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Integrated transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis of fluoride tolerance-related pathways and differentially expressed genes in silkworm strain XSKD.

XueSong KD (XSKD) silkworm strain exhibits prominent fluoride tolerance, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms of fluoride tolerance remains unclear. In the present study, fourth-instar pre-molting XSKD silkworms were used as experimental materials for integrated transcriptomic and untargeted metabolomic analyses. In total, 572 differentially expressed genes and 90 differential metabolites were screened. GO enrichment and KEGG enrichment based on the hypergeometric distribution model revealed that 13-Hydroxy-9Z,11E-octadecadienoic acid (13-(S)-HODE) acts as the core differential metabolite, which is significantly enriched in the linoleic acid metabolism pathway. Within this pathway, LOC101737302 and CYP338A1 display opposite expression trends and show correlations with pathway metabolites. Based on multi-omics data, this study preliminarily characterizes the lipid metabolic response under fluoride stress, providing omics dataset support for further in-depth exploration of the molecular mechanism of fluoride tolerance in silkworms.

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Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression in response to superoxide and peroxide stress.

The Gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis responds to oxidative stress by the activation of different cellular defence mechanisms. These are composed of scavenging enzymes as well as protection and repair systems organized in highly sophisticated networks. In this study, the peroxide and the superoxide stress stimulons of B. subtilis were characterized by means of transcriptomics and proteomics. The results demonstrate that oxidative-stress-responsive genes can be classified into two groups. One group encompasses genes which show similar expression patterns in the presence of both reactive oxygen species. Examples are members of the PerR and the Fur regulon which were induced by peroxide and superoxide stress. Similarly, both kinds of stress stimulated the activation of the stringent response. The second group is composed of genes primarily responding to one stimulus, like the members of the SOS regulon which were particularly upregulated in the presence of peroxide, and many genes involved in sulfate assimilation and methionine biosynthesis which were only induced by superoxide. Several genes encoding proteins of unknown function could be assigned to one of these groups.

Bacillus subtilis↗

Combined transcriptome and genome analysis of single micrometastatic cells.

In human cancer, early systemic spread of tumor cells is recognized as a leading cause of death. Adjuvant therapies are administered to patients after complete resectioning of their primary tumors to eradicate the few residual and latent metastatic cells. These therapeutic regimens, however, are currently designed without direct information about the presence or nature of the latent cells. To address this problem, we developed a PCR-based technique to analyze the transcriptome of individual tumor cells isolated from the bone marrow of cancer patients. From the same cells, genomic aberrations were identified by comparative genomic hybridization. The utility of this approach for understanding the biology of occult disseminated cells and for the identification of new therapeutic targets is demonstrated here by the detection of frequent extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer (EMMPRIN; CD147) expression which was verified by immunostaining.

Cell Cycle↗

Combined transcriptome and proteome analysis as a powerful approach to study genes under glucose repression in Bacillus subtilis.

We used 2D protein gel electrophoresis and DNA microarray technologies to systematically analyze genes under glucose repression in B:acillus subtilis. In particular, we focused on genes expressed after the shift from glycolytic to gluconeogenic at the middle logarithmic phase of growth in a nutrient sporulation medium, which remained repressed by the addition of glucose. We also examined whether or not glucose repression of these genes was mediated by CcpA, the catabolite control protein of this bacterium. The wild-type and ccpA1 cells were grown with and without glucose, and their proteomes and transcriptomes were compared. 2D gel electrophoresis allowed us to identify 11 proteins, the synthesis of which was under glucose repression. Of these proteins, the synthesis of four (IolA, I, S and PckA) was under CcpA-independent control. Microarray analysis enabled us to detect 66 glucose-repressive genes, 22 of which (glmS, acoA, C, yisS, speD, gapB, pckA, yvdR, yxeF, iolA, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, R, S and yxbF ) were at least partially under CcpA-independent control. Furthermore, we found that CcpA and IolR, a repressor of the iol divergon, were involved in the glucose repression of the synthesis of inositol dehydrogenase encoded by iolG included in the above list. The CcpA-independent glucose repression of the iol genes appeared to be explained by inducer exclusion.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Dynamic transcriptome of mice.

