Project description:The fermented and distilled Chinese alcoholic beverage strong flavor baijiu (SFB) gets its characteristic flavor during fermentation in cellars lined with pit mud. Microbes in the pit mud produce many key precursors of flavor esters. The over 20 year maturation time of natural pit mud have promoted attempts to produce artificial pit mud (APM) with shorter maturation time. However, knowledge on the molecular basis of APM microbial dynamics and associated functional variation during SFB brewing is limited, and the role of this variability in high quality SFB production remains poorly understood. We studied APM maturation in new cellars till the fourth brewing batch using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, real-time quantitative PCR and function prediction based on the sequencing results, and metaproteomics and metabolomics techniques. The results provide insight into global APM prokaryotic dynamics and their role in SFB production, which will be helpful for further optimization of APM culture technique and improvement of SFB quality.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE12358: Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 wild-type fermentation time course GSE12359: Clostridium beijerinckii BA101 mutant fermentation time course Refer to individual Series
Project description:Previously, we performed DNA array-based transcriptomic analysis of Clostridium acetobutylicum biofilm adsorbed onto fibrous matrix in batch fermentation. Here, to further shed light on the transcriptomic modulation of maturing Clostridium acetobutylicum biofilm, we performed the DNA array-based transcriptomic analysis in repeated-batch fermentation. Significant time course changes in expression levels were observed for the genes involved in amino acid metabolism, oligopeptide ABC transporter, nitrogen fixation, and various other processes.