Project description:Negative energy balance (NEB) is an altered metabolic state in high yielding cows that occurs during the first few weeks postpartum when energy demands for lactation and maintenance exceed the energy supply from dietary intake. NEB can, in turn, lead to metabolic disorders and to reduced fertility. Alterations in the expression of more than 700 hepatic genes have previously been reported in a study of NEB in postpartum dairy cows. miRNAs (microRNA) are known to mediate many alterations in gene expression post transcriptionally. To study the hepatic miRNA content of postpartum dairy cows, including their overall abundance and differential expression, in mild NEB (MNEB) and severe NEB (SNEB) short read RNA sequencing was carried out.
2014-03-14 | GSE55882 | GEO
Project description:Uncoupling of nutrient supply as PHA enrichment strategy (Mr.DNA)
Project description:Oxygen limitation is regarded as a useful strategy to improve enzyme production by mycelial fungus like Aspergillus niger. However, the intracellular metabolic response of A. niger to oxygen limitation is still obscure. To address this, the metabolism of A. niger was studied using multi-omics integrated analysis based on the latest GEMs (genome-scale metabolic model), including metabolomics, fluxomics and transcriptomics. Upon sharp reduction of the oxygen supply, A. niger metabolism shifted to higher redox level status, as well as lower energy supply, characterized by the accumulation of intermediates from the TCA cycle, down-regulation of genes for fatty acid synthesis and a rapid decrease of the specific growth rate. The gene expression of the glyoxylate bypass was activated, consistent with the increasing flux, which was assumed to reduce the NADH formation from TCA cycle and benefit maintenance of the cellular redox balance under hypoxic conditions. In addition, the relative fluxes of the EMP pathway were increased, which possibly relieved the energy demand for cell metabolism.
Project description:Phenylpropanoids are derived from phenylalanine and comprise an important class of plant secondary metabolites that include specialized bioactives with medicinal properties, important phytonutrients, a broad range of natural colours, phytoanticipins, phytoalexins and phytoestrogens. A number of transcription factors have been used to upregulate specific branches of phenylpropanoid metabolism, but by far the most effective has been the fruit-specific expression of AtMYB12 in tomato, which resulted in an astonishing 10% of fruit dry weight accumulating as flavonoids and hydroxycinnamates. We show that AtMYB12 not only increases the demand of flavonoid biosynthesis, but also increases the supply of carbon from primary metabolism, and the supply of energy and reducing power, by upregulating glycolysis, the TCA cycle, the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway, fuelling the shikimate and phenylalanine biosynthetic pathways to supply more aromatic amino acids for secondary metabolism. AtMYB12 directly activates at least some genes encoding enzymes of primary metabolism. The enhanced supply of precursors, energy and reducing power achieved by AtMYB12 expression can be harnessed to engineer high levels of novel phenylpropanoids in tomato fruit, offering an effective production system for bioactives and other high value ingredients.
Project description:The ability to cope with fluctuations in energy supply is essential for an organism's survival and health. While caloric restriction (CR) provides benefits towards many aspects of aging, it is associated with loss of immune function. The mechanisms by which the hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) respond to this stress and potentially contribute to this loss of immunity remain unclear. In this study, using both lifelong and short-term CR mice models, we found that reduced energy supply leads to a decrease in total peripheral blood white blood cell production that is myeloid- and thrombo-erythroid-biased. This strategy prioritizes the production of cell types essential for survival, such as red blood cells, platelets, and innate immune cells, at the expense of adaptive immune cell differentiation. Consistent with change in blood composition, HSCs under CR are driven into cell cycle to support the myeloid differentiation rather than self-renewal. Interestingly, despite the altered hematopoietic output, lifelong CR mitigates age-associated transcriptome changes of the HSCs, but these modifications are swiftly lost after ad libitum feeding. Epigenetic profiling identified KDR as a key regulator of the CR response and experimental knockdown of Kdr in aged HSCs reproduced the more youthful aging transcriptome observed in lifelong CR HSCs. Additionally, we show that PU.1 acts as an intracellular regulator of the CR response, regulating HSC self-renewal and differentiation under CR conditions by increased binding to its target genes.
Project description:Plants possess an enormous plasticity to adapt their metabolism to the fluctuating energy supply in a natural environment. Using dark-induced senescence (DIS) as an experimental system, a mutant study combining phenotypical, transcriptomic and Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing (ChIPseq) approaches identifies distinct members of the Arabidopsis group S1 basic leucine zipper transcription factors that orchestrate the starvation response. While excluding bZIP2, bZIP11 and bZIP44 to function in DIS, the in part redundantly acting bZIP1 and bZIP53 control a co-expression network governing amino acid catabolism and transport, gluconeogenesis and energy homeostasis. Moreover, they regulate genes involved in asparagine – glutamine balance, which are critical for C/N homeostasis. This transcriptional reprogramming in resource management is required for survival during starvation and regaining meristematic activity during recovery from stress. Thus, we provide insights into the transcriptional control of plant resource and energy management during starvation. Finally, this work sheds light on the discrepancy between in vitro DNA-binding and overexpression studies versus mutant analyses and in vivo DNA-binding, providing a critical view on how to define specific transcription factor functions within large families.
Project description:The adaptive mechanisms in response to excess energy supply are still poorly known in humans. Our aims were to define metabolic responses and changes in gene expression in skeletal muscle of healthy volunteers during fat overfeeding.
Project description:The adaptive mechanisms in response to excess energy supply are still poorly known in humans. Our aims were to define metabolic responses and changes in gene expression in adipose tissue of healthy volunteers during fat overfeeding.
Project description:Phenylpropanoids are derived from phenylalanine and comprise an important class of plant secondary metabolites that include specialized bioactives with medicinal properties, important phytonutrients, a broad range of natural colours, phytoanticipins, phytoalexins and phytoestrogens. A number of transcription factors have been used to upregulate specific branches of phenylpropanoid metabolism, but by far the most effective has been the fruit-specific expression of AtMYB12 in tomato, which resulted in an astonishing 10% of fruit dry weight accumulating as flavonoids and hydroxycinnamates. We show that AtMYB12 not only increases the demand of flavonoid biosynthesis, but also increases the supply of carbon from primary metabolism, and the supply of energy and reducing power, by upregulating glycolysis, the TCA cycle, the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway, fuelling the shikimate and phenylalanine biosynthetic pathways to supply more aromatic amino acids for secondary metabolism. AtMYB12 directly activates at least some genes encoding enzymes of primary metabolism. The enhanced supply of precursors, energy and reducing power achieved by AtMYB12 expression can be harnessed to engineer high levels of novel phenylpropanoids in tomato fruit, offering an effective production system for bioactives and other high value ingredients.