Comparative analysis of gene expression in tea plant (Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze) under low-temperature stress

Low-temperature stress is one of the main factors limiting the distribution and reducing the yield of many subtropical crops, including the tea crop. Efficient breeding to develop frost-tolerant cultivars requires a reliable set of genetic markers for identifying resistance donors, and that is why it is necessary to reveal the specific genetic response in frost-tolerant genotypes in comparison with frost- susceptible ones. In this work, we performed a comparative analysis of the expression of 18 tea genes (ICE1, CBF1, DHN1, DHN2, DHN3, NAC17, NAC26, NAC30, bHLH7, bHLH43, P5CS, WRKY2, LOX1, LOX6, LOX7, SnRK1.1, SnRK1.2, SnRK1.3) under cold and frost conditions in two tea genotypes, tolerant and susceptible. Low-temperature stress was induced by placing the potted plants in cold chambers and lowering the temperature to 0…+2 °С for 7 days (cold stress), followed by a decrease in temperature to –4…–6 °С for 5 days (frost stress). Relative electrical conductivity of leaf was measured in response to the stress treatments, and a significant difference in the frost tolerance of the two tea genotypes was confirmed. Cold exposure did not lead to a change in the electrical conductivity of leaf tissue. On the other hand, frost treatment resulted in increased REC in both genotypes and to a greater extent in the susceptible genotype. Increased expression of all the genes was shown during cold and frost. The genes that were strongly expressed in the tolerant tea genotype were revealed: ICE1, CBF1, DHN2, NAC17, NAC26, bHLH43, WRKY2, P5CS, LOX6, SnRK1.1, SnRK1.3. These genes can be proposed as markers for the selection of frost-tolerance donors in tea germplasm collections. Additionally, it was shown that the tolerant genotype is characterized by an earlier response to stress at the stage of cold acclimation. The study of the expression of the identified genes in different organs of tea plants and in different exposures to low temperature is relevant for further investigations

Epizootic Situation in the Crimean Federal District as Follows from Epidemiological Survey Results, 2014

The territory of the Crimean Peninsula is an endemic one as regards various natural-focal infections. The paper contains the data on epizootiological survey of 8 administrative regions of the Crimean Federal District (CFD). Carried out has been small mammals and Ixodidae ticks census. Identified is their species composition. Performed have been the field samples collection and laboratory studies for the presence of bacterial and viral infection agents. Established is the fact that H. marginatum is a dominating species among the ticks, collected during the spring season, while the house mouse prevails among the small mammals. As for the autumn collection of samples, the dominating species are H. punctata and common vole, respectively. Laboratory investigation results indicate the circulation of the agents of Ku fever, tick-borne spotty fever, Ixodidae tick-borne borreliosis, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, monocytic ehrlichiosis, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and leptospirosis

IL-12Rβ1 Deficiency in Two of Fifty Children with Severe Tuberculosis from Iran, Morocco, and Turkey

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In the last decade, autosomal recessive IL-12Rβ1 deficiency has been diagnosed in four children with severe tuberculosis from three unrelated families from Morocco, Spain, and Turkey, providing proof-of-principle that tuberculosis in otherwise healthy children may result from single-gene inborn errors of immunity. We aimed to estimate the fraction of children developing severe tuberculosis due to IL-12Rβ1 deficiency in areas endemic for tuberculosis and where parental consanguinity is common. METHODS AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We searched for IL12RB1 mutations in a series of 50 children from Iran, Morocco, and Turkey. All children had established severe pulmonary and/or disseminated tuberculosis requiring hospitalization and were otherwise normally resistant to weakly virulent BCG vaccines and environmental mycobacteria. In one child from Iran and another from Morocco, homozygosity for loss-of-function IL12RB1 alleles was documented, resulting in complete IL-12Rβ1 deficiency. Despite the small sample studied, our findings suggest that IL-12Rβ1 deficiency is not a very rare cause of pediatric tuberculosis in these countries, where it should be considered in selected children with severe disease. SIGNIFICANCE: This finding may have important medical implications, as recombinant IFN-γ is an effective treatment for mycobacterial infections in IL-12Rβ1-deficient patients. It also provides additional support for the view that severe tuberculosis in childhood may result from a collection of single-gene inborn errors of immunity

Dipole moments and conformations of 2-(4-pyridyl) ethyl aryl selenides and 2-(4-pyridyl)ethyl aryl sulfones with two nonidentical geminal axes of internal rotation

1. Certain 2-(4-pyridyl)ethyl aryl selenides and 2-(4-pyridyl)ethyl aryl sulfones have been synthesized and their characteristic constants determined. 2. The selenides show structures with trans and gauche C-Py and C-Se fragment orientations, the latter predominant; conformational equilibrium in the sulfones is displaced toward the form with gauche orientation. © 1978 Plenum Publishing Corporation

Dipole moments and conformations of 2-(4-pyridyl) ethyl aryl selenides and 2-(4-pyridyl)ethyl aryl sulfones with two nonidentical geminal axes of internal rotation

1. Certain 2-(4-pyridyl)ethyl aryl selenides and 2-(4-pyridyl)ethyl aryl sulfones have been synthesized and their characteristic constants determined. 2. The selenides show structures with trans and gauche C-Py and C-Se fragment orientations, the latter predominant; conformational equilibrium in the sulfones is displaced toward the form with gauche orientation. © 1978 Plenum Publishing Corporation

Hybridization properties of sequences adjacent to triphosphorylated 5'-ends of nuclear pre-mRNA from mouse Ehrlich carcinoma.

Triphosphorylated 5'-end fragments about 100 nucleotides long were prepared from purified nuclear pre-mRNA using a modified hydroxyapatite method /1/. These fragments as well as fragments of total pre-mRNA of the same size were polyadenylated in vitro by ATP:RNA adenyltransferase and used as templates for the synthesis of [32P] cDNA by reverse transcriptase in the presence of an oligo(dT) primer. The use of cDNA transcribed from the triphosphorylated 5'-end fragments of pre-mRNA (5'-cDNA) and from the total pre-mRNA fragments allows one to calculate the complexity of the 5'-end fraction pre-mRNA and to detect these sequences in polysomal mRNA. Sequences adjacent to 5'-phosphorylated ends of pre-mRNA represent a specific class of sequences with a complexity of about 200 kb. It was also found that about 25% of total pre-mRNA and about a half of sequences adjacent to triphosphorylated 5'-ends are present in polysomal mRNA. A high homology between triphosphorylated 5'-end fragments of pre-mRNA and mRNA sequences may be explained in terms of splicing. Less than 30% of 5'-cDNA hybridized to moderately repetitive DNA while most of them are represented by unique DNA sequences. About 15% of 5'-cDNA contained oligo(dA) sequences originated from oligo(U) in pre-mRNA from which it was transcribed

Le Courrier des spectacles, ou Journal des théâtres

02 juin 17991799/06/02 (N831)