Project description:Many MS2 spectra in bottom-up proteomics experiments remain unassigned. To improve proteome coverage, we applied the half decimal place rule (HDPR) to remove non-peptidic molecules. The HDPR considers the ratio of the first digit after the decimal point to the full molecular mass and results in a relatively small permitted mass window for most peptides. Although the HDPR has been described previously, it has never been integrated into an acquisition strategy using high resolution mass spectrometers. The HDPR was applied to three technical replicates of an in-solution tryptic digest of HeLa cells which were analysed by LC-MS using a Q Exactive mass spectrometer.
Project description:Many MS2 spectra in bottom-up proteomics experiments remain unassigned. To improve proteome coverage, we applied the half decimal place rule (HDPR) to remove non-peptidic molecules. The HDPR considers the ratio of the first digit after the decimal point to the full molecular mass and results in a relatively small permitted mass window for most peptides. Although the HDPR has been described previously, it has never been integrated into an acquisition strategy using high resolution mass spectrometers. The HDPR was applied to three technical replicates of an in-solution tryptic digest of HeLa cells which were analysed by LC-MS using a Q Exactive mass spectrometer.
Project description:In Drosophila, we tried to determine the stress-induced gene expression change associated with the behavioral mode examined by a place preference test. We conducted RNA-seq analysis from total RNA obtained from individual Drosophila heads, either in naive state or after electric shock. Using an optimized data analysis workflow, we mapped about 6-12 million reads to Drosophila reference genome, dm6. The genes showing significant difference were found in most between naive group and shocked group showing medium avoidance from a confined space. Our study demonstrated that Toll-signaling related genes are enriched after electric shock.
Project description:Many MS2 spectra in bottom-up proteomics experiments remain unassigned. To improve proteome coverage, we applied the half decimal place rule (HDPR) to remove non-peptidic molecules. The HDPR considers the ratio of the first digit after the decimal point to the full molecular mass and results in a relatively small permitted mass window for most peptides. Although the HDPR has been described previously, it has never been integrated into an acquisition strategy using high resolution mass spectrometers. The HDPR was applied to three technical replicates of an in-solution tryptic digest of HeLa cells which were analysed by LC-MS using a Q Exactive mass spectrometer.
Project description:Microbome place model is a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model that identifies and annotates the geographical location of microbiome samples in texts. This is the final model version used to annotate metagenomics publications in Europe PMC and enrich metagenomics studies in MGnify with place metadata from literature. For more information, please refer to the following blogs: http://blog.europepmc.org/2020/11/europe-pmc-publications-metagenomics-annotations.html https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/service-news/enriched-metadata-fields-mgnify-based-text-mining-associated-publications
Project description:Substance use disorder emerges in a small proportion of drug users and has the characteristics of a chronic relapsing pathology. The objective of our study was to demonstrate and characterize the variability in the expression of the reinforcing effects of cocaine in the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm. An unbiased cocaine-CPP paradigm in Sprague-Dawley rats with an extinction period of 12 days and reinstatement was conducted. We developed a statistical model to distinguish rats that express or do not express cocaine-induced place preference. Two groups of rats were identified: rats that did express reinforcing effects (CPP expression (CPPE), score > 102 s) and rats that did not (no CPP expression (nCPPE), score between −85 and 59 s). These two groups did not show significant differences in a battery of behavioral tests. To identify differentially expressed genes in the CPPE and nCPPE groups, we performed a whole-transcriptome RNA-sequencing analysis in the nucleus accumbens (Nac) 24 h after the CPP test. Four immediate early genes (Fos, Egr2, Nr4a1 and Zbtb37) were differentially expressed in the Nac of CPPE rats after CPP memory retrieval. Variability in cocaine-induced place preference persisted in the CPPE and nCPPE groups after the extinction and reinstatement phases. Transcriptomic differences observed after reinstatement were distinct from those observed immediately after CPP memory retrieval. These new findings provide insights into the identification of mechanisms underlying interindividual variability in the response to cocaine's reinforcing effects.