Project description:Sequencing the metatranscriptome can provide information about the response of organisms to varying environmental conditions. We present a methodology for obtaining random whole-community mRNA from a complex microbial assemblage using Pyrosequencing. The metatranscriptome had, with minimum contamination by ribosomal RNA, significant coverage of abundant transcripts, and included significantly more potentially novel proteins than in the metagenome. Keywords: metatranscriptome, mesocosm, ocean acidification This experiment is part of a much larger experiment. We have produced 4 454 metatranscriptomic datasets and 6 454 metagenomic datasets. These were derived from 4 samples. The experiment is an ocean acidification mesocosm set up in a Norwegian Fjord in 2006. We suspended 6 bags containing 11,000 L of sea water in a Coastal Fjord and then we bubbled CO2 through three of these bags to simulate ocean acidification conditions in the year 2100. The other three bags were bubbled with air. We then induced a phytoplankton bloom in all six bags and took measurements and performed analyses of phytoplankton, bacterioplankton and physiochemical characteristics over a 22 day period. We took water samples from the peak of the phytoplankton bloom and following the decline of the phytoplankton bloom to analyses using 454 metagenomics and 454 metatranscriptomics. Day 1, High CO2 Bag and Day 1, Present Day Bag, refer to the metatranscriptomes from the peak of the bloom. Day 2, High CO2 Bag and Day 2, Present Day Bag, refer to the metatranscriptomes following the decline of the bloom. Obviously High CO2 refers to the ocean acidification mesocosm and Present Day refers to the control mesocosm. Raw data for both the metagenomic and metatranscriptomic components are available at NCBI's Short Read Archive at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/Studies/SRP000/SRP000101
Project description:Marine microalgae (phytoplankton) mediate almost half of the worldwide photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation and therefore play a pivotal role in global carbon cycling, most prominently during massive phytoplankton blooms. Phytoplankton biomass consists of considerable proportions of polysaccharides, substantial parts of which are rapidly remineralized by heterotrophic bacteria. We analyzed the diversity, activity and functional potential of such polysaccharide-degrading bacteria in different size fractions during a diverse spring phytoplankton bloom at Helgoland Roads (southern North Sea) at high temporal resolution using microscopic, physicochemical, biodiversity, metagenome and metaproteome analyses.
Project description:We profiled transcriptomes in human lung cancer cell line A549 when the expression of Bloom was knockdown by the siRNA specific to Bloom.
Project description:The microcosmic and specific changes of human photoaging skin without chronologic aging is still unclear and rare-ly analyzed. We aimed to assess biological processes of the cell-subgroups alteration and mechanisms of skin pho-toaging using single cell sequencing and biological analysis were used between sun-exposed forearm skin and un-exposed buttock skin in same individual via skin punch biopsy.
Project description:The purpose of this study was to quantify the effects of basal leaf removal applied in Sangiovese cultivar at two different phonological stages, pre-bloom and veraison, on berry composition. As very few papers were published about the regulation of gene expression induced by vineyard management techniques, we report the first global transcriptomic analysis (integrated with agronomic and biochemical data) aiming to determine the molecular mechanisms that control Sangiovese berry composition. The comparison of gene expression profiles of defoliated vines at pre-bloom and at veraison with the control, revealed a common transcriptional response at the end of veraison in both treated berries, but also a more extensive transcriptome rearrangement in pre-bloom defoliated ones, which could be linked to the strong biochemical changes detected in the berry after pre-bloom veraison.