Project description:To find a promoter upregulated in the presence of rotten meat, we exposed B. subtilis 168 to the volatiles of rotten meat (mixed beef/pork) and performed a microarray comparing it to B. subtilis which was not exposed to the meat. The results where used to build iGEM Groningen 2012s Food Warden, a spoiled meat detector. Find more information at: 2012.igem.org/Team:Groningen
Project description:To find a promoter upregulated in the presence of rotten meat, we exposed B. subtilis 168 to the volatiles of rotten meat (mixed beef/pork) and performed a microarray comparing it to B. subtilis which was not exposed to the meat. The results where used to build iGEM Groningen 2012s Food Warden, a spoiled meat detector. Find more information at: 2012.igem.org/Team:Groningen One condition design; including dye swap, two technical replicates and two experimental replicates
Project description:The processing ability of chicken meat is highly related to its ultimate pH (pHu), which is mