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Osinuga A, Solis AG, Cahoon RE, Al-Siyabi A, Cahoon EB, Saha R. Quantitative Dynamic Analysis of de novo Sphingolipid Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.12.08.570827. [PMID: 38105963 PMCID: PMC10723408 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.08.570827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Sphingolipids are pivotal for plant development and stress responses. Growing interest has been directed towards fully comprehending the regulatory mechanisms of the sphingolipid pathway. We explore its de novo biosynthesis and homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana cell cultures, shedding light on fundamental metabolic mechanisms. Employing 15N isotope labeling and quantitative dynamic modeling approach, we developed a regularized and constraint-based Dynamic Metabolic Flux Analysis (r-DMFA) framework to predict metabolic shifts due to enzymatic changes. Our analysis revealed key enzymes such as sphingoid-base hydroxylase (SBH) and long-chain-base kinase (LCBK) to be critical for maintaining sphingolipid homeostasis. Disruptions in these enzymes were found to affect cellular viability and increase the potential for programmed cell death (PCD). Thus, this work enhances our understanding of sphingolipid metabolism and demonstrates the utility of dynamic modeling in analyzing complex metabolic pathways.
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- Abraham Osinuga
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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Eizenga GC, Kim H, Jung JKH, Greenberg AJ, Edwards JD, Naredo MEB, Banaticla-Hilario MCN, Harrington SE, Shi Y, Kimball JA, Harper LA, McNally KL, McCouch SR. Phenotypic Variation and the Impact of Admixture in the Oryza rufipogon Species Complex ( ORSC). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:787703. [PMID: 35769295 PMCID: PMC9235872 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.787703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Crop wild relatives represent valuable reservoirs of variation for breeding, but their populations are threatened in natural habitats, are sparsely represented in genebanks, and most are poorly characterized. The focus of this study is the Oryza rufipogon species complex (ORSC), wild progenitor of Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.). The ORSC comprises perennial, annual and intermediate forms which were historically designated as O. rufipogon, O. nivara, and O. sativa f. spontanea (or Oryza spp., an annual form of mixed O. rufipogon/O. nivara and O. sativa ancestry), respectively, based on non-standardized morphological, geographical, and/or ecologically-based species definitions and boundaries. Here, a collection of 240 diverse ORSC accessions, characterized by genotyping-by-sequencing (113,739 SNPs), was phenotyped for 44 traits associated with plant, panicle, and seed morphology in the screenhouse at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. These traits included heritable phenotypes often recorded as characterization data by genebanks. Over 100 of these ORSC accessions were also phenotyped in the greenhouse for 18 traits in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and 16 traits in Ithaca, New York, United States. We implemented a Bayesian Gaussian mixture model to infer accession groups from a subset of these phenotypic data and ascertained three phenotype-based group assignments. We used concordance between the genotypic subpopulations and these phenotype-based groups to identify a suite of phenotypic traits that could reliably differentiate the ORSC populations, whether measured in tropical or temperate regions. The traits provide insight into plant morphology, life history (perenniality versus annuality) and mating habit (self- versus cross-pollinated), and are largely consistent with genebank species designations. One phenotypic group contains predominantly O. rufipogon accessions characterized as perennial and largely out-crossing and one contains predominantly O. nivara accessions characterized as annual and largely inbreeding. From these groups, 42 "core" O. rufipogon and 25 "core" O. nivara accessions were identified for domestication studies. The third group, comprising 20% of our collection, has the most accessions identified as Oryza spp. (51.2%) and levels of O. sativa admixture accounting for more than 50% of the genome. This third group is potentially useful as a "pre-breeding" pool for breeders attempting to incorporate novel variation into elite breeding lines.
