Project description:Characterization of the transcriptomic responses of grafted tomato seedlings leaves after the root inoculations with the two beneficial microorganisms Paraburkholderia graminis and Azospirillum brasiliensis. Paraburkholderia graminis treatment led to a higher number of differentially expressed genes than Azospirillum brasiliensis, with a higher amount of up-regulated than down-regulated genes for both treatments. These DEGs were manly involved in response to oxidative stress, response to biotic and abiotic stress, water transport, regulation of transcription and hormones. Only few DEGs were shared among the two treatments, including genes involved in flowering time and in tolerance against abiotic stresses.
Project description:We identify acetylation of linker histone H1 lysine 85 as a novel histone acetylation mark, which regulates chromatin structure and genome stability upon DNA damage. By performing a chromatin immunoprecipitation and deep sequencing assay, we identified the genome-wide distribution patterns of H1 lysine 85 acetylation in HCT116 cells. We found that H1K85ac largely bound intergenic regions (53%) and gene bodies (39%), whereas only 7% H1K85ac bound regions 2 kb upstream of the transcription start sites (TSSs). As the proportion of H1K85ac bound to potential promoter regions was not significantly different to that of the random peaks (~6%), these data suggest that H1K85ac may not be mainly involved in general transcriptional regulation.