Expression of the Arabidopsis vacuolar H+-pyrophosphatase gene AVP1 in peanut to improve drought and salt tolerance

Huaqin Sun,Qiang Gu,Sundaram Kuppu,Li Sun,Xunlu Zhu,Neelam Mishra,Rongbin Hu,Guoxin Shen,Junling Zhang,Yizheng Zhang,Longfu Zhu,Xianlong Zhang,Mark Burow,Paxton Payton,Hong Zhang 한국식물생명공학회 2013 Plant biotechnology reports Vol.7 No.3

The Arabidopsis gene AVP1 encodes an H?-pyrophosphatase that functions as a proton pump at thevacuolar membranes, generating a proton gradient acrossvacuolar membranes, which serves as the driving force formany secondary transporters on vacuolar membranes suchas Na?/H?-antiporters. Overexpression of AVP1 couldimprove drought tolerance and salt tolerance in transgenicplants, suggesting a possible way in improving drought andsalt tolerance in crops. The AVP1 was therefore introducedinto peanut by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Analysis of AVP1-expressing peanut indicated that AVP1-overexpression in peanut could improve both droughtand salt tolerance in greenhouse and growth chamberconditions, as AVP1-overexpressing peanuts producedmore biomass and maintained higher photosynthetic ratesunder both drought and salt conditions. In the field, AVP1-overexpressing peanuts also outperformed wild-type plantsby having higher photosynthetic rates and producing higheryields under low irrigation conditions.

Expression of the Arabidopsis vacuolar $H^+$-pyrophosphatase gene AVP1 in peanut to improve drought and salt tolerance

Qin, Hua,Gu, Qiang,Kuppu, Sundaram,Sun, Li,Zhu, Xunlu,Mishra, Neelam,Hu, Rongbin,Shen, Guoxin,Zhang, Junling,Zhang, Yizheng,Zhu, Longfu,Zhang, Xianlong,Burow, Mark,Payton, Paxton,Zhang, Hong 한국식물생명공학회 2013 Plant biotechnology reports Vol.7 No.3

The Arabidopsis gene AVP1 encodes an $H^+$-pyrophosphatase that functions as a proton pump at the vacuolar membranes, generating a proton gradient across vacuolar membranes, which serves as the driving force for many secondary transporters on vacuolar membranes such as $Na^+/H^+$-antiporters. Overexpression of AVP1 could improve drought tolerance and salt tolerance in transgenic plants, suggesting a possible way in improving drought and salt tolerance in crops. The AVP1 was therefore introduced into peanut by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Analysis of AVP1-expressing peanut indicated that AVP1-overexpression in peanut could improve both drought and salt tolerance in greenhouse and growth chamber conditions, as AVP1-overexpressing peanuts produced more biomass and maintained higher photosynthetic rates under both drought and salt conditions. In the field, AVP1-overexpressing peanuts also outperformed wild-type plants by having higher photosynthetic rates and producing higher yields under low irrigation conditions.

An Efficient and Secure Authentication Scheme with Session Key Negotiation for Timely Application of WSNs

Jiping Li,Yuanyuan Zhang,Lixiang Shen,Jing Cao,Wenwu Xie,Yizheng,Shouyin Liu 한국인터넷정보학회 2024 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.18 No.3

For Internet of Things, it is more preferred to have immediate access to environment information from sensor nodes (SNs) rather than from gateway nodes (GWNs). To fulfill the goal, mutual authentication scheme between user and SNs with session key (SK) negotiation is more suitable. However, this is a challenging task due to the constrained power, computation, communication and storage resources of SNs. Though lots of authentication schemes with SK negotiation have been designed to deal with it, they are still insufficiently secure and/or efficient, and some even have serious vulnerabilities. Therefore, we design an efficient secure authentication scheme with session key negotiation (eSAS2KN) for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) utilizing fuzzy extractor technique, hash function and bitwise exclusive-or lightweight operations. In the eSAS2KN, user and SNs are mutually authenticated with anonymity, and an SK is negotiated for their direct and instant communications subsequently. To prove the security of eSAS2KN, we give detailed informal security analysis, carry out logical verification by applying BAN logic, present formal security proof by employing Real-Or-Random (ROR) model, and implement formal security verification by using AVISPA tool. Finally, computation and communication costs comparison show the eSAS2kN is more efficient and secure for practical application.

