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Ribeiro GM, Porfírio-Sousa AL, Maurer-Alcalá XX, Katz LA, Lahr DJG. De novo Sequencing, Assembly, and Annotation of the Transcriptome for the Free-Living Testate Amoeba Arcella intermedia. J Eukaryot Microbiol 2020; 67:383-392. [PMID: 31971327 DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 12/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Arcella, a diverse understudied genus of testate amoebae is a member of Tubulinea in Amoebozoa group. Transcriptomes are a powerful tool for characterization of these organisms as they are an efficient way of characterizing the protein-coding potential of the genome. In this work, we employed both single-cell and clonal populations transcriptomics to create a reference transcriptome for Arcella. We compared our results with annotations of Dictyostelium discoideum, a model Amoebozoan. We assembled a pool of 38 Arcella intermedia transcriptomes, which after filtering are composed of a total of 14,712 translated proteins. There are GO categories enriched in Arcella including mainly intracellular signal transduction pathways; we also used KEGG to annotate 11,546 contigs, which also have similar distribution to Dictyostelium. A large portion of data is still impossible to assign to a gene family, probably due to a combination of lineage-specific genes, incomplete sequences in the transcriptome and rapidly evolved genes. Some absences in pathways could also be related to low expression of these genes. We provide a reference database for Arcella, and we highlight the emergence of the need for further gene discovery in Arcella.
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- Giulia M Ribeiro
- Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, Matao Street, Travessa 14 Cidade Universitaria, São Paulo, 05508-090, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, Matao Street, Travessa 14 Cidade Universitaria, São Paulo, 05508-090, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, 10 Elm Street, Northampton, Massachusetts, 01063.,Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachussetts Amherst, 230 Stockbridge Road, Amherst, Massachusetts, 01002-9316
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, 10 Elm Street, Northampton, Massachusetts, 01063
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, Matao Street, Travessa 14 Cidade Universitaria, São Paulo, 05508-090, São Paulo, Brazil
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Zhang L, Wang H, Chen J, Shen Q, Wang S, Xu H, Tang B. Glycogen Phosphorylase and Glycogen Synthase: Gene Cloning and Expression Analysis Reveal Their Role in Trehalose Metabolism in the Brown Planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens Stål (Hemiptera: Delphacidae). JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2017; 17:3075279. [PMID: 28365765 PMCID: PMC5469382 DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/iex015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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RNA interference has been used to study insects' gene function and regulation. Glycogen synthase (GS) and glycogen phosphorylase (GP) are two key enzymes in carbohydrates' conversion in insects. Glycogen content and GP and GS gene expression in several tissues and developmental stages of the Brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens Stål (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) were analyzed in the present study, using quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction to determine their response to double-stranded trehalases (dsTREs), trehalose-6-phosphate synthases (dsTPSs), and validamycin injection. The highest expression of both genes was detected in the wing bud, followed by leg and head tissues, and different expression patterns were shown across the developmental stages analyzed. Glycogen content significantly decreased 48 and 72 h after dsTPSs injection and 48 h after dsTREs injection. GP expression increased 48 h after dsTREs and dsTPSs injection and significantly decreased 72 h after dsTPSs, dsTRE1-1, and dsTRE1-2 injection. GS expression significantly decreased 48 h after dsTPS2 and dsTRE2 injection and 72 h after dsTRE1-1 and dsTRE1-2 injection. GP and GS expression and glycogen content significantly decreased 48 h after validamycin injection. The GP activity significantly decreased 48 h after validamycin injection, while GS activities of dsTPS1 and dsTRE2 injection groups were significantly higher than that of double-stranded GFP (dsGFP) 48 h after injection, respectively. Thus, glycogen is synthesized, released, and degraded across several insect tissues according to the need to maintain stable trehalose levels.
