Project description:Interventions: Group 1: Quantitative Expression Analysis of the proteom and gene Expression of Primary Tumor, normal tissue, and metastases
Primary outcome(s): Disease associated Proteins and Genes
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Project description:Magnaporthe oryzae is the causative agent of the rice blast, the most relevant rice disease worldwide. To date expression analysis on rice infected with Magnaporthe oryzae have been carried out only with the strains FR13 (leaf) and Guy 11 (root). However different strains of Magnaporthe are present in the environment leading to different rice responses at molecular level. To gain more insight on the unknown molecular mechanisms activated by different Magnaporthe strains during rice defense, a global expression analysis was performed by using the GeneChip® Rice Genome Array. To identify rice genes differentially regulated upon infection by Magnaporthe isolates, inoculation with different strains were performed and samples were collected 24 hours post infection.
Project description:1.1 To collect pathological tumor specimens of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer in a prospective fashion for correlative studies of response to an oxaliplatin based chemotherapy regimen.
1.2 To determine a gene expression profile that predicts response to an oxaliplatin based chemotherapy regimen in this cohort of patients.
Project description:In angiosperms, stigma provides initial nutrients and guidance cues for pollen grain germination and tube growth. However, little is known about genes that regulate these processes in rice. Here we generate rice stigma-specific gene expression profiles through comparing genome-wide expression patterns of hand dissected unpollinated stigma at anthesis with seven tissues including seedling shoot, seedling root, mature anther, ovary at anthesis, seeds of five days after pollination, 10-day-old embryo, 10-day-old endosperm as well as suspension cultured cells by using 57K Affymetrix rice whole genome array. In total, we identified 665 probe sets (550 genes) to be expressed specifically or predominantly in the stigma papillar cells of rice. Real-Time quantitative RT-PCR analysis of 34 selected genes confirmed their stigma-specific expression. The expression of five selected genes was further validated by RNA in situ hybridization. Gene annotation shows that several auxin-signaling components, transporters and stress-related genes are significantly overrepresented in the rice stigma gene set. We also found that genes involved in cell wall metabolism and cellular communication appear to be conserved in the stigma between rice and Arabidopsis. Our results indicate that the stigmas appear to have conserved and novel molecular functions between rice and Arabidopsis. Keywords: rice (Oryza sativa L.), pollination and fertilization, stigma, molecular functions, signaling£¬microarray, stress response
Project description:We developed a novel platform for genome-wide gene expression analysis in any eukaryotic organism, that we coin SuperSAGE Array. The SuperSAGE Array is a microarray onto which oligonucleotides of 26 nucleotides corresponding to SuperSAGE tag sequences are directly synthesized. A SuperSAGE Array combines the advantages of the highly quantitative SuperSAGE expression analysis with the high-throughput microarray technology. Highly reproducible gene expression profiling by the SuperSAGE Array was demonstrated for a thousand of genes (tags) in rice. Keywords: Tissues, SuperSAGE, 26base oligonucleotide
Project description:To study the function of chromatin regulators in hybrid gene expression, the histone deacetylase gene OsHDT1 was over-expressed or inactivated by RNAi in an elite rice parent. Digital analysis of gene expression using high throughput sequencing technology revealed several differential gene expression patterns in the hybrid, including additivity, nonadditivity and overdominance, etc. Alteration of OsHDT1 levels affected many genes specifically in the hybrid. In addition, we show that increased OsHDT1 could suppress overdominance gene expression, providing evidence of overdominance gene action in heterosis. These results not only support the overdominance hypothesis to explain heterosis, but also provide evidence that variation in the levels of single trans-acting regulatory proteins such as chromatin factors is important to establish differential gene expression pattern in the hybrid.
Project description:Knockout of a gene encoding coniferaldehyde 5-hydroxylase (OsCAld5H1) leads to modulate increase guaiacyl (G) lignin aromatic composition in rice. We compared the global gene expression profiles of wild-type and OsCAld5H1-knockout mutants by microarray to examine the possible effects of OsCAld5H1 disruption on gene expression. We subsequently applied the up- and down-regulated gene sets to gene ontology term enrichment analysis. The results demonstrated that no GO biological process categories enriched significantly, indicating that minimal perturbation of gene expression were caused by OsCAld5H1-knockout.
Project description:Rice roots grown in hydroponic culture were inoculated with rice blast fungus and gene expression profiles were analyzed by microarray