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- Georgia C. Eizenga
- Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, USDA-ARS, Stuttgart, AR, United States
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, USDA-ARS, Stuttgart, AR, United States
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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Cobb JN, Chen C, Shi Y, Maron LG, Liu D, Rutzke M, Greenberg A, Craft E, Shaff J, Paul E, Akther K, Wang S, Kochian LV, Zhang D, Zhang M, McCouch SR. Genetic architecture of root and shoot ionomes in rice (Oryza sativa L.). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2021; 134:2613-2637. [PMID: 34018019 PMCID: PMC8277617 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-021-03848-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Association analysis for ionomic concentrations of 20 elements identified independent genetic factors underlying the root and shoot ionomes of rice, providing a platform for selecting and dissecting causal genetic variants. Understanding the genetic basis of mineral nutrient acquisition is key to fully describing how terrestrial organisms interact with the non-living environment. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) serves both as a model organism for genetic studies and as an important component of the global food system. Studies in rice ionomics have primarily focused on above ground tissues evaluated from field-grown plants. Here, we describe a comprehensive study of the genetic basis of the rice ionome in both roots and shoots of 6-week-old rice plants for 20 elements using a controlled hydroponics growth system. Building on the wealth of publicly available rice genomic resources, including a panel of 373 diverse rice lines, 4.8 M genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms, single- and multi-marker analysis pipelines, an extensive tome of 321 candidate genes and legacy QTLs from across 15 years of rice genetics literature, we used genome-wide association analysis and biparental QTL analysis to identify 114 genomic regions associated with ionomic variation. The genetic basis for root and shoot ionomes was highly distinct; 78 loci were associated with roots and 36 loci with shoots, with no overlapping genomic regions for the same element across tissues. We further describe the distribution of phenotypic variation across haplotypes and identify candidate genes within highly significant regions associated with sulfur, manganese, cadmium, and molybdenum. Our analysis provides critical insight into the genetic basis of natural phenotypic variation for both root and shoot ionomes in rice and provides a comprehensive resource for dissecting and testing causal genetic variants.
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- Joshua N Cobb
- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1901, USA
- RiceTec Inc, Alvin, TX, 77511, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2054, USA
- Ausy Consulting, Esperantolaan 8, 3001, Heverlee, Belgium
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1901, USA
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1901, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2054, USA
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- Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1901, USA
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1901, USA
- Bayesic Research, LLC, 452 Sheffield Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
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- Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1901, USA
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- Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1901, USA
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- GeneFlow, Inc, Centreville, VA, 20120, USA
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1901, USA
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1901, USA
- Department of Plant Breeding, South China Agriculture University, Guangdong, 510642, China
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- Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1901, USA
- Global Institute for Food Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 4J8, Canada
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- Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2054, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2054, USA.
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-1901, USA.
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Low Additive Genetic Variation in a Trait Under Selection in Domesticated Rice. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2020; 10:2435-2443. [PMID: 32439738 PMCID: PMC7341149 DOI: 10.1534/g3.120.401194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Quantitative traits are important targets of both natural and artificial selection. The genetic architecture of these traits and its change during the adaptive process is thus of fundamental interest. The fate of the additive effects of variants underlying a trait receives particular attention because they constitute the genetic variation component that is transferred from parents to offspring and thus governs the response to selection. While estimation of this component of phenotypic variation is challenging, the increasing availability of dense molecular markers puts it within reach. Inbred plant species offer an additional advantage because phenotypes of genetically identical individuals can be measured in replicate. This makes it possible to estimate marker effects separately from the contribution of the genetic background not captured by genotyped loci. We focused on root growth in domesticated rice, Oryza sativa, under normal and aluminum (Al) stress conditions, a trait under recent selection because it correlates with survival under drought. A dense single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) map is available for all accessions studied. Taking advantage of this map and a set of Bayesian models, we assessed additive marker effects. While total genetic variation accounted for a large proportion of phenotypic variance, marker effects contributed little information, particularly in the Al-tolerant tropical japonica population of rice. We were unable to identify any loci associated with root growth in this population. Models estimating the aggregate effects of all measured genotypes likewise produced low estimates of marker heritability and were unable to predict total genetic values accurately. Our results support the long-standing conjecture that additive genetic variation is depleted in traits under selection. We further provide evidence that this depletion is due to the prevalence of low-frequency alleles that underlie the trait.