Multi-scale Local Difference Directional Number Pattern for Group-housed Pigs Recognition

( Weijia Huang ),( Weixing Zhu ),( Zhengyan Zhang ),( Yizheng Guo ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2021 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.15 No.9

In this paper, a multi-scale local difference directional number (MLDDN) pattern is proposed for pig identification. Firstly, the color images of individual pig are converted into grey images by the most significant bits (MSB) quantization, which makes the grey values have better discrimination. Then, Gabor amplitude and phase responses on different scales are obtained by convoluting the grey images with Gabor masks. Next, by calculating the main difference of local edge directions instead of traditionally edge information, the directional numbers of Gabor amplitude and phase responses are encoded. Finally, the block histograms of the encoded images are concatenated on each scale, and the maximum pooling is adopted on different scales to avoid the high feature dimension. Experimental results on two pigsties show that MLDDN impressively outperforms the other widely used local descriptors.

Gene Expression Analysis of Phanerochaete chrysosporium During the Transition Time from Primary Growth to Secondary Metabolism

Mingfeng Jiang,Xiao Li,Liang Zhang,Hong Feng,Yizheng Zhang 한국미생물학회 2009 The journal of microbiology Vol.47 No.3

In order to identify the secondary metabolism-related genes of Phanerochaete chrysosporium growing under pure O2 and nitrogen-limited conditions, 2322 ESTs fragments originated from two suppression-subtractive libraries were analyzed using the cDNA microarray technique. Ten significantly upregulated and 22 significantly downregulated genes were identified in the 72 h cultured mycelia RNA samples (secondary metabolism). According to qPCR, 16 out of the 32 genes were expressed differently in secondary metabolism. Transcripts of secondary metabolism up-regulation genes exhibited homologies to aryl-alcohol dehydrogenase (SSh1554), ABC transporter gene (SSH624), chitinase (SSH963), heat shock protein (SSH1193), catalase (SSH317), cytochrome P450 (SSH331), glucosamine-6-phosphate isomerase (SSH611), and alkyl hydroperoxide reductase (SSH362) genes. Ninety-three genes could be classified by Eukaryotic Orthologous Groups (KOG). Among the genes assigned a function, gene expression patterns were different in both secondary metabolism and primary metabolism. In the group of “Cellular Processes and Signaling,” most of the genes were from the primary metabolism library. On the other hand, genes from the secondary metabolism library were found mainly in the “Information Storage” and “Processing and Poorly Characterized” groups. Based on the KOG functional assignments, six genes belong to the ubiquitin system, and all of them were from primary metabolism phase. The presence of the H2O2-relevant genes suggested that parts of the genes expressed in 72 h might be involved in the ligninolytic process during secondary metabolism of P. chrysosporium.

Cloning and Expression of amyE Gene from Bacillus subtilis in Zymomonas mobilis and Direct Production of Ethanol from Soluble Starch

Guang-Jun Wang,Zhong-Shan Wang,Yong-Wei Zhang,Yizheng Zhang 한국생물공학회 2012 Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering Vol.17 No.4

Two proven secretion signal zmo130 and zmo331 native to Zymomonas mobilis were fused to the N terminal of α-amylase from Bacillus subtilis and transformed into 5 different strains of Z. mobilis separately. It was found that the signal zmo130 could direct the extracellular secretion of the expressed α-amylase with high activity, but zmo331 could not. Fermentation experiments demonstrated that the recombinant Z. mobilis CICC 10225(p130A) exhibited the highest level of ethanol production, which is nearly 50% of the theoretical yield of ethanol from soluble starch,but another recombinant Z. mobilis ATCC 31821(p130A)took the shortest fermentation time of approximately 3days, with the second high level of ethanol yield. The recombined strains in our study could be an important target for the following genetic engineering of next amylase in order to hydrolyze starch completely.

