scholarly journals Identification of novel differentially expressed zooxanthellal genes from Aiptasia-Symbiodinium endosymbiosis through SDS-based RNA purification

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo-Nien Chen ◽  
Paching Song ◽  
Ming-Chyuan Chen ◽  
Ming-Chang Hong

AbstractEndosymbiosis between dinoflagellates and cnidarian hosts first occurred more than 200 million years ago; however, symbiosis-specific genes and cellular processes involved in the establishment, maintenance, and breakdown of endosymbiosis remain unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the zooxanthellal genes associated with the aforementioned biological processes during endosymbiosis in Aiptasia-Symbiodinium endosymbionts. Here, zooxanthellae isolates were treated with 0.02% SDS to decrease potential host RNA contamination and to enhance the identification of novel symbiosis/nonsymbiosis-associated differentially expressed zooxanthellal genes through suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) and next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods. Consequently, among 214 symbiosis-specific transcripts identified herein that displayed identity to only 5.6% of host-derived transcripts, 64% were well-known functional genes. In the nonsymbiotic stage, 181 differentially expressed transcripts were identified, of which 64.1% belonged to well-known functional genes. BLAST revealed that 8 categories of cellular processes were significantly induced in symbiotic or nonsymbiotic zooxanthellae. Together with the results of quantitative analysis, the results revealed that photosynthesis, flagellate biosynthesis and motility, stress-induced responses, cell wall biosynthesis, starch synthesis and transport, lipid biosynthesis and metabolism, host/symbiont immune response, intercellular communication, cell growth, and cell cycle regulation were the major cellular processes occurring in symbiotic/nonsymbiotic stages. The present results provide insights into the mechanisms involved in regulating the different physiological processes in symbiotic/nonsymbiotic zooxanthellae and may guide future studies.

Insects ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Zih-Ting Chang ◽  
Chong-Yu Ko ◽  
Ming-Ren Yen ◽  
Yue-Wen Chen ◽  
Yu-Shin Nai

The microsporidium Nosema ceranae is a high prevalent parasite of the European honey bee (Apis mellifera). This parasite is spreading across the world into its novel host. The developmental process, and some mechanisms of N. ceranae-infected honey bees, has been studied thoroughly; however, few studies have been carried out in the mechanism of gene expression in N. ceranae during the infection process. We therefore performed the suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) approach to investigate the candidate genes of N. ceranae during its infection process. All 96 clones of infected (forward) and non-infected (reverse) library were dipped onto the membrane for hybridization. A total of 112 differentially expressed sequence tags (ESTs) had been sequenced. For the host responses, 20% of ESTs (13 ESTs, 10 genes, and 1 non-coding RNA) from the forward library and 93.6% of ESTs (44 ESTs, 28 genes) from the reverse library were identified as differentially expressed genes (DEGs) of the hosts. A high percentage of DEGs involved in catalytic activity and metabolic processes revealed that the host gene expression change after N. ceranae infection might lead to an unbalance of physiological mechanism. Among the ESTs from the forward library, 75.4% ESTs (49 ESTs belonged to 24 genes) were identified as N. ceranae genes. Out of 24 N. ceranae genes, nine DEGs were subject to real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR (real-time qRT-PCR) for validation. The results indicated that these genes were highly expressed during N. ceranae infection. Among nine N. ceranae genes, one N. ceranae gene (AAJ76_1600052943) showed the highest expression level after infection. These identified differentially expressed genes from this SSH could provide information about the pathological effects of N. ceranae. Validation of nine up-regulated N. ceranae genes reveal high potential for the detection of early nosemosis in the field and provide insight for further applications.


2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed T. Ghorbel ◽  
Greig Sharman ◽  
Charles Hindmarch ◽  
Kevin G. Becker ◽  
Tanya Barrett ◽  
...  

The magnocellular neurons (MCNs) of the supraoptic nucleus (SON) and paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus are the principal site of biosynthesis of prepropeptide precursor of the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin (VP). This precursor is processed during anterograde axonal transportation to terminals in the posterior pituitary gland, where biologically active VP is stored until release into the general circulation in response to physiological activation of the SON by osmotic cues. By binding to V2-type receptors located in the kidney, VP decreases the amount of water lost in urine. Osmotic activation of the SON is accompanied by a dramatic morphological and functional remodeling. We have sought to understand the mechanistic basis of this plasticity in terms of the differential expression of genes. To identify such genes, we adopted an unbiased global approach based on suppressive subtractive hybridization-polymerase chain reaction (SSH-PCR) Using this method, we generated libraries of clones putatively differentially expressed in control vs. dehydrated SON. To rapidly screen these libraries, 1,152 clones were subjected to microarray analysis, resulting in the identification of 459 differentially expressed transcripts. cDNA clones corresponding to 56 of these RNAs were sequenced, revealing many of them to be novel expressed sequence tags (ESTs). Four transcripts were shown by in situ hybridization (ISH) to be significantly up- or downregulated in the SON after dehydration. These genes may represent novel effectors or mediators of SON physiological remodeling.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 2309
Author(s):  
Nan Pan ◽  
Muhammad Zeeshan Bhatti ◽  
Haiyang Zhang ◽  
Bing Ni ◽  
Xinpeng Fan ◽  
...  

