A transcriptomic landscape for total lymphocyte count in the poly I:C-induced porcine periphery
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ABSTRACT: Lymphocyte count is one of the lymphocyte phenotypes that are related or potentially related to the individual anti-virus capacity in pigs and other mammals. The aim of this work is to compare the transcriptome of the poly I:C-induced peripheral blood cells between pigs with extreme values of total lymphocyte count.The pigs with the two-tailed critical value of lymphopenia post 4h with poly I:C stimulation from a Duroc-Erhualian F2 population.
Project description:The interferon (IFN) is a major effector of the innate immunity which mediates an adaptive immune response against broad spectrum pathogens. The aim of this work has been to investigate the differences of the virus mimic dsRNA (Poly I:C)-inducted in vivo transcriptomic alteration between pigs with high (HIGH) and low (LOW) serum interferon-alpha production. The pigs with extreme yield of induced interferon-alpha from a F2 resource population were selected for whole blood gene expression analysis using the porcine Affymetrix microarray
Project description:Neutrophils play a key role in the innate immunity and the first line of defense against invading pathogens. The aim of this work is to investigate the neutrophil responses and transcriptomic alteration in the porcine peripheral blood by employing Poly I:C to emulate viral infection. The pigs with the two-tailed critical value of neutrophilia post 4h with poly I:C stimulation from a Duroc-Erhualian F2 population.
Project description:Skeletal muscle is heterogeneous in nature and distinguished as red muscle and white muscle because of their myofiber composition. Soleus (SOL) is a typical red muscle and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) is a typical white muscle. In this study, we compared the transcriptome difference of soleus and extensor digitorum longus from three 10-week-old Yorkshire boars with porcine Affymetrix microarray.
Project description:The genetic closeness and divergent muscle growth rates of broilers and layers make them great models for myogenesis study. In order to discover the molecular mechanisms determining the divergent muscle growth rates and muscle fiber sizes in different chicken lines, we systematically identified differentially expressed genes between broilers and layers during muscle development (embyonic day 10, 12, 14 and 18) by microarray hybridization experiment. Time-course studies of two different intra-species breeds
Project description:ZBP1/IMP1 is an mRNA binding protein that post-transcriptionally regulates the expression of a handful mRNAs, implicated in maintaining cell polarity and adhesion. We have previously shown that ZBP1 was able to inhibit proliferation and invasiveness of breast carcinoma cells in vitro. In the current study, we utilized orthotopic breast fat pad xenografts to further investigate the ZBP1-mediated functions in breast tumorigenesis and metastasis in vivo. We used microarrays to identify important gene for breast tumor growth and metastasis in response to ZBP1 expression Total RNA was extracted from breast tumor generated from ZBP1-expression and ZBP1-nonexpression MDA231 cells and used for hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. We sought to obtain gene expression profiles from the individual tumors and identify what genes are up-regulated or down-regulated in the presence of ZBP1. The microarray experiments and data analysis were performed in 'Gene Company Limited' in Senzheng, China. G-10 and G-13, Tumors generated from MDA231/GFP cells; I-5 and I-6, tumors generated from MDA231/ZBP1-GFP cells.
Project description:Implantation is the attachment of embryo in the endometrium. Failure in implantation is a major cause of early pregnancy loss. During implantation, the temporal uterine lumen closure can help embryo attach to the uterus. In pigs, extending of endometrial folds to form interlocking finger-like projections is a main cause leads to uterine lumen closure during attachment time, but the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. Our data reveal that pig uterine luminal epithelium (LE) migrate in coordinated groups during extending of endometrial folds. Moreover, the MALDI-TOF MS based N-glycomic characterization of porcine endometrium revealed α2,6-linked sialic acid are highly expressed in pig uterine LE during extending of endometrial folds. To investigated the mechanisms by which α2,6-sialylated proteins in formation of the endometrial folding during implantation in pigs, the α2,6-sialylated proteins in pig uterine LE were characterized by proteomic analysis and those proteins that are involved in cell adhesion, such as E-cadherin, were detected. Finally, our in vivo and in vitro data show that α2,6-sialylation of E-cadherin occurs in accompany with collective epithelial migration. The results provide new insight into the mechanism of pig implantation by identifying that α2,6-sialylation of cell adhesion molecules may participate in formation of extending of endometrial folds through promoting of collective migration of uterine LE.
Project description:Staphylococcus aureus can infect a wide range of animals and pose as a serious threat to public health by transferring via animals or animal-derived food stuff. Even more importantly, multiple drug resistance development in the bacteria has resulted in therapeutic failure of a number of antibiotics. Therefore by realizing the need of time, this study was designed to investigate the underlying mechanisms of virulence and resistance in S. aureus. After screening through in vivo and in vitro virulence assays and susceptibility test, a highly virulent and multidrug resistant MRSA strain was selected for differential analysis by RNA-seq technology and gene expression results were verified by RT-qPCR. Up-regulation of crucial regulators like sarA and KdpDE seemed to play role in decreased expression of many exotoxin genes while enhanced the adhesion and cell wall protein expression, leading to strong biofilm production in the presence of inactivated agr system. In addition to resistance genes like blaZ, ermC and femA, up-regulation of vraS and multidrug ABC transporter genes contributed to the multidrug resistance in MRSA. Fluoroquinolone resistance was attributed to mutational changes in gyrA and parC genes. Our findings suggested that many virulence and resistance determinants in S. aureus are controlled by complex network of various regulators, and sarA is the most important of those as it adds to pathogenicity of the bacteria and ensures its survival in diverse environment. Further investigations are required to unveil these mechanisms in S. aureus. Four samples were analysed including 2 MRSA1679a test strain and 2 reference strain ATCC1 samples with two replicates of each.
Project description:PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are abundantly expressed during cardiac hypertrophy development, but their influence on pathological hypertrophy and the underlying mechanisms remains to be elucidated. Here, we identified a cardiac-hypertrophy-associated piRNA (CHAPIR), and we found that it regulates pathological hypertrophy. To investigate the molecular mechanisms by which CHAPIR regulates cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, we transfected the biotinylated CHAPIR into cardiomyocytes and performed streptavidin bead pull down assay. The CHAPIR pull-down materials and its control were resolved using SDS-PAGE gel and stained with coomassie blue. Then the entire gel lanes of the CHAPIR pull-down materials and its control were excised and send for liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis.