Project description:WblC, also known as WhiB7, is a widely conserved WhiB-like transcription factor in actinomycetes that activates transcription of many targets upon antibiotic challenge to bring about intrinsic resistance to a wide range of translation-targeting antibiotics. As we found that WblC controls many genes involved in translation and that WblC promotes translation rate upon antibiotic stress in the model actinomycetes Streptomyces coelicolor, we speculated that WblC might alter the protein composition of ribosome during antibiotic stress. To test this, we prepared 70S ribosome fraction from wild-type S. coelicolor cells untreated or treated with tetracycline and ΔwblC mutant treated with tetracycline, and then compared the protein compositions of each 70S samples by mass spectrometric quantification.
Project description:Gene expression profiling was carried out on peripheral blood mononuclear cell mRNA samples collected from 4 mo old rhesus macaques subject to maternal rearing, peer rearing, or surrogate peer rearing. The primary research question is whether gene expression differs as a function of early rearing conditions.
