Project description:Embryogenesis requires coordinated gene regulatory activities early on that establish the trajectory of subsequent development, during a period called the maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT). The MZT comprises transcriptional activation of the embryonic genome and post-transcriptional regulation of egg-inherited maternal mRNA. Investigation into the MZT in animals has focused almost exclusively on bilaterians, which include all classical models such as flies, worms, sea urchin, and vertebrates, thus limiting our capacity to understand the gene regulatory paradigms uniting the MZT across all animals. Here, we elucidate the MZT of a non-bilaterian, the cnidarian Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus. Using parallel poly(A)-selected and non poly(A)-dependent RNA-seq approaches, we find that the Hydractinia MZT is composed of regulatory activities analogous to many bilaterians, including cytoplasmic readenylation of maternally contributed mRNA, delayed genome activation, and separate phases of maternal mRNA deadenylation and degradation that likely depend on both maternally and zygotically encoded clearance factors, including microRNAs. But we also observe massive upregulation of histone genes and an expanded repertoire of predicted H4K20 methyltransferases, aspects thus far unique to the Hydractinia MZT and potentially underlying a novel mode of early embryonic chromatin regulation. Thus, similar regulatory strategies with taxon-specific elaboration underlie the MZT in both bilaterian and non-bilaterian embryos, providing insight into how an essential developmental transition may have arisen in ancestral animals.
Project description:The goal of the experiment was to determine the difference in gene expression between the wild-type strain and a strain lacking rpaA (ΔrpaA). Because gene expression is not at steady-state in the wild-type -- it oscillates with a circadian period -- and we did not know a priori whether it is at steady-state in the ΔrpaA strain, we compared the time-averaged gene expression in the wild-type to the time-averaged gene expression in the ΔrpaA strain.
Project description:To study the roles of NWMN_0641, we used microarray to compare the transcriptome of the NWMN_0641 deletion strain with that of the wild-type Staphylococcus aureus Newman strain. Transcriptome of the NWMN_0641 deletion mutant strain and the wild-type Newman strain
Project description:We challenge bristol strain (wild-type), metl-9 KO strain (short as KO, has a 101bp insertion, leads to a truncated protein of 258aa) and metl-9 catalytic-activity mutated strain (short as mut, has N172K, D274G mutations in full-length protein) with P.aeruginosa (P.A14), and observe a discrepant transcriptome pattern between wild-type and KO/mut strains. Plenty of innate immune response genes show different expression patterns upon P.A14 infection between the wild-type strain and KO/mut strain. It indicates the important role of metl-9 and 6mA in worm innate immune response modulation.
Project description:Transcriptome comparison of cells from 4 and 7 day-old microcolonies of wild Saccharomyces cerevisiae BR-F strain, 4 and 7 day-old microcolonies of feral BR-RF strain and 4- and 7 day-old microcolonies of domesticated BR-S strain. All colonies grown on solid complex media with glycerol as carbon source. The aim of the study was to identify genes required for fluffy (structured) colony formation as well as the genes specific for certain phenotypic variant. BR-F is wild strain isolated from natural habitat and forms structured colonies when grown on media with non-fermentable carbon source. BR-S strain arose by phenotypic switch from the original wild BR-F strain during the cultivation of BR-F strain under rich and favourable conditions (process of so-called domestication), forms smooth colonies. BR-RF strain is derived from the domesticated BR-S strain under adverse conditions and restores the formation of structured colonies and other properties of original wild BR-F strain.
