Project description:We extracted and sequenced the RNA during different stages of an 8 hour cyst germination in Rhodospirillum centenum. It has aided in defining the chronology of molecular events during dormant cell germination in this model Gram-negative, cyst-forming organism.
Project description:OBJECTIVE: Due to the common occurrence of peritumoral cysts throughout the central nervous system tumors, hemangioblastomas (HBs) provide a model of cyst to further study the molecular mechanisms of peritumoral cyst formation. METHODS: We conducted an integrated lipidomics and transcriptomics analysis on solid and cyst HB samples, to elucidate the changes in lipid profile and the expression levels of genes associated with lipid metabolism in the cyst formation. RESULTS: Transcriptomic analysis revealed differentially expressed genes between the solid and cystic HBs. The lipidomic analysis further showed a significant reduction in the abundance of triacylglycerol, ceramide, lysophosphatidylcholine, and lysophosphatidylethanolamine, and an increase in phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine in the cystic group. Besides, bioinformatics analysis revealed altered lipid biosynthesis, glycerophospholipid metabolism and phospholipase activity in the cyst HBs. CONCLUSION: Our findings indicate that aberrant lipid metabolism is a causative factor of cyst formation in HBs, and provide novel insights into the role of lipid metabolism in HBs.
Project description:Dendrobium catenatum (D. catenatum) has long been used as an important medicinal herb in oriental medicine. Polysaccharide, flavonoid, and alkaloid are the major active ingredients, the production and accumulation of which are frequently affected by many environmental factors including water, temperature, and mycorrhizal fungus. However, how phytohormones frequently used in orchid tissue culture regulate the production of active components in D. catenatum is far from clear. Here, major medicinal metabolites were comparatively analyzed in 2-month-old D. catenatum seedlings exposed to phytohormones (0.1 mg/L NAA and/or 1.0 mg/L 6-BA) for three weeks, and eight transcriptomes (two replicates each) corresponding to the treatments were generated. Results demonstrated that the phytohormones triggered transcriptional reprograming, analysis of which revealed a tight association of β-glucosidase (BGLU) expression with the accumulation of polysaccharide. Subsequently, a second RNA-sequencing was further conducted to reveal that a relatively short period (2 w) of varied concentrations of 6-BA application might initially reduce BGLU expression and polysaccharide content and then increase their levels with prolonged treatments (4 w). The RNA-seq data was reconfirmed by functional analysis that 6-BA induced polysaccharide production, while knockdown of BGLU2L resulted in decreased polysaccharide levels. Therefore, the present study clearly demonstrated that BGLU is a key regulator for polysaccharide production and that it is extremely susceptible to NAA and 6-BA treatments in D. catenatum.
Project description:Arabidopsis noncoding RNA HID1 acts as a positive regulator to promote phyB-mediated seed germination by modulating the biosynthesis of abscisic acid.
