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Series GSE4023 Query DataSets for GSE4023
Status Public on Mar 17, 2006
Title Membrane-associated transcripts in Arabidopsis; their isolation...
Organism Arabidopsis thaliana
Experiment type Expression profiling by array
Summary Membrane-associated, integral membrane and secreted proteins are of key importance in many cellular processes. For most of the 28 952 predicted proteins in Arabidopsis, the actual subcellular localisation has not been demonstrated experimentally. So far, their potential membrane-association has been deduced from algorithms that predict transmembrane domains and signal peptides. However, the comprehensiveness and accuracy of these algorithms is still limited. The majority of membrane-associated and secreted proteins is synthesised on membrane-bound polysomes. Therefore, the isolation and characterisation of mRNA associated with membrane-bound polysomes offers an experimental tool for the genome-wide identification of these proteins. Here we describe an efficient method to isolate mRNA from membrane-bound polysomes and report on the validation of the method to enrich for transcripts encoding membrane-associated and secreted proteins. The sensitivity and reproducibility of the isolation method was investigated by DNA microarray analysis. Pearson correlations between transcript levels obtained from three replicate isolations showed that the method is highly reproducible. A significant enrichment for mRNAs encoding proteins containing predicted transmembrane domains and signal peptides was observed in the membrane-bound polysomal fraction. In this fraction, 301 transcripts were classified by gene ontologies as ‘cellular component unknown’, and potentially encode previously unrecognised secreted or membrane-associated proteins.
Keywords: mRNA localisation, mRNA fractionation, predict protein localisation
 
Overall design Membrane-bound (MBP) and free polysomes (FP) were isolated in triplicate from one batch of two weeks old aboveground parts of Arabidopsis seedlings. Each combination of isolated MBP and FP was applied to 4 microarrays, of which two were dyeswapped, giving a total of 12 arrays.
 
Contributor(s) de Jong M, van Breukelen B, Wittink F, Menke F, Weisbeek P, Van den Ackerveken G
Citation(s) 16640606
Submission date Jan 12, 2006
Last update date Mar 16, 2012
Contact name Mark de Jong
Organization name University of Amsterdam
Street address Kruislaan 318
City Amsterdam
ZIP/Postal code 1098 SM
Country Netherlands
 
Platforms (1)
GPL3357 CATMA version 2
Samples (12)
GSM91993 Membrane-bound polysomes (MBP) versus free polysomes (FP) - Fractionation 1 - Slide 1/4
GSM91994 Membrane-bound polysomes (MBP) versus free polysomes (FP) - Fractionation 1 - Slide 2/4
GSM91995 Membrane-bound polysomes (MBP) versus free polysomes (FP) - Fractionation 2 - Slide 1/4
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BioProject PRJNA95125

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