Project description:With fast development of proteomic technology, the scale of missing proteins (MPs) has being continuously shrunk, approximately 1,470 MPs not explored yet. Discovery of MPs, on the other hand, is appearing more difficult. In some aneuploid cells, the abundance changes are proportional to the additional chromosome(s), while several MPs were found within them. Herein, we hypothesize that a stable aneuploid cell line with the increased chromosomes was a useful material that assists MP exploration. Ker-CT cell line with trisomy at chromosome 5 and 20 was selected. With a combination strategy of RNA-Seq and LC-M/MS, a total of 22,178 transcripts and 8,846 proteins were identified in Ker-CT. Although the transcripts corresponding to 31 and 32 MP genes located at chromosome 5 and 20 were detected, none of MPs was found in Ker-CT. Surprisingly, 3 MPs containing at least two unique non-nest peptides of length ≥9 amino acid were identified in Ker-CT, whose genes are located in chromosome 3 and 10. Furthermore, the 3 MPs were verified using the method of parallel reaction monitoring (PRM).
Project description:Understanding pathogen recognition and mechanisms in Atlantic cod are of significant importance for both basic research on wild populations and health management in aquaculture. A microarray approach was utilized to search for effects of viral (poly I:C/ polyinosinic acid:polycytidylic acid), bacterial (LPS/lipopolysaccharide) and polyclonal activator (PHA-L/phytohaemoagglutinin) stress in Atlantic cod head kidney cells. LPS cell activation increased mRNA expression of chemokine/Interleukin 8 (CXCL8/IL-8); interleukin -1? (IL-1?); cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2); leukocyte derived chemotaxin 2 (LECT2); LOC100698154, encoding a protein with unknown function; carboxyl-esterase 2 (CES2) and environmental biomarker cytochrome P450 1A (CYP1A). Mitogen activated protein kinase p38 (p38MAPK) and cathepsin F (CTSF) were downregulated by LPS. The antiviral responses induced by double stranded RNA (Poly I:C) clearly increased transcription of Toll like receptor 3 (TLR3) and interferon stimulating gene 15 (ISG15). The PHA response seemed to be more non-specific. Special for the PHA induction were the increase in Major histocompatibility complex class I (MHCI). CC chemokine type 2 (CK2) mRNA expression was increased by PHA, LPS and poly I:C, while p38MAPK and LECT2 was downregulated by PHA. Oxidative stress related genes like catalase and glutaredoxin (GLRX2) and the anti-apoptotic gene Bcl-2 showed no transcriptional changes compared to control in any of the treatments. Especially Poly I:C, but also LPS, induced leukotriene B4 (LTB4) and leukotriene B5 (LTB5) synthesis, while small amounts of prostaglandine E2 (PGE2) seemed to be constitutively produced in untreated cells, a production that was slightly elevated when exposing cells for LPS. This study reveals distinct signatures of bacteria and virus transcriptional responses in cod head kidney cells. In addition, the novel finding that Cyp1a was upregulated during the antibacterial response indicates a connection between immunity and aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) activation in Atlantic cod.
Project description:We used a machine-learning framework to systematically discover prognostic long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in 9,446 patient tumors of 30 types. We identified 166 prognostic lncRNAs whose transcript abundance correlated with patient risk and improved the performance of common clinical variables and molecular tumor subtypes. In lower-grade gliomas, discrete activation of HOXA10-AS indicated poor patient prognosis, neurodevelopmental pathway activation and a transcriptomic similarity to glioblastomas. To understand the role of HOXA10-AS in the hallmark pathways of glioma, we used RNA-seq to profile the patient-derived G797 glioma cells with siRNA-mediated HOXA10-AS knockdown (KD) and pcDNA3.1-Neomycin-mediated overexpression (OE) phenotypes. Both KD and OE were validated using RT-PCR. We found a pronounced transcriptional response to HOXA10-AS deregulation with 1,715 and 408 differentially expressed protein-coding genes detected in KD and OE cells, respectively (FDR < 0.05, absolute FC > 1.2), including 23 genes detected in both experiments, as well as known genes involved in glioma biology and Hippo signaling. Our study underscores the pan-cancer potential of the non-coding transcriptome for developing molecular biomarkers and innovative therapeutic strategies.