Life science in the 21st century is developing rapidly through the structural analysis of biomolecules, the completion of the human genome sequence and the analysis of transcriptomes. The mouse transcriptome has been comprehensively analyzed using a gene discovery approach to collect full-length cDNA (FL-cDNA) clones. The framework of the transcriptome was then mapped out by an international Functional ANnoTation Of Mouse cDNA (FANTOM) effort, and a significant new population of noncoding transcripts was discovered. The geographical analogy of a second "RNA continent," separate from the "continent" of expressed proteins, aids the visualization of this concept. An unexpected number of variations was discovered in the mouse transcriptome. The animal transcriptome has evolved to produce several transcripts and proteins from a single "transcriptional unit". Transcriptome analysis has given rise to the FL-cDNA database and to the 60 770 FANTOM FL-cDNA clone set, and the DNABook was developed as an easier way to distribute these clones. In conjunction with genome sequence databases, transcriptome databases and clone banks will be platforms for developing advanced databases of gene function (e.g. the Genome Function Database). This will enable life science to make rapid progress towards understanding life as a system of molecules.

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Integrated Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis Elucidates the Mechanisms of Huperzine A Injection Against Cerebral Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury.

BACKGROUND: After recanalization in acute ischemic stroke, cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury (CI/RI) drives a cascade of pathophysiological events that worsen clinical outcomes, yet effective therapeutic options remain limited. Given the neuroprotective potential of Huperzine A (HupA), the efficacy of HupA injection (HAI, a major clinical formulation of HupA) against CI/RI and its underlying molecular basis warrant investigation. METHODS: In a mouse model of CI/RI, neurological performance, locomotor ability, cerebral infarction, histopathological alterations, and apoptotic neurons were jointly used to assess the anti-CI/RI effect of HAI at two different doses. An integrated transcriptomic and proteomic strategy was adopted to decipher the key anti-CI/RI mechanisms of HAI and then validated experimentally. RESULTS: Compared with vehicle&#x2011;treated CI/RI mice, HAI intervention significantly alleviated neurobehavioral deficits, decreased infarct size, mitigated histopathological damage, and suppressed neuronal apoptosis (P < 0.01). Both separate and combined transcriptomic and proteomic analyses highlighted that the complement and coagulation cascades, together with inflammation, were strongly correlated with HAI's beneficial action in preventing CI/RI. Indeed, HAI treatment effectively normalized the dysregulated mRNA and protein levels of pivotal targets within the complement and coagulation cascades, including C3, C5, C9, CFB, MASP2, F7, F10, F12, and SERPINE1, in the damaged cortical tissues of CI/RI mice (P < 0.05). Moreover, this intervention markedly attenuated the abnormally elevated expression of multiple inflammatory mediators, including TLR2, TLR4, TNF-&#x3b1;, IL-1&#x3b2;, IL-6, CCL2, CCL5, CXCL1, ICAM1, S100A9, LCN2, MMP8, and MMP9, at both the mRNA and protein levels (P < 0.01). CONCLUSION: Collectively, our data suggest that HAI may confer efficacy against CI/RI by modulating the complement and coagulation cascades and orchestrating the inflammatory response. Although further investigation is warranted, these preliminary findings provide a foundation for accelerating the clinical translation of HAI as a novel neuroprotectant against CI/RI in ischemic stroke.

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Transcriptome network component analysis with limited microarray data.

UNLABELLED: Network component analysis (NCA) is a method to deduce transcription factor (TF) activities and TF-gene regulation control strengths from gene expression data and a TF-gene binding connectivity network. Previously, this method could analyze a maximum number of regulators equal to the total sample size because of the identifiability limit in data decomposition. As such, the total number of source signal components was limited to the total number of experiments rather than the total number of biological regulators. However, networks that have less transcriptome data points than the number of regulators are of interest. Thus it is imperative to develop a theoretical basis that allows realistic source signal extraction based on relatively few data points. On the other hand, such methods would inherently increase numerical challenges leading to multiple solutions. Therefore, solutions to both the problems are needed. RESULTS: We have improved NCA for transcription factor activity (TFA) estimation, based on the observation that most genes are regulated by only a few TFs. This observation leads to the derivation of a new identifiability criterion which is tested during numerical iteration that allows us to decompose data when the number of TFs is greater than the number of experiments. To show that our method works with real microarray data and has biological utility, we analyze Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell cycle microarray data (73 experiments) using a TF-gene connectivity network (96 TFs) derived from ChIP-chip binding data. We compare the results of NCA analysis with the results obtained from ChIP-chip regression methods, and we show that NCA and regression produce TFAs that are qualitatively similar, but the NCA TFAs outperform regression in statistical tests. We also show that NCA can extract subtle TFA signals that correlate with known cell cycle TF function and cell cycle phase. Overall we determined that 31 TFs have statistically periodic TFAs in one or more experiments, 75% of which are known cell cycle regulators. In addition, we find that the 12 TFAs that are periodic in two or more experiments correspond to well-known cell cycle regulators. We also investigated TFA sensitivity to the choice of connectivity network we constructed two networks using different ChIP-chip p-value cut-offs. AVAILABILITY: The NCA Toolbox for MATLAB is available at http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~liaoj/download.htm.

