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Measuring the effects of hypoxia on transcription in Caulobacter crescentus

ABSTRACT: To test the effects of hypoxia on transcription in Caulobacter crescentus, we cultured cells in a New Brunswick bioreactor under controlled conditions. Prior to innoculation, the medium was bubbled with laboratory air at maximum flow and stirred at 300 rpm for 2 hours. After this period, the medium was considered saturated with air and the oxygen probe was set to 100%. Untreated cultures were grown in air-saturated complex medium at 30 degrees C to OD660=0.5 at pH=7 (continuous air-bubbling; 300 rpm stirring). At cell harvest in aerated culture, the dissolved oxygen probe remained above 98%. To subject cells to hypoxia, culture at OD660=0.5, pH=7 was sparged continuously with nitrogen gas; the dissolved oxygen level as measured by the gas probe dropped from 100% to 0% over the course of 5 minutes under this condition. Hypoxic cultures were continually stirred and bubbled with nitrogen for another 20 minutes after the dissolved gas probe read 0%. Hypoxic cells were then harvested for RNA isolation. Four independent biological samples are included in this study. Two batches of cells were subjected to 20 minutes of hypoxia in a bioreactor; two cell batches were highly aerated.

ORGANISM(S): Caulobacter vibrioides

SUBMITTER: Sean Crosson

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-21127 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Interaction specificity, toxicity and regulation of a paralogous set of ParE/RelE-family toxin-antitoxin systems.

Fiebig Aretha A Castro Rojas Cyd Marie CM Siegal-Gaskins Dan D Crosson Sean S

Molecular microbiology 20100512 1

Toxin-antitoxin (TA) gene cassettes are widely distributed across bacteria, archaea and bacteriophage. The chromosome of the alpha-proteobacterium, Caulobacter crescentus, encodes eight ParE/RelE-superfamily toxins that are organized into operons with their cognate antitoxins. A systematic genetic analysis of these parDE and relBE TA operons demonstrates that seven encode functional toxins. The one exception highlights an example of a non-functional toxin pseudogene. Chromosomally encoded ParD a ...[more]

PMID: 20487277

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Measuring the effects of hypoxia on transcription in Caulobacter crescentus

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Interaction specificity, toxicity and regulation of a paralogous set of ParE/RelE-family toxin-antitoxin systems.

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