Project description:Thermococcus kodakarensis preferentially utilizes amino acids as carbon and energy sources in the presence of elemental sulfur as a terminal electron acceptor, while it can assimilate and grow on starch or pyruvate using proton as a terminal acceptor, generating hydrogen in the absence of elemental sulfur. SurR is a transcriptional regulator controlling hydrogen and elemental sulfur metabolism. To identify the genes that are under the regulation of Tk-SurR, we investigated the transcriptional profiling of Tk-SurR deletion strain grown in the presence of elemental sulfur at 85˚C by comparing with the host strain, KU216.
