Project description:Senecio scandens Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don, an important antibacterial source of Chinese traditional medicine, has a widespread distribution in a few ecological habitats of China. We generated a full-length complementary DNA (cDNA) library from a sample of elite individuals with superior antibacterial properties, with satisfactory parameters such as library storage (4.30 × 106 CFU), efficiency of titre (1.30 × 106 CFU/mL), transformation efficiency (96.35%), full-length ratio (64.00%) and redundancy ratio (3.28%). The BLASTN search revealed the facile formation of counterparts between the experimental sample and Arabidopsis thaliana in view of high-homology cDNA sequence (90.79%) with e-values <1e - 50. Sequence similarities to known proteins indicate that the entire sequences of the full-length cDNA clones consist of the major of functional genes identified by a large set of microarray data from the present experimental material. For other Compositae species, a large set of full-length cDNA clones reported in the present article will serve as a useful resource to facilitate further research on the transferability of expressed sequence tag-derived simple sequence repeats (EST-SSR) development, comparative genomics and novel transcript profiles.
Project description:Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a frequent mycotoxin in grains, produced by Fusarium fungi, which demonstre multiple side effects such as modulation of immune responses, reduced feed intake and weight gain or impairment of the intestinal barrier function. Among animal species, pigs are the best model for humans and are very sensitive to DON. In wheat, DON can be conjugated to glucose to form DON-3-β-D-glucoside (D3G). Some bacteria isolated from digestive tracts or soil, are also able to de-epoxydize or epimerize DON to metabolites such as deepoxy-deoxynivalenol (DOM-1) or 3-epi-deoxynivalenol (epi-DON). The toxicity of these DON metabolites is poorly documented. By the way of ingestion, the intestine is the first organ exposed to these molecules and so constitute a relevant model. The aim of this study was to compare the intestinal toxicity of three DON metabolites (D3G, DOM-1 and epi-DON) with the one of DON. Intestinal explants from 6 pigs were treated with 10mM DON, D3G, DOM-1 or epi-DON for 4 hours and transcriptomic analysis was performed using an “Agilent Porcinet 60K”.
Project description:One individual from each of three related plant species: Senecio aethnensis, Senecio chrysanthemifolius and Senecio vernalis. Transcriptome or Gene expression