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Melandri G, Sikirou M, Arbelaez JD, Shittu A, Semwal VK, Konaté KA, Maji AT, Ngaujah SA, Akintayo I, Govindaraj V, Shi Y, Agosto-Peréz FJ, Greenberg AJ, Atlin G, Ramaiah V, McCouch SR. Multiple Small-Effect Alleles of Indica Origin Enhance High Iron-Associated Stress Tolerance in Rice Under Field Conditions in West Africa. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:604938. [PMID: 33584748 PMCID: PMC7874229 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.604938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Understanding the genetics of field-based tolerance to high iron-associated (HIA) stress in rice can accelerate the development of new varieties with enhanced yield performance in West African lowland ecosystems. To date, few field-based studies have been undertaken to rigorously evaluate rice yield performance under HIA stress conditions. In this study, two NERICA × O. sativa bi-parental rice populations and one O.sativa diversity panel consisting of 296 rice accessions were evaluated for grain yield and leaf bronzing symptoms over multiple years in four West African HIA stress and control sites. Mapping of these traits identified a large number of QTLs and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with stress tolerance in the field. Favorable alleles associated with tolerance to high levels of iron in anaerobic rice soils were rare and almost exclusively derived from the indica subpopulation, including the most favorable alleles identified in NERICA varieties. These findings highlight the complex genetic architecture underlying rice response to HIA stress and suggest that a recurrent selection program focusing on an expanded indica genepool could be productively used in combination with genomic selection to increase the efficiency of selection in breeding programs designed to enhance tolerance to this prevalent abiotic stress in West Africa.
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- Giovanni Melandri
- Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Africa Rice Center, Ibadan, Nigeria
- School of Horticulture and Green Landscaping, Kétou, Bénin
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Central Agricultural Research Institute, Suakoko, Liberia
- Africa Rice Center, Suakoko, Liberia
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, United States
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
- Venuprasad Ramaiah,
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Ma B, Zhao K, Lv X, Su W, Dai Z, Gilbert JA, Brookes PC, Faust K, Xu J. Genetic correlation network prediction of forest soil microbial functional organization. ISME JOURNAL 2018; 12:2492-2505. [PMID: 30046166 PMCID: PMC6155114 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0232-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2018] [Revised: 06/11/2018] [Accepted: 06/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Soil ecological functions are largely determined by the activities of soil microorganisms, which, in turn, are regulated by relevant interactions between genes and their corresponding pathways. Therefore, the genetic network can theoretically elucidate the functional organization that supports complex microbial community functions, although this has not been previously attempted. We generated a genetic correlation network based on 5421 genes derived from metagenomes of forest soils, identifying 7191 positive and 123 negative correlation relationships. This network consisted of 27 clusters enriched with sets of genes within specific functions, represented with corresponding cluster hubs. The clusters revealed a hierarchical architecture, reflecting the functional organization in the soil metagenomes. Positive correlations mapped functional associations, whereas negative correlations often mapped regulatory processes. The potential functions of uncharacterized genes were predicted based on the functions of located clusters. The global genetic correlation network highlights the functional organization in soil metagenomes and provides a resource for predicting gene functions. We anticipate that the genetic correlation network may be exploited to comprehensively decipher soil microbial community functions.
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- Bin Ma
- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.,Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.,Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.,Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.,Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.,Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- The Microbiome Center, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.,Bioscience Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.,Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China. .,Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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Yu M, Jia HM, Cui FX, Yang Y, Zhao Y, Yang MH, Zou ZM. The Effect of Chinese Herbal Medicine Formula mKG on Allergic Asthma by Regulating Lung and Plasma Metabolic Alternations. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:ijms18030602. [PMID: 28287417 PMCID: PMC5372618 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18030602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2017] [Revised: 02/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airway and is characterized by airway remodeling, hyperresponsiveness, and shortness of breath. Modified Kushen Gancao Formula (mKG), derived from traditional Chinese herbal medicines (TCM), has been demonstrated to have good therapeutic effects on experimental allergic asthma. However, its anti-asthma mechanism remains currently unknown. In the present work, metabolomics studies of biochemical changes in the lung tissue and plasma of ovalbumin (OVA)-induced allergic asthma mice with mKG treatment were performed using ultra high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-Q-TOF/MS). Partial least squares–discriminate analysis (PLS−DA) indicated that the metabolic perturbation induced by OVA was reduced after mKG treatment. A total of twenty-four metabolites involved in seven metabolic pathways were identified as potential biomarkers in the development of allergic asthma. Among them, myristic acid (L3 or P2), sphinganine (L6 or P4), and lysoPC(15:0) (L12 or P16) were detected both in lung tissue and plasma. Additionally, l-acetylcarnitine (L1), thromboxane B2 (L2), 10-HDoHE (L10), and 5-HETE (L11) were first reported to be potential biomarkers associated with allergic asthma. The treatment of mKG mediated all of those potential biomarkers except lysoPC(15:0) (P16). The anti-asthma mechanism of mKG can be achieved through the comprehensive regulation of multiple perturbed biomarkers and metabolic pathways.
