Project description:This projiect aims to identify the proteome of the symbiotic gill, including the host and symbiotic bacteria proteins, and to reveal the metabolic interdependence among the tripartite holobiont which is based on mussel, methane-oxidizing endosymbiont and sulfur-oxidizing episymbiont.
Project description:Transcriptional comparison between symbiotic and non-symbiotic (bleached) sea anemones Anemonia viridis were analysed in several specimens. We generated an oligonucleotide microarray (2000 selected features), which is to date the only available oligonucleotide array for symbiotic cnidarians. We were able to identify a subset of genes clearly involved in symbiosis.
Project description:Transcriptional comparison between symbiotic and non-symbiotic (bleached) sea anemones Anemonia viridis were analysed in several specimens. We generated an oligonucleotide microarray (2000 selected features), which is to date the only available oligonucleotide array for symbiotic cnidarians. We were able to identify a subset of genes clearly involved in symbiosis. Whole tentacle samples were prepared from 5 symbiotic and 5 bleached specimens. Hybridizations were performed against a single reference (VBl) in a dye-swap experiment.
Project description:Microarray transcriptomic analysis was carried out on Lotus japonicus plants grown either under purely symbiotic conditions (Mesorhizobium loti) or under non-symbiotic conditions (no inoculation and provided with NH4NO3).
Project description:Differential expression analysis of gill tissues of bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) exposed to okadaic acid at a concentration of 500 nM for 48 h.
Project description:Differential expression analysis of gill tissues of bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) exposed to palmitoleic acid at a concentration of 80 mg/L for 48 h.
Project description:Emergence of the symbiotic lifestyle fostered the immense diversity of all ecosystems on Earth, but symbiosis plays a particularly remarkable role in marine ecosystems. Photosynthetic dinoflagellate endosymbionts power reef ecosystems by transferring vital nutrients to their coral hosts. The mechanisms driving this symbiosis, specifically those which allow hosts to discriminate between beneficial symbionts and pathogens, are not well understood. Here, we uncover that host immune suppression is key for dinoflagellate endosymbionts to avoid elimination by the host using a comparative, model systems approach. Unexpectedly, we find that the clearance of non-symbiotic microalgae occurs by non-lytic expulsion (vomocytosis) and not intracellular digestion, the canonical mechanism used by professional immune cells to destroy foreign invaders. We provide evidence that suppression of TLR signalling by targeting the conserved MyD88 adapter protein has been co-opted for this endosymbiotic lifestyle, suggesting that this is an evolutionarily ancient mechanism exploited to facilitate symbiotic associations ranging from coral endosymbiosis to the microbiome of vertebrate guts.
Project description:Differential expression analysis of gill tissues of bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) exposed to Thiazolidinedione derivatives 49 at a concentration of 0.64 μM for 48 h.
Project description:To understand the symbiotic relationship between the Conchocele bisecta and its bacterial symbiont, the metaproteomic sequencing and anlysis of the symbiotic gill tissue of Conchocele bisecta were conducted.