ABSTRACT: Non-growing Rhodopseudomonas palustris increases the hydrogen gas yield from acetate by shifting from the glyoxylate shunt to the tricarboxylic acid cycle
Project description:Characterization of post-translational modification of nitrogenase in Rhodopseudomonas palustris strains that produce hydrogen gas constitutively.
Project description:The alphaproteobacterium Paracoccus denitrificans Pd1222 has two different, yet functionally redundant acetyl-CoA assimilation routes: the Ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway (EMCP) and the glyoxylate cycle (GC). The EMPC and the GC each tightly control the balance between catabolism and anabolism by shifting flux away from the oxidation of acetyl-CoA in the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle towards biomass formation. RamB (encoded by Pden_1365), a member of the ScfR family, is a transcriptional regulator in P. denitrificans Pd1222 that controls expression of GC. To analyze the role of RamB in the coordinated regulation of metabolic plasticity, we analyzed the global transcriptome of P. denitrificans Pd1222, as well as the ramB-deletion strain during mid-exponential growth phase on defined minimal medium with acetate or succinate as carbon sources.
Project description:We investigated the physiological changes induced by indoleacetic acid (IAA) treatment in the totally sequenced Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655. We used DNA macroarrays to measure the mRNA levels for all the 4,290 E. coli protein-coding genes and observed that 50 genes (1.1 %) exhibited significantly different expression profiles. In particular, genes involved in the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA), glyoxylate shunt, and amino acid biosynthesis (leucine, isoleucine, valine and proline) were up-regulated, whereas the fermentative adhE gene was down-regulated. To confirm the indications obtained from the macroarray analysis we measured the activity of 33 enzymes involved in the central metabolism and found an activation of the TCA cycle and the glyoxylate shunt. Keywords: treatment
Project description:Transcriptional profiling in Pseudomonas aeruginosa MPAO1 and its glyoxylate shunt gens transposon insertion mutants (aceA and glcB) was perfomed using microarray analysis with or without 1mM PQ treatment. Based on the gene expression, we investigated role of glyoxylate shunt in P. aeruginosa and found out pathway related with glyoxylate shunt under oxidative stress.
