Project description:A 3 x 2 factorial design was used to elucidate the genome-wide transcriptional response to the deletion of yeast ortholog of Wilson and Menkes disease causing gene; CCC2, at changing copper levels. Homozygous deletion mutant of CCC2, which encodes Cu+2 transporting P-type ATPase required to export copper from the cytosol into the extracytosolic compartment, and the reference strain were cultivated in fully controlled fermenters in duplicates in glucose-rich defined medium containing three different levels of copper. The three different copper concentrations were selected such that; copper deficient condition, which was prepared by excluding the CuSO4.7H2O from the defined medium, low copper or adequate copper concentration, which is the standard amount of copper in defined medium (0.04 ?M) and high copper concentration (0.5 mM), which was able to restore respiration deficiency in ccc2?/ccc2? strain.
Project description:Bacillus subtilis has different response systems to cope with external and internal stressors. In this study, we investigated the effect of phosphosugar stress caused by accumulation of phosphosugars in B. subtilis. To do so, manA, the encoding gene of mannose-6-phosphate isomerase, was deleted in B. subtilis KM0 to construct strain KM642. Next, strains KM0 and KM642 were cultured in LB with 1% mannose and the cell pellets were isolated after 3.5 h of incubation at 37 °C for transcriptome analysis by RNA-Seq. Differential gene expression analysis was performed based on the RNA-Seq data generated by paired end sequencing (2 x 75nt read length) of Illumina TruSeq stranded mRNA-cDNA libraries on Illumina MiSeq system from control strain and manA deletion mutant.
Project description:Phenylethanol-resistant S. cerevisiae mutants were obtained by using evolutionary engineering strategy. Briefly, a chemically mutagenized culture was used as the initial population for the selection procedure. Gradually increasing levels of phenylethanol stress was applied through 56 successive batch cultivations. Individual mutants were selected from the final population. The mutant with the highest phenylethanol resistance could resist up to 3 g/L phenylethanol concentrations. Whole-genome transcriptomic analyses of the phenylethanol-resistant mutant strain and the reference strain were performed by using DNA microarray technology, in the absence of phenylethanol stress.
Project description:Investigation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae phosphate metabolism. Cells starved for phosphate, cells grown with intermediate and high phosphate concentrations, and PHO4 mutant cells examined. Keywords: other
Project description:The purpose of this study was to identify the changes in gene expression that occur in LX-2 human hepatic stellate cells in response to depletion of mannose phosphate isomerase enzymatic activity.