Project description:The methylotrophic, thermotolerant yeast Ogataea parapolymorpha (formerly Hansenula polymorpha) is an industrially relevant production host and exhibits a respiratory metabolism in the presence of oxygen. It possesses a branched respiratory chain with multiple entry points for NADH-derived electrons that differ in complexity and degree of energy conservation: proton-translocating respiratory Complex I and three putative alternative NADH dehydrogenases. To investigate the physiological importance of Complex I, wild type O. parapolymorpha and a Complex I-disrupted mutant were cultured in glucose-grown bioreactor experiments in batch, chemostat and retentostat cultivations which allowed quantitative characterization of the strains over a wide range of growth rates in the presence and absence of excess substrate.
Project description:Transcriptome profiling analysis of the Hansenula polymorpha MET4 gene deletion strain have been carried out to obtain comprehensive information on the HpMet4p-mediated regulatory networks in association with the cadmium (Cd) detoxification and sulfur regulation in H. polymorpha.
Project description:Transcriptome profiling analysis of the Hansenula polymorpha MET4 gene deletion strain have been carried out to obtain comprehensive information on the HpMet4p-mediated regulatory networks in association with the cadmium (Cd) detoxification and sulfur regulation in H. polymorpha. Total RNA samples were collected from H. polymorpha wild type, and HpMET4 deletion strain, under sulfur starvation or Cd (0.6 mM) stress conditions. The differential fluorescence intensities of each RNA sample were measured after labeling with Cy3 or Cy5. For all analyses, we performed dye swapping experiments to avoid dye bias. Thus, four intensity values were generated for each ORF and averaged for analysis.
