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GSE37014
Arabidopsis thaliana
12 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Arabidopsis ATH1 Genome Array (ath1121501)
Description
Two aspects of light are very important for plant development: the length of the light phase or photoperiod and the quality of incoming light. Photoperiod detection allows plants to anticipate the arrival of the next season, whereas light quality, mainly the red to far-red ratio (R:FR), is an early signal of competition by neighbouring plants. phyB represses flowering by antagonising CO at the transcriptional and post-translational levels. A low R:FR decreases active phyB and consequently increases active CO, which in turn activates the expression of FT, the plant florigen. Other phytochromes like phyD and phyE seem to have redundant roles with phyB. PFT1, the MED25 subunit of the plant Mediator complex, has been proposed to act in the light-quality pathway that regulates flowering time downstream of phyB. However, whether PFT1 signals through CO and its specific mechanism are unclear. Here we show that CO-dependent and -independent mechanisms operate downstream of phyB, phyD and phyE to promote flowering, and that PFT1 is equally able to promote flowering by modulating both CO-dependent and -independent pathways. Our data are consistent with the role of PFT1 as an activator of CO transcription, and also of FT transcription, in a CO-independent manner. Our transcriptome analysis is also consistent with CO and FT genes being the most important flowering targets of PFT1. Furthermore, comparison of the pft1 transcriptome with transcriptomes after fungal and herbivore attack strongly suggests that PFT1 acts as a hub, integrating a variety of interdependent environmental stimuli, including light quality and jasmonic acid-dependent defences.
Publication Title
PFT1, the MED25 subunit of the plant Mediator complex, promotes flowering through CONSTANS dependent and independent mechanisms in Arabidopsis.
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Specimen part
View Samples- Rattus norvegicus
- 18 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Mouse Gene 2.1 ST Array (mogene21st)
Description
Expansion of a polyglutamine (polyQ) tract in the gene for the androgen receptor (AR) results in partial loss of transactivation function and causes spinobulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA). Modification of AR by small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) reduces AR function in a promoter context-dependent manner.
Publication Title
Disrupting SUMOylation enhances transcriptional function and ameliorates polyglutamine androgen receptor-mediated disease.
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Cell line
View Samples- Caenorhabditis elegans
- 18 Downloadable Samples
Illumina HiSeq 2500
Description
The transcriptomes of model organisms have been defined under specific laboratory growth conditions. The standard protocol for Caenorhabditis elegans growth and maintenance is 20ºC on an Escherichia coli diet. Temperatures ranging from 15ºC to 25ºC or feeding with other species of bacteria are considered physiological lab conditions, but the effect of these conditions on the worm transcriptome have not been well characterized. Here, we compare the global patterns of gene expression for the reference Caenorhabditis elegans strain (N2) grown at 15oC, 20oC, and 25oC on two different diets, Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. When C. elegans were fed E. coli and the growth temperature was increased, we observed an enhancement of defense response pathways and down-regulation of genes associated with metabolic functions. However, when C. elegans were fed B. subtilis and the growth temperature was increased, the nematodes exhibited a decrease in defense response pathways and an enhancement of expression of genes associated with metabolic functions. Our results show that C. elegans undergo significant metabolic and defense response changes when the maintenance temperature fluctuates within the physiologically accepted experimental range and that the degree of pathogenicity of the bacterial diet can further alter the worm transcriptome. Overall design: C. elegans mRNA profiles at different temperatures and feeding in six samples, three replicates per sample. Deep sequencing in Illumina HiSeq2500.
Publication Title
Effect of the diet type and temperature on the <i>C. elegans</i> transcriptome.
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