Project description:Dunaliella salina Bardawil (also known as Dunaliella bardawil) is an extremophilic, unicellular green alga from the Chlorophyte lineage. D. salina is found in hypersaline environments where it can tolerate extremes of heat, light, pH, and up to saturating concentrations of salt. The D. salina Bardawil isolate (UTEX LB 2538) was found in a salt pond near the Bardawil Lagoon on the Sinai peninsula in 1976. This isolate of D. salina is the richest natural source of beta-carotene, a highly valuable commercial product. This accession includes an RNA-Seq analysis of D. salina Bardawil cultures grown in iron-replete (1.5 µM) or iron-deficient (0 µM) media.
Project description:The halotolerant algae Dunaliella salina is a good single-cell model for studying plant adaptation to high salinity. We found 151 salinity-responsive proteins were involved in multiple signaling and metabolic pathways upon palmella formation. The patterns of protein accumulation exhibited changes, including dynamics of cytoskeleton and cell membrane curvature, accumulation and transport of exopolycsccharides, photosynthesis and energy supplying (i.e. photosystem II stability and activity, cyclic electron transport, photorespiration, and C4 pathway), nuclear/chloroplastic gene expression regulation and protein processing, reactive oxygen species homeostasis, and salt signaling transduction.