Project description:Analysis of transcriptional response to UV irradiation in two related crenarchaea, Sulfolobus solfataricus and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.
Project description:Hydroxyurea (HU) is toxic to Sulfolobus cells. To address the basis of the HU toxicity, we performed transcriptome analyses on untreated cells and cells following exposure to 5 mM HU for 4 hours.
Project description:Experimentally mapped transcriptome structure of Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 by hybridizing total RNA (including RNA species <200 nt) to genome-wide high-density tiling arrays (60 mer probes tiled every 25 nt).
Project description:This study provides novel insights into archaeal stress response. The effect of nutrient limitation on the thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius was monitored over time on transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolic level. To our knowledge, this linkage of transcriptome, proteome, metabolome analysis makes this study a pioneer study to elucidate cellular stress response triggered by nutrient limitation. We further connect previously identified pH and salt stress responsive genes (1) with genes regulated in starvation and suggest that they constitute the core of stress responsive genes active under multiple stress sources.
Project description:Transcriptome sequencing was carried out on an Illumina HiSeq platform to investigate CRISPR-Cas and DNA repair systems by Csa3b in Sulfolobus islandicus Rey15A. We compared the differently expressed genes in Sulfolobus islandicus Rey15A strain with csa3a overexpression vs. Sulfolobus islandicus Rey15A strain carrying an empty expression vector,We find thatcmr-α (SiRe_0890 ~ SiRe_0895) and cmr-β (SiRe_0597 ~ SiRe_0603)、the DNA double strand break (DSB)repair genes, including nurA, rad50, mre11, and herA (SiRe_0061 ~ SiRe_0064), as well as two subunits of DNA polymerase II (SiRe_0615 and SiRe_0617) that function in DNA repair, were significantly up-regulated. Our data indicated that the Csa3b regulator couples transcriptional activation of cmr genes, DNA repair genes.