Project description:The marine obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium Thalassolituus oleivorans MIL-1 metabolises a broad range of aliphatic hydrocarbons almost exclusively as carbon and energy sources. We used LC-MS/MS shotgun proteomics to identify proteins involved in aerobic alkane degradation during growth on medium- (n-C14) or long-chain (n-C28) alkanes.
Project description:Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals different adaptation mechanisms for degradation of very-long chain and normal-long chain alkanes in Dietzia sp. DQ12-45-1b
Project description:The yeast strain Moniliella spathulata SBUG-Y 2180 was isolated from oil-contaminated soil at the Tengiz oil field in the Atyrau region of Kazakhstan on the basis of its unique ability to use crude oil and its components as the sole carbon and energy source. This yeast used a large number of hydrocarbons as substrates (more than 150), including n-alkanes with chain lengths ranging from C10 to C32, monomethyl- and monoethyl-substituted alkanes (C9 – C23), n-alkylcyclo alkanes with alkyl chain lengths from 3 to 24 carbon atoms as well as substituted monoaromatic and diaromatic hydrocarbons. Metabolism of this huge range of hydrocarbon substrates produced a very large number of aliphatic, alicyclic and aromatic acids. 51 of these were identified by GC/MS analyses. This is the first report of the degradation and of the formation of such a large number of compounds by a yeast. Inoculation of barley seeds with M. spathulata SBUG-Y 2180 had a positive effect on shoot and root development of plants grown in oil-contaminated sand, pointing towards potential applications of the yeast in bioremediation of polluted soils.
Project description:Draft genome of Syntrophomonas zehnderi – an obligate syntrophic bacterium degrading long chain fatty acids in co-culture with Methanobacterium formicicum
Project description:Transcripitonal profiling of Saccharomyces cerevisiae treated with 2% n-alkanes vs untreatment Multiple condition experiment, S. cerevisiae treated with n-alkanes (n-nonane, n-decane, n-undecane, n-dodecane, respectively) for 24hrs or 48hrs, compared to control (those without treatment)
Project description:Cell lines were generated by transfecting NS0 myeloma cells with a single vector which contained the genes for the heavy and light chain of the antibody anti-CD38, and also the selectable marker glutamine synthetase. After two rounds of limiting dilution cloning, long-term continuous culture was performed on two cell lines (4H8 and 4G3) to assess the stability of recombinant antibody production during periods of extended culture. Microarray analysis was performed on RNA samples extracted during log phase of growth at the start of long-term culture and after approximately one month.
