Four days old rice calli were selected to grow 324h under spaceflight controls, 1g-flight controls and 1g-ground controls.
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View SamplesOsbZIP58 is a regulator of starch synthesis in rice endosperm. T-DNA insertion null mutants of this gene showed a white belly phenotype indicating an altered starch composition and content.
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View SamplesThe young panicles 2 cm length were used for expression analysis in well watered control and drought stressed treatment. The panicle samples from biological replicates of six rice varieties were obtained in three independent experiments. The expression profiles were generated using Affymetrix rice genome arrays.
Comparative Analysis of Expression Profiles of Panicle Development among Tolerant and Sensitive Rice in Response to Drought Stress.
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View SamplesWe use genetic manipulations of regulators representing different pathways to examine whether transcriptomes progressively resemble dietary restriction when multiple regulators are perturbed.
A Systems Approach to Reverse Engineer Lifespan Extension by Dietary Restriction.
Specimen part
View SamplesUnraveling the mechanisms underlying early neural differentiation of ESCs is crucial to the cell-based therapies of neurodegenerate diseases. Neural fate acquisition is proposed to be controlled by a default mechanism, for which the molecular regulation is not well understood. In this study, we investigated the functional roles of Mediator Med23 in pluripotency and lineage commitment of embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Unexpectedly we found that, despite the largely unchanged pluripotency and self-renewal of ESCs, Med23-depletion rendered the cells prone to neural differentiation in different differentiation assays. Knockdown of other Mediator subunit, Med1 or Med15, did not alter the neural differentiation of ESCs; and Med15 knockdown selectively inhibited endoderm differentiation, suggesting the specificity of cell fate control by distinctive Mediator subunits. Gene profiling revealed that Med23-depletion attenuated the BMP signaling in ESCs. Mechanistically, MED23 modulated Bmp4 expression by controlling the activity of ETS1 that is involved in the Bmp4 promoter-enhancer communication. Interestingly, Med23 knockdown in zebrafish embryos also enhanced the neural development at early embryogenesis, which could be reversible by coinjection of bmp4 mRNA. Taken together, our study reveals an intrinsic, restrictive role of MED23 in early neural development, thus providing new molecular insights for neural fate determination.
Mediator Med23 deficiency enhances neural differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells through modulating BMP signaling.
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View SamplesDietary restriction (DR) is the most powerful natural means to extend lifespan. Here we obtain temporally resolved transcriptomes during calorie restriction and intermittent fasting in Caenorhabditis elegans, and find that early and late responses involve metabolism and cell cycle/DNA damage, respectively.
A Systems Approach to Reverse Engineer Lifespan Extension by Dietary Restriction.
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A Systems Approach to Reverse Engineer Lifespan Extension by Dietary Restriction.
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View SamplesThe receptor-like kinases (RLKs) plays critical roles in signal transduction through sensing the extracellular signals and activating the downstream signal transduction by phosphorylating their targets. Up to now, there are only a few RLKs have been functionally identified.
Global analysis of expression profiles of rice receptor-like kinase genes.
Specimen part
View SamplesPlant regeneration could be achieved via formation of a pluripotent cell mass termed callus, nature of which is a group of fast-dividing root primordium cells. However, mechanisms that strictly control the stem cell fate transition in regeneration of callus remain elusive. Here we show that the Arabidopsis ISWI type chromatin remodelers specifically promote the second-step cell fate transition from root founder cells to root primordium cells in the leaf-to-callus transition.
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Specimen part
View SamplesThe Arabidopsis thaliana Imitation Switch (AtISWI) subfamily of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling factors play essential roles in plant development. Here we show that the DDT domain transcription factor RINGLET (RLT) form a complex with AtISWI. RLT1 physically interacts with CHR11 in yeast cells. Single mutants rlt1-1 and rlt2-1 show no obvious developmental defects, while the rlt1-1 rlt2-1 double mutant phenocopies the AtISWI mutant chr11-1 chr17-1. In addtion, the RLT-ISWI complex selectively represses SEPALLATA, FRUITFULL and SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CO 1, but not AGAMOUS and PISTILLATA in leaves.
Imitation Switch chromatin remodeling factors and their interacting RINGLET proteins act together in controlling the plant vegetative phase in Arabidopsis.
Specimen part
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