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- Lu Zhang
- Hangzhou Key Laboratory of Animal Adaptation and Evolution, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, China (; ; ; ; )
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- Hangzhou Key Laboratory of Animal Adaptation and Evolution, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, China (; ; ; ; )
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- Hangzhou Key Laboratory of Animal Adaptation and Evolution, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, China (; ; ; ; )
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- Hangzhou Key Laboratory of Animal Adaptation and Evolution, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, China (; ; ; ; )
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- Hangzhou Key Laboratory of Animal Adaptation and Evolution, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, China (; ; ; ; )
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- Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (xu )
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- Hangzhou Key Laboratory of Animal Adaptation and Evolution, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, China (; ; ; ; )
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Tang B, Xu Q, Zou Q, Fang Q, Wang S, Ye G. Sequencing and characterization of glycogen synthase and glycogen phosphorylase genes from Spodoptera exigua and analysis of their function in starvation and excessive sugar intake. ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 80:42-62. [PMID: 22550018 DOI: 10.1002/arch.21027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Glycogen and trehalose are important energy source and key regulation factors in the development of many organisms' pass through energy metabolism, including bacteria, fungi, and insects. To study glycogen metabolism pathway in Spodoptera exigua, first cDNAs for glycogen synthase (SpoexGS) and glycogen phosphorylase (SpoexGP) were cloned from S. exigua. SpoexGS cDNA contains an open reading frame of 2,010 nucleotides encoding a protein of 669 amino acids with a predicted molecular mass of 76.19 kDa and a pI of 5.84. SpoexGP contains an open reading frame of 2,946 nucleotides, which encodes a protein of 841 amino acids with a predicted molecular mass of approximately 96.63 kDa and a pI of 6.03. Second, Northern blotting revealed that SpoexGS and SpoexGP mRNAs were expressed in brain, fat body, mid-gut, Malpighian tubules, spermary, and tracheae of S. exigua. Expression patterns for SpoexGS and SpoexGP mRNAs were similar in fat body, but differed in whole body at different developmental stages. The last, under starvation conditions, SpoexGS and SpoexGP transcript expression rapidly decreased with increasing starvation time. When the starvation stress was removed, SpoexGS and SpoexGP mRNA levels were lower in the groups starved for 6 and 12 h than in the 24-h starvation and control groups. Treatment with excessive sugar intake led to higher levels of SpoexGS and SpoexGP transcripts after 12 h compared to the control group. These findings provide new data on the tissue distribution, expression patterns, and potential function of glycogen synthase and glycogen phosphorylase proteins.
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- Bin Tang
- Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Pakes NK, Jayasinghe SN, Williams RSB. Bio-electrospraying and aerodynamically assisted bio-jetting the model eukaryotic Dictyostelium discoideum: assessing stress and developmental competency post treatment. J R Soc Interface 2011; 8:1185-91. [PMID: 21288957 PMCID: PMC3119884 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Bio-electrospraying (BES) and aerodynamically assisted bio-jetting (AABJ) have recently been established as important novel biospray technologies for directly manipulating living cells. To elucidate their potential in medical and clinical sciences, these bio-aerosol techniques have been subjected to increasingly rigorous investigations. In parallel to these studies, we wish to introduce these unique biotechnologies for use in the basic biological sciences, for handling a wide range of cell types and systems, thus increasing the range and the scope of these techniques for modern research. Here, the authors present the analysis of the new use of these biospray techniques for the direct handling of the simple eukaryotic biomedical model organism Dictyostelium discoideum. These cells are widely used as a model for immune cell chemotaxis and as a simple model for development. We demonstrate that AABJ of these cells did not cause cell stress, as defined by the stress-gene induction, nor affect cell development. Furthermore, although BES induced the increased expression of one stress-related gene (gapA), this was not a generalized stress response nor did it affect cell development. These data suggest that these biospray techniques can be used to directly manipulate single cells of this biomedical model without inducing a generalized stress response or perturbing later development.