Transcriptome analysis reveals the effects of grafting on sweetpotato scions during the full blooming stages

Changhe Wei,Ming Li,Jia Qin,Yunfan Xu,Yizheng Zhang,Haiyan Wang 한국유전학회 2019 Genes & Genomics Vol.41 No.8

Background Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) is a hexaploid plant and generally most genotypes do not flower at all in subtropics. Heterografting was carried out between sweetpotato cultivar ‘Xushu 18’ and Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil). With sweetpotato as ‘scion’ and I. nil as ‘rootstock’, sweetpotato was induced flowering in the autumn. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying sweetpotato responses to grafting, especially during the full blooming stages. Objectives To investigate the poorly understood molecular responses underlying the grafting-induced phenotypic processes in sweetpotato at full anthesis. Methods In this study, to explore the transcriptome diversity and complexity of sweetpotato, PacBio Iso-Seq and Illumina RNA-seq analysis were combined to obtain full-length transcripts and to profile the changes in gene expression of five tissues: scion flowers (SF), scion leaves (SL), scion stems (SS), own-rooted leaves (OL) and own-rooted stems (OS). Results A total of 138,151 transcripts were generated with an average length of 2255 bp, and more than 72% (100,396) of the transcripts were full-length. During full blooming, to examine the difference in gene expression of sweetpotato under grafting and natural growth conditions, 7905, 7795 and 15,707 differentially expressed genes were detected in pairwise comparisons of OS versus SS, OL versus SL and SL versus SF, respectively. Moreover, differential transcription of genes associated with anthocyanin biosynthesis, light pathway and photosynthesis, ethylene signal transduction pathway was observed in scion responses to grafting. Conclusion Our study is useful in understanding the molecular basis of grafting-induced flowering in grafted sweetpotatoes, and will lay a foundation for further research on sweetpotato breeding in the future.

RadioCycle: Deep Dual Learning based Radio Map Estimation

Yi Zheng,Tianqian Zhang,Cunyi Liao,Ji Wang,Shouyin Liu 한국인터넷정보학회 2022 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.16 No.11

The estimation of radio map (RM) is a fundamental and critical task for the network planning and optimization performance of mobile communication. In this paper, a RM estimation method is proposed based on a deep dual learning structure. This method can simultaneously and accurately reconstruct the urban building map (UBM) and estimate the RM of the whole cell by only part of the measured reference signal receiving power (RSRP). Our proposed method implements UBM reconstruction task and RM estimation task by constructing a dual U-Net-based structure, which is named RadioCycle. RadioCycle jointly trains two symmetric generators of the dual structure. Further, to solve the problem of interference negative transfer in generators trained jointly for two different tasks, RadioCycle introduces a dynamic weighted averaging method to dynamically balance the learning rate of these two generators in the joint training. Eventually, the experiments demonstrate that on the UBM reconstruction task, RadioCycle achieves an F1 score of 0.950, and on the RM estimation task, RadioCycle achieves a root mean square error of 0.069. Therefore, RadioCycle can estimate both the RM and the UBM in a cell with measured RSRP for only 20% of the whole cell.

Enhancement of Immunotherapeutic Effects of HPV16E7 on Cervical Cancer by Fusion with CTLA4 Extracellular Region

Yi Zheng,Yijuan Zhang,Yuandong Ma,Jun Wan,Chaofan Shi,Laiqiang Huang 한국미생물학회 2008 The journal of microbiology Vol.46 No.6

Cervical cancer is caused by infection by high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV), especially HPV16. Limitations in current treatments of cervical cancers call for the development of new and improved immunotherapies. This study aims at investigating the efficacy of a novel vaccine consisting of modified HPV 16E7 fused with human cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4). The regions in HPV16 E7 gene associated with its transformation and CTL-enhanced response were modified; the resultant HPV16mE7 was fused with extracellular region of CTLA4 to generate HPVm16E7-eCTLA4 fusion protein. Binding of this fusion protein to B7 molecules expressed on antigen presenting-cells (APCs) was demonstrated. C57BL/6 (H-2b) mice immunized with low dose of the fusion protein (10 μg) produced higher titer antibody and stronger specific CTL response, and expressed higher levels of IFN-γ and IL-12, compared with those immunized with HPVm16E7 only or admixture of HPVm16E7 and CTLA4, or PBS; and were protected from lethal dose tumor challenge. Tumor growth was retarded and survival prolonged in mouse models with the fusion protein treatment. Our results demonstrate that fusion of HPV16 E7 with eCTLA4 targeting APCs resulted in enhanced immunity, and that this fusion protein may be useful for improving the efficacy of immunotherapeutic treatments of cervical cancer and other HPV16 infection-associated tumors.