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The Arabidopsis root transcriptome by serial analysis of gene expression. Gene identification using the genome sequence.

Large-scale identification of genes expressed in roots of the model plant Arabidopsis was performed by serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE), on a total of 144,083 sequenced tags, representing at least 15,964 different mRNAs. For tag to gene assignment, we developed a computational approach based on 26,620 genes annotated from the complete sequence of the genome. The procedure selected warrants the identification of the genes corresponding to the majority of the tags found experimentally, with a high level of reliability, and provides a reference database for SAGE studies in Arabidopsis. This new resource allowed us to characterize the expression of more than 3,000 genes, for which there is no expressed sequence tag (EST) or cDNA in the databases. Moreover, 85% of the tags were specific for one gene. To illustrate this advantage of SAGE for functional genomics, we show that our data allow an unambiguous analysis of most of the individual genes belonging to 12 different ion transporter multigene families. These results indicate that, compared with EST-based tag to gene assignment, the use of the annotated genome sequence greatly improves gene identification in SAGE studies. However, more than 6,000 different tags remained with no gene match, suggesting that a significant proportion of transcripts present in the roots originate from yet unknown or wrongly annotated genes. The root transcriptome characterized in this study markedly differs from those obtained in other organs, and provides a unique resource for investigating the functional specificities of the root system. As an example of the use of SAGE for transcript profiling in Arabidopsis, we report here the identification of 270 genes differentially expressed between roots of plants grown either with NO3- or NH4NO3 as N source.

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[Pharmacogenomics: the frontiers of genome medicine].

The Human Genome Project provides insights so profound that it has the ability to change everything we know about medicine and how medicines are developed. Pharmacogenomics is defined as studies to identify the genes that are involved in determining the responsiveness to a given drug and to distinguish responders and non-responders to a given drug. Genome sequencing, transcriptome, and proteome analysis are of particular significance in pharmacogenomics. Transcriptome analysis can be done by methods of random cDNA sequencing, mRNA display and, differential hybridization (i.e., cDNA microarray and associated methods). Our results suggest that the pharmacogenomic transcriptome analysis and pharmainformatics have potential as strategies for defining novel drug targets in various diseases. Pharmacogenomics enhances the development, commercialization, and clinical use of conventional pharmaceutical products for common diseases, and it will eventually become a powerful tool for Evidence-Based Medicine. It is also important to predict interindividual pharmacokinetic differences by genetic polymorphisms of transporters or pharmacokinetic changes by transporter-mediated drug interactions during drug development. Pharmacogenomics and pharmainformatics enable us to move quickly and efficiently from targets to appropriate medicines.

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Integrated transcriptomic and immunogenomic analysis unravels the immunological functions and prognostic landscape of WD repeat domain 76.

BackgroundWD Repeat Domain 76 (WDR76) plays a potential role in cellular regulation; however, its comprehensive landscape across human malignancies and its specific biological function in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain largely unexplored.MethodsWe conducted a systematic pan-cancer analysis utilizing multi-omics data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx), and Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) atabases to evaluate WDR76 expression, subcellular localization, and its correlation with clinicopathologic features, genomic instability, and immune infiltration. Diagnostic and prognostic values were assessed via Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and Kaplan-Meier analyses. Furthermore, the functional role of WDR76 in HCC was validated in vitro using Hep-3B and Huh7 cell lines through siRNA-mediated knockdown, followed by CCK-8, wound-healing, and transwell assays.ResultsWDR76 was significantly upregulated in the majority of tumor types, including LIHC, LUAD, and COAD, while exhibiting nuclear localization. Elevated WDR76 expression correlated with advanced tumor staging, metastasis, and poor clinical outcomes across multiple cohorts, particularly in ACC, KIRP, and LIHC. ROC analysis highlighted its exceptional diagnostic precision in cancers such as GBM and LIHC. Immunologically, WDR76 expression was intricately linked to immune cell infiltration, immune checkpoint markers, and genomic instability parameters, suggesting a role in shaping the tumor microenvironment. Drug sensitivity profiling revealed that high WDR76 levels correlate with resistance to specific chemotherapeutic agents. Experimentally, silencing WDR76 in HCC cells significantly suppressed cell proliferation, migration, and invasion capabilities.ConclusionOur study establishes WDR76 as a robust pan-cancer prognostic biomarker and a potential immunotherapeutic target. Specifically, we provide experimental evidence that WDR76 functions as an oncogenic driver in liver cancer, promoting malignant phenotypes and offering a novel avenue for targeted therapeutic intervention.

