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Hsp101 chaperone is vital for survival of plants under heat stress. We generated transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) lines with extra copies of Hsp101 gene using diverse approaches. Arabidopsis plants transformed with rice Hsp101 cDNA driven by Arabidopsis Hsp101 promoter (IN lines) showed high heat tolerance while the plants transformed with rice Hsp101 cDNA driven by CaMV35S promoter (C lines) were like wild type plants in heat stress response. Transformation of Col-0 plants with 4633 bp Hsp101 genomic fragment (GF lines) from A. thaliana containing both its coding and the regulatory sequence resulted in mostly over-expressor (OX) lines and a few under-expressor (UX) lines of Hsp101. OX lines showed enhanced heat tolerance while the UX lines were overly heat sensitive. In UX lines, silencing of not only Hsp101 endo-gene was noted but also transcript of choline kinase (CK2) was silenced. Previous work established that in Arabidopsis, CK2 and Hsp101 are convergent gene pairs sharing a bidirectional promoter. The elevated AtHsp101 protein amount in most GF and IN lines was accompanied by lowered CK2 transcript levels under HS. We observed increased methylation of the promoter and gene sequence region in UX lines; however, methylation was lacking in OX lines.
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Arabidopsis , Heat-Shock Proteins , Plant Proteins , Thermotolerance , Arabidopsis/metabolism , DNA, Complementary/metabolism , Gene Expression Regulation, Plant , Heat-Shock Proteins/metabolism , Hot Temperature , Plant Proteins/genetics , Plant Proteins/metabolism , Plants, Genetically Modified/genetics , Plants, Genetically Modified/metabolism , Thermotolerance/genetics , Transcription Factors/genetics , Transcription Factors/metabolismABSTRACT
The effects of dietary osmolytes for alleviating osmotic stress and enhancing growth are not well elucidated in fish reared in inland saline water. The present study evaluated the effects of dietary taurine or potassium (K+) individually or in combination on growth, ionic homeostasis, and stress response of GIFT tilapia reared in potassium deficient low saline water (PDLSW, 10 ppt salinity) mimicking inland saline water. Isonitrogenous and isoenergetic diets supplemented with five potassium concentrations (0, 0.3, 0.45, 0.6 and 0.75 %), two taurine (T) concentrations (0.5 and 1.0 %) and two combinations of both (K+ 0.1 % + T 0.5 % and K+ 0.2 % + T 0.5 %) were fed to GIFT juveniles (4.4 ± 0.02 g body weight) and reared in PDLSW for 45 days. The fish fed on the diet fortifying with K+ 0.2 % + T 0.5 % showed the highest growth performance among the controls and other treatment groups. Dietary supplementation had no effects on PDLSW induced increase in osmoregulatory endpoints. The optimum dietary potassium requirement of GIFT reared in PDLSW was 0.57 and 0.599 g/100 g diet. Dietary K+ down-regulated the PDLSW induced expression of NKAa1, AQP1, and ClC2, whereas inhibited taurine-induced up-regulation of AQP1 and CLC2, which is the first report in tilapia. In addition, dietary K+ and taurine modulated antioxidant and metabolic enzyme activities for easing stress and balancing energy requirements. Thus, blending of potassium (0.2 %) and taurine (0.5 %) in the diet appears best to mitigate stress and enhance GIFT growth reared in inland saline water.
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The inhibitory effects of ammonium chloride (NH4Cl) and chlorpromazine hydrochloride on betanodavirus were evaluated on Sahul Indian sea bass kidney (SISK) cell line. The cytotoxicity of different concentrations of NH4Cl (0.1â¯mM, 1â¯mM, 10â¯mM, 100â¯mM and 500â¯mM) and chlorpromazine hydrochloride (1⯵M, 10⯵M, 100⯵M, 200⯵M and 500⯵M) were assessed in SISK cells using different cytotoxic assays. Among the selected concentrations, 0.1â¯mM, 1â¯mM and 10â¯mM of NH4Cl and chlorpromazine hydrochloride at the dose of 1⯵M, 10⯵M and 100⯵M were found to be non-toxic to the SISK cell line and same were chosen for the trials against nodavirus. The presence of nodavirus in the infected cells was confirmed by cytopathic effect (CPE) and RT-PCR (Reverse transcriptase PCR). NH4Cl of 1â¯mM and 10â¯mM, and chlorpromazine hydrochloride of 10⯵M and 100⯵M could successfully inhibit betanodavirus infection in SISK cells, which was confirmed by indirect ELISA and real-time PCR analysis. The result further suggested that the chlorpromazine hydrochloride drug could be more effective in inhibiting the betanodavirus with much lower dose than NH4Cl which was more effective at a higher dose. The present study thus suggested that NH4Cl and chlorpromazine hydrochloride drugs could be successfully used for controlling the nodavirus infection in aquaculture.
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Ammonium Chloride/pharmacology , Antiviral Agents/pharmacology , Chlorpromazine/pharmacology , Drug Evaluation, Preclinical , Nodaviridae/drug effects , Ammonium Chloride/toxicity , Animals , Antiviral Agents/toxicity , Cell Line , Cell Survival/drug effects , Chlorpromazine/toxicity , Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Fishes , Microbial Sensitivity Tests , Nodaviridae/growth & development , RNA, Viral/analysis , RNA, Viral/genetics , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Viral Proteins/analysis , Virus Replication/drug effectsABSTRACT
The anticancer activity of di- and tri-terpenes and other polyphenolic compounds present in tea is already reported. We evaluated the cytotoxic and apoptogenic effect of tea root extract (TRE) and two of its steroidal saponins named as TS1 and TS2, on human cell lines and on cells from leukemic patients. It was found that TRE, TS1 and TS2 significantly decreased cell count and that TRE caused apoptosis, as confirmed morphologically by confocal microscopy and by flow-cytometric analysis using Annexin-V FITC and propidium iodide (PI). Cell count and MTT assay in normal white blood cells (WBC) of healthy volunteers revealed that TRE produced insignificant reduction in cell count and cytotoxicity.