Project description:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in marine and estuarine environments. Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) caused by this bacterium is an ongoing problem among shrimp farming industries. V. parahaemolyticus proteins PirA and PirB have been determined to be major virulence factors that induce AHPND. In this study, Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) were challenged with recombinant PirA and PirB by a reverse gavage method and then at 30 m, 1, 2, 4, and 6 h time points, the hepatopancreas of five individual shrimp were removed and placed into RNA later. We conducted RNA sequencing of the hepatopancreas samples from a no PirA/B control (n = 5) and PirA/B-treated shrimp at the different time intervals (n=5). We evaluated the different gene expression patterns between the time groups to the control with a focus on identifying differences in innate immune function.
Project description:The Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), one of the most widely cultured shrimp species in the world, usually suffered from chilling stress in China. In order to reveal inner proteomics mechanism of chilling tolerance, we conducted a proteomic analysis on two contrasting shrimp cultivars, namely, chilling-tolerant GH2 and chilling-sensitive GH1 under normal temperature 28°C, chilling stress 16°C, and 16°C recovered to 28°C, respectively.
Project description:Here we used microarrays to characterize changes in global gene expression in the hepatopancreas of Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, exposed to short term (4 h) hypoxia (H) or hypercapnic hypoxia (HH) or long term (24 h) H or HH, compared to animals in air-saturated water (normoxia). The transcriptomes of crustaceans exposed to low O2 and high CO2 contained both shared and treatment-specific signature genes (q M-bM-^IM-$ 0.01, FC M-bM-^IM-% 1.5), with shifts characteristic of metabolic depression rather than anaerobic metabolism. Down-regulated signature genes dominated the transcript profile in three of the four treatments (H 4 h, H 24 h, 4 h HH); many of these genes were involved in amino acid or RNA metabolism or in translation, including several tRNA synthetases. Unique patterns of gene expression such as increased lipid metabolism and hemocyanin synthesis (H 24 h) and initiation of apoptosis (24 h HH) were tied to specific treatments. This work contributes insight to the effects that human perturbations might have on estuarine organisms, and the importance of examining the impacts of environmentally relevant combinations of hypoxia and hypercapnia on estuarine populations. L. vannamei were exposed for 4 or 24 hours to one of the following conditions: normoxia, hypoxia or hypercapnic hypoxia. Hepatopancreas tissue from individual animals was dissected, total RNA extracted, labelled and hybridized to oligonucleotide microarrays with probes for 21,864 L. vannamei unigenes. Treatments were repeated until a total of 7 biological replicates was obtained for each time:treatment combination, except for the 24 h normoxia group, represented by 6 replicates.
Project description:Here we used microarrays to characterize changes in global gene expression in the hepatopancreas of Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, exposed to short term (4 h) hypoxia (H) or hypercapnic hypoxia (HH) or long term (24 h) H or HH, compared to animals in air-saturated water (normoxia). The transcriptomes of crustaceans exposed to low O2 and high CO2 contained both shared and treatment-specific signature genes (q ≤ 0.01, FC ≥ 1.5), with shifts characteristic of metabolic depression rather than anaerobic metabolism. Down-regulated signature genes dominated the transcript profile in three of the four treatments (H 4 h, H 24 h, 4 h HH); many of these genes were involved in amino acid or RNA metabolism or in translation, including several tRNA synthetases. Unique patterns of gene expression such as increased lipid metabolism and hemocyanin synthesis (H 24 h) and initiation of apoptosis (24 h HH) were tied to specific treatments. This work contributes insight to the effects that human perturbations might have on estuarine organisms, and the importance of examining the impacts of environmentally relevant combinations of hypoxia and hypercapnia on estuarine populations.
Project description:In order to gain a better understanding of the impact of Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection on genetic regulation of Litopenaeus vannamei,we performed a transcriptome analysis in the hepatopancreas of Litopenaeus vannamei challenged with Vibrio parahaemolyticus, using the Illumina HiSeq 2500 platform.
Project description:Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) is a shrimp farming disease, caused by a pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus carrying a plasmid encoding Vp_PirAB-like toxin (VpAHPND). Whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei were fed food pellets containing formalin-killed VpAHPND (FKC-VpAHPND) to select for toxin resistance. To identify genes associated with Vp_PirAB-like toxin resistance, total RNA was sequenced to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the stomach and hepatopancreas among surviving shrimp (sur-FKC), AHPND-infected shrimp (Vp-inf) and normal shrimp (control). From a total of 79,591 genes, 194 and 224 DEGs were identified in the stomach and hepatopancreas transcriptomes, respectfully. The expressions of DEGs were validated by qPCR of ten genes. Only one gene, a gene homologous to L vannamei anti-lipopolysaccharide factor AV-R isoform (LvALF AV-R), was expressed significantly more strongly in sur-FKC than in the other groups. The association of LvALF AV-R expression and toxin resistance was affirmed from the surviving shrimp in a second-trial of FKC-VpAHPND feeding. These results suggest that LvALF AV-R may be involved in shrimp defense mechanisms against Vp_PirAB-like toxin virulence.
2019-01-01 | GSE104715 | GEO
Project description:Bacterial population on Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei culture systems