The transcriptome of two different Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutant strains were compared to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa wild type strain in the stationary growth phase
Function of the bacteriophytochrome BphP in the RpoS/Las-Quorum sensing network of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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View SamplesWOX5 maintains columella stem cells in the Arabidopsis root and prevents their differentiation. In order to understand the molecular mode of WOX5 action the genes differentially expressed by WOX5 inducible over-expression were determined by analysis of microarray hybridizations. Seedlings transformed with a dexamethasone inducible WOX5 construct were induced for one or four hours with dexamethasone or a mock solution. Other seedlings were treated one hour with cycloheximide ( a protein synthesis inhibitor to reduce secondary transcriptional effects after WOX5 activation) and either dexamethasone or a mock solution. Root tips were harvested, RNA extracted, and the RNA samples prepared for hybridization to Affymetrix microarrays. Potential target genes of WOX5 were further analyzed by transcriptional markers, qPCR and EMSA (electrophoretic mobility shift assay).
Organizer-Derived WOX5 Signal Maintains Root Columella Stem Cells through Chromatin-Mediated Repression of CDF4 Expression.
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View SamplesThe objective of the study was to assess the technical error due to blending of individual samples into pools in experimental data.
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View SamplesRegulation of genes in shoots and roots and Arabidopsis in response to Zn-deficiency in wild-type and hma2 hma4 mutants plants
Systemic Upregulation of MTP2- and HMA2-Mediated Zn Partitioning to the Shoot Supplements Local Zn Deficiency Responses.
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View SamplesThe transition between growth in the dark (skotomorphogenesis) and growth in the light (photomorphogenesis) is one of the most critical in plant development. Here the newly identified mutant dez is photomorphogenic in the dark and is strongly enhanced in high Zn. dez displays a shortened hypocotyl, expanded cotyledons, an elongated root and differentiated plastids in the dark contrast to wild-type seedlings that are typically skotomorphogenic, with a long hypocotyl and unexpanded cotyledons protected by an apical hook, and undifferentiated etioplasts
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View SamplesGene copy number variation (CNV) is a form of genetic polymorphism that contributes significantly to genome size and function but remains poorly characterized due to technological limitations. Inter-specific comparisons of CNVs in recently diverged plant species are crucial to uncover selection patterns underlying adaptation of a species to stressful environments. Especially given that gene amplifications have long been implicated in emergence of species-specific traits, we conducted a genome-wide survey to identify species-specific gene copy number expansions and deletions in the model extremophile species - Arabidopsis halleri that has diverged in evolutionarily recent time from Arabidopsis thaliana.
Between-species differences in gene copy number are enriched among functions critical for adaptive evolution in Arabidopsis halleri.
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View SamplesWe analyzed and classified Whi3-regulated and ploidy-regulated genes in haploid and diploid strains of the Sigma1278b genetic background under vegetative growth conditions.<br></br><br></br>For this purpose, we measured transcriptional profiles of two different haploid MATa and one diploid MATa/a yeast strains of the following genotypes: WHI3 strain (SS_YHUM468=YHUM0468), whi3 strain (SS_ySS137=YHUM1920) and whi3-delta/whi3-delta strain (SS_ySS137dipl=YHUM2152). All three strains were grown in duplicate in YNB medium supplemented with tryptophan and uracil at 30 degrees C to an optical density of 1.0 before extraction of total RNA and transcriptional profiling<br></br><br></br>
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View SamplesClC-2 is a broadly expressed Cl- channel of the CLC family of Cl- channels and transporters which is abundantly expressed in brain. Here it was proposed to participate in lowering the cytoplasmic Cl- concentration of neurons, a process that establishes an inhibitory response to the neurotransmitters GABA and glycine (Staley et al., 1996). Heterozygous mutations in CLCN2 (the gene encoding ClC-2) were recently reported in a few patients with three clinically distinct forms of epilepsy (Haug et al, 2003). However, the disruption of ClC-2 in mice (ClC-2 KO mouse) did not entail epilepsy (Bösl et al., 2001; Nehrke et al., 2002) but myelin vacuolation in fiber tracts of the central nervous system. We used a gene expression profiling of the ClC-2 KO mouse in brain to identify possible disease mechanism which cause the observed myelin phenotype. As these myelin vacuolation became apparent in the fiber tracts of ClC-2 KO cerebellum at P28 and increased with age, we analysed the cerebellum of ClC-2 KO mice at different postnatal ages, before (P14) and after (P35) the KO cerebellum has been affected by myelin vacuolation.
Leukoencephalopathy upon disruption of the chloride channel ClC-2.
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View SamplesPolyethylene glycol sorbitan monoacylates (Tween) are detergents of widespread use in plant sciences. We show them, notably Tween 20, to cause a rapid and complex change in transcript abundance which bears all characteristics of a PAMP / elicitor-induced defense response, and they do so at concentrations which cause no detectable deleterious effects on plant cellular integrity. The activity does not reside in the intact Tween molecule itself, but is caused by medium-chain fatty acids, notably lauric acid (LA), which are efficiently released from the Tween-backbone by the plant. The Tween / LA-response is independent of the jasmonate signalling system. Medium-chain fatty acids are thus novel elicitors/regulators of plant pathogen defense. The results also have several practical implications: (i) The use of Tweens and, as we show, several other detergents, as solvating/wetting agents on intact plants causes profound physiological changes which may mask actual effects of test compounds; (ii) Tweens by themselves can be regarded (and probably used) as economical, non-toxic, and safe-to-apply elicitors of inducible plant immunity against pathogens.
A novel regulatory system in plants involving medium-chain fatty acids.
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