Project description:BioID2 Zebrafish Interaction Proteomics analyzed by nanoscale capillary LC coupled to a Fusion Lumos OT with label-free quantitation.
Project description:Antimicrobial-induced DNA damage, and subsequent repair via upregulation of DNA repair factors, including error-prone translesion polymerases, can lead to the increased accumulation of mutations in the microbial genome, and ultimately increased risk of acquired mutations associated with antimicrobial resistance. While this phenotype is well described in bacterial species, it is less thoroughly investigated amongst microbial fungi. Here, we monitor DNA damage induced by antifungal agents in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans, and find that commonly used antifungal drugs are able to induce DNA damage, leading to the upregulation of transcripts encoding predicted error-prone polymerases and related factors. We focus on REV1, encoding a putative error-prone polymerase, and find that while deleting this gene in C. albicans leads to increased sensitivity to DNA damage, it also unexpectedly renders cells more likely to incur mutations and evolve resistance to antifungal agents. We further find that deletion of REV1 leads to a significant depletion in the uncharacterized protein Shm1, which itself plays a role in fungal mutagenesis. Together, this work lends new insight into previously uncharacterized factors with important roles in the DNA damage response, mutagenesis, and the evolution of antifungal drug resistance.
Project description:we report a novel nanomedicine (Gd@C82(OH)22 ) effectively inhibit human breast tumor growth by antiangiogenesis in vivo. To further identify which angiogenic factor(s) were affected on mRNA level, the "RT² Profiler™ PCR Array Mouse Angiogenesis (APMM-024, SuperArray Bioscience Corporation)" was used. Keywords: nanomedicine, Gd@C82(OH)22, angiogenesis, MCF-7, breast cancer In the experimental group, the tumor bearing mice were administered intraperitoneally (i.p.) [Gd@C82(OH)22]n saline solution once a day at the dose of 2.5mM/kg, after the tumor tissue implantation into the animal for 7 days, continuing until the mice were sacrificed. The 0.9% saline soultion was used as control. At the end of the experiment, parts of the tumor tissue was collected, and further be analyzed by PCR-array.
Project description:Medulloblastoma is the most frequent malignant primary brain tumor in children. Despite recent advances in integrated genomics, the prognosis in children with high-risk medulloblastoma remains devastating, and new tumor-specific therapeutic approaches are needed. Here, we present an atlas of naturally presented T-cell antigens in medulloblastoma. We mapped the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-presented peptidomes of 28 tumors and performed comparative immunopeptidome profiling against an in-house benign database. Medulloblastoma proved to be a rich source of novel tumor-associated antigens, naturally presented on HLA class I and II molecules. Remarkably, most tumor-associated peptides and proteins were subgroup-specific, whereas shared presentation among all subgroups of medulloblastoma (WNT, SHH, Group 3 and Group 4) was rare. Functional testing of top-ranking novel candidate antigens demonstrated the induction of peptide-specific T-cell responses, supporting their potential for T-cell immunotherapy. This study is an in-depth mapping of naturally presented T-cell antigens in medulloblastoma. Integration of immunopeptidomics, transcriptomics, and epigenetic data led to the identification of a large set of actionable targets that can be further used for the translation into the clinical setting by facilitating the informed design of immunotherapeutic approaches to children with medulloblastoma.
Project description:Sugarcane is an economically important crop contributing to the world’s sugar and ethanol production with 80% and 40%, respectively. In recent years, the growing demands for sugar and ethanol production has prompted the necessity to increase sugarcane productivity through conventional breeding programs. However, sugarcane breeders have encountered several difficulties to raise productivity, mainly due to its complex genetics. Sugarcane has a polyploidy genome, with many varieties being aneuploidy. Today, the majority of the planted sugarcane cultivars are complex hybrids derived mainly from crosses between Saccharum officinarum and S. spontaneum. Therefore, proteomics can provide some insight into deciphering gene regulation and changes in carbon metabolism and sucrose accumulation in the culms at different stages of plant development. The aim of this work was to compare the quantitative changes of proteins in sugarcane culms, during plant growth and sucrose accumulation. Total proteins were isolated from both, juvenile and maturing internodes at three stages of plant development. Label free shotgun proteomics was used for protein profiling and quantification. The internodes 5 (I5) and 9 (I9) of 4, 7 and 10 month-old-plants (4M, 7M and 10M, respectively) were harvested and used for proteomic analyses. To mimic field conditions of sucrose accumulation during sugarcane maturation, we stopped watering 10M plants for 10 days. An average of 1130 proteins, unique and differentially expressed across all ages were identified and quantified. Proteins were categorized within 27 functional groups, related to biological process. The patterns of expression for some categories, such as cellular amino acids, metabolic processes, secondary metabolic processes and translation were down-regulated in the immature internode (I5-10M), while up-regulated in the mature I9-10M. We observed an increase in the abundance of several enzymes of the glycolytic pathway and isoforms of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC), in the juvenile stages of development of I9. These changes in enzymes contents indicates that at the early stages of internode development, hypoxia is increasing the glycolytic and ethanolic fermentation pathways, in order to supply ATP for plant growth and NAD+ for mitochondrial respiration, which might be impaired by the low oxygen availability inside the culm.
Project description:Burkholderia mallei and Burkholderia pseudomallei are both potential biological threats agents. Melioidosis caused by B. pseudomallei is endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, while glanders caused by B. mallei infections are rare. Here we studied the proteomes of different B. mallei and B. pseudomallei isolates to determine species specific characteristics. Analyzing the expressed proteomes of B. mallei and B. pseudomallei revealed differences between B. mallei and B. pseudomallei but also between isolates from the same species. Expression of multiple virulence factors and proteins of several PKS/NRPS clusters was demonstrated. Proteome analysis can be used not only to identify bacteria but also to characterize the expression of important factors that putatively contribute to pathogenesis of B. mallei and B. pseudomallei.
Project description:Genomic aberrations were determined by array-based comparative genomic hybridization in 131 diffuse astrocytic gliomas, including 87 primary glioblastomas (pGBIV), 13 secondary glioblastomas (sGBIV), 19 anaplastic astrocytomas (AAIII), and 12 diffuse astrocytomas (AII). Expression profiling was performed for 74 tumors (42 pGBIV, 11 sGBIV, 13 AAIII, 8 AII). 131 aCGH experiments. 87 EP experiments (x2 dye swap). DNA and RNA extracted from the same patients.