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- Meng Yu
- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100193, China.
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100193, China.
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100193, China.
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100193, China.
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100193, China.
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100193, China.
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- Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100193, China.
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Survey of Global Genetic Diversity Within the Drosophila Immune System. Genetics 2016; 205:353-366. [PMID: 27815361 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.195016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2016] [Accepted: 10/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Numerous studies across a wide range of taxa have demonstrated that immune genes are routinely among the most rapidly evolving genes in the genome. This observation, however, does not address what proportion of immune genes undergo strong selection during adaptation to novel environments. Here, we determine the extent of very recent divergence in genes with immune function across five populations of Drosophila melanogaster and find that immune genes do not show an overall trend of recent rapid adaptation. Our population-based approach uses a set of carefully matched control genes to account for the effects of demography and local recombination rate, allowing us to identify whether specific immune functions are putative targets of strong selection. We find evidence that viral-defense genes are rapidly evolving in Drosophila at multiple timescales. Local adaptation to bacteria and fungi is less extreme and primarily occurs through changes in recognition and effector genes rather than large-scale changes to the regulation of the immune response. Surprisingly, genes in the Toll pathway, which show a high rate of adaptive substitution between the D. melanogaster and D. simulans lineages, show little population differentiation. Quantifying the flies for resistance to a generalist Gram-positive bacterial pathogen, we found that this genetic pattern of low population differentiation was recapitulated at the phenotypic level. In sum, our results highlight the complexity of immune evolution and suggest that Drosophila immune genes do not follow a uniform trajectory of strong directional selection as flies encounter new environments.
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Hackett SR, Zanotelli VRT, Xu W, Goya J, Park JO, Perlman DH, Gibney PA, Botstein D, Storey JD, Rabinowitz JD. Systems-level analysis of mechanisms regulating yeast metabolic flux. Science 2016; 354:aaf2786. [PMID: 27789812 PMCID: PMC5414049 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2016] [Accepted: 09/23/2016] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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Cellular metabolic fluxes are determined by enzyme activities and metabolite abundances. Biochemical approaches reveal the impact of specific substrates or regulators on enzyme kinetics but do not capture the extent to which metabolite and enzyme concentrations vary across physiological states and, therefore, how cellular reactions are regulated. We measured enzyme and metabolite concentrations and metabolic fluxes across 25 steady-state yeast cultures. We then assessed the extent to which flux can be explained by a Michaelis-Menten relationship between enzyme, substrate, product, and potential regulator concentrations. This revealed three previously unrecognized instances of cross-pathway regulation, which we biochemically verified. One of these involved inhibition of pyruvate kinase by citrate, which accumulated and thereby curtailed glycolytic outflow in nitrogen-limited yeast. Overall, substrate concentrations were the strongest driver of the net rates of cellular metabolic reactions, with metabolite concentrations collectively having more than double the physiological impact of enzymes.
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- Sean R Hackett
- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
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Standardized Chinese Formula Xin-Ke-Shu inhibits the myocardium Ca(2+) overloading and metabolic alternations in isoproterenol-induced myocardial infarction rats. Sci Rep 2016; 6:30208. [PMID: 27457884 PMCID: PMC4960537 DOI: 10.1038/srep30208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2015] [Accepted: 06/30/2016] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Xin-Ke-Shu (XKS) is a traditional Chinese patent medicine used for treatment of coronary heart diseases in China. However, its mechanism of action is still unclear. In this paper, the mediation of XKS on the isoproterenol (ISO)-induced myocardial infarction (MI) rat were evaluated based on a tissue-targeted metabonomics in vitro/vivo. The result indicated that twelve metabolic pathways were involved in the therapeutic effect of XKS in vivo, where seven pathways were associated with the Ca2+ overloading mechanism. In agreement with regulation on metabolic variations, XKS markedly reversed the over-expressions of three involved proteins including phospholipase A2 IIA (PLA2 IIA), calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMK II) and Pro-Caspase-3. The metabolic regulations of XKS on H9c2 cell also partially confirmed its metabolic effect. These metabolic characteristics in vitro/vivo and western blotting analysis suggested that XKS protected from MI metabolic perturbation major via inhibition of Ca2+ overloading mechanism. Furthermore, 11 active ingredients of XKS exerted steady affinity with the three proteins through the molecular docking study. Our findings indicate that the metabonomics in vitro/vivo combined with western blotting analysis offers the opportunity to gain insight into the comprehensive efficacy of TCMs on the whole metabolic network.
