Project description:Bacillus methanolicus MGA3, which has a low tolerance for 5-aminovalerate. To investigate the transcriptional response of Bacillus methanolicus to 5-aminovalerate transcriptomic analysis by differential RNA-Seq in the presence and absence of 5AVA was perfromed. In detail: B. methanolicus cultures were grown in MVcM or MVcMY media containing 200 mM methanol supplemented with and without 50 mM 5AVA, respectively. Cells were harvested in the mid log phase at an OD600 of 0.6 and isolation of total RNA isolation was performed individually for each cultivation condition. Isolated RNA samples from B. methanolicus MGA3 were used in biological triplicates for the cDNA library preparation prior to sequencing. Ribo-Zero rRNA Removal Kit (Bacteria) from Illumina (San Diego, CA, USA) was used to remove the ribosomal RNA molecules from the isolated total RNA. Removal of rRNA was checked by Agilent RNA Pico 6000 kit on Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent Technologies, Böblingen, Germany). RNA was free of detectable rRNA. Preparation of cDNA libraries were performed according to the manufacturer’s instructions of TruSeq stranded mRNA Kit (Illumina, San Diego, USA). Subsequently, each cDNA library was sequenced on a HiSeq1500 (2 x 75nt PE rapid v2) Sequencer system (Illumina, San Diego, USA).
Project description:A total gene expression approach was applied to study the methylotrophic nature of B. methanolicus by comparing the gene expression in bacteria grown methylotropic compared to non-methylotrophic. Genes of interest with different gene expression were quantified in the same RNA samples by real-time PCR, confirming the results found in the microarray experiment. Genes of special interest that are expressed higher when grown methylotrophic, were the RuMP pathway genes located on the pBM19. Bacillus methanolicus was grown in minimal media with either methanol or mannitol as carbon source. The experiment was preformed in triplicate, with bacterial cultures grown on 3 different days.
Project description:Bacillus methanolicus is a Gram-positive, thermophilic, methanol-utilizing bacterium. As a facultative methylotroph, B. methanolicus is also known to utilize d-mannitol, d-glucose and, as recently discovered, sugar alcohol d-arabitol. While metabolic pathways for utilization of methanol, mannitol and glucose are known, catabolism of arabitol has not yet been characterized in B. methanolicus. In this work we present the elucidation of this hitherto uncharted pathway. In order to confirm our predictions regarding genes coding for arabitol utilization, we performed differential gene expression analysis of B. methanolicus MGA3 cells grown on arabitol as compared to mannitol via transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq). We identified a gene cluster comprising eight genes that was up-regulated during growth with arabitol as a sole carbon source. The RNA-seq results were subsequently confirmed via qRT-PCR experiments. The transcriptional organization of the gene cluster identified via RNA-seq was analyzed and it was shown that the arabitol utilization genes are co-transcribed in an operon that spans from BMMGA3_RS07325 to BMMGA3_RS07365.