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Integrative Genomic, Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Analysis Reveals cis-regulatory Contributions to High-altitude Adaptation in Tibetan Pigs.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, characterized by its extreme environmental conditions, presents significant challenges to life, making it an ideal region for studying adaptation and evolution. Tibetan pigs, known for their high genetic diversity and exceptional adaptability to high altitudes, serve as excellent models for investigating high-altitude adaptation. While previous studies have extensively identified genetic determinants associated with high-altitude adaptation, the molecular mechanisms, particularly cis-regulatory patterns, remain poorly understood. Here, we conducted a selective sweep analysis using 484 genomes from Chinese and Western pig breeds across various altitudes, revealing 38.56 Mb of genomic regions under selection in Tibetan pigs. Enrichment analysis identified the lung as the primary functional tissue involved in high-altitude adaptation, supported by tissue-specific transcriptional and regulatory patterns observed between Tibetan and Meishan pigs (low altitude). By integrating genomic, RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, and H3K27ac HiChIP data, we constructed comprehensive enhancer-promoter regulatory maps of candidate genes and pinpointed promising genetic determinants associated with high-altitude adaptation, including SNPs in EPAS1, KLF13, SPRED1, and CFD. These loci were predicted to influence chromatin accessibility and the interactions of regulatory elements, with altered binding strength of relevant transcription factors. Further in vitro experiments confirmed that these loci function as allele-specific enhancers, modulating the expression of target genes. Our findings elucidate the regulatory basis of high-altitude adaptation in Tibetan pigs and provide valuable insights for exploring hypoxia-related diseases in livestock and humans.

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Coping with cold: An integrative, multitissue analysis of the transcriptome of a poikilothermic vertebrate.

How do organisms respond adaptively to environmental stress? Although some gene-specific responses have been explored, others remain to be identified, and there is a very poor understanding of the system-wide integration of response, particularly in complex, multitissue animals. Here, we adopt a transcript screening approach to explore the mechanisms underpinning a major, whole-body phenotypic transition in a vertebrate animal that naturally experiences extreme environmental stress. Carp were exposed to increasing levels of cold, and responses across seven tissues were assessed by using a microarray composed of 13,440 cDNA probes. A large set of unique cDNAs (approximately 3,400) were affected by cold. These cDNAs included an expression signature common to all tissues of 252 up-regulated genes involved in RNA processing, translation initiation, mitochondrial metabolism, proteasomal function, and modification of higher-order structures of lipid membranes and chromosomes. Also identified were large numbers of transcripts with highly tissue-specific patterns of regulation. By unbiased profiling of gene ontologies, we have identified the distinctive functional features of each tissue's response and integrate them into a comprehensive view of the whole-body transition from one strongly adaptive phenotype to another. This approach revealed an expression signature suggestive of atrophy in cooled skeletal muscle. This environmental genomics approach by using a well studied but nongenomic species has identified a range of candidate genes endowing thermotolerance and reveals a previously unrecognized scale and complexity of responses that impacts at the level of cellular and tissue function.

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Analysis of the transcriptome of the protozoan Theileria parva using MPSS reveals that the majority of genes are transcriptionally active in the schizont stage.

Massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) was used to analyze the transcriptome of the intracellular protozoan Theileria parva. In total 1,095,000, 20 bp sequences representing 4371 different signatures were generated from T.parva schizonts. Reproducible signatures were identified within 73% of potentially detectable predicted genes and 83% had signatures in at least one MPSS cycle. A predicted leader peptide was detected on 405 expressed genes. The quantitative range of signatures was 4-52,256 transcripts per million (t.p.m.). Rare transcripts (<50 t.p.m.) were detected from 36% of genes. Sequence signatures approximated a lognormal distribution, as in microarray. Transcripts were widely distributed throughout the genome, although only 47% of 138 telomere-associated open reading frames exhibited signatures. Antisense signatures comprised 13.8% of the total, comparable with Plasmodium. Eighty five predicted genes with antisense signatures lacked a sense signature. Antisense transcripts were independently amplified from schizont cDNA and verified by sequencing. The MPSS transcripts per million for seven genes encoding schizont antigens recognized by bovine CD8 T cells varied 1000-fold. There was concordance between transcription and protein expression for heat shock proteins that were very highly expressed according to MPSS and proteomics. The data suggests a low level of baseline transcription from the majority of protein-coding genes.

