Project description:The circadian clock is comprised of proteins that form negative feedback loops, which regulate the timing of global gene expression in a coordinated 24 hour cycle. As a result, the plant circadian clock is responsible for regulating numerous physiological processes central to growth and survival. To date, most plant circadian clock studies have relied on diurnal transcriptome changes to elucidate molecular connections between the circadian clock and observable phenotypes in wild-type plants. Here, we have combined high-throughput RNA-sequencing and mass spectrometry to comparatively characterize the lhycca1, prr7prr9, gi and toc1 circadian clock mutant rosette transcriptome and proteome at the end-of-day and end-of-night.
Project description:af30_starch_circadian_rythm - circadian cycle - The scientific aim is to study the impact of some genes mutations implicated in the amidon metabolism on the expression profils of other genes and in particular those of the carbonated metabolism. Those analyses will be done from RNAs (total or messenger) extracted from leaves at various time of the day and the night - The first experiments will deal with the wild reference plant (WS) . The RNAm of leaves would be harvested according to day and night hours. Some harvesting will be done every 3 hours during a 24H period (so 10 different points ). This correspond to a total of 20 slides ( 2 samples and 1 swap per point). This account have been done according to the informations obtained from JJ Leguay in dec 2002 Keywords: time course
Project description:Most higher organisms, including plants and animals, have developed a time-keeping mechanism that allows them to anticipate daily fluctuations of environmental parameters such as light and temperature. This circadian clock efficiently coordinates plant growth and metabolism with respect to time-of-day by producing self-sustained rhythms of gene expression with an approximately 24-hour period. The importance of these rhythms has in fact been demonstrated in both phytoplankton and higher plants: organisms that have an internal clock period matched to the external environment possess a competitive advantage over those that do not. We used microarrays to identify circadian-regulated genes of Arabidopsis thaliana to elucidate how the clock provides an adaptive advantage by understanding how the clock regulates outputs and determining which pathways and processes may be under circadian control. Keywords: time course
Project description:● Adjustment to energy starvation is crucial to ensure growth and survival. In Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), this process relies in part on the phosphorylation of the circadian clock regulator bZIP63 by SnRK1, a key mediator of responses to low energy. ● We investigated the effects of mutations in bZIP63 on plant carbon (C) metabolism and growth. Results from phenotypic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic analysis of bZIP63 mutants prompted us to investigate the starch accumulation pattern and the expression of genes involved in starch degradation and in the circadian oscillator. ● In order to get some clues about the role of transcription factor bZIP type bZIP63 in growth and development, we performed a comparative gene expression analysis of bzip63-2 mutant and wild type Ws, harvested at the end of night (EN = ZT 24), immediately before the onset of the light, to maximize the discovery of genes misregulated in bzip63-2. The resulting gene expression profiles revealed 230 upregulated and 117 downregulated genes in bzip63-2 compared to Ws. ● bZIP63 mutation impairs growth under light-dark cycles, but not under constant light. The reduced growth likely results from the accentuated C depletion towards the end of the night, which is caused by the accelerated starch degradation of bZIP63 mutants. The diel expression pattern of bZIP63 is dictated by both the circadian clock and energy levels, which could determine the changes in the circadian expression of clock and starch metabolic genes observed in bZIP63 mutants. ● We conclude that bZIP63 composes a regulatory interface between the metabolic and circadian control of starch breakdown to optimize C usage and plant growth.