Project description:Gene expression analysis of four different treatments of Aspergillus nidulans. reference line (A.nidulans), line A (A.nidulans + Streptomyces rapamycinicus), line B (A.nidulans + orsellinic acid), line C (A.nidulans + lecanoric acid)
Project description:Gene expression analysis of four different treatments of Aspergillus nidulans. reference line (A.nidulans), line A (A.nidulans + Streptomyces rapamycinicus), line B (A.nidulans + orsellinic acid), line C (A.nidulans + lecanoric acid) For each of these treatments 2 biological replicates were made.
Project description:Mining of fungal genomes uncovered their great potential for the production of novel secondary metabolites (SMs). However most of them stay silent under standard laboratory cultivation conditions. Co-cultivation of fungi with organism that occur in their natural habitat has shown to be trigger for the activation of such silent SM gene clusters. Recently, we showed that the cultivation of Aspergillus nidulans with the bacterium Streptomyces rapamycinicus leads to the activation of the orsellinic acid gene cluster. Hence we decided to study this interaction further to gain insight into the regulation of SM gene clusters and more specifically to study the chromatin remodelling network actuve upon co-cultivation of the two organisms. This study gives novel insight into the regulation of the orsellinic acid gene cluster and the interaction of the two organisms. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of mapping the chromatin landscape of microbial interactions, making this study a role model for the analysis of similar systems.
Project description:Aspergillus nidulans competes in its natural environment with other microorganisms. It has been known that the bacterium Streptomyces rapamycinicus induces the production of Orsellinic acid in A. nidulans and we found that the major trigger of this induction is Polaramycin B produced by S. rapamycinicus. Here we show the transcriptome of A. nidulans following treatment with 0.5µg/ml Polaramycin B after 30 minutes and 3 hours.
Project description:Mitomycin C is a DNA crosslinking agent. This experiment was carried out to determine the effect of Mitomycin C on genome wide transcription in Streptomyces venezuelae NRRL B65442.
Project description:Streptomyces tsukubaensis NRRL 18488 is the preferred strain for the production of immunosuppressant agent tacrolimus (FK506). To take full advantage of its genetic potential, systematic understanding of secondary metabolism and related regulatory mechanisms is highly demanded. Here, to this end, we complete its 7.9 Mbp linear genome sequence followed by integrating with multi-omics measurements. With accurate reannotation of FK506 gene cluster, total 2,389 transcription start sites were determined by using primary transcriptome analysis. Integrated analysis of transcriptome and translatome data revealed that secondary metabolic gene clusters, especially FK506 cluster, undergo translational control with decrease in translational efficiency according to the growth. Furthermore, we demonstrated that SD motif has little correlation with ribosome pausing but AT-rich codons delay the translational elongation. Strong ribosome pausing was observed in the rare TTA codon in FK506 cluster. This comprehensive genome-scale analysis provides insight to the translational regulation of secondary metabolism in S. tsukubaensis.
