Project description:Nitrate-reducing iron(II)-oxidizing bacteria are widespread in the environment contribute to nitrate removal and influence the fate of the greenhouse gases nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide. The autotrophic growth of nitrate-reducing iron(II)-oxidizing bacteria is rarely investigated and poorly understood. The most prominent model system for this type of studies is enrichment culture KS, which originates from a freshwater sediment in Bremen, Germany. To gain insights in the metabolism of nitrate reduction coupled to iron(II) oxidation under in the absence of organic carbon and oxygen limited conditions, we performed metagenomic, metatranscriptomic and metaproteomic analyses of culture KS. Raw sequencing data of 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, shotgun metagenomics (short reads: Illumina; long reads: Oxford Nanopore Technologies), metagenome assembly, raw sequencing data of shotgun metatranscriptomes (2 conditions, triplicates) can be found at SRA in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA682552. This dataset contains proteomics data for 2 conditions (heterotrophic and autotrophic growth conditions) in triplicates.
Project description:Autotrophic conversion of CO2 to value-added biochemicals has received considerable attention for the sustainable route to replace the fossil fuels. Particularly, anaerobic acetogenic bacteria are naturally capable of reducing CO2 or CO to various metabolites. To fully utilize their biosynthetic potential, systemic understanding of the metabolic network with the transcriptional and translational regulation of the corresponding genes is highly demanded. Here, we complete a genome sequence of Eubacterium limosum ATCC8466 in a circular form of 4.4 Mb, followed by integrating genome-scale measurements of its transcriptome and translatome. Interestingly, the transcriptionally abundant genes encoding the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway were regulated at translational level with decreased translation efficiency (TE). To understand the regulation, the primary transcriptome was augmented, which determined 1,458 transcription start sites (TSS) and 1,253 5’-untranslated regions (5′UTR). The data supports that under the autotrophic condition the TE of genes for the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway and the energy conservation system were regulated by 5′UTR secondary structure. In addition, it was illustrated that the strain reallocates protein synthesis and energy economically, focusing more on translation of energy conservation system rather than on carbon metabolism under autotrophic growth. Thus, our results provide potential route for strain engineering to enhance syngas fermenting capacity.