Project description:Chromatin immunoprecipitation was performed in nlp7-1 Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings complemented by a pNLP7::NLP7-GFP construct upon 10 minutes NO3- resupply after a 3-day NO3- starvation.
Project description:Chromatin immunoprecipitation was performed in nlp2-2 Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 14-d-old seedlings complemented by a pNLP2::NLP2-GFP construct upon 30 minutes NO3- resupply after a 3-day NO3- starvation.
Project description:Sulphur is an essential macronutrient for plant growth and development. Reaching a thorough understanding of the molecular basis for changes in plant metabolism depending on the sulphur-nutritional status at the systems level will advance our basic knowledge and help target future crop improvement. Although the transcriptional responses induced by sulphate starvation have been studied in the past, knowledge of the regulation of sulphur metabolism is still fragmentary. This work focuses on the discovery of candidates for regulatory genes such as transcription factors (TFs) using M-bM-^@M-^Xomics technologies. For this purpose a short term sulphate-starvation / re-supply approach was used. ATH1 microarray studies and metabolite determinations yielded 21 TFs which responded more than 2-fold at the transcriptional level to sulphate starvation. Categorization by response behaviors under sulphate-starvation / re-supply and other nutrient starvations such as nitrate and phosphate allowed determination of whether the TF genes are specific for or common between distinct mineral nutrient depletions. Extending this co-behavior analysis to the whole transcriptome data set enabled prediction of putative downstream genes. Additionally, combinations of transcriptome and metabolome data allowed identification of relationships between TFs and downstream responses, namely, expression changes in biosynthetic genes and subsequent metabolic responses. Effect chains on glucosinolate and polyamine biosynthesis are discussed in detail. The knowledge gained from this study provides a blueprint for an integrated analysis of transcriptomics and metabolomics and application for the identification of uncharacterized genes. Arabidopsis seedlings were grown in 30 mL of sterile liquid full nutrition (FN) medium (3 mM sulphate) or 150 M-NM-<M sulphate medium. Transferring pre-grown 7-days old seedlings to a sulphate depleted medium (0 M-NM-<M sulphate) assured immediate and continued sulphate starvation during the next two days of plant cultivation. On day 9 subsets of the sulphate depleted cultures were supplied with sulphate (500 M-NM-<M) and samples taken 30 min and 3 hours after re-supply. Four time points (full nutrition (FN), plants starved for 48 h (-S), plants re-supplied with sulphate for 30 minutes (30M-bM-^@M-^Y S) and plants re-supplied with sulphate for 3 hours (3 h S)) were subjected to the microarray analysis. Two biological repetitions of each sample were analyzed.
Project description:Chromatin immunoprecipitation was performed in nlp7-1 Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings complemented by a pNLP7::NLP7-GFP construct upon 10 minutes NO3- resupply after a 3-day NO3- starvation. Genome-wide profiling of NLP7 binding regions by ChIP-chip, 2 biological replicates in dye-swap
Project description:Sulphur is an essential macronutrient for plant growth and development. Reaching a thorough understanding of the molecular basis for changes in plant metabolism depending on the sulphur-nutritional status at the systems level will advance our basic knowledge and help target future crop improvement. Although the transcriptional responses induced by sulphate starvation have been studied in the past, knowledge of the regulation of sulphur metabolism is still fragmentary. This work focuses on the discovery of candidates for regulatory genes such as transcription factors (TFs) using ‘omics technologies. For this purpose a short term sulphate-starvation / re-supply approach was used. ATH1 microarray studies and metabolite determinations yielded 21 TFs which responded more than 2-fold at the transcriptional level to sulphate starvation. Categorization by response behaviors under sulphate-starvation / re-supply and other nutrient starvations such as nitrate and phosphate allowed determination of whether the TF genes are specific for or common between distinct mineral nutrient depletions. Extending this co-behavior analysis to the whole transcriptome data set enabled prediction of putative downstream genes. Additionally, combinations of transcriptome and metabolome data allowed identification of relationships between TFs and downstream responses, namely, expression changes in biosynthetic genes and subsequent metabolic responses. Effect chains on glucosinolate and polyamine biosynthesis are discussed in detail. The knowledge gained from this study provides a blueprint for an integrated analysis of transcriptomics and metabolomics and application for the identification of uncharacterized genes.
Project description:We performed small RNA-seq (sRNA-seq) study of Arabidopsis shoots under iron-sufficient (+Fe), iron deficient (-Fe) and iron resupply (Fe resupply) conditions to investigate and identify sRNAs whose expression is regulated by iron deficiency.
Project description:A whole transcriptome (RNA-seq) study of Arabidopsis shoots under iron sufficient, deficient and resupply conditions was carried out to determine the genes that are iron-regulated in the shoots.
Project description:Pi availability is a significant limiting factor for plant growth in both natural and agricultural systems. To cope with such limiting conditions, plants have adapted developmental and biochemical strategies to enhance Pi acquisition and to avoid starvation. A myriad of genes that are involved in the regulation and display of these strategies have been identified. However, the possible epigenetic components regulating the phosphate starvation responses have not been thoroughly investigated. DNA methylation is a major epigenetic mark involved in diverse biological processes and it may play a critical role in Pi starvation stress adaptation, also changes in DNA methylation can lead to a unique gene expression pattern in response to specific developmental and environmental conditions. Here in we demonstrate that non-CpG DNA methylation is required for proper expression of a number of Pi-limitation responsive genes in Arabidopsis thaliana and results in altered morphologic and physiologic phosphate starvation responses.Our data suggest that DNA methylation is involved in the modulation of Pi starvation responses via the transcriptional regulation of a set of phosphate-starvation responsive genes. Analysis of 8 different treatments, 2 different Organs (Root and Shoot), 2 different Phosphate treatments (High Pi, Low Pi), 2 different Times (Short Term, Long Term), 2 biological replicates for treatment
Project description:With the information gathered through mass-shift- and correlation-analysis, we predict PPi on a proteomic scale and describe the results in form of a network. This experiment was done with 3 week old Arabidopsis thaliana wt seedlings grown in hydroponic culture (1/2 MS-Medium) under different nutritional conditions (N-Starvation, Full supply and Resupply after 15 min)