Project description:The alkaliphilic halotolerant bacterium Bacillus sp. N16-5 often faces salt stress in its natural habitats. One-color microarrays was used to investigate transcriptome expression profiles of Bacillus sp. N16-5 adaptation reactions to prolonged grown at different salinities (0%, 2%, 8% and 15% NaCl) and the initial reaction to suddenly alter salinity from 0% to 8% NaCl.
Project description:The alkaliphilic halotolerant bacterium Bacillus sp. N16-5 often faces salt stress in its natural habitats. One-color microarrays was used to investigate transcriptome expression profiles of Bacillus sp. N16-5 adaptation reactions to prolonged grown at different salinities (0%, 2%, 8% and 15% NaCl) and the initial reaction to suddenly alter salinity from 0% to 8% NaCl. Salt induced gene expression was measured when culture was grown on different salinities (0%, 2%, 8% and 15% NaCl) to mid-logarithmic phase. And salt induced gene expression was also measured at 0 min, 10 min, 30 min, 60min, 120min after a sudden change salinity from 0% to 8% NaCl.
Project description:Assembly of HSPGs in the liver is defective in diabetes mellitus. A major consequence is impaired clearance of post-prandial lipoproteins, which ordinarily depends on the binding of these particles to hepatic HSPGs. Impaired clearance leads to prolonged exposure of the arterial wall to these harmful lipoproteins. We pin-pointed suppression of NDST-1 in livers of type 1 diabetic rats as at least a partial explanation for defective HSPG assembly. Dr. Williams' lab examined glycan-related gene expression in the livers of three groups of mice: wild-type, ad-lib-fed type 2 diabetic mice (db/db), and calorically restricted db/db mice (caloric restriction was shown several years ago to correct their clearance of atherogenic post-prandial lipoproteins). The results will indicate the molecular basis for defective HSPG assembly in type 2 diabetes, which is a question of considerable medical importance. RNA preparations from mice livers (wild-type, ad-lib-fed type 2 diabetic mice, and calorically restricted mice) were sent to Microarray Core (E). The RNA was amplified, labeled, and hybridized to GLYCO_v3 microarrays.
Project description:Alkaline hemicellulytic bacteria Bacillus sp. N16-5 has abroad substrate spectrum and exhibits great growth ability on complex carbohydrates. In order to get insight into its carbohydrate utilization mechanism, global transcriptional profiles were separately determined for growth on glucose, fructose, mannose, galactose, arabinose, xylose, galactomannan, xylan, pectin and carboxymethyl cellulose by using one-color microarrays.