Project description:The metabolites derived from microalgae have been attributed with various nutritional and medicinal properties. Therefore, our study aimed to investigate the potential beneficial effects of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (red), a type of microalgae, in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Mice were fed on high-fat diet and injected with a low dose of streptozotocin to induce T2DM. The diabetic mice were orally treated with either 1% sodium carboxymethylcellulose or Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (red) at doses of 1, 2, or 3 g/kg BW/day for a duration of 4 weeks. The liver sections were subjected to hematoxylin and eosin staining as well as oil red staining for the detection of pathological changes and lipid deposition, respectively. Inflammatory factors in serum were quantified using ELISA kits, while commercial kits were employed to assess oxidative stress-related indicators. Gene expression in liver was analysed by RNA-seq. The results revealed that Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (red) significantly ameliorated fasting blood glucose levels, body weight, triglyceride, and low density lipoprotein cholesterin, while also enhancing oral glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. In pathological analysis, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (red) significantly improved lipid deposition and hepatic tissue damage. Furthermore, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (red) could obviously decreased the protein expression of G-6-Pase and PEPCK, and regulated the SOCS2/JAK2/STAT5 signaling pathway. Transcriptomic analysis indicated that a total of 972 significantly differentially expressed genes in diabetic mice treated with Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (red). KEGG analyses revealed that lipid and atherosclerosis, MAPK signaling pathway, B cell receptor signaling pathway, TNF signaling pathway, NOD-like receptor signaling pathway, Toll-like receptor signaling pathway, PI3K-Akt signaling pathway were involved in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (red) modulated process. Therefore, the continuous consumption of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (red) may have anti-T2DM effects through the inhibition of gluconeogenesis, thus offering a promising alternative for T2DM patient.
Project description:endogenous small RNAs from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii strain J3(mt-) vegetative cells Keywords: High throughput 454 small RNA sequencing
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE20859: Change in gene expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii upon heat shock GSE20860: Change in gene expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii upon feeding with hemin and Mg-protoporphyrin Refer to individual Series
Project description:RNA populations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Keywords: Highly parallel pyrosequencing Small RNAs were prepared from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii total extracts,ligated to a 3' adaptor and a 5' acceptor sequentially, and then RT-PCR amplified. PCR products were reamplified using a pair of 454 cloning primers and provided to 454 Life Sciences (Branford, CT) for sequencing. For technical details, see Tao Zhao, Guanglin Li, Shijun Mi, Shan Li, Gregory J. Hannon, Xiu-Jie Wang, and Yijun Qi. 2007. A Complex System of Small RNAs in the Unicellular Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Genes & Development
Project description:In sexual organisms, random meiotic recombination between homologous chromosomes is vital to maximize genetic variation among offspring. The sex-determining region (SDR), however, does not undergo recombination, as required for the maintenance of distinct alleles. The contribution of epigenetic versus genetic mechanisms to suppress recombination in SDRs and how the suppression mechanisms evolve remain poorly understood. Here we describe the mechanistic control of meiotic recombination at the mating-type locus (MT) in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We identify a maintenance DNA methyltransferase, DNMT1, mutation of which leads to the depletion of 95% of 5-methylcytosines (5mCs) in the nuclear genome. While the 5mC deficiency causes no discernible alteration in haploid vegetative growth or sexual differentiation, the dnmt1 homozygotes display substantially reduced spore viability and 4-progeny-tetrad frequency. Strikingly, in dnmt1 homozygotes, anomalous meiotic recombination takes place at MT, generating haploid progenies with mixed mating-type harboring both plus and minus markers. Although the repressive histone methylation H3K9me1 at MT is lost concurrently in dnmt1 strains, loss of histone methylation alone by gene deletion of the responsible histone methyltransferase SET3p does not lead to anomalous recombination at MT. Thus, DNA methylation, rather than histone modification, mediates the recombination suppression at MT in C. reinhardtii. This finding suggests that in early eukaryotes, which likely lacked histone-based chromatin modification, DNA methylation may have been co-opted to suppress meiotic recombination between alleles responsible for separate sexes.
Project description:In sexual organisms, random meiotic recombination between homologous chromosomes is vital to maximize genetic variation among offspring. The sex-determining region (SDR), however, does not undergo recombination, as required for the maintenance of distinct alleles. The contribution of epigenetic versus genetic mechanisms to suppress recombination in SDRs and how the suppression mechanisms evolve remain poorly understood. Here we describe the mechanistic control of meiotic recombination at the mating-type locus (MT) in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We identify a maintenance DNA methyltransferase, DNMT1, mutation of which leads to the depletion of 95% of 5-methylcytosines (5mCs) in the nuclear genome. While the 5mC deficiency causes no discernible alteration in haploid vegetative growth or sexual differentiation, the dnmt1 homozygotes display substantially reduced spore viability and 4-progeny-tetrad frequency. Strikingly, in dnmt1 homozygotes, anomalous meiotic recombination takes place at MT, generating haploid progenies with mixed mating-type harboring both plus and minus markers. Although the repressive histone methylation H3K9me1 at MT is lost concurrently in dnmt1 strains, loss of histone methylation alone by gene deletion of the responsible histone methyltransferase SET3p does not lead to anomalous recombination at MT. Thus, DNA methylation, rather than histone modification, mediates the recombination suppression at MT in C. reinhardtii. This finding suggests that in early eukaryotes, which likely lacked histone-based chromatin modification, DNA methylation may have been co-opted to suppress meiotic recombination between alleles responsible for separate sexes.
Project description:Genome-wide Transcriptional Analysis of Flagellar Regeneration in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Identifies Orthologs of Ciliary Disease Genes Keywords: other
Project description:Chlamydomonas reinhardtii exposed to various concentrations of silver For this experiment,C. reinhardtii were exposed to (4) different concentrations of silver, as biological triplicates