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Measurements of Physiological Stress Responses in C. Elegans
Published on: May 21, 2020
Systematic characterization of hypothetical proteins in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 reveals proteins functionally
Jianjun Qiao1, Mingyang Shao, Lei Chen
1School of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, PR China.
Abstract:
We described here a global detection and functional inference of hypothetical proteins involved in stress response in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. In the study, we first applied an iTRAQ-LC-MS/MS based quantitative proteomics to the Synechocystis cells grown under five stress conditions. The analysis detected a total of 807 hypothetical proteins with high confidence. Among them, 480 were differentially regulated. We then applied a Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis approach to construct transcriptional networks for Synechocystis under nutrient limitation and osmotic stress conditions using transcriptome datasets. The analysis showed that 305 and 467 coding genes of hypothetical proteins were functionally relevant to nutrient limitation and osmotic stress, respectively. A comparison of responsive hypothetical proteins to all stress conditions allowed identification of 22 hypothetical proteins commonly responsive to all stresses, suggesting they may be part of the core stress responses in Synechocystis. Finally, functional inference of these core stress responsive proteins using both sequence similarity and non-similarity approaches was conducted. The study provided new insights into the stress response networks in Synechocystis, and also demonstrated that a combination of experimental "OMICS" and bioinformatics methodologies could improve functional annotation for hypothetical proteins.
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