Investigations

Patients subjected to extended liver resection ((e)PHx) have a high risk to experience postoperative liver dysfunction or even liver failure, especially in case of preexisting liver disease. Our research group QuaLiPerF aims to enhance the understanding of the quantitative and spatial relationship between hepatic perfusion and function in healthy, steatotic and regenerating livers after surgery using a systems medicine approach. This project will focus on assessing the impact of perfusion ...

Within the overarching goal of the research unit QuaLiPerF to gain a data-integrated, multi-scale understanding of the interplay between hepatic perfusion and function and its recovery after extended hepatectomy (ePHx), this subproject (P6) is devoted to experimental MRI investigations in rats. This subproject aims to establish a comprehensive MR imaging toolbox for small animal imaging at 9.4T and to provide MRI-based spatially resolved, multi-parametric quantitative in vivo information on liver ...

Human aortic smooth muscel cells (Thermo Fisher Scientific, C-007-5C, LOT: 2164581) were treated with TGB1 or PDGF/L1B to induce the contractile or synthetic SMC phenotype. As part of a multi-omics analysis, we conducted mass spectrometry to quantify protein levels of cell lysates using a HPLC-ESI-MS/MS system (HPLC=high pressure liquid chromatography, Ultimate 3000 UPLC system; ESI=electrospray ionization) and an Orbitrap Exploris™ 480 mass spectrometer. MS data were analyzed and normalized with ...

Characterization of fatty acid metabolism in Archaea with a demonstration of de novo fatty acid synthesis in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and Haloferax volcanii.

The conditions are Control: Control (no stimulation, no TLR8 inhibition) Inhib: TLR8 inhibition Msm: Methanobrevibacter smithii stimulation Mst: Methanosphaera stadtmanae stimulation Msm_Inhib: Methanobrevibacter smithii stimulation and TLR8 inhibition Mst_Inhib: Methanosphaera stadtmanae stimulation and TLR8 inhibition

The polyphosphate kinase (PPK) of the crenarchaeal organism Sulfolobus acidocaldarius is kinetically characterised and polyphosphate synthesis and degradation in incubations of the enzyme were simulated with a kinetic model.

Illumina RNA Sequencing of human PBMCs of 9 donors stimulated with two archaea, measured after 4 and 24 hours as well as without stimulation after 24 hours as control

The dataset presents mathematical models of the gene regulatory network of the circadian clock, in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The work will be published as Urquiza-Garcia, Molina, Halliday and Millar, title "Abundant clock proteins point to missing molecular regulation in the plant circadian clock", in Molecular Systems Biology, 2025 doi 10.1038/s44320-025-00086-5.

Starting from the U2019.3 and U2020.3 models, this project rescales parameters to match protein levels that were predicted ...

The BENEFIT project is an interdisciplinary eHealth initiative to offer long-term lifestyle support for patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Data collected from BENEFIT patients is heterogeneous and encompasses demographics, observational lifestyle data, self-reported motivation for lifestyle change and physical measurements. Analysing these results can provide new insights into the effects of different intervention strategies used in the cardiac rehabilitation programme on maintaining a ...

Genome-wide association studies with ampicillin resistance as phenotype were conducted on based on variant-call data. A linear regression was performed for MICs and logistic regression was performed based on clinical breakpoint concentrations.

Short Name: T33_MonoterpenoidsFungi Title: Detection of Coccoidea pheromones or precursors in engineered fungi Description: Detection of lavandulol or lavandulyl acetate in different engineered fungi (SxF) lines by GC-MS-MS Phenodata: ./phenodata_20211223.txt pISA Investigation creation date: 2021-12-23 pISA Investigation creator: Sandra Vacas Principal investigator: Ismael Navarro License: CC BY 4.0 Sharing permission: Private Upload to FAIRDOMHub: Yes

Short Name: T32_CandidateGeneExpressionTesting Title: Candidate gene expression and testing Description: The purpose of this investigation is to express transiently candidate genes for Pcitri sex pheromone biosynthesis. This genes could act either as genes catalyzing steps related to the biosynthesis of precursors of the pheromone itself, either for the final steps of the biosynthesis. After expression, the monoterpenoid production function of those genes is checked by GCMS. Phenodata: ...

Short Name: T24_phero Title: Pheromone Content and EAG response Description: Investigate pheromone content and electrophysiological response of target insects to extracts of plants and fungi expressing Lepidoptera pheromones Phenodata: ./phenodata_21Sep21.txt pISA Investigation creation date: 21-Sep-21 pISA Investigation creator: Sandra Vacas Principal investigator: Ismael Navarro License: CC BY 4.0 Sharing permission: Private Upload to FAIRDOMHub: Yes

Short Name: T23_SxF Title: Moth pheromone production in filamentous fungi SxF Description: Demonstration of moth pheromone production in filamentous fungi by solvent extractions of liquid cultures and mycelial biomass and GC-MS/MS analysis. Constitutive and inducible expression of moth pheromones in filamentous fungi Penicillium species will be developed using a dCas9-based copper inducible system. An initial proof of concept will also be performed in P. digitatum using constitutive promoters. ...

Short Name: T22_SxPv2 Title: Sexy Plant version 2: inducible and regulable SxP versions Description: The purpose of this investigation is to optimize the SxP version 1, with a switchable expression and increased compound release. Phenodata: ./phenodata_20210920.txt Principal investigator: Diego Orzaez License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Sharing permission: Private Upload to FAIRDOMHub: Yes Institutions involved: Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Spain; Institute ...

Short Name: T12_CuInducible Title: Production and testing of copper inducible dCas9EV system for moth pheromone production Description: dCas9EV system used to activate the synthetic promoters made in T11 was coupled to a copper-inducible promoter made of CBS repeats and a minimal DFR promoter. Such system will be induced via CUP2 protein, which binds to CBS motif in presence of copper. This cascade-like system was tested for production of the moth pheromone pathway. Phenodata: ./phenodata_20210107.txt ...

Short Name: T11_dCas9SynProm Title: Development of synthetic promoters inducible by dCasEV2.1 system Description: The aim of this work is to design a range of synthetic promoters with negligible basal expression that are activated by using the "dead" Cas9 activation system developed in our lab (dCasEV2.1, Selma et al., 2019). Such tool will then be used for creating synthetic regulatory cascades where the expression of the genes for the pheromone biosynthesis can be controlled by a single dCas9 ...

Short Name: T31_mealybug Title: Mealybug genome and transcriptome analyses Description: Searching for enzymes involved in the mealybug pheromone biosynthesis pathways. These pheromones are known to be released by virgin females. Phenodata: ./phenodata_20190523.txt Featuredata: Principal investigator: Heribert Warzecha, Špela Baebler License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Sharing permission: Private Upload to FAIRDOMHub: Yes

The family of Desulfobacteraceae comprises mtabolically versatile, completely oxidizing, sulfate-reducing bacteria that play an important role in the global carbon- and sulfor-cycles, mainly in the marine realm. In this study, six different species of Desulfobacteraceae were studied by comparative proteogenomics, i.e. Desulfobacula toluolica Tol2, Desulfococcus multivorans 1be1, Desulfonema limicola, Desulfonema magnum, Desulfosarcina variabilis 3be13 and Desulfobacterium autotrophicum ...

Investigation of the regulation of different PGM variants from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803