Project description:The leaf transcriptome of the nickel hyperaccumulator Phyllanthus luciliae (Phyllanthaceae) endemic from New Caledonia was compared to the related non-accumulator Phyllanthus conjugatus var. ducosensis, living respectively on ultramafic and sedimentary soil, to identity differentially expressed genes potentially involved in Ni hyperaccumulation.
Project description:The leaf transcriptome of the nickel hyperaccumulator Geissois pruinosa (Rubiaceae) endemic from New Caledonia was compared to the closely related non-accumulator Geissois racemosa, living respectively in serpentine maquis or rainforest on limestone, to identity differentially expressed genes potentially involved in Ni hyperaccumulation.
Project description:The leaf transcriptome of the nickel hyperaccumulator species Homalium kanaliense (Salicaceae) endemic from New caledonia were compared to the closely related non-accumulator Homalium betulifolium, living on Gallery forest or maquis on serpentine soil, to identity differentially expressed genes potentially involved in Ni hyperaccumulation.
Project description:The leaf transcriptome of the nickel hyperaccumulator Psychotria gabriellae (Rubiaceae) endemic from New Caledonia was compared to the closely related non-accumulator Psychotria semperflorens, living in sympatry with P. gabriellae in rain forest on serpentine soil, to identity differentially expressed genes potentially involved in Ni hyperaccumulation.
Project description:Genome-wide gene expression patterns were measured in human monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DCs) infected in vitro with seasonal H1N1 influenza A/New Caledonia/20/1999. To provide a mechanistic explanation for the timing of gene expression changes over the first 12 hours post-infection, we developed a statistically rigorous enrichment approach integrating genome-wide expression kinetics and time-dependent promoter analysis. Our approach, TI me-Dependent Activity Linker (TIDAL), generates a regulatory network that connects transcription factors associated with each temporal phase of the response into a coherent linked cascade. TIDAL infers 12 transcription factors and 32 regulatory connections that drive the antiviral response to influenza. To demonstrate the generality of this approach, TIDAL was also used to generate a network for the DC response to measles infection. Monocyte-derived DCs were obtained from healthy human blood donors following a standard protocol. The recent seasonal H1N1 influenza virus A/New Caledonia/20/1999 (NC) virus was titrated by immunofluorescence 18 hours after infection of MDCK cell plates using monoclonal antibodies specific for Influenza-NP protein generated by the Mount Sinai Hybridoma Core Facility followed by addition of anti-mouse IgG-FITC and visualization using fluorescent microscopy. For infection of naive DCs, NC stocks were appropriately diluted in DulbeccoM-bM-^@M-^Ys Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) and added directly into pelleted DCs at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 1 After incubation for 40 minutes at 37 M-bM-^WM-&C, fresh DC growth medium (without GMCSF and IL-4) was added back to the infected cells (1 106 cells/ml) for the remainder of the infection. The reaction was stopped at 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 hours after infection by fixing the cells with RNAprotect Cell Reagent (Qiagen, Duesseldorf Germany). Naive non-infected DCs underwent the same experimental procedure as infected DCs in the absence of virus to ensure that mechanical manipulations could not be responsible for differences in experimental readouts. All time points and controls were performed in triplicates. Cells were homogenized by using QIAshredder microcentrifuge spin-columns (Qiagen, Duesseldorf Germany) and RNA was isolated from cells using Qiagen Micro RNeasy plus kit following the manufactures protocol (Qiagen, Duesseldorf Germany). RNA quality was assayed by determination of the RNA integrity number using the 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent). RNA samples were processed and hybridized to HumanHT-12 v4 Expression BeadChip Kit (Illumina San Diego, CA) by the Mount Sinai Genomics Institute following the manufacturerM-bM-^@M-^Ys instructions, and raw expression data were output by the Illumina GenomeStudio software.