress using Solexa/Illumina's high-throughput digital gene expression (DGE) system. Two DGE libraries (from one NaHCO3-treated sample and one NaHCO3 + SNP-treated sample) were constructed, and the gene expression variations between the two samples were compared. Hundreds of differentially expressed genes were obtained by the comparison, and GO analysis of these genes suggested that many biological processes, molecular function, cellular components were related to SNPM-bM-^@M-^Ys mitigated effect on alkaline stress. The authenticity of the DGE data was further confirmed by analyzing real-time RT-PCR using several random-selected genes. The experiment had 2 treatments: 30 mM NaHCO3 (alkali stress treatment, indicated as Na) and 30 mM NaHCO3+100 M-NM-<M sodium nitroprusside (indicated as SNP). Samples from Na- and SNP-treated leaves, used for RNA isolation, were harvested, and the two corresponding tag libraries of samples were constructed in parallel. Illumina sequencing of transcripts from Na- and SNP-treated samples to get gene information for cucumber leaves in different treatments.
Project description:Leishmaniasis affects mainly the poorest population of the third world. Among visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis (VL and CL, respectively), visceral leishmaniasis is the deadliest parasitic disease. There are no vaccines against leishmaniasis and the chemotherapeutic agents currently used are also insufficient. Pentavalent antimonials are being used for the effective treatment of Leishmaniasis. In this study, we characterized compounds with leishmanicidal activity, and determined its mode of action through the whole transcriptome analyiss. The Lesihmania strains were treated with previously identified selected anti-leishmanial compounds in promastigotes cultures on M199 medium (supplemented with L-glutamine, 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum, 0.25% hemin, 40 mM NaHCO3, 100μM adenine, 40 mM HEPES, 100 U/mL penicillin and 100μg/mL streptomycin). Following the total RNA isolation, RNA-seq was performed using the Illumina NextSeq500 system. The genes expression profiling in the treated and control samples were determined using the standard bioinormatics tools, and then compared statistically.
Project description:The aim of the exposure was to study the effects of activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), by injecting the fish with the compounds WY-14,643 and GW501516. Using luciferase reporter assay in vitro, we have shown that WY-14,643 activate Atlantic cod Ppara1 and Ppara2, while GW501516 activate Ppara1, Ppara2, and Pparb. The experimental set-up was as follows: Immature cod were injected at day 0 and day 4 with either high dose (40 mg/kg WY-14,643 and 4.0 mg/kg GW501516), low dose (4.0 mg/kg WY-14,643 and 0.4 mg/kg GW501516), or solvent control (10 % DMSO, 90 % teleost saline (2.41 mM KCl, 133.5 mM NaCl, 1.5 mM CaCl2, 0.79 mM MgSO4, 1 mM NaHCO3, 0.5 mM Na2HPO4)). At day 11, liver samples were collected from 9-12 male fish from each group (total of 50 samples). Total RNA was isolated from 50 mg of each sample using TRI reagent (Sigma), and 0.4 μg RNA were sequenced at the Genomics Core Facility at the University of Bergen on Illumina HiSeq 4000 (Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA).
Project description:Purpose: The goals of this study are to analyze primary myoblast cell from mdx mice skeletal muscle transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) treated with different concentration glycine. Methods: primary myoblast cell isolated from 6-8-week-old mdx mice limb skeletal muscle and the primary myoblast treated with 0.2mM or 0.8mM glycine 24-hour. Primary myoblast mRNA profiles of 0.2mM glycine treated(3 replicates) and 0.8mM glycine treated(6 replicates) were generated by deep sequencing, using Illumina HiSeq 2500. The sequence reads that passed quality filters were analyzed at the gene level using HISAT2 and StringTie followed by DESeq2.
Project description:Alkali stress is one of the most severe abiotic stresses affecting agricultural production worldwide. To understand the phosphorylation events in soybean in response to alkali stress, we performed the TMT labeling-based quantitative phosphoproteomic analyses on soybean leaf and root tissues under 50 mM NaHCO3 treatment.
Project description:Soybean (Glycine max, cv Williams82) leaf petiole explants exposed to 25 ul/l ethylene for 0 to 72 h. Explants were prepared from 21 day-old greenhouse grown plants. Leaf abscission zones (LAZ) consisted of 2 mm of tissue collected below the leaf blade. The petioles (NAZ) consisted of approximately 3 to 4 mm of petiole tissue with the AZ removed. Explants and tissue were collected in February, March and April of 2013. Tissue and RNA were collected at USDA, Beltsville, MD (Mark L Tucker, Joonyup Kim and Ronghui Yang). Library construction and sequencing was completed at Univ of Cornell, Itheca, NY using a Illumina HiSeq 2000 (James J Giovannoni and Zhangjun Fei).
Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role as regulators of gene expression. In plants they affect a wide variety of biological process like growth, development and response to biotic and abiotic stress. Glycine max is one of the most important crop worldwide due to its rich protein and oil content. Drought and salt stress are the main abiotic stresses that affect soybean. Salt stress impacts the fisiology of the plants due to the damage in the photosynthetic rate, growth and development. This work aim to identify salt-stress responsive miRNAs and their respective targets in Glycine max using high-throughput RNA sequencing technology.