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Wu WH, Chao CC, Wang FS. Reducing the effects of drug toxicity on glutathione metabolism. J Taiwan Inst Chem Eng 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2015.10.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Wang FS, Wu WH. Optimal design of growth-coupled production strains using nested hybrid differential evolution. J Taiwan Inst Chem Eng 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2015.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Global diversity lines - a five-continent reference panel of sequenced Drosophila melanogaster strains. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2015; 5:593-603. [PMID: 25673134 PMCID: PMC4390575 DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.015883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Reference collections of multiple Drosophila lines with accumulating collections of “omics” data have proven especially valuable for the study of population genetics and complex trait genetics. Here we present a description of a resource collection of 84 strains of Drosophila melanogaster whose genome sequences were obtained after 12 generations of full-sib inbreeding. The initial rationale for this resource was to foster development of a systems biology platform for modeling metabolic regulation by the use of natural polymorphisms as perturbations. As reference lines, they are amenable to repeated phenotypic measurements, and already a large collection of metabolic traits have been assayed. Another key feature of these strains is their widespread geographic origin, coming from Beijing, Ithaca, Netherlands, Tasmania, and Zimbabwe. After obtaining 12.5× coverage of paired-end Illumina sequence reads, SNP and indel calls were made with the GATK platform. Thorough quality control was enabled by deep sequencing one line to >100×, and single-nucleotide polymorphisms and indels were validated using ddRAD-sequencing as an orthogonal platform. In addition, a series of preliminary population genetic tests were performed with these single-nucleotide polymorphism data for assessment of data quality. We found 83 segregating inversions among the lines, and as expected these were especially abundant in the African sample. We anticipate that this will make a useful addition to the set of reference D. melanogaster strains, thanks to its geographic structuring and unusually high level of genetic diversity.
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Correlated variation and population differentiation in satellite DNA abundance among lines of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:18793-8. [PMID: 25512552 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421951112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Tandemly repeating satellite DNA elements in heterochromatin occupy a substantial portion of many eukaryotic genomes. Although often characterized as genomic parasites deleterious to the host, they also can be crucial for essential processes such as chromosome segregation. Adding to their interest, satellite DNA elements evolve at high rates; among Drosophila, closely related species often differ drastically in both the types and abundances of satellite repeats. However, due to technical challenges, the evolutionary mechanisms driving this rapid turnover remain unclear. Here we characterize natural variation in simple-sequence repeats of 2-10 bp from inbred Drosophila melanogaster lines derived from multiple populations, using a method we developed called k-Seek that analyzes unassembled Illumina sequence reads. In addition to quantifying all previously described satellite repeats, we identified many novel repeats of low to medium abundance. Many of the repeats show population differentiation, including two that are present in only some populations. Interestingly, the population structure inferred from overall satellite quantities does not recapitulate the expected population relationships based on the demographic history of D. melanogaster. We also find that some satellites of similar sequence composition are correlated across lines, revealing concerted evolution. Moreover, correlated satellites tend to be interspersed with each other, further suggesting that concerted change is partially driven by higher order structure. Surprisingly, we identified negative correlations among some satellites, suggesting antagonistic interactions. Our study demonstrates that current genome assemblies vastly underestimate the complexity, abundance, and variation of highly repetitive satellite DNA and presents approaches to understand their rapid evolutionary divergence.
