Project description:Purpose: The goal of this study is to provided a comprehensive genomic information for functional genomic studies in Q. mongolica. Methods:The Quercus mongolica leaves were generated by deep sequencing, using Illumina Hiseq 4000. The high-quality reads were obtained by removing the reads that contained adaptor contamination, low quality bases and undetermined bases.The transcriptome were de novo assembly. Results:A total of 52934562 raw reads were obtained from Illumina sequencing platform. After filtering out the low quality reads, we obtained 52076914 clean reads, which assembled into 39130 transcripts with a mean length of 742 bp and GC content of 42.12%, and 24196 unigenes with a mean length of 732 bp and GC content of 42.34%, based on Trinity assembly platform. Conclusions:RNA-Seq was applied to polyadenylate-enriched mRNAs from leaves of Q. mongolica to obtain the transcriptome. De novo assembly was then applied followed by gene annotation and functional classification. The SSRs and SNPs were also obtained using assembled transcripts as reference sequences. The results of this study lay the foundation for further research on genetic diversity of Quercus.
Project description:We investigated the specific interactions of the most dominant bacterial CF-pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and the anaerobic bacterium Veilllonella parvula, that has been recovered at comparable cell numbers in the respiratory tract of CF patients. We used our recently established in-vivo murine tumor model to investigate mutual influences of the two pathogens during a biofilm-associated infection process. We found that although P. aeruginosa and V. parvula colonized distinct niches within the tumor, in mice that were co-infected with both bacterial species significant higher cell numbers of P. aeruginosa were recovered from the tumor tissue. Concordantly, in vivo transcriptional profiling implied that the presence of V. parvula supports P. aeruginosa growth at the infected host site, and the higher P. aeruginosa load correlated with clinical deterioration.
