Project description:Spanish fir (Abies pinsapo) is a relict tree that is found in southern Spain mountains. In natural conditions two phenotypes can be observed, trees with blue needles and trees with green needles. The aim of the present work is to elucidate at transcriptomic levels the possible causes of the differences between these phenotypes.
Project description:The swamp eel or rice field eel (Monopterus albus) taxonomically belongs to the family Synbranchidae of the order Synbranchiformes (Neoteleostei, Teleostei, Vertebrata). It is not only an economically important freshwater fish in aquacultural production, but also an increasingly known model species for biological studies. Understanding molecular mechanisms underlying sex change is a major area of interest. The swamp eel thus offers a powerful system for studying sexual development and adaptive evolution in vertebrates.The whole genome sequencing provides valuable resources for sex control in fish production, species protection through manipulating sex reversal genes, and potentially enabling effective population control and promoting reproduction health in human. High throughput sequencing was employed for three samples,three kind s of sex gonad from swamp eel, testis,ovotestis and ovary, no replicates.
Project description:The swamp eel or rice field eel (Monopterus albus) taxonomically belongs to the family Synbranchidae of the order Synbranchiformes (Neoteleostei, Teleostei, Vertebrata). It is not only an economically important freshwater fish in aquacultural production, but also an increasingly known model species for biological studies. Understanding molecular mechanisms underlying sex change is a major area of interest. The swamp eel thus offers a powerful system for studying sexual development and adaptive evolution in vertebrates.The whole genome sequencing provides valuable resources for sex control in fish production, species protection through manipulating sex reversal genes, and potentially enabling effective population control and promoting reproduction health in human.
Project description:Bacteria isolated from diverse environments were found to sense blue light to regulate their biological functions. However, this ability of deep-sea bacteria has been studied rarely. In this study, we found serendipitously that blue light stimulated excess zero-valent sulfur (ZVS) production of E. flavus 21-3, which was isolated from the deep-sea cold seep and possessed a novel thiosulfate oxidation pathway. Its ZVS production responding to the blue light was mediated by a light-oxygen-voltage histidine kinase (LOV-1477), a diguanylate cyclase (DGC-2902), a PilZ protein (mPilZ-1753) and the key thiosulfate dehydrogenase (TsdA) in its thiosulfate oxidation pathway. Subsequently, the thiosulfohydrolase (SoxB-277) was found working with another SoxB (SoxB-285) and being as substitute for each other to generate ZVS. This study provided an example of deep-sea bacteria sensing blue light to regulate thiosulfate oxidation. Deep-sea blue light potentially helped these blue-light-sensing bacteria adapt harsh conditions by diversifying their biological processes.
Project description:Purpose: In an effort to better understand the mechanism of blue light inhibition in Staphylococcus aureus, a whole transcriptome analysis of S. aureus isolate BUSA2288 was performed using RNA-seq to analyze the differential gene expression in response to blue light exposure. Methods: RNA was extracted from S. aureus cultures pooled from 24 one ml well samples illuminated with a dose of 250 J/cm2 of 465 nm blue light, and from control cultures grown in the dark. Complementary DNA (cDNA) were generated from the RNA samples and then sequenced using the Illumina MiSeq Next Generation Sequencer. The combined results of 2 independent experiments were analyzed using the Pairwise Analysis tools in GeneSifter®. The genes were normalized by Mapped Reads using EdgeR statistics including a Benjamini and Hochberg false discovery rate correction. Quality was set at a minimum number of 10 reads and a p value of 0.05. The lower threshold for change was 5 fold. Results: Transcriptomic comparisons using a cutoff of 5 fold identified a total of 28 down-regulated genes and 6 up-regulated genes in the samples that were exposed to blue light. All but 6 of the differentially regulated genes fall into 8 functional categories: amino acid biosynthesis, cell envelope components, cellular processes, central intermediary metabolism, energy metabolism, protein synthesis, regulatory function, and transport and binding proteins. Five genes encode conserved proteins of unknown function. Conclusions: Blue light has been shown to be bactericidal against S. aureus and is a potential alternative therapy for antibiotic resistant organisms. The mechanism for the inactivation of bacteria is hypothesized to involve ROS. We have found evidence that supports this hypothesis that involves multiple pathways including essential metabolic pathways and known virulence pathways.
Project description:Sun-loving plants have the ability to detect and avoid shading through sensing of both blue and red light wavelengths. Higher plant cryptochromes (CRYs) control how plants modulate growth in response to changes in blue light. For growth under a canopy, where blue light is diminished, CRY1 and CRY2 perceive this change and respond by directly contacting two bHLH transcription factors, PIF4 and PIF5. These factors are also known to be controlled by phytochromes, the red/far-red photoreceptors; however, transcriptome analyses indicate that the gene regulatory programs induced by the different light wavelengths are distinct. Our results indicate that CRYs signal by modulating PIF activity genome-wide, and that these factors integrate binding of different plant photoreceptors to facilitate growth changes under different light conditions. We performed whole-genome chromatin immunoprecipitation with sequencing (ChIP-Seq) analysis on 5 day old Flash-CRY2, PIF4-Flash and PIF5-Flash treated in low blue-light for 16h.