Project description:To better examine the molecular mechanisms behind the virus infection, we conducted a correlation analysis of RNA-Seq and quantitative iTRAQ-LC-MS/MS in TuMV-infected and in healthy Chinese cabbage leaves.
Project description:Highly specialized cells are fundamental for proper functioning of complex organs. Variations in cell-type specific gene expression and protein composition have been linked to a variety of diseases. Although single cell technologies have emerged as valuable tools to address this cellular heterogeneity, a majority of these workflows lack sufficient in situ resolution for functional classification of cells and are associated with extremely long analysis time, especially when it comes to in situ proteomics. In addition, lack of understanding of single cell dynamics within their native environment limits our ability to explore the altered physiology in disease development. This limitation is particularly relevant in the mammalian brain, where different cell types perform unique functions and exhibit varying sensitivities to insults. The hippocampus, a brain region crucial for learning and memory, is of particular interest due to its obvious involvement in various neurological disorders. Here, we present a combination of experimental and data integration approaches for investigation of cellular heterogeneity and functional disposition within the mouse brain hippocampus using MALDI Imaging mass spectrometry (MALDI-IMS) and shotgun proteomics (LC-MS/MS) coupled with laser-capture microdissection (LCM) along with spatial transcriptomics. Within the dentate gyrus granule cells we identified two proteomically distinct cellular subpopulations that are characterized by a substantial number of discriminative proteins. These cellular clusters contribute to the overall functionality of the dentate gyrus by regulating redox homeostasis, mitochondrial organization, RNA processing, and microtubule organization. Importantly, most of the identified proteins matched their transcripts, verifying the in situ protein identification and supporting their functional analyses. By combining high-throughput spatial proteomics with transcriptomics, our approach enables reliable near-single-cell scale identification of proteins and profiling of inter-cellular heterogeneity within similar cell-types in tissues. This methodology has the potential to be applied to different biological conditions and tissues, providing a deeper understanding of cellular subpopulations in situ.
Project description:The anterior silk gland in the silkworm plays an important role in the process of liquid fibroin to solid silk fiber .In view of this,the proteomics analysis was applied to to study the relationship between the function of proteins in the anterior silk gland and the mechanism of spinning. The anterior silk glands on the 3rd day of fifth instar were dissected.Aftter 1D SDS-PAGE ,one gel lane was cut into 10 bands and each band further sliced into small pieces was subjected to in-gel tryptic digestion for 20 hours.The digested peptides were separated by RP nanoscale capillary liquid chromatography and analyzed using a surveyor LC system (Thermo Figgigan, San Jose, CA).The eluate from the RP column was analyzed by Finnigan LTQ(Thermo Electron Corporation)linear ion trap Mass equipped with a nanospray souce in the positive ion mode. The MS analysis was performed with one full MS scan followed by three MS/MS scans on the most intense ions from the MS spectrum with the dynamic exclusion settings: repeat count 2, repeat duration 30s, exclusion duration 90s. Data were acquired in data-dependent mode using Xcalibur software.Ten raw datasets from LC-MS/MS were searched against the predicted silkworm database by Xia.et al which consists of 21312 silkworm proteins.The searching was carried out with the Turbo SEQUEST(Bioworks version 3.2, Thermo Electron).
Project description:Short chain fatty acids were shown to affect regulatory immune response in context of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS). Recent studys in an animal model of MS revealed significant impact of short chain fatty acid propionate (PA) on the differentiation towards regulatory Tcells (Treg). In a translational proof of concept study PA was administered to relapse remitting MS patients. We observed an increase of Treg in peripheral blood as well as functional improvement in Treg suppressive capacity beside a decrease of proinflammatory Thelper1 and 17 cells. To investigate underlying mechanisms of the observed shift in immune cell balance, intensive transcriptomic analysis on isolated Treg from whole blood PBMC of PA treated relapse remitting MS patients was performed at baseline, 14 days and 90 days of treatment.