水稻条纹病毒胁迫下的水稻全基因组表达谱

水稻条纹叶枯病由水稻条纹病毒(Rice stripe virus, RSV)引起,对我国水稻生产危害严重.为了明确RSV侵染对水稻基因表达谱的影响,采用Affymetrix水稻全基因组芯片对RSV接种后出现条纹症状第7天的武育粳3号水稻病叶和相应的健康叶片进行了全基因组表达谱分析,得到3 517个差异基因,其中2 002个表达上调,1 515个表达下调.根据TIGR数据库注释(http://www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/osa1/)和MIPS基因功能分类标准(http://mips.gsf.de/projects/funcat)将差异基因归类为15个功能类别,多数差异基因与植物防御、信号传导及蛋白质、碳水化合物的代谢相关,一些转录因子的表达也发生了明显的变化.代谢途径分析表明,RSV侵染后磷酸戊糖途径、类黄酮合成途径和芸苔素合成途径的相关基因表达明显增强,赤霉素合成途径相关基因的表达受到了抑制.     

Gene expression modifications in the liver caused by binge drinking and S-adenosylmethionine feeding. The role of epigenetic changes

Chronic ethanol ingestion, achieved by feeding ethanol at a constant rate using intragastric tube feeding, alters the expression of genes in the liver. This is done by epigenetic mechanisms, which depend on the blood alcohol levels at the time of killing. However, acute bolus feeding of ethanol changes gene expression without lasting epigenetic changes. This occurs with histone 3 methylation and acetylation modifications. The gene expression response to an acute bolus of ethanol might be modified by feeding S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe), a methyl donor. In the present study, rats were given a bolus of ethanol (6 g/kg body weight (bw), SAMe (1 g/kg bw), ethanol + SAMe, or isocaloric glucose. The group of rats (n = 3) were killed at 3 and 12 h post bolus, and gene microarray analysis was performed on their liver cells. SAMe reduced the 3 h blood ethanol levels and increased the ALT levels at 3 h. Venn diagrams showed that alcohol changed the expression of 646 genes at 3 h post bolus and 586 genes at 12 h. SAMe changed the expression of 1,012 genes when fed with ethanol 3 h post ethanol bolus and 554 genes at 12 h post ethanol bolus. SAMe alone changed the expression of 1,751 genes at 3 h and 1,398 at 12 h. There were more changes in gene expression at 3 h than at 12 h post ethanol when ethanol alone was compared to the dextrose control. The same was true when SAMe was compared to SAMe + ethanol. Ethanol up regulated gene expression in most functional pathways at 3 h. However, when SAMe was fed with ethanol at 3 h, most pathways were down regulated. At 12 h, however, when ethanol was fed, the pathways were half up regulated and half down regulated. The same was true when SAMe + ethanol was fed. The expression of epigenetically important genes, such as BHMT and Foxn3, was up regulated 3 h post alcohol bolus. At 3 h, SAMe down regulated the expression of genes, such as BHMT, Mat2a, Jun, Tnfrs9, Ahcy 1, Tgfbr1 and 2, and Pcaf. At 12 h, the insulin signaling pathways were half down regulated by ethanol, which was partly prevented by SAMe. The MAPK pathway was up regulated by ethanol, but SAMe did not prevent this. In conclusion, profound changes in gene expression evolved between 3 h and 12 post ethanol bolus. SAMe down regulated these changes in gene expression at 3 h, and less so at 12 h.