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Reinhart M, Carney T, Clark AG, Fiumera AC. Characterizing male-female interactions using natural genetic variation in Drosophila melanogaster. J Hered 2014; 106:67-79. [PMID: 25425680 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esu076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Drosophila melanogaster females commonly mate with multiple males establishing the opportunity for pre- and postcopulatory sexual selection. Traits impacting sexual selection can be affected by a complex interplay of the genotypes of the competing males, the genotype of the female, and compatibilities between the males and females. We scored males from 96 2nd and 94 3rd chromosome substitution lines for traits affecting reproductive success when mated with females from 3 different genetic backgrounds. The traits included male-induced female refractoriness, male remating ability, the proportion of offspring sired under competitive conditions and male-induced female fecundity. We observed significant effects of male line, female genetic background, and strong male by female interactions. Some males appeared to be "generalists" and performed consistently across the different females; other males appeared to be "specialists" and performed very well with a particular female and poorly with others. "Specialist" males did not, however, prefer to court those females with whom they had the highest reproductive fitness. Using 143 polymorphisms in male reproductive genes, we mapped several genes that had consistent effects across the different females including a derived, high fitness allele in Acp26Aa that may be the target of adaptive evolution. We also identified a polymorphism upstream of PebII that may interact with the female genetic background to affect male-induced refractoriness to remating. These results suggest that natural variation in PebII might contribute to the observed male-female interactions.
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- Michael Reinhart
- From the Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY (Reinhart, Carney, and Fiumera); and the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY(Clark)
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- From the Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY (Reinhart, Carney, and Fiumera); and the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY(Clark)
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- From the Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY (Reinhart, Carney, and Fiumera); and the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY(Clark)
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- From the Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY (Reinhart, Carney, and Fiumera); and the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY(Clark).
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Li J, Lin W, Lin W, Xu P, Zhang J, Yang H, Ling X. Metabolic profiling study on potential toxicity and immunotoxicity-biomarker discovery in rats treated with cyclophosphamide using HPLC-ESI-IT-TOF-MS. Biomed Chromatogr 2014; 29:768-76. [DOI: 10.1002/bmc.3355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2014] [Revised: 08/06/2014] [Accepted: 09/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Jing Li
- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic and Drugs and Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis; School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Peking University; Beijing 100191 People's Republic of China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic and Drugs and Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis; School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Peking University; Beijing 100191 People's Republic of China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic and Drugs and Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis; School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Peking University; Beijing 100191 People's Republic of China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic and Drugs and Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis; School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Peking University; Beijing 100191 People's Republic of China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic and Drugs and Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis; School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Peking University; Beijing 100191 People's Republic of China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic and Drugs and Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis; School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Peking University; Beijing 100191 People's Republic of China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic and Drugs and Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis; School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Peking University; Beijing 100191 People's Republic of China
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Crowell S, Falcão AX, Shah A, Wilson Z, Greenberg AJ, McCouch SR. High-Resolution Inflorescence Phenotyping Using a Novel Image-Analysis Pipeline, PANorama. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 165:479-495. [PMID: 24696519 PMCID: PMC4044845 DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.238626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Accepted: 04/01/2014] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Variation in inflorescence development is an important target of selection for numerous crop species, including many members of the Poaceae (grasses). In Asian rice (Oryza sativa), inflorescence (panicle) architecture is correlated with yield and grain-quality traits. However, many rice breeders continue to use composite phenotypes in selection pipelines, because measuring complex, branched panicles requires a significant investment of resources. We developed an open-source phenotyping platform, PANorama, which measures multiple architectural and branching phenotypes from images simultaneously. PANorama automatically extracts skeletons from images, allows users to subdivide axes into individual internodes, and thresholds away structures, such as awns, that normally interfere with accurate panicle phenotyping. PANorama represents an improvement in both efficiency and accuracy over existing panicle imaging platforms, and flexible implementation makes PANorama capable of measuring a range of organs from other plant species. Using high-resolution phenotypes, a mapping population of recombinant inbred lines, and a dense single-nucleotide polymorphism data set, we identify, to our knowledge, the largest number of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for panicle traits ever reported in a single study. Several areas of the genome show pleiotropic clusters of panicle QTLs, including a region near the rice Green Revolution gene SEMIDWARF1. We also confirm that multiple panicle phenotypes are distinctly different among a small collection of diverse rice varieties. Taken together, these results suggest that clusters of small-effect QTLs may be responsible for varietal or subpopulation-specific panicle traits, representing a significant opportunity for rice breeders selecting for yield performance across different genetic backgrounds.
