Project description:Sugar content is one of significant marks of fruit quality, and understanding the regulatory mechanism of sucrose accumulation is fundamental for breeding excellent melon fruit. As indicated by the co-expression network analysis, we distinguished a MYB transcription factor, CmMYB113, whose expression responds to oriental melon (‘HS’ (high-sucrose cultivar) and ‘LW’ (low-sucrose cultivar)) fruit ripening. Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation injection and stable genetic transformation system confirmed that CmMYB113 promoted the sucrose accumulation and ethylene synthesis by up-regulating the expression of CmACO1 and CmSPS1 in oriental melon fruit. What’s more, we also identified a MADS transcription factor from the transcriptome, CmMADS26, which is highly expressed during melon fruit ripening. Intriguingly, CmMADS26 could directly bind to the promoter of CmACO1 to promote its transcription, and CmMYB113 physically interacted with CmMADS26 in yeast and tobacco leaves. Our findings give new bits of knowledge into the regulatory mechanisms by which MYB and MADS transcription factors interact to regulate melon fruit ripening and sucrose accumulation.
Project description:STING is a protein that plays important role in innate immune response. However, it also has functions not related to immunity. We studied role of STING in fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. We used microarray to detect gene expression changes in dSTING knockout fruit flies. We studied role of STING in fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. To detect gene expression changes in dSTING-knockout flies microarray assay was used.
Project description:Purpose: the goals of this study are to compare fruit of two clitivars oriental melon transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) at different stages to explore carotenoid potentail carotenoid accumulation mechanism Methods:The transcriptome sequence of two cultivars oriental melon fruits at different stages were generated by deep sequencing with three repeats using Illumina. The sequence reads that passed filters were mapped to melon genome (http://cucurbitgenomics.org/organism/18) using HISAT2 software. The differently expressed genes were identify by |log2(FoldChange)| > 0 & padj <= 0.05, and qRT–PCR validation was performed using SYBR Green assays Result:Using an optimized data analysis workflow, we mapped about 40 million sequence reads per sample to the melon genome. The differentially expressed genes were functionally classified by GO and KEGG enrichment. We focused on carotenoid metabolism related gene and validated using qRT-PCR. The results showed RNA-seq and qRT-PCR were highly correlated. Conclusion: Our study provided transcriptome sequence of oriental melon fruits at different stages in two cultivars. The optimized data analysis workflows reported here should provide comparative framework of expression profiles. Our transcriptome characterization contribute to analyze gene functions and metabolic process of oriental melon.
Project description:The distribtion of H3K18ac in the fruit fly genome was analyzed in wing imaginal discs treated for 2 h with etomoxir and compared to control discs.
Project description:We performed a genome-wide ChIP analysis to find the set of target genes regulated by Cbt in Drosophila wing imaginal discs. We reported multiple transcriptional regulators and genes involved in the developlment, growth and patterning of the fruit fly.
Project description:To investigate whether the regulatory roles of the circadian genes CLOCK and CYCLE as transcription factors in the fruit fly testes and ovaries are similar to those in the head tissue, we conducted ChIP-seq analyses on these three tissues, respectively.
