多组学前沿技术专刊序言

后基因组时代,基因组学、转录组学、蛋白质组学及代谢组学等技术应用日趋广泛,功能注释成为生命科学研究的中心任务,多组学整合分析成为全面解析生物学机理的主要手段。本专刊邀请了国内多组学领域的相关专家学者介绍了基因组学、转录组学、蛋白质组学及代谢组学等领域最新进展和应用成果,收录了相关文章28篇,以供从事多组学研究的科研工作者参考。     

多组学分析在昆虫滞育中的应用

组学技术将生物的相关问题分别展现在基因、蛋白质和代谢物等不同层次水平上,已成为解读生命过程的重要工具。本文分别从转录组学、蛋白质组学、代谢组学以及组学间的联合应用等方面概括总结了组学技术在昆虫滞育研究中的应用情况,阐述了以转录组学、蛋白质组学和代谢组学为代表的多组学技术在昆虫滞育调控分子机制中取得的重要成果,并针对当前研究现状,对昆虫滞育中组学技术应用的前景和局限性进行了总结和展望,以期为昆虫滞育调控分子机制的研究提供参考依据。     

Zebrafish as a model for systems biology

Zebrafish offer a unique vertebrate model for research areas such as drug development, disease modeling and other biological exploration. There is significant conservation of genetics and other cellular networks among zebrafish and other vertebrate models, including humans. Here we discuss the recent work and efforts made in different fields of biology to explore the potential of zebrafish. Along with this, we also reviewed the concept of systems biology. A biological system is made up of a large number of components that interact in a huge variety of combinations. To understand completely the behavior of a system, it is important to know its components and interactions, and this can be achieved through a systems biology approach. At the end of the paper we present a concept of integrating zebrafish into the systems biology approach.     

生物组学在污染环境微生物修复研究中的应用

随着分子生物学、生物信息学和各种理化检测技术的发展,特别是人类基因组计划成功实施以来,基因组学研究取得了重大突破与进展。而包括转录组学、蛋白组学和代谢组学在内的后基因组学也相继出现,并被广泛应用在环境微生物学的各个研究领域。本文主要概述了当前基因组学、转录组学、蛋白质组学和代谢组学在污染环境生物修复研究中的最新研究进展,分析比较了各组学的优势与不足,同时结合本课题组的主要研究方向探讨了各生物组学在赤潮生消过程和有机污染物降解机理等研究中的应用。     

Cold stress and acclimation – what is important for metabolic adjustment?

As sessile organisms, plants are unable to escape from the many abiotic and biotic factors that cause a departure from optimal conditions of growth and development. Low temperature represents one of the most harmful abiotic stresses affecting temperate plants. These species have adapted to seasonal variations in temperature by adjusting their metabolism during autumn, increasing their content of a range of cryo‐protective compounds to maximise their cold tolerance. Some of these molecules are synthesised de novo. The down‐regulation of some gene products represents an additional important regulatory mechanism. Ways in which plants cope with cold stress are described, and the current state of the art with respect to both the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and crop plants in the area of gene expression and metabolic pathways during low‐temperature stress are discussed.     

菌根真菌与兰科植物互作的组学研究进展

兰科植物因其具有丰富的物种多样性和重要的社会经济价值,多年来一直是植物学及生态学界的重点研究对象.菌根真菌对兰科植物的种子萌发、营养吸收和种群动态等多个方面都具有十分重要的作用,因而近年来受到越来越多的关注.探究菌根真菌与兰科植物互作的内在机制是目前兰科菌根研究的一大热点领域,同时也为兰科植物野生资源保护和种群恢复提供...     

组学技术评价转基因农作物的非预期效应

安全性评价是转基因农作物商品化应用的必要环节。组学技术能在转录物、蛋白质、代谢物水平上对转基因农作物进行无偏倚的安全性评价。文章综述了近10年来应用转录组学、蛋白质组学和代谢物组学技术评价转基因农作物非预期效应的研究进展, 结果表明在转基因农作物非预期变异中, 环境因素(种植地点和季节)和基因型差异比转基因本身的影响更大。     

The Role of Circadian Clocks in Metabolic Disease

The circadian clock is a highly conserved timing system, resonating physiological processes to 24-hour environmental cycles. Circadian misalignment is emerging as a risk factor of metabolic disease. The molecular clock resides in all metabolic tissues, the dysfunction of which is associated with perturbed energy metabolism. In this article, we will review current knowledge about molecular mechanisms of the circadian clock and the role of clocks in the physiology and pathophysiology of metabolic tissues.     

生物钟基因研究进展

昼夜节律是以大约24 h为周期波动的生物现象.这些节律包括血压、体温、激素水平、血中免疫细胞的数量、睡眠觉醒周期循环等.基因水平上的昼夜节律研究还只是刚起步,介绍不同物种控制昼夜行为的共同基因(如period 、timless 、clock基因等)的研究进展,特别是一些有关调控昼夜节律基因的转录因子的研究.同时讨论果蝇和人类生物钟调节的共同分子机制.