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- Samuel Crowell
- Department of Plant Biology (S.C., S.R.M.) and Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics (A.X.F., A.S., Z.W., A.J.G., S.R.M.), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; andDepartment of Information Systems Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, CEP 13083-852 Sao Paulo, Brazil (A.X.F.)
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- Department of Plant Biology (S.C., S.R.M.) and Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics (A.X.F., A.S., Z.W., A.J.G., S.R.M.), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; andDepartment of Information Systems Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, CEP 13083-852 Sao Paulo, Brazil (A.X.F.)
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- Department of Plant Biology (S.C., S.R.M.) and Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics (A.X.F., A.S., Z.W., A.J.G., S.R.M.), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; andDepartment of Information Systems Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, CEP 13083-852 Sao Paulo, Brazil (A.X.F.)
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- Department of Plant Biology (S.C., S.R.M.) and Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics (A.X.F., A.S., Z.W., A.J.G., S.R.M.), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; andDepartment of Information Systems Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, CEP 13083-852 Sao Paulo, Brazil (A.X.F.)
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- Department of Plant Biology (S.C., S.R.M.) and Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics (A.X.F., A.S., Z.W., A.J.G., S.R.M.), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; andDepartment of Information Systems Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, CEP 13083-852 Sao Paulo, Brazil (A.X.F.)
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- Department of Plant Biology (S.C., S.R.M.) and Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics (A.X.F., A.S., Z.W., A.J.G., S.R.M.), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; andDepartment of Information Systems Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, CEP 13083-852 Sao Paulo, Brazil (A.X.F.)
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Lanning NJ, Looyenga BD, Kauffman AL, Niemi NM, Sudderth J, DeBerardinis RJ, MacKeigan JP. A mitochondrial RNAi screen defines cellular bioenergetic determinants and identifies an adenylate kinase as a key regulator of ATP levels. Cell Rep 2014; 7:907-17. [PMID: 24767988 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.03.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2013] [Revised: 03/01/2014] [Accepted: 03/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Altered cellular bioenergetics and mitochondrial function are major features of several diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and neurodegenerative disorders. Given this important link to human health, we sought to define proteins within mitochondria that are critical for maintaining homeostatic ATP levels. We screened an RNAi library targeting >1,000 nuclear-encoded genes whose protein products localize to the mitochondria in multiple metabolic conditions in order to examine their effects on cellular ATP levels. We identified a mechanism by which electron transport chain (ETC) perturbation under glycolytic conditions increased ATP production through enhanced glycolytic flux, thereby highlighting the cellular potential for metabolic plasticity. Additionally, we identified a mitochondrial adenylate kinase (AK4) that regulates cellular ATP levels and AMPK signaling and whose expression significantly correlates with glioma patient survival. This study maps the bioenergetic landscape of >1,000 mitochondrial proteins in the context of varied metabolic substrates and begins to link key metabolic genes with clinical outcome.
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- Nathan J Lanning
- Laboratory of Systems Biology, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Biology, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49546, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Biology, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Biology, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Medical Center Research Institute, and McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-8502, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Medical Center Research Institute, and McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-8502, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Biology, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA.
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Liu YT, Jia HM, Chang X, Cheng WH, Zhao X, Ding G, Zhang HW, Cai DY, Zou ZM. Metabolic pathways involved in Xin-Ke-Shu protecting against myocardial infarction in rats using ultra high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2014; 90:35-44. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2013.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2013] [Revised: 10/31/2013] [Accepted: 11/02/2013] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Wong ACN, Dobson AJ, Douglas AE. Gut microbiota dictates the metabolic response of Drosophila to diet. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 217:1894-901. [PMID: 24577449 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.101725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Animal nutrition is profoundly influenced by the gut microbiota, but knowledge of the scope and core mechanisms of the underlying animal-microbiota interactions is fragmentary. To investigate the nutritional traits shaped by the gut microbiota of Drosophila, we determined the microbiota-dependent response of multiple metabolic and performance indices to systematically varied diet composition. Diet-dependent differences between Drosophila bearing its unmanipulated microbiota (conventional flies) and experimentally deprived of its microbiota (axenic flies) revealed evidence for: microbial sparing of dietary B vitamins, especially riboflavin, on low-yeast diets; microbial promotion of protein nutrition, particularly in females; and microbiota-mediated suppression of lipid/carbohydrate storage, especially on high sugar diets. The microbiota also sets the relationship between energy storage and body mass, indicative of microbial modulation of the host signaling networks that coordinate metabolism with body size. This analysis identifies the multiple impacts of the microbiota on the metabolism of Drosophila, and demonstrates that the significance of these different interactions varies with diet composition and host sex.
