Project description:This study aims to provide referrable transcriptomic data for the exploration of floral pigment biosynthesis in hyacinth cultivars. This dataset consists of 189 RNA-Seq libraries prepared for seven cultivars at different developmental stages and perianth partitions, generated 1256.8 gigabytes data in total. After removal of adaptor trimming and quality trimming, the qualified sequences were adopted for de novo assembly of mRNA. The gene expressions were quantified as read counts and then normalized into FPKM. This study provides the first profiling on the gene expression of hyacinth, contributing to the new-generation molecular breeding in producing noval hyacinth cultivars.
Project description:Current protection strategies against the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea rely on a combination of conventional fungicides and host genetic resistance. Defence elicitors can stimulate plant defence mechanisms through a phenomenon known as priming. Priming results on a faster and/or stronger expression of resistance upon pathogen attack. This work aims to study priming of a commercial formulation of the elicitor Chitosan. Treatments with Chitosan result in induced resistance in solanaceous and brassicaceous plants. Large-scale transcriptomic analysis in this study revealed that Chitosan primes gene expression at early time-points after infection. Four conditions were analysed using microarrays: (i) water-treated and non-infected plants (Water + Mock); (ii) Chitosan-treated and non-infected plants (Chitosan + Mock); (iii) water-treated and B. cinerea-infected plants (Water + B. cinerea); (iv) Chitosan-treated and B. cinerea-infected plants (Chitosan + B. cinerea). Inoculations were performed four days after treatment with Chitosan, and leaf discs from four independent plants (biological replicates) per treatment were sampled at 6 h, 9 h and 12 h post-inoculation (hpi) with water mock or B. cinerea spores.
Project description:Aspergillus flavus, along with its notorious secondary metabolite aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), serious endangers human health. We previous revealed that histone methyltransferase complex COMPASS plays a crucial role in regulating various biological processes of A. flavus, but underlying mechanism is unclear. Here, through genetic assay and invading experiments, we found that Bre2, key subunit of COMPASS, regulates AFB1 bio-synthesis, fungal morphogenesis and virulence to crop and animal through H3K4 methylation. ChIP-seq and biochemistry analysis revealed that chromatin remolding factor (CRF) Arp9 is directly targeted by Bre2, and Arp9 implements bio-function through interacting with CRFs: RSC8, Arp7 and Sth1. ATAC analysis revealed that Arp9 deeply participates in fungal pathogenicity through regulating a serial secondary metabolism, morphogenesis and virulence associated regulators by modulating the chromatin conformation. The study revealed an epigenetic signaling pathway from COMPASS to Arp9 mediating chromatin remolding, which provides potential strategy for prevention and control of pathogenic fungi and mycotoxins.
Project description:Inflammation initiated in response to a microbial encounter, or deliberately induced upon vaccination, is central for the activation of adaptive lymphocytes. The stimulation of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) orchestrates the inflammatory programs that regulate adaptive immunity. Here, we took advantage of an mRNA-based vaccine generated against the ancestral spike protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to test whether tuning inflammation via PRR stimulation enhances the efficacy of mRNA vaccines. We combined mRNA-based vaccine with mannadjuvant, a formulation of fungal mannan and aluminum hydroxide that targets Dectin-2, a C-type lectin PRR. In mice and non-human primates, mannadjuvant increased the magnitude and durability of the response elicited by the mRNA-based vaccine, and it also led to the induction of neutralizing antibodies directed against variants of concern with a high escape capacity, overcoming antigenic imprinting. Mechanistically, we demonstrated that prolonged type I interferon production and potentiated interleukin-1 signaling are necessary and sufficient to exert the activities of mannadjuvant in mice and in human myeloid cells. Overall, our data demonstrate that an anti-fungal PRR can be harnessed to create more potent and durable mRNA-based vaccines.
Project description:Daphnia magna is a bio-indicator organism accepted by several international water quality regulatory agencies. Current approaches for assessment of water quality rely on acute and chronic toxicity that provide no insight into the cause of toxicity. Recently, molecular approaches, such as genome wide gene expression responses, are enabling an alternative mechanism based approach to toxicity assessment. While these genomic methods are providing important mechanistic insight into toxicity, statistically robust prediction systems that allow the identification of chemical contaminants from the molecular response to exposure are needed. Here we apply advanced machine learning approaches to develop predictive models of contaminant exposure using a D. magna gene expression dataset for 36 chemical exposures. We demonstrate here that we can discriminate between chemicals belonging to different chemical classes including endocrine disruptors, metals and industrial chemicals based on gene expression. We also show that predictive models based on indices of whole pathway transcriptional activity can achieve comparable results while facilitating biological interpretability.
2013-01-17 | GSE43564 | GEO
Project description:The complete chloroplast genome of Asian water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)