Project description:The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a popular animal model in studies of vertebrate development and organogenesis. Recent research has shown a similarity of approximately 70% between the human and zebrafish genomes and of 84% in human disease-causing genes, specifically. Zebrafish embryos have a number of desirable features, including transparency, a large size, and rapid embryogenesis. Protein phosphorylation is a well-known post-translational modification (PTM), which performs various biological functions. Recent mass spectrometry (MS) developments have enabled the study of global phosphorylation patterns by using MS-based proteomics coupled with TiO2 phosphopeptide enrichment. In the present study, we identified 3,500 non-redundant phosphorylation sites on 2,166 phosphoproteins and 1,564 quantified phosphoproteins in zebrafish embryos.
Project description:Zebrafish (Danio rerio) model system have used widespread vertebrate investigations for genetic and cell biological analyses, and is suitable for small molecular screens such as chemical, toxicity and drug in order to use for human diseases and drug discovery . Recently, These powerful zebrafish model increasingly apply to human metabolic disease such as obesity and diabetes and toxicology. Despite a lot of advantages, proteomics research at zebrafish has received little interest in comparison with genetic and biological research using histology and in situ hybridization. Protein lysine acetylation is one of the most known post-translational modifications with dynamic and reversibly controlled by lysine acetyltransferase such as histone acetyltransferases and lysine deacetylase such as histone deacetylases and sirtuins family.Also, during the past year, global lysine acetylome studies using MS-based proteomics approach was in diverse species such as human, mouse, E. coli, Yeast and plants. Based on global acetylome data, our understanding of the roles of lysine acetylation in various cellular processes has increased. . The aim of this study was to identify Lysine acetylation in zebrafish embryos and determine the homology from Human at modified site level. Here we showed the global lysine acetylation study in Zebrafish embryos using MS-based zebrafish embryos.
Project description:Upon fertilization, the embryonic genome remains transcriptionally inactive until the mid-blastula transition. Zygotic genome activation (ZGA) of vertebrate embryos has been extensively studied using nucleic acid-based strategies, but proteomics data are still scarce, impeding the full mechanistic understanding of how ZGA is executed during the maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT). Here, we performed quantitative proteomics to decipher the proteome landscape of zebrafish embryos during the MZT, quantifying nearly 5,000 proteins across four embryonic stages. The stage-specific clustering based on protein expression pattern revealed that helicases (i.e., eif4a2 and ruvbl1) facilitate pluripotency factors (i.e., nanog, pou5f3, ctcf, and hmga1) triggering ZGA in zebrafish, accompanied by the maternal product decay with P-bodies and ubiquitin dependent proteolytic pathway. Dozens of transcription factors show wave-like expression patterns during MZT, implying their diverse functions in triggering the ZGA and modulating differentiation for organ development. The combination of morpholino knockdown and quantitative proteomics demonstrated that maternal Nanog is required for proper embryogenesis by regulating 1) interactions with other pluripotency factors, 2) F-actin band formation, 3) cell cycle checkpoints and 4) maternal product degradation. This study represents the most systematic proteomics survey of developmentally regulated proteins and their expression profiles accompanying MZT in zebrafish, which is a valuable proteome resource for understanding ZGA.
Project description:In this project we performed thermal proteome profiling experiments on zebrafish embryos with the drug napabucasin. The lysate was heat treated, TMT labelled and subsuquently high pH fractionated.
Project description:The ribosome is a translational apparatus that comprises about 80 ribosomal proteins and four rRNAs. Recent studies reported that ubiquitination of the ribosomal proteins plays a pivotal role in translational control and ribosome-associated quality control (RQC). However, little is known about the dynamics of ribosome ubiquitination under complex biological processes of multicellular organisms. To study ribosome ubiquitination during animal development, we generated a zebrafish strain that expresses a FLAG-tagged ribosomal protein Rpl36/eL36 from its endogenous locus. Combining affinity purification of ribosomes from rpl36-FLAG zebrafish embryos with immunoblotting analysis, we analyzed ribosome ubiquitination during zebrafish development. Our data showed that ubiquitination of ribosomal proteins dynamically changed as development proceeded. We further revealed that Znf598, an E3 ubiquitin ligase that triggers RQC, contributed to the ribosome ubiquitination during zebrafish development. LC-MS/MS analysis and immunoblotting analysis identified lysines 139 of ribosomal protein Rps10/eS10 as pivotal ubiquitination sites on the ribosome during development. Finally, we demonstrated that an Rps10 K139/140R mutation reduced overall ribosome ubiquitination pattern. Collectively, these results reveal dynamics and complexity of ribosome ubiquitination in zebrafish development.
Project description:Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are transcriptional repressors important to maintain cell identity during embryonic development. Ezh2, the catalytic subunit of the Polycomb Repressive Complex 2, is responsible for placing the epigenetic repressive mark histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3). In contrast to results in mouse models, zebrafish embryos mutant for both maternal and zygotic ezh2 (MZezh2) can form a normal body plan at 1 day post fertilization (dpf) but die at 2 dpf, exhibiting pleiotropic phenotypes. To elucidate the specificity of PcG-mediated repression during early zebrafish development, we conducted in depth analysis of the transcriptome, epigenome, and proteome of the MZezh2 mutant embryos at 1 dpf. We found that, despite modifications in the epigenetic landscape, transcriptome and proteome analysis revealed only minor changes in gene and protein expression levels.
Project description:Zebrafish organ proteomics was carried out for proteogenomic analysis. High resolution mass spectrometry-based proteomic profiling of 11 adult organs (eye, brain, liver, spleen, intestine-pancreas, ovary, testes, muscle, heart and head) and two developmental stages (embryos 48 and 120 hours post-fertilization) of zebrafish (SAT line) was carried out. Protein extracts were reduced and alkylated (iodoacetamide). Off-loine fractionation was carried out by SDS-PAGE and basic RPLC. MS analysis was cariied on Agilent 6540 Q-TOF. Spleen and Testis samples were also analyzed on Thermo Orbitrap LTQ Velos.
Project description:We set up a zebrafish model to study EVs in vivo by light microscopy, using CD63-pHluorin as a marker. To verify if exosomes from zebrafish have a comparable composition as human exosomes, and to validate the use of CD63 as a marker, we first analysed the compositon of EVs isolated from in vitro cultured fibroblasts (AB.9 ATCC), and could detect the presence of conventional exosome markers, including (zebrafish) CD63. In live embryos, we could track a population of exosomes from their source (the yolk syncytial layer (YSL)) to their final destination by live microscopy. To assess the composition of these exosomes, we dissociated YSL:CD63-pHluorin expressing 3dpf embryos and isolated exosomes from the supernatant and enriched for EVs from the YSL. This was compared to a background of total EVs isolated the control fish (non-expressing).
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE26707: Zebrafish 27hpf embryos: hdac1 mutant (hi1618) vs sibling GSE26708: Zebrafish embryos: hdac1 Morphants vs Standard control morphants GSE26709: Zebrafish embryos: hdac1 Morphants vs Standard control morphants at 12, 18 and 27 hpf Refer to individual Series