Project description:Cordyceps militaris and Cordyceps sinensis belong to belong to the same genus, but the different species, with immunity improvement, antibacterial, and antihypertensive effect, and the studies on the functions of Cordyceps militaris mainly focus on those of its polysaccharides and polypeptides. The latest studies have found that some of the polypeptides with immunomodulatory effect can widely regulate immune functions at multiple levels, improve immunity, and enhance immune functions to ensure the healthy body, showing an important significance. Cordyceps militaris polypeptide prepared with the enzymolysis method was taken as the research object in this study. The differentially expressed genes and the related cell signal transduction pathway were screened by mRNA expression microarray. STEM 1.3.6 software was used for the clustering of the gene functions, and David and KEGG database were applied for the analysis of the related functions. 1748 differentially expressed genes were selected finally and three of them were validated by qPCR. The results showed that gene Hist1h2bp, Ctsg, and Elane were involved in the regulation of Cordyceps militaris on the immune activity of mice. Gene Hist1h2bp, Ctsg and Elan may be the potential targets of Cordyceps militaris polypeptide, which may provide an important theory basis for the further research and development of Cordyceps militaris polypeptide.
Project description:The high frequency strain degeneration during subculture seriously restrict the large-scale production of Cordyceps militaris and industrialized process. In the current study, the high-throughput Illumina sequencing was performed on 6 passages subculture C. militaris strains to obtain the divergence of transciptomes in degeneration progress. Then various statistical comparison analysis was further conducted based on the HQ reads to better understand their difference. Over 9015 unigenes and 731 new genes were formed by initial sequence splicing and showed a perfect coverage;3737 ends in 3695 genes were optimized, 2010 at 5’ end (1847 genes ≥ 50 bps) and 1727 at 3’ end (1485 genes ≥ 50 bps); 134783 variants including 126923 SNP variants and 7860 InDelvariants were detected;more than 11304 RNA editing events occurred in total, which yielded 2950 nonsynonymous SNV, 6 stoploss, 5 stopgain and 8343 synonymous SNV; Compared with the first passage strain, the third passage strain exhibited 2498 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) including 1729 up-regulated genes and 769 down-regulated genes, which was higher than other samples. Seventeen enriched gene ontology (GO) terms were identified by GO enrichment analysis and twenty seven enriched pathways were identified by KEGG enrichment analysis, which might be mainly associated with the processing of degeneration. The findings revealed the DEGs involved into the degeneration progress of C. militaris and yielded insights into molecular mechanism of degeneration, which provide the reference for efficiently and artificially producing C. militaris.