Project description:Plants defend themselves against herbivores by activating a plethora of genetic and biochemical mechanisms aimed at reducing plant damage and insect survival. The short-term plant response to insect attack is well understood, but less is known about the maintenance of this response over time. We performed transcriptomic and metabolomics analyses in order to identify genes and metabolites involved in the long-term response of maize to attack by the corn borer Sesamina nonagrioides. To determine the role of elicitors present in caterpillar secretions, we also evaluated the response of maize stem challenged with insect regurgitates. The integrative analysis of the omics results revealed that the long-term response in maize is characterized by repression of the primary metabolism and a strong redox response, mainly mediated by germin-like proteins to produce anti-nutritive and toxic compounds that reduce insect viability, and with the glutathione–ascorbate cycle being crucial to minimize the adverse effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) on the plant. Our results suggest that different defense mechanisms are involved in the long-term response compared to those reported during the early response. We also observed a marginal effect of the caterpillar regurgitates on the long-term defensive response.
Project description:This study examines the transcriptomic response of biofilms of the PAH-degrading Sphingomonas sp. LH128 on solute stress when actively degrading and growing on the PAH compound. To address the effect of solute stress on bacterial physiology and transcriptomic response, NaCl was used as osmolyte. Both acute and chronic solute stress was invoked to assess differences in short-term and long-term responses. Transcriptomic response of phenanthrene degrading Sphingomonas sp. LH128 biofilms as a response to short-term and long-term solute (NaCl) stress was studied using genome-wide gene expression analysis. For this purpose, the strain was grown in customized continuous glass flow chambers that contain solid phenanthrene as a sole carbon source and that allow easy recovery of biofilm cells for transcriptomic and physiological analysis. A NaCl stress of 450 mM was imposed on LH128 biofilms growing on phenanthrene crystals coated on glass slides either for 4 hours (acute stress) or for 3 days (chronic stress). RNA was extracted from the biofilm and cDNA was synthesized and labeled with Cy3. Transcriptomic response in the stressed biofilms of three replicates per conditions were analyzed and compared with non-stressed
Project description:Global temporal quantitative proteomic and transcriptomic analysis using long-term hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected primary human hepatocytes uncovered extensive remodeling of host proteome and transcriptome, and revealed cytopathic effects of long-term viral replication. Metabolic-, complement-, cytoskeleton-, mitochondrial- and oxidation-related pathways were modulated at transcriptional or post-transcriptional levels, which could be partially rescued by early rather than late nucleot(s)ide analogs (NAs) therapy. Overexpression screening identified a series of pro- or anti- HBV host factors. These data have deepened the understanding of the mechanisms of viral pathogenesis and HBV-host interactions in hepatocytes, with implications for therapeutic intervention.
Project description:We performed a single cell RNA-seq survey of 14,704 invasive fibroblasts and 16,104 non-invasive fibroblasts using an in vitro assay system which had been previously used to evaluate the ability of lung fibroblasts to spontaneously invade Matrigel and commonly used to analyze the metastatic potential of cancer cells. Different subtypes in invasive or non-invasive lung fibroblasts were classified, and their gene signatures, specific cell surface markers, long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), key transcription factors and signaling pathways were further confirmed mechanistically and functionally. After combination of all the specific genes for Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA), we found that the ERBB2 (HER2) signaling pathway was significantly activated in invasive fibroblasts and was markedly inhibited in non-invasive fibroblasts.
Project description:A novel role of the actin cytoskeleton regulatory protein hMENA in the reciprocal pro-invasive interaction between cancer associated fibroblasts and cancer cells via Axl-Gas6 pathway
Project description:Previous stimulation experiments of stimulated primary murine colonic fibroblasts with IL-36R ligands for 4h in vitro showed an upregulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines e.g. IL-6, IL-1b and chemokines e.g. CXCL1, CCL2 indicating an important role for IL-36 in inflammation. We were interested in analyzing long-term stimulation (9 days) of intestinal fibroblasts to identify a putative differential expression profile. The experimental setup included 6 samples from 3 colons in a pairwise design (3 stimulated vs 3 unstimulated).
Project description:This study aimed to explore the role of the Zyxin-related protein TRIP6 (thyroid receptor interacting protein 6) in Ewing's sarcoma (ES). By interrogation of published miccroarray data, we observed that of all seven Zyxin-proteins only TRIP6 is highly overexpressed in ES compared to normal tissues. RNA interference experiments and subsequent microarray and gene-set enrichment analyses indicated that TRIP6 expression is associated wth a pro-proliferative and pro-invasive transcriptional signature. Consistently, functional assays demonstrated that TRIP6 promotes migration, invasion, long-term proliferation and clonogencity of ES cells. A673 and SK-N-MC Ewing sarcoma cells were transfected with specific siRNA against TRIP6 (siTRIP6_4 or siTRIP6_5) or negative control siRNA (siControl) or Mock-transfected.
