Project description:To investigate, by RNA-Sequencing (RNA-seq), the expression profile of two P. falciparum strains (control 3D7; protein kinase 7 knock-out strain, Pfpk7- and PfpK7 complement) to the presence of melatonin.
Project description:PfNF-YB is a transcription factor of Plasmodium falciparum and is known as a CCAAT-box-binding subunit B. PfNF-YB belongs to NF-Y complex family that is conserved from yeast to human. PfNF-YB is highly expressed in schizont stage and co-localized at the nucleus in mature form during intraerythrocytic stage. We found that melatonin and cAMP second messenger can modulate the PfNF-YB expression in P. falciparum. To better understand the function of PfNF-YB in P. falciparum we proposed to perform chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) of PfNF-YB together with chromatin profiling by ChIP-on-chip analysis. The results showed that PfNF-YB binds to CCAAT of several genes in schizont stage.
Project description:Transcriptomic Analysis of Cultured Sporozoites of P. falciparum RNA-seq reads from each of three developmental stages (2 replicates per sample) were mapped to the reference Plasmodium falciparum genome, and gene expression levels were calculated for each sample.