Project description:The main objective of the present study was to analyze the effect of a severe isolate of CEVd on gene expression of Etrog citron plants was performed not only in late (post-symptomatic) stages of infection but also in early (pre-symptomatic) stages. A genome-wide 20K cDNA mycroarray of citrus was used. Four replicates for each sample category (time-point 0: healthy plants; time-point 1: infected plants at the symptomless stage; time-point 2: infected plants at the symptomatic stage) were generated and compared by a reference design .
Project description:Not much is known about the molecular processes involved during gravitropism in monocot plants such as maize. A microarray based study on the expression of genes after a gravity stimulating the maize pulvinus will provide us with valuable information and a better understanding of the underlying molecular processes involved in monocot gravitropism. Objectives for this study included the identification of genes that were regulated at the transcriptional and translation level during gravitropism in the maize pulvinus. This was achieved by microarray analysis of total RNA versus polyribosome associated RNA during a time-course of gravity stimulation of the maize pulvinus. Experiment Overall Design: Six week old maize plants were gravity stimulated by 90º reorientation. Upper (slow elongation) and lower (fast elongation) halves of the most gravity competent pulvini were harvested over a time course ranging from 2 minutes up to one hour (2min, 5 min, 15min, 30min, 60min). Pulvini samples from control (vertical, no gravity stimulation) plants were harvested and labeled as left and right. For each time point, total mRNA and polyribosome-associated mRNA were purified and the transcript profiles analyzed using Affymetrix GeneChip® Maize Genome Arrays. The experiment was repeated twice (two growing seasons) and represent two biological repetitions.
Project description:We report transcriptomic dysregulations in the spinal cord of asymptomatic (A: 1.5 months) symptomatic (S: 6 months) and end stage (E: 10-12 months) CHMP2Bintron5 mice by RNA sequencing. We found that genes related to immune system and lipid metabolism had altered expression levels at 1.5 month. Expression of genes related to neuronal system was atletred at 6months and expression of genes related to neuronal system and extracellular matrix xere dfound deregulated at the end-stage. These results were used to determine the change of transcriptomic profile throughout the course of the disease.
Project description:We aimed to characterize transcriptomic changes over time (baseline, 2 hours, 48 hours and 96 hours) after nickel-induced contact dermatitis in 6 human probands. As a contrast, 7 patients with SLS-induced irritant contact dermatitis were included. Therefore, the patch tests were applied onto the back of the individuals and punch biopsies were taken at the respective time points. Only skin with clear reactions was further used for transcriptomic analysis. Using gene set enrichment analysis and leukocyte deconvolution algorithm, we were able to identify important immune cell subsets and related functions within the human skin.
Project description:Not much is known about the molecular processes involved during gravitropism in monocot plants such as maize. A microarray based study on the expression of genes after a gravity stimulating the maize pulvinus will provide us with valuable information and a better understanding of the underlying molecular processes involved in monocot gravitropism. Objectives for this study included the identification of genes that were regulated at the transcriptional and translation level during gravitropism in the maize pulvinus. This was achieved by microarray analysis of total RNA versus polyribosome associated RNA during a time-course of gravity stimulation of the maize pulvinus. Keywords: time course
Project description:We have investigated the process of disease-induced functional perturbation and the related transcriptional changes occurring in thoraco-lumbar spinal cord extracted from Sprague-Dawley rats heterozygous for the G93A SOD1 gene mutation (Emerging Model 2148 Het Male, Taconic USA; Wyeth and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association 2002) using spinal cord from wild type females littermates as reference tissues. Rats were obtained from a breeding project at Taconic Breeding Services (USA). We have applied large-scale gene expression analysis to define the pattern or transcriptional changes occurring in spinal cord from the G93A SOD1 rat model from a pre-symptomatic stage, at disease onset and at end-stage disease, using Bead Array analysis (Illumina, San Diego, USA). We have pooled spinal cord from N:5 transgenic rats for each of the time points considered, using the same pools of spinal cord from sex and age-matched WT rats as reference. In this specific project, the aim was to obtain a gene ontology (GO) pathway analysis of the transcriptional changes induced by the G93A SOD1 mutation in rat spinal cord. Hence, we have opted for a sample pooling strategy, well aware that in so doing, we would not obtaineed information about individuals genes variation across the samples in study but an overall view of the activation of multi-genes molecular signals. Total RNA was isolated from the spinal cords of mutant (G93A SOD1 gene mutation) female rats sacrificed at a pre-symptomatic stage (10-week old), at disease onset and at end stage disease and from age and sex-matched wild type (WT) littermates. RNA samples obtained from spinal cord extracted from rats of the same genetic types and sacrificed at the same time points (e.g. 5 RNA samples from mutant spinal cord from end-stage rats; 5 RNA samples from mutant spinal cord from rats at disease onset; 5 RNA samples from mutant pre-symptomatic rats and 5 RNA samples from spinal cord obtained from age-matched WT rats sacrificed at each of the 3 time points) were pooled and used for gene expression analysis and Ontology analysis of the expression profiles.
Project description:In Arabidopsis, lateral roots (LRs) originate from pericycle cells located adjacent to vascular tissues, deep within the primary root. Consequently, new LR organs have to emerge through several overlying tissues. Eight stages of LR primordium development have been defined, with stage I representing a single layer of primordium cells generated by the first round of asymmetric divisions and stage VIII defining primordia that have fully emerged through the outer cell layers. To identify novel genes involved in LR development, we generated a transcriptomic time course dataset encompassing each LR developmental stage from pre-initiation to post-emergence.