Project description:The mortality risk from cancer-associated sepsis is differentially affected by individual cancer sites and host responses to sepsis are heterogenous. Native Hawaiians have a 2-fold higher mortality risk from cancer-associated sepsis than Whites and also higher mortality risk from colorectal cancer (CRC). We investigated this disparity by examining ethnic variation in the transcriptome of patients with CRC-associated sepsis and its relation to survival and genetic diversity. We conducted transcriptomic profiling of CRC tumors and adjacent non-tumor tissue obtained from adult patients of Native Hawaiian and Japanese ethnicity who died from cancer-associated sepsis. We examined differential gene expression in relation to patient survival and sepsis disease etiology.
Project description:A comparision of soil microbial functional genes of three types of subtropical broad-leaved forests Microbial functional structure was significantly different among SBFs (P < 0.05). Compared to the DBF and the EBF, the MBF had higher alpha-diversity of functional genes but lower beta-diversity, and showed more complex functional gene networks.
Project description:Phytophthora cinnamomi Rands is a cosmopolite and phyllophagous pathogen of woody plants which during the last couple of centuries has spread all over the world from its center of origin in Southeast Asia. Despite Chinese cork tree (Quercus variabilis Blume) forests native to Asia being generally healthy, the populations of cork trees (Quercus suber L.) in Europe have been decimated by P. cinnamomi. The present study tries to identify the differences in the early proteomic and metabolomic response of these two tree species that lead to their contrasting susceptibility to P. cinnamomi attack. By using micropropagated clonal plants, we tried to minimize the plant-to-plant differences in the defense response that is maximized by the high intraspecific genetic variability inherent to the Quercus genus. The evolution on the content of Phytophthora proteins in the roots during the first 36 hours after inoculation suggest a slower infection process in Q. variabilis plants. These plants displayed a significant decrease in sugars in the roots, together with a downregulation of proteins related to carbon metabolism. In the leaves, the biggest changes in proteomic profiling were observed 16 hours after inoculation. and included increased abundance of peroxidases, superoxidedismutases and gluthatione S-transferases in Q. variabilis plants, which probably aided its resistance against P. cinnamomi attack.
2022-08-02 | PXD033162 | Pride
Project description:Study of fungal diversity in New Zealand vineyards, wineries, and native forests.
Project description:Rhizospheric community of Penicillium spp. in roots of Austrocedrus chilensis plays a key role in plant protection against Phytophthora austrocedri disease in Patagonian native forests
Project description:Phytophthora cinnamomi is one of the most invasive tree pathogens that devastates wild and cultivated forests. Due to its wide host range, knowledge of the infection process at the molecular level is lacking for most of its tree hosts. To expand the repertoire of studied Phytophthora-woody plant interactions and identify molecular mechanisms that can facilitate discovery of novel ways to control its spread and damaging effects, we focused on the interaction between P. cinnamomi and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), an economically important tree for the wood processing industry. By using a combination of proteomics, metabolomics, and targeted hormonal analysis, we mapped the effects of P. cinnamomi attack on stem tissues immediately bordering the infection site and away from it. P. cinnamomi led to a massive reprogramming of the chestnut proteome and accumulation of the stress-related hormones salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) indicating that stem inoculation can be used as an easily accessible model system to identify novel molecular players in P. cinnamomi pathogenicity
Project description:We established a two-step approach to centromere-replacement (Figure 1A in outline, and Supplementary data in detail). FiC31 integrase was used to place a candidate sequence or an empty vector adjacent to the native centromere of chromosome 2 of CBS2777, and Bxb1 integrase was subsequently used to delete the native centromere.
Project description:Streptomyces spp. crude secondary metabolites have been chemoselectively tagged. Metabolites have non-native structure and should not be used for other comparative studies.