Project description:Protein extract from symbiontic Burkholderia Kirkii (3 replicates: A,B,C): each fractionated by SDS-PAGE and digested using Trypsin, each fraction measured twice in LC-MSMS, once in discovery mode and once using an exclusion list based on first run. Mass spectra were searched against a protein sequence database containing products of both predicted protein coding genes and pseudogenes for B. kirkii, genes predicted by the Prodigal software, genes predicted by in-house software, P. kirkii chloroplastic proteins, as well as protein sequences of 256 common contaminants. We used Mascot search engine (version 2.3.0) with the following search parameters: Carbamidomethylation was set as a fixed modification on all Cysteines, oxidation of Methionines, deamidation of Asparagines and Glutamines, as well as cyclization of N-terminal Glutamines were considered as optional modifications. Precursor ion mass tolerance was set to 10 ppm, fragment ion mass tolerance was set to 0.8 Da, and the automatic decoy search option was enabled. Spectra were searched for a match to fully-tryptic and semi-tryptic peptides with up to two missed cleavage sites. The built-in version of Mascot Percolator was used to improve the peptide spectrum match (PSM) scores. Peptides were assessed with the PeptideClassifier software. Additional genome annotation is held at ENA under the accession: WGS project CAFE00000000.
Project description:The green rice leafhopper Nephotettix cincticeps have two mutualistic symbiotic bacteria (Candidatus Sulcia muelleri and Candidatus Nasuia deltocephalinicola) in its symbiont special organ bacteriome and are also infected to rickettsia. In order to determine immune challenge is induced or not in N. cincticeps, we investigated gene expression of Escherichia coli challenged N. cincticeps.
Project description:HLB is suggested to be caused by the phloem-limited fastidious prokaryotic α-proteobacterium “Candidatus Liberibacter spp.” Previous studies focused on the proteome and transcriptome analyses of citrus 5 to 35-week-after “Ca. L. spp.” inoculation. In this study, gene expression profiles was analyzed using mandarin of Citrus reticulate Blanco cv. jiaogan leaves after 2-year infection with “Ca. L. asiaticus”. The Affymetrix GeneChip® citrus genome were applied to study the molecular pathways mediated by “Ca. L. asiaticus” inoculated 3-year-old jiaogan seedlings. Each of them was graft-inoculated with one sweet orange scions with or without “Ca. L. asiaticus” in Dectember, 2009. RNA samples from three mandarin trees infected with 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' and three uninfected trees were used for affymatrix genochip
Project description:The green rice leafhopper Nephotettix cincticeps have two mutualistic symbiotic bacteria (Candidatus Sulcia muelleri and Candidatus Nasuia deltocephalinicola) in its symbiont special organ bacteriome and are also infected to rickettsia. In order to determine immune challenge is induced or not by rickettsia infection in N. cincticeps, we investigated gene expression between rickettsia-infected and rifampicin treated uninfected N. cincticeps colonies.