Transcriptome analysis identifies stem cells and immune related genes in the cnidarian Hydractinia echinata [Elektronische Ressource] / presented by Jorge Soza Ried

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• Publié par: ruprecht-karls-universitat_heidelberg
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 32
• Langue: English
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Transcriptome analysis identifies
stem cells and immune related genes in the cnidarian
Hydractinia echinata
 
 


 

 
 

Dissertation
submitted to the
Combined Faculties for the Natural Sciences and for Mathematics
of the Ruperto-Carola University of Heidelberg, Germany
for the degree of
Doctor of Natural Sciences



 



 
 




Jorge Soza Ried
2009


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 

Dissertation
submitted to the
Combined Faculties for the Natural Sciences and for Mathematics
of the Ruperto-Carola University of Heidelberg, Germany
for the degree of
Doctor of Natural Sciences














 



 

 

Presented by
Jorge Soza Ried
Born in Santiago de Chile
Oral examination:





Transcriptome analysis identifies
stem cells and immune related genes in the cnidarian
Hydractinia echinata

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Referees: Prof. Dr. Werner A. Müller

PD. Dr. Stefan Wiemann

Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments 
I wish to express my greatest gratitude to Dr. Jörg Hoheisel for giving me the opportunity to
be part of his Functional Genome Analysis group. I am deeply thankful for his inspiration and
guidance, for the scientific discussions and especially for his friendship, patience and support
during difficult moments.

I am sincerely thankful to Prof. Dr. Marcus Frohme for his good advice and guidance,
tolerance and continuous help. Thanks for being there not only as a supervisor but also as a
friend and to encourage me to realize this interesting project.

I would like to acknowledge Dr. Uri Frank for his unconditionally support, scientific guidance
and discussion. Thanks for being such a helpful supervisor and for all the suggestions which
substantially improved my work.

I wish to thank Professor Dr. Werner A. Müller for his explanation of Hydractinia’s
fascinating world, for helping me in my mitomycin experiments, for his continuous
constructive remarks and for his time to supervise and evaluate this thesis.

I am also grateful to Dr. Stefan Wiemann, for his help and valuable critical comments which
certainly improved this work. Thanks for the time that you spent to read and evaluate this
thesis.

I am tempted to individually thank all my friends and close colleagues Achim Stephan, Sarah
Schreiber, Sarah Engelhart, Linda Linke, Yasser Riazalhosseini, Amin Moghaddasi, Ole
Brandt, Brahim Mali, Rafael Queiroz, Gustave Simo, Christian Busold, Achim Friedrich,
Andrea Bauer, Marc Dauber, Anette Jacob, Christoph Schroeder, Michaela Schanne, Sandeep
Botla, Mahmoud Youns, Marita Schrenk, Kurt Fellenberg, Karl-Heinz Glatting, Coral del
Val, Agnes Hotz-Wagenblatt and all the Functional Genome Analysis group. I thank all of
you for being a great support during these years and a great team to work with. Thanks for
your help in experiments, protocols, discussions and for all the great moments that we shared.
I would also like to thank my dear friends James Robeson, Franz Schmitting, Jean Grisouard,
Tewfik Miloud, Caroline Ronzaud, Claudio Diema, Otto Mannherz and Zoran Popovic for
your friendship and for being always there with an open hand and a smile.

Acknowledgments
I wish to thank Dr. Hans Bode and the team of the University of Washington for carrying out
the sequencing of the ESTs.

I would like to thank my brothers Cristobal and Cristian, and my sister in law Tati, for their
friendship, sympathy, support and unconditionally love. I would like to dedicate this thesis to
my mother and father. I miss you so much, especially my father who couldn’t see the end of
this process but he always believed in me. I admire the strength of my Mom, who despite of
the distance always supported and understood me. You were excellent parents and I hope that
I will be such a good parent to my daughter.

Finally, I would like to thank my wife Eva and Nora, my little daughter. Eva, there are no
words to thank you for being like you are, for your support, encouragement, beauty and love.
Nora, thanks for your sweet look, your smile and the little “middle-night” cries, but most to
encourage me even more to improve myself.
 

Contents
Contents 
 Abbreviations ......................................................................................................... i
Abstract ................................................................................................................. iv 
Zusammenfassung ................................................................................................ vi 
1.  Introduction .................................................................................................... 1 
1.1  Biological aspects ........................................................................................................ 1 
1.1.1.  Cnidarians and genomics ..................................................................................... 1 
1.1.1.1.  The phylum Cnidaria ........................................................................................ 1 
1.1.1.2.  Sequencing in Cnidaria2 
1.1.2.  Hydractinia echinata as a model system .............................................................. 4 
1.1.2.1.  Cnidarian model organisms .............................................................................. 4 
1.1.2.2.  The hydroid Hydractinia echinata ................................................................... 4 
1.1.3.  Stem cells ............................................................................................................. 6 
1.1.3.1.  Metazoan stem cells .......................................................................................... 6 
1.1.3.2.  Cnidarian stem cells7 
1.1.3.3.  Hydractinia i-cell population ............................................................................ 8 
1.1.4.  Innate immunity ................................................................................................. 10 
1.1.4.1. une system in cnidarians .............................................................. 11 
1.1.4.2.  Allorecognition in Hydractinia echinata ........................................................ 12 
1.2  Technical aspects ....................................................................................................... 14 
1.2.1.  Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) ...................................................................... 14 
1.2.2.  Searchable databases15 
1.2.3.  Microarray technology ....................................................................................... 16 
1.2.3.1.  cDNA microarray experimental settings17 
1.2.3.2.  Processing of microarray data ........................................................................ 19 
1.3  Aims of the project .................................................................................................... 21 
1.3.1.  General aims: ...................................................................................................... 21 
1.3.2.  Specific aims21 
2.  Materials and Methods ................................................................................. 22 
2.1  Materials .................................................................................................................... 22 
2.1.1.  Chemicals and reagents ...................................................................................... 22 
2.1.2.  Solutions, buffers and media .............................................................................. 24 
2.1.2.1.  Solutions and buffers24 
2.1.2.2.  Solutions for bacteria culture .......................................................................... 25 
2.1.2.3.  Solutions for staining Hydractinia i-cells ....................................................... 25 
2.1.2.4.  Solutions for the microarrays experiments ..................................................... 26 
2.1.3.  Enzymes ............................................................................................................. 26 
2.1.4.  Ladders and oligonucleotides ...............................................................