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate the expression of target genes in diverse cellular processes and play important roles in different physiological processes. However, little is known about the microRNAome (miRNAome) during encystment of ciliated protozoa. In the current study, we first investigated the differentially expressed miRNAs and relative signaling pathways participating in the transformation of vegetative cells into dormant cysts of Pseudourostyla cristata (P. cristata). A total of 1608 known miRNAs were found in the two libraries. There were 165 miRNAs with 1217 target miRNAs. The total number of differential miRNAs screened between vegetative cells and dormant cysts databases were 449 with p < 0.05 and |log2 fold changes| > 1. Among them, the upregulated and downregulated miRNAs were 243 and 206, respectively. Furthermore, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) analysis revealed that some of the differentially expressed miRNAs were mainly associated with oxidative phosphorylation, two-component system, and biosynthesis of amino acids. Combining with our bioinformatics analyzes, some differentially expressed miRNAs including miR-143, miR-23b-3p, miR-28, and miR-744-5p participates in the encystment of P. cristata. Based on these findings, we propose a hypothetical signaling network of miRNAs regulating or promoting P. cristata encystment. This study shed new lights on the regulatory mechanisms of miRNAs in encystment of ciliated protozoa.


2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 2564-2575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binh Nguyen ◽  
Robert M. Bowers ◽  
Thomas M. Wahlund ◽  
Betsy A. Read

ABSTRACT The marine coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi is a cosmopolitan alga intensely studied in relation to global carbon cycling, biogeochemistry, marine ecology, and biomineralization processes. The biomineralization capabilities of coccolithophorids have attracted the attention of scientists interested in exploiting this ability for the development of materials science and biomedical and biotechnological applications. Although it has been well documented that biomineralization in E. huxleyi is promoted by growth under phosphate-limited conditions, the genes and proteins that govern the processes of calcification and coccolithogenesis remain unknown. Suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) libraries were constructed from cultures grown in phosphate-limited and phosphate-replete media as tester and driver populations for reciprocal SSH procedures. Positive clones from each of the two libraries were randomly selected, and dot blotting was performed for the analysis of expression patterns. A total of 513 clones from the phosphate-replete library and 423 clones from the phosphate-limited library were sequenced, assembled, and compared to sequences in GenBank using BLASTX. Of the 103 differentially expressed gene fragments from the phosphate-replete library, 34% showed significant homology to other known proteins, while only 23% of the 65 differentially expressed gene fragments from the phosphate-limited library showed homology to other proteins. To further assess mRNA expression, real-time RT-PCR analysis was employed and expression profiles were generated over a 14-day time course for three clones from the phosphate-replete library and five clones from the phosphate-limited library. The fragments isolated provide the basis for future cloning of full-length genes and functional analysis.


2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Kalujnaia ◽  
Iain S. McWilliam ◽  
Vitalii A. Zaguinaiko ◽  
Anja L. Feilen ◽  
John Nicholson ◽  
...  

In euryhaline teleosts, osmoregulation is a fundamental and dynamic process that is essential for the maintenance of ion and water balance, especially when fish migrate between fresh water (FW) and sea water (SW) environments. The European eel has proved to be an excellent model species to study the molecular and physiological adaptations associated with this osmoregulatory plasticity. The life cycle of the European eel includes two migratory periods, the second being the migration of FW eels back to the Sargasso Sea for reproduction. Various anatomical and physiological changes allow the successful transition to SW. The aim of this study was to use a microarray approach to screen the osmoregulatory tissues of the eel for changes in gene expression following acclimation to SW. Tissues were sampled from fish at selected intervals over a 5-mo period following FW/SW transfer, and RNA was isolated. Suppressive subtractive hybridization was used for enrichment of differentially expressed genes. Microarrays comprising 6,144 cDNAs from brain, gill, intestine, and kidney libraries were hybridized with appropriate targets and analyzed; 229 differentially expressed clones with unique sequences were identified. These clones represented the sequences for 95 known genes, with the remaining sequences (59%) being unknown. The results of the microarray analysis were validated by quantification of 28 differentially expressed genes by Northern blotting. A number of the differentially expressed genes were already known to be involved in osmoregulation, but the functional roles of many others, not normally associated with ion or water transport, remain to be characterized.


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