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- Adam C-N Wong
- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853, USA Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853, USA
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Cobb JN, DeClerck G, Greenberg A, Clark R, McCouch S. Next-generation phenotyping: requirements and strategies for enhancing our understanding of genotype-phenotype relationships and its relevance to crop improvement. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2013; 126:867-87. [PMID: 23471459 PMCID: PMC3607725 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-013-2066-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 238] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2012] [Accepted: 02/08/2013] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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More accurate and precise phenotyping strategies are necessary to empower high-resolution linkage mapping and genome-wide association studies and for training genomic selection models in plant improvement. Within this framework, the objective of modern phenotyping is to increase the accuracy, precision and throughput of phenotypic estimation at all levels of biological organization while reducing costs and minimizing labor through automation, remote sensing, improved data integration and experimental design. Much like the efforts to optimize genotyping during the 1980s and 1990s, designing effective phenotyping initiatives today requires multi-faceted collaborations between biologists, computer scientists, statisticians and engineers. Robust phenotyping systems are needed to characterize the full suite of genetic factors that contribute to quantitative phenotypic variation across cells, organs and tissues, developmental stages, years, environments, species and research programs. Next-generation phenotyping generates significantly more data than previously and requires novel data management, access and storage systems, increased use of ontologies to facilitate data integration, and new statistical tools for enhancing experimental design and extracting biologically meaningful signal from environmental and experimental noise. To ensure relevance, the implementation of efficient and informative phenotyping experiments also requires familiarity with diverse germplasm resources, population structures, and target populations of environments. Today, phenotyping is quickly emerging as the major operational bottleneck limiting the power of genetic analysis and genomic prediction. The challenge for the next generation of quantitative geneticists and plant breeders is not only to understand the genetic basis of complex trait variation, but also to use that knowledge to efficiently synthesize twenty-first century crop varieties.
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- Joshua N. Cobb
- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
- Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
- Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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Innocenti P, Chenoweth SF. Interspecific divergence of transcription networks along lines of genetic variance in Drosophila: dimensionality, evolvability, and constraint. Mol Biol Evol 2013; 30:1358-67. [PMID: 23519314 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Change in gene expression is a major facilitator of phenotypic evolution. Understanding the evolutionary potential of gene expression requires taking into account complex systems of regulatory networks, the structure of which could potentially bias evolutionary trajectories. We analyzed the evolutionary potential and divergence of multigene expression in three well-characterized signaling pathways in Drosophila, the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MapK), the Toll, and the insulin receptor/Foxo (InR/Foxo or InR/TOR) pathways in a multivariate quantitative genetic framework. Gene expression data from a natural population of D. melanogaster were used to estimate the genetic variance-covariance matrices (G) for each network. Although most genes within each pathway exhibited significant genetic variance, the number of independent dimensions of multivariate genetic variance was fewer than the number of genes analyzed. However, for expression, the reduction in dimensionality was not as large as seen for other trait types such as morphology. We then tested whether gene expression divergence between D. melanogaster and an additional six species of the Drosophila genus was biased along the major axes of standing variation observed in D. melanogaster. In many cases, divergence was restricted to directions of phenotypic space harboring above average levels of genetic variance in D. melanogaster, indicating that genetic covariances between genes within pathways have biased interspecific divergence. We tested whether co-expression of genes in both sexes has also biased the pattern of divergence. Including cross-sex genetic covariances increased the degree to which divergence was biased along major axes of genetic variance, suggesting that the co-expression of genes in males and females can generate further constraints on divergence across the Drosophila phylogeny. In contrast to patterns seen for morphological traits in vertebrates, transcriptional constraints do not appear to break down as divergence time between species increases, instead they persist over tens of millions of years of divergence.
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- Paolo Innocenti
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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