Project description:Protein abundance changes and reversible protein phosphorylation (RPP) play important roles in regulating hypometabolism but have never been documented in overwintering frogs at high altitudes. To test the hypothesis that protein abundance and protein phosphorylation change in response to winter hibernation, we conducted a comprehensive and quantitative proteomic and phosphoproteomic analysis of the liver of the Xizang plateau frog, Nanorana parkeri, living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
2024-05-22 | PXD042165 | Pride
Project description:Xizang sheep
| PRJNA1142721 | ENA
Project description:Xizang sheep
| PRJNA1142199 | ENA
Project description:Soil microorganisms in Qinghai-Xizang Plateau
Project description:Caloric restriction (CR) improves metabolic health. To define how the hepatic glucocorticoid receptor (GR) supports CR-driven metabolic adaptation, we profiled its liver interactome by chromatin immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry (ChIP-MS). Mouse livers were collected at ZT12 (glucocorticoid peak) under ad libitum or CR feeding. GR immunoprecipitates were compared to IgG controls to identify GR-associated proteins. The dataset reveals diet-dependent GR protein complexes, including transcriptional factors and metabolic coregulators, and serves as a resource for factors linking hormonal and nutritional signals to CR-induced hepatic reprogramming.
Project description:Milk and dairy products are an essential food and an economic resource in many countries. Milk component synthesis and secretion by the mammary gland involve expression of a large number of genes whose nutritional regulation remains poorly defined. We aim at understanding the genomic influence on milk quality and synthesis by comparing two sheep breeds, with different milking attitude, Sarda and Gentile di Puglia, using sheep-specific microarray technology. From sheep ESTs deposited at NCBI, we generated the first annotated microarray developed for sheep with a covering of most of the genome.
Project description:The extreme environments of the Tibetan Plateau offer significant challenges to human survival, demanding novel adaptations. While the role of biological and agricultural adaptations in enabling early human colonization of the plateau has been widely discussed, the contribution of pastoralism is less well understood, especially the dairy pastoralism that has historically been central to Tibetan diets. Here, we analyze preserved proteins from the dental calculus of 40 ancient individuals to report the earliest direct evidence of dairy consumption on the Tibetan Plateau. Our palaeoproteomic results demonstrate that dairy pastoralism began on the higher plateau by approximately 3,500 years ago, more than 2,000 years earlier than the recording of dairying in historical sources. With less than 1% of the Tibetan Plateau dedicated to farmland, pastoralism and the milking of ruminants were essential for large-scale human expansion into agriculturally-marginal regions that make up the majority of the plateau. Dairy pastoralism allowed conversion of abundant grasslands into nutritional human food, which facilitating adaptation in the face of extreme climatic and altitudinal pressures, and maximizing the land area available for long-term human occupation of the “roof of the world”.