Project description:The objective of this study was to analyze AHR activation through aromatic amino acid metabolism. To this end, glioblastoma cells were exposed to aromatic amino acid derived metabolites and their ability to activate AHR was analysed. In addition, AHR activation was evaluated in glioblastoma cells expressing IL4I1, an aromatic amino acid degrading enzyme, with or without shRNA mediated knockdown of AHR.
Project description:The objective of this study was to analyze AHR activation through aromatic amino acid metabolism. To this end, glioblastoma cells were exposed to aromatic amino acid derived metabolites and their ability to activate AHR was analysed. In addition, AHR activation was evaluated in glioblastoma cells expressing IL4I1, an aromatic amino acid degrading enzyme, with or without shRNA mediated knockdown of AHR.
Project description:The objective of this study was to analyze AHR activation through aromatic amino acid metabolism. To this end, glioblastoma cells were exposed to aromatic amino acid derived metabolites and their ability to activate AHR was analysed. In addition, AHR activation was evaluated in glioblastoma cells expressing IL4I1, an aromatic amino acid degrading enzyme, with or without shRNA mediated knockdown of AHR.
Project description:The objective of this study was to analyze AHR activation through aromatic amino acid metabolism. To this end, glioblastoma cells were exposed to aromatic amino acid derived metabolites and their ability to activate AHR was analysed. In addition, AHR activation was evaluated in glioblastoma cells expressing IL4I1, an aromatic amino acid degrading enzyme, with or without shRNA mediated knockdown of AHR.
Project description:Functional characterization of a WRKY transcription factor involved in the regulation of vacuolar transport and flavonoid biosynthesis in petunia
Project description:To better understand how diurnal transcriptional regulation contributes to day/night cycles of volatile emission from the petunia flower, RNA extracted from corolla in the morning (7AM) and evening (7PM) was sequenced to determine genes differentially expressed at the two time points.
Project description:To better understand how diurnal transcriptional regulation contributes to day/night cycles of volatile emission from the petunia flower, cross-linked chromatin from corolla in the morning (7AM) and evening (7PM) was immunoprecipitated with antibodies against 4 histone marks associated with trancriptional activity to determine islands enriched for the marks in morning and evening.
Project description:It is not fully known whether translational regulation also occurs in later stage immune responses, such as effector-triggered immunity (ETI), which often leads to strong metabolic dynamics. In this study, we performed a genome-wide ribosome profiling in Arabidopsis upon ETI activation and discovered that specific groups of genes were translationally regulated, especially metabolic genes in aromatic amino acid, phenylpropanoid, camalexin, and sphingolipid metabolism. The involvement of these components in the induction of ETI was confirmed by genetic analysis, amino acid profiling and exogeneous application of phenylalanine or an inhibitor of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis. Our findings provide new insight into the diverse translational regulation in the plant immune responses and demonstrate that translational coordination of metabolic gene expression is an important strategy for ETI activation.