Project description:Y box-binding protein 1 (Ybx1) is critical for embryogenesis and organogenesis. In zebrafish, we identify Ybx1 is predominantly expressed in the enterocytes of intestine in day5 larvae, whereas its immediately degradation driven by ubiquitination on day6. Here we show the maternal lethality with cardiac edema in ybx1-/- larvae, and postnatal larval lethality exhibited in ybx1-/- larvae within the death window from 10dpf to 20dpf. To study the underlying mechanisms for the ybx1-/- larvae partial lethality, we performed RNA-seq and experimental results showed the increased ROS might be the underlying cause for the postnatal lethality. By ascorbic acid treatment, we found ascorbic acid exposure prevented ybx1-/- larvae from postnatal lethality, while hydrogen peroxide aggravated ybx1-/- larvae postnatal lethality during the death window. By RNA-seq analysis, we also found significantly increased expressions of mmp9 and mmp13a in ybx1-/- larvae, and by inhibition of either MMP9 or MMP13a expression partially rescue the ybx1-/- postnatal lethality during the death window. Later, we further identify the intestinal impairs on 30 dpf and further deteriorated severe intestinal disorder in Ybx1 deficiency zebrafish. By exposure of ybx1-/- zebrafish for 14 days, we discover ascorbic acid partially mend the impaired intestine in ybx1-/-. In this study, we demonstrate that ybx1-/- larvae were ROS-susceptible, and the increased inflammation in ybx1-/- larvae intestine identified enables the ybx1-/- zebrafish as good model for studying of intestinal disease.
Project description:Corynebacterium glutamicum can survive by using ferulic acid as the sole carbon source. In this study, we assessed the response of C.glutamicum to ferulic acid stress by means of a global transcriptional response analysis. The transcriptional data showed that several genes involved in degradation of ferulic acid were affected. Moreover, several genes related to the stress response; protein protection or degradation and DNA repair; replication, transcription and translation; and the cell envelope were differentially expressed. Deletion of the katA or sigE gene in C. glutamicum resulted in a decrease in cell viability under ferulic acid stress. These insights will facilitate further engineering of model industrial strains, with enhanced tolerance to ferulic acid to enable easy production of biofuels from lignocellulose.
Project description:The presence of anti-microbial phenolic compounds, such as the model compound ferulic acid, in biomass hydrolysates poses significant challenges to the widespread use of biomass in conjunction with whole cell biocatalysis or fermentation. Currently, these inhibitory compounds must be removed through additional downstream processing to create feedstock suitable for most industrially important microbial strains. This study explores the high ferulic acid tolerance in Lactobacillus brevis (L. brevis), a lactic acid bacteria often found in fermentation processes, by global transcriptional response analysis. The transcriptional profile of L. brevis under ferulic acid stress reveals that the presence of ferulic acid primarily triggers the expression of membrane proteins to counteract ferulic acid induced changes in membrane fluidity and ion leakage, in the midst of a generalized stress response. Several promising routes for understanding phenolic acid tolerance have been identified based upon these findings. These insights may be used to guide further engineering of model industrial organisms to better tolerate phenolic compounds in processed biomass.
Project description:Gene expression in N2 worms treated with 500 μM or 0 μM ferulic acid, at days 5. Effects of ferulic acid in C. elegans gene expression is studied, as our results indicate a lifespan extension effect produced by this molecule. RNA-seq were used to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying the lifespan extension and identified distinct classes of up/down-regulated genes in animals treated with ferulic acid.
2021-05-05 | GSE171836 | GEO
Project description:Ascorbic acid-dependent regulation of growth involves abscisic acid signalling through ABI-4
Project description:The role of abscisic acid (ABA) signalling in the ascorbic acid (AA)-dependent control of plant growth and defence was determined using the vtc1 and vtc2 mutants, which have impaired ascorbic acid synthesis, and in the abi4 mutant that is impaired in ABA-signalling. ABA levels were increase in the mutants relative to the wild type (Col0). Like vtc1 the vtc2 mutants have a slow growth relative to Col0. However, the wild type phenotype is restored in the abi4vtc2 double mutant. Similarly, the sugar sensing phenotype of in the abi4 is reversed in the abi4vtc2 double mutant. The vtc1 and vtc2 leaf transcriptomes show up to 70 % homology with abi4. Of the transcripts that are altered in the mutants a relative to Col0, only a small number are reversed in the abi4vtc2 double mutants relative to either abi4 or vtc2. We conclude that AA controls growth via an ABA and abi4-dependent signalling pathway. The vtc and abi4 mutants have enhanced glutathione levels and common redox signalling pathways leading to similar gene expression patterns.
Project description:The role of abscisic acid (ABA) signalling in the ascorbic acid (AA)-dependent control of plant growth and defence was determined using the vtc1 and vtc2 mutants, which have impaired ascorbic acid synthesis, and in the abi4 mutant that is impaired in ABA-signalling. ABA levels were increase in the mutants relative to the wild type (Col0). Like vtc1 the vtc2 mutants have a slow growth relative to Col0. However, the wild type phenotype is restored in the abi4vtc2 double mutant. Similarly, the sugar sensing phenotype of in the abi4 is reversed in the abi4vtc2 double mutant. The vtc1 and vtc2 leaf transcriptomes show up to 70 % homology with abi4. Of the transcripts that are altered in the mutants a relative to Col0, only a small number are reversed in the abi4vtc2 double mutants relative to either abi4 or vtc2. We conclude that AA controls growth via an ABA and abi4-dependent signalling pathway. The vtc and abi4 mutants have enhanced glutathione levels and common redox signalling pathways leading to similar gene expression patterns.
Project description:<p>The Platinum Study is an R01-funded, multicenter study of testicular cancer survivors that characterizes both long-term cisplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy (CisIPN) and cisplatin-associated ototoxicity, i.e., permanent, bilateral hearing loss. We collected data abstracted from medical records (e.g., cumulative cisplatin dose), conducted audiometric examinations, and administered self-report questionnaires, which included CisIPN symptoms. </p>
Project description:Autotoxicity plays an important mechanism in regulating plant productivity. Ferulic acid (FA) is phytotoxic and was identified in extracts and residues of rice plants as a candidate for rice allelochemicals. To help characterize the autotoxicity mechanism of rice, we present the first large-scale, transcriptomic analysis of rice root responses to ferulic acid.
Project description:The role of abscisic acid (ABA) signalling in the ascorbic acid (AA)-dependent control of plant growth and defence was determined using the vtc1 and vtc2 mutants, which have impaired ascorbic acid synthesis, and in the abi4 mutant that is impaired in ABA-signalling. ABA levels were increase in the mutants relative to the wild type (Col0). Like vtc1 the vtc2 mutants have a slow growth relative to Col0. However, the wild type phenotype is restored in the abi4vtc2 double mutant. Similarly, the sugar sensing phenotype of in the abi4 is reversed in the abi4vtc2 double mutant. The vtc1 and vtc2 leaf transcriptomes show up to 70 % homology with abi4. Of the transcripts that are altered in the mutants a relative to Col0, only a small number are reversed in the abi4vtc2 double mutants relative to either abi4 or vtc2. We conclude that AA controls growth via an ABA and abi4-dependent signalling pathway. The vtc and abi4 mutants have enhanced glutathione levels and common redox signalling pathways leading to similar gene expression patterns. Rosettes of 42 days old plants were harvested and used to exctract RNA