Molecular Biology and Genetics / Moleküler Biyoloji ve Genetik

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    Pros and Cons of Plant Nuclear Protein Enrichment
    (Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry Brno, 2016) Svetlakova, Anna; Cerna, Hana; Novak, Jan; Şelale, Hatice
    Nuclear proteome contains important regulatory proteins. To improve the detection of these proteins, Percoll gradient-based fractionation techniques have been developed and optimized. However, owing to the ever increasing sensitivity of identification methods based on liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry, the time and material consuming fractionation methods may no longer be necessary. Here, we show that a Percoll-based nuclear protein fractionation of tomato leaf proteome increased the number of detected proteins, but at least some nuclear proteins were lost or depleted in the process.
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    Citation - WoS: 18
    Citation - Scopus: 29
    Cry1ac-Mediated Resistance To Tomato Leaf Miner (tuta Absoluta) in Tomato
    (Springer Verlag, 2017) Şelale, Hatice; Dağlı, Fatih; Mutlu, Nedim; Doğanlar, Sami; Frary, Anne
    Tomato leaf miner (Tuta absoluta) is a major pest of tomato in regions with hot climates such as South America and the Mediterranean. This insect feeds on almost every part of the plant and forms galleries while feeding on the plant’s inner tissues. Thus, it can cause plant death and is costly and difficult to control with chemical sprays. In this study, we transferred a modified Bacillus thuringiensis cry1Ac gene to tomato plants via Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation. Introduction of the cry1Ac gene to the tomato genome was confirmed with PCR and Southern blot analysis in 12 independent events. Insertion sites of the transgene in the tomato genome were determined with TAIL-PCR (thermal asymmetric interlaced polymerase chain reaction) for four selected transgenic lines. Cry1Ac gene expression was verified at both the transcriptional and translational levels, with RT-qPCR and Western blot analyses, respectively. Expression of the Cry1Ac protein in tomato resulted in T. absoluta mortality rates of 38–100% depending on transgenic line. In addition, gallery formation was reduced in 57–100% of the transgenic plants. Moreover, it was found that a single copy of the gene in the hemizygous condition is sufficient to confer tolerance to leaf miner. This is the first reported development of tomato plants resistant to T. absoluta. These transgenic plants are promising for development of commercial tomato cultivars resistant to leaf miner, which will limit the use of environmentally harmful chemicals for control of this pest.
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    Citation - WoS: 24
    Citation - Scopus: 26
    Development of Est-Ssr Markers for Diversity and Breeding Studies in Opium Poppy
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2013) Şelale, Hatice; Çelik, İbrahim; Gültekin, Visam; Allmer, Jens; Doğanlar, Sami; Frary, Anne
    All publicly available opium poppy expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences, totalling 20 885, were assembled into unigenes and examined for simple sequence repeats (SSRs). Nearly 19% of the 14 957 unigenes contained SSRs with 4% harbouring more than one SSR. Average density of the SSRs was 1 SSR per 3.6 kb of non-redundant EST sequence. Trinucleotide SSRs were most frequently identified (39%), and many of the most prevalent motifs were AT-rich. Flanking primers were designed for 86% of the SSRs and 67 primer pairs were tested on 37 opium poppy accessions and seven related species. All markers were transferable to the related species. Polymorphism information content (PIC) values for the markers were intermediate for comparisons within opium poppy (average of 0.27) and slightly higher for comparisons across species (average of 0.29). The markers were found to be useful for diversity analysis as they successfully distinguished among Turkish opium poppy accessions and land races.
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    Citation - WoS: 4
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    Mining Frequent Patterns From Microarray Data
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2011) Yıldız, Barış; Şelale, Hatice
    The rapid development of computers and increasing amount of collected data made data mining a popular analysis tool. Data mining research is interrelated to many fields and one of the most important ones is bioinformatics. Among many techniques, mining association rules or frequent patterns is one of the most studied techniques in computer science and it is applicable to bioinformatics. Association analysis of gene expressions may be used as decision support mechanism for finding genes that are in same pathway. In this work, publicly available yeast microarray data has been analyzed using an efficient frequent pattern mining algorithm Matrix Apriori and frequently co-over-expressed genes have been identified. © 2011 IEEE.
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    Citation - WoS: 7
    Citation - Scopus: 6
    Water-Soluble Antioxidant Potential of Melon Lines Grown in Turkey
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2012) Şelale, Hatice; Şığva, Hasan Özgür; Çelik, İbrahim; Doğanlar, Sami; Frary, Anne
    The antioxidant potential of 42 melon (Cucumis melo) lines including six cultivars grown in Turkey was assessed by measuring total water-soluble antioxidant capacity, phenolic and vitamin C contents. The lines showed significant variability for all three antioxidant parameters with breeding lines having higher antioxidant capacity and phenolic content than some popular cultivars. Different types of melons also showed significantly different antioxidant potentials. Thus, galia and ananas types showed a higher mean antioxidant capacity and phenolic content than the other tested types (yuva, kislik, canary, and charentais). Correlation analysis between antioxidant parameters showed a significant correlation between water-soluble antioxidant capacity and phenolic content. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.