Project description:Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1 was grown in CM media, at 37oC in a waterbath with agitation of 125 rpm under constant light. Analysis of transcriptional changes during growth, in addition to mapping of transcriptome structure under the same conditions, provided interesting insights about regulatory logic within prokaryotic coding regions.
Project description:Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1 was grown in CM media, at 37oC in a waterbath with agitation of 125 rpm under constant light. Analysis of transcriptional changes during growth, in addition to mapping of transcriptome structure under the same conditions, provided interesting insights about regulatory logic within prokaryotic coding regions. Samples were collected at different cell densities, from OD ~0.2 to OD ~5.0. 2 biological replicates were conducted. For each sample, a dye-swap experiment was performed.
Project description:Total RNA hybridizations of Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1 total RNA versus a strain overexpressing TFBd were compared to verify the transcriptome landscape changes. Comparison with TFBd binding sites localized using ChIP-chip data and MeDiChI algorithm (Reiss et al, 2008) allowed observation that TF-binding in the middle of coding sequences can also result in transcription initiation or termination internal to a single annotated protein-coding gene.