Animals↗

Novel RNAs identified from an in-depth analysis of the transcriptome of human chromosomes 21 and 22.

In this report, we have achieved a richer view of the transcriptome for Chromosomes 21 and 22 by using high-density oligonucleotide arrays on cytosolic poly(A)(+) RNA. Conservatively, only 31.4% of the observed transcribed nucleotides correspond to well-annotated genes, whereas an additional 4.8% and 14.7% correspond to mRNAs and ESTs, respectively. Approximately 85% of the known exons were detected, and up to 21% of known genes have only a single isoform based on exon-skipping alternative expression. Overall, the expression of the well-characterized exons falls predominately into two categories, uniquely or ubiquitously expressed with an identifiable proportion of antisense transcripts. The remaining observed transcription (49.0%) was outside of any known annotation. These novel transcripts appear to be more cell-line-specific and have lower and less variation in expression than the well-characterized genes. Novel transcripts were further characterized based on their distance to annotations, transcript size, coding capacity, and identification as antisense to intronic sequences. By RT-PCR, 126 novel transcripts were independently verified, resulting in a 65% verification rate. These observations strongly support the argument for a re-evaluation of the total number of human genes and an alternative term for "gene" to encompass these growing, novel classes of RNA transcripts in the human genome.

Cell Line↗

Transcriptomic and genomic analysis of human hepatocellular carcinomas and hepatoblastomas.

This study analyzed gene expression patterns and global genomic alterations in hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC), hepatoblastomas (HPBL), tissue adjacent to HCC and normal liver tissue derived from normal livers and hepatic resections. We found that HCC and adjacent non-neoplastic cirrhotic tissue have considerable overlap in gene expression patterns compared to normal liver. Several genes including Glypican 3, spondin-2, PEG10, EDIL3 and Osteopontin are over-expressed in HCC vs. adjacent tissue whereas Ficolin 3 is the most consistently under-expressed gene. HCC can be subdivided into three clusters based on gene expression patterns. HCC and HPBL have clearly different patterns of gene expression, with genes IGF2, Fibronectin, DLK1, TGFb1, MALAT1 and MIG6 being over-expressed in HPBL versus HCC. In addition, specific areas of the genome appear unstable in HCC, with the same regions undergoing either deletion or increased gene dosage in all HCC. In conclusion, a set of specific genes and areas of genomic instability are found across the board in liver neoplasia.

Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing↗

A transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of the effect of CpG-ODN on human THP-1 monocytic leukemia cells.

The CpG motif of bacterial DNA (CpG-DNA) is a potent immunostimulating agent whose mechanism of action is not yet clear. Here, we used both DNA microarray and proteomic approaches to investigate the effects of oligodeoxynucleotides containing the CpG motif (CpG-ODN) on gene transcription and protein expression profiles of CpG-ODN responsive THP-1 cells. Microarray analysis revealed that 2 h stimulation with CpG-ODN up-regulated 50 genes and down-regulated five genes. These genes were identified as being associated with inflammation, antimicrobial defense, transcriptional regulation, signal transduction, tumor progression, cell differentiation, proteolysis and metabolism. Longer stimulation (8 h) with CpG-ODN enhanced transcriptional expression of 58 genes. Among these 58 genes, none except one, namely WNTI inducible signaling pathway protein 2, was the same as those induced after 2 h stimulation. Proteomic analysis by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, followed by mass spectrometry identified several proteins up-regulated by CpG-ODN. These proteins included heat shock proteins, modulators of inflammation, metabolic proteins and energy pathway proteins. Comparison of microarray and proteomic expression profiles showed poor correlation. Use of more reliable and sensitive analyses, such as reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, Western blotting and functional assays, on several genes and proteins, nonetheless, confirmed that there is indeed good correlation between mRNA and protein expression after CpG-ODN treatment. This study also revealed that several anti-apoptotic and neuroprotective related proteins, not previously reported, are activated by CpG-DNA. These findings have extended our knowledge on the activation of cells by CpG-DNA and may contribute to further understanding of mechanisms that link innate immunity with acquired immune response(s).

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