Project description:Adverse environmental and pathophysiological situations can overwhelm the biosynthetic capacity of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), igniting a potentially lethal condition known as ER stress. ER stress results in growth reduction and the activation of a conserved cytoprotective signaling cascade, the unfolded protein response (UPR), to mitigate ER stress. As ER stress subsides, growth is resumed; however, despite a pivotal role of the UPR in growth restoration, the underlying mechanisms are yet unknown. To discover these, we undertook a genomics approach and mined the gene reprogramming roles of the two critical and conserved UPR modulators, basic leucine zipper28 (bZIP28) and bZIP60 in ER stress resolution. Through a coexpression-based network modeling and experimental validation, we identified key responsive genes acting downstream of the UPR bZIP-transcription factors (bZIP-TF), and demonstrated their roles in organ growth during recovery from ER stress. Our analyses have also set up a novel pipeline for functional gene discovery in ER stress resolution with broad applicability across multicellular eukaryotes.
Project description:High-thoughput Illumina RNA sequencing to identify downstream target genes of RABBIT EARS (RBE) in the flowers of Arabidopsis thaliana
Project description:MYB87 chimera repressor suppresses longitudinal organ growth with aberrant expressions of cell wall related genes in Arabidopsis thaliana
Project description:We used Illumina-based RNA-seq to identify differentially expressed genes in wild-type Arbaidopsis or in transgenic plants over-expressing HSFA1b-RFP. These data were interescted with ChIP-seq experiments conducted under the same conditions. The aim of the combined analyses was to identify HSFA1b-regulated genes involved in growth to stress transitions.
