Project description:Microbial functions in the host physiology are a result of co-evolution between microbial communities and their hosts. Here we show that cold exposure leads to marked shift of the microbiota composition, referred to as cold microbiota. Transplantation of the cold microbiota to germ-free mice is sufficient to increase the insulin sensitivity of the host, and enable complete tolerance to cold partly by promoting the white fat browning, leading to increased energy expenditure and fat loss. During prolonged cold however, the body weight loss is attenuated, caused by adaptive mechanisms maximising caloric uptake and increasing intestinal, villi and microvilli lengths. This increased absorptive surface is promoted by the cold microbiota - effect that can be diminished by co-transplanting the most downregulated bacterial strain from the Verrucomicrobia phylum, Akkermansia muciniphila, during the cold microbiota transfer. Our results demonstrate the microbiota as a key factor orchestrating the overall energy homeostasis during increased demand.

2015-12-03 | GSE74157 | GEO

Gut Microbiota Orchestrates Energy Homeostasis during Cold [16S rRNA gene V4-region miSeq]

2015-12-03 | GSE74227 | GEO

Soil microbiota

Project description:Soil microbiota in the Northeastern of Thailand Raw sequence reads

| PRJNA686255 | ENA

Transcriptome of Anthurium andraeanum under cold stress

Project description:The transcriptome of leaves from two Anthurium cultivars, Oregon (Elegang, E, cold tolerant) and Fantasy love (Menghuan, MH, cold sensitive) under cold stress were sequenced by Illumina Novaseq™ 6000. Sequencing generated a total of 129.44 Gb of raw reads and an average of 7.19 Gb of reads for each sample. The analysis showed differences of transcriptomes between the control and the cold treatment samples. We identified numerous differentially expressed genes that exhibited distinct expression patterns. These genes have known or potential roles inAnthurium cold tolerance.Therefore, we are appealing candidates for further investigation of the gene expression and associated regulatory mechanisms related to the cold stress response of A. andraeanum.

2023-05-21 | GSE232629 | GEO

RNA-Seq Analysis to confirm Different Transcriptomic Profiles of Soil-Derived Functional Module Consortia.

Project description:Purpose: Deconstructing the soil microbiome into reduced-complexity functional modules represents a novel method of microbiome analysis. The goals of this study are to confirm differences in transcriptomic patterns among five functional module consortia. Methods: mRNA profiles of 3 replicates each of functional module enrichments of soil inoculum in M9 media with either 1) xylose, 2) n-acetylglucosamine, 3) glucose and gentamycin, 4) xylan, or 5) pectin were generated by sequencing using an Illumina platform (GENEWIZ performed sequencing). Sequence reads that passed quality filters were aligned to a soil metagenome using Burrows Wheeler Aligner. Resulting SAM files were converted to raw reads using HTSeq, and annotated using Uniref90 or EGGNOG databases. Results: To reduce the size of the RNA-Seq counts table and increase its computational tractability, transcripts containing a minimum of 75 total counts, but no more than 3 zero counts, across the 15 samples were removed. The subsequent dataset was normalized using DESeq2, resulting in a dataset consisting of 6947 unique transcripts across the 15 samples, and 185,920,068 reads. We identified gene categories that were enriched in a sample type relative to the overall dataset using Fisher’s exact test. Conclusions: our dataset confirms that the functional module consortia generated from targeted enrichments of a starting soil inoculum had distinct functional trends by enrichment type.

2020-01-14 | GSE143587 | GEO