Project description:Two potato cultivars, Russet Burbank and Bionta, were inoculated with three different endophytes containing different AHL types. The impact of the endophytes to the different cultivars was measured by gene expression analysis with a customized microarray
2008-10-01 | GSE12862 | GEO
Project description:16S rDNA of endophytes bacteria
Project description:Two potato cultivars, Russet Burbank and Bionta, were inoculated with three different endophytes containing different AHL types. The impact of the endophytes to the different cultivars was measured by gene expression analysis with a customized microarray B. phytofirmans type strain PsJN was originally isolated as a contaminant from surface-sterilized, Glomus vesculiferum-infected onion roots (Nowak et al., 1998), whereas strain P6 RG6-12 was isolated from the rhizosphere of a grassland in the Netherlands (Salles et al., 2006). This strain was selected based on its similarity to strain PsJN based on 16S rRNA gene homology, and similar phenotypic features. Both strains were generally cultivated on King's medium (King et al., 1954). For the mutant AHL to the strain B. phytofirmans PsJN a quorum quenching approach as described by Wopperer et al., 2006 was employed. Plasmid pMLBAD-aiiA, which contains aiiA, the Bacillus sp. 240B1 lactonase gene, was transferred to B. phytofirmans PsJN by triparental mating as described by de Lorenzo and Timmis (1994). 2 cultivars, 3 endophytes
Project description:Interventions: The Drug-sensitive group:Patients were regarded as sensitive to at least one kind of the drug in vitro HDRA assay;The Drug-resistant group:Patients who were diagnosed as resistant to all agents of their chemotherapy regiments in vitro HDRA assay;The Drug-empirical group:Patients who just underwent chemotherapy empirically without the direction of HDRA
Primary outcome(s): in vitro-in vivo correlations
Study Design: Factorial
Project description:<p>The goal of this project is to determine the genetic etiology of congenital arhinia and Bosma arhinia microphthalmia syndrome through a combination of whole-exome, whole-genome, and targeted sequencing followed by in silico, in vitro, and in vivo functional modeling. </p>
Project description:Transcriptional profiles of B. thetaiotaomicron wild type. Bacteria harvested in duplicate from multiple time points during growth in Tryptone-YeastExtract-Glucose (TYG) medium in chemostats were profiled. Cecal populations of wt bacteria monoassociated 10d in NMRI gnotobiotic mice fed a standard-chow polysaccharide rich (PR) diet (n=6 samples) were profiled. Keywords: in vitro timecourse and in vivo study
Project description:The purpose of this study is to obtain an "in vivo" confirmation that mesalazine induces the gene expression of μ-protocadherin and other related genes in the colon mucosa, as demonstrated in some "in vitro" experiments. .
Project description:Endophytic bacteria influence plant growth and development and therefore are an attractive resource for applications in agriculture. However, little is known about the impact of these microorganisms on secondary metabolite (SM) production by medicinal plants. Here we assessed, for the first time, the effects of root endophytic bacteria on the modulation of SMs in the medicinal plant Lithospermum officinale (Boraginaceae family), with a focus on the naphthoquinones alkannin/shikonin (A/S). The study was conducted using a newly developed in vitro system as well as in the greenhouse. Targeted and non-targeted metabolomics approaches were used and supported by expression analysis of the gene PGT, encoding a key enzyme in the A/S biosynthesis pathway. Three bacterial strains, Chitinophaga sp. R-73072, Xanthomonas sp. R-73098 and Pseudomonas sp. R-71838 induced a significant increase of diverse SMs, including A/S, in L. officinale in both systems, demonstrating the strength of our approach for screening A/S derivative-inducing bacteria. Our results highlight the impact of root-endophytic bacteria on secondary metabolism in plants and indicate that production of A/S derivatives in planta likely involves cross-modulation of different metabolic pathways that can be manipulated by bacterial endophytes.
Project description:Bacterial endophytes were isolated from nodules of pea and faba bean. The strains were identified and characterized for plant beneficial activities (phosphate solubilisation, synthesis of indole acetic acid and siderophores) and salt tolerance. Based on these data, four strains of Rahnella aquatilis and three strains of Serratia plymuthica were considered as potential Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria, able to support plant development in saline soils. In order to shed light on the mechanisms underlying salt tolerance, the proteome of the two most performant strains (Ra4 and Sp2) grown in presence or not of salt was characterized. The amount of protein expressed by the endophytes was higher in presence of salt. The modulated proteome was composed by 302 (100 up-regulated, 202 down-regulated) and by 323 (206 up-regulated, 117 down-regulated) in Ra4 and Sp2, respectively. Overall, proteins involved in abiotic stress responses were up-regulated, while those involved in metabolism and flagellum structure were down-regulated. The main up-regulated proteins in Sp2 was thiol:disulfide interchange protein DsbA, required for the sulphur binding formation in periplasmic proteins, while in Ra4 corresponded to the soluble fraction of ABC transporters, having a role in compatible solute uptake. Our results demonstrated a conserved response to salt stress in two taxonomically correlated species.
Project description:Our data demonstrate that lung and bone marrow-derived megakaryocytes (Mks) have distinct immune phenotypes and functions; lung Mks secrete inflammatory cytokines and express molecules that are similar to many tissue resident leukocytes and antigen presenting cells (APCs), and lung Mks process live intact bacteria and present bacteria-derived antigen to CD4+ T cells both in vitro and in vivo. Our in vivo data suggest that lung Mks have important roles in the early activation of T cell responses to a pulmonary pathogen challenge, identifying a novel immune regulatory role for lung Mks.