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- Nicholl K Pakes
- Centre for Biomedical Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
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Brüggemann H, Hagman A, Jules M, Sismeiro O, Dillies MA, Gouyette C, Kunst F, Steinert M, Heuner K, Coppée JY, Buchrieser C. Virulence strategies for infecting phagocytes deduced from the in vivo transcriptional program of Legionella pneumophila. Cell Microbiol 2006; 8:1228-40. [PMID: 16882028 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2006.00703.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Adaptation to the host environment and exploitation of host cell functions are critical to the success of intracellular pathogens. Here, insight to these virulence mechanisms was obtained for the first time from the transcriptional program of the human pathogen Legionella pneumophila during infection of its natural host, Acanthamoeba castellanii. The biphasic life cycle of L. pneumophila was reflected by a major shift in gene expression from replicative to transmissive phase, concerning nearly half of the genes predicted in the genome. However, three different L. pneumophila strains showed similar in vivo gene expression patterns, indicating that common regulatory mechanisms govern the Legionella life cycle, despite the plasticity of its genome. During the replicative phase, in addition to components of aerobic metabolism and amino acid catabolism, the Entner-Doudoroff pathway, a NADPH producing mechanism used for sugar and/or gluconate assimilation, was expressed, suggesting for the first time that intracellular L. pneumophila may also scavenge host carbohydrates as nutrients and not only proteins. Identification of genes only upregulated in vivo but not in vitro, may explain higher virulence of in vivo grown L. pneumophila. Late in the life cycle, L. pneumophila upregulates genes predicted to promote transmission and manipulation of a new host cell, therewith priming it for the next attack. These including substrates of the Dot/Icm secretion system, other factors associated previously with invasion and virulence, the motility and the type IV pilus machineries, and > 90 proteins not characterized so far. Analysis of a fliA (sigma28) deletion mutant identified genes coregulated with the flagellar regulon, including GGDEF/EAL regulators and factors that promote host cell entry and survival.
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- Holger Brüggemann
- Unité de Génomique des Microorganismes Pathogènes and CNRS URA 2171, Paris, France
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Favis R, McCaffery I, Ehrenkaufer G, Rutherford CL. Transcription of the Dictyostelium glycogen phosphorylase-2 gene is induced by three large promoter domains. DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS 2000; 23:230-46. [PMID: 9842717 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6408(1998)23:3<230::aid-dvg8>3.0.co;2-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The promoter of the Dictyostelium glycogen phosphorylase-2 (gp2) gene possesses a profound AT-bias, typical of promoters in this organism. To understand how Dictyostelium achieves specificity during transcriptional regulation under the constraint of this highly biased nucleotide composition, we have documented the changes in chromatin structure associated with developmental induction of gp2 gene expression. DNase I hypersensitive analyses indicated the presence of several developmentally regulated nuclease-sensitive sites located upstream of the start codon: two strong sites at approximately -250 bp and -350 bp and three substantially weaker sites at -290 bp, -445 bp, and -505 bp. In vitro footprint analyses using nuclear extracts derived from several stages of development (corresponding to varying levels of gp2 expression) revealed three large regions of occupation that were developmentally regulated and corresponded to these nuclease-sensitive sites: -227 to -294 bp (domain 1), -327 to -383 bp (domain 2), and -416 to -534 bp (domain 3). The presence and the extent of the three regulatory domains was confirmed by in vivo footprint analyses spanning the same developmental time points. Southwestern analyses using probes encompassing these footprints demonstrated that probes corresponding to domains 1 and 3 both interacted with 83 and 77 kDa peptides. The domain 3 probe also interacted with a 92 kDa peptide, while only a 62 kDa peptide is recognized by the domain 2 probe. In all cases, peptides capable of binding these probes were found in nuclear extracts derived from differentiated cells and not in undifferentiated cell nuclear extract. Using nuclear extract from differentiated cells and probes corresponding to the three domains, gel mobility shift analyses detected ladders of retarded bands for both domains 1 and 3 and three major retarded bands for domain 2. These results suggest that specificity in transcriptional activation in the AT-rich promoters of Dictyostelium may be achieved by requiring multiple protein-DNA and/or protein-protein interactions to occur before induction can proceed.
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- R Favis
- Dept. of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061, USA
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