Project description:In this study, we constructed a tissue-engineered DRG-CSC (corneal stromal cells) co-cultured model (DS model), a CSC monoculture model (S model), and a DRG monoculture model (D model). Chicken DRGs were extracted from E7-E10 chicken embryo. Human CSCs were extracted in stromal lenticules from small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE). Transcriptional profiling of DRG in the DS model (DS-D), DRG in the D model(D-D), CSCs in the DS model (DS-S), CSCs in the S model (S-S) was analyzed. After 7 days of culture, RNA of each group was extracted.
Project description:Several pathogens infect grapevine, including viruses and viroids. Considering that there are no effective plant protection treatments against these pathogens and vineyards are cultivated through decades usage of high quality and pathogen-free propagation material (rootstocks and scions) is essential. Although presence of regulated pests is routinely checked using ELISA or rarely RT-PCR, these diagnostics methods can detect only particular pathogens moreover can fail to detect variant strains. High-throughput sequencing of small RNAs can be an effective, alternative method to avoid these disadvantages. Since for production of grafts, pathogen free cultivars and rootstocks must be used, 17 grapevine rootstock plantations and 2 rootstock variety collections were selected for characterisation of their virom by high throughput sequencing of virus derived small RNAs.
Project description:RNA was isolated from HLEC, HAEC, HMVEC and HUVEC cells. Sequencing was performed on the NextSeq500 instrument (Illumina). Processing of raw reads was performed as previously described (Zhang T et al., 2015)