Project description:The functional diversity of soil microbial communities was explored for a poplar plantation, which was treated solely with biogas slurry, or combined with biochar at different fertilization intensities over several years.
Project description:Stress preconditioning occurs when transient, sublethal stress events impact an organism's ability to counter future stresses. Although preconditioning effects are often noted in the literature, very little is known about the underlying mechanisms. To model preconditioning, we exposed a panel of genetically diverse Drosophila melanogaster to a sublethal heat shock and measured how well the flies survived exposure to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. To identify genes with expression patterns predictive of preconditioning outcomes, we focused on the 10 DGRP strains at the extreme ends of our preconditioning screen. We compared the beneficial strains (RAL69, RAL93, RAL359, RAL387, RAL409) to the detrimental (RAL195, RAL304, RAL335, RAL737, RAL819) with and without heat shock (our preconditioning stress).
Project description:Therapeutic strategies to treat acute kidney injury (AKI) are lacking. Preconditioning by hypoxia (HP) and caloric restriction (CR) is highly protective in rodent AKI models. The underlying molecular mechanisms are unknown. A comparative transcriptome analysis after HP and CR identified Kynureninase (KYNU) as a common downstream target. Using a newly generated KYNU-deficient mouse line, we show that KYNU contributes to the protective effect of preconditioning. Metabolome, transcriptome and proteome analyses reveal KYNU as necessary for CR-associated maintenance of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) levels. Importantly, the impact of CR on the de novo NAD+ biosynthesis pathway can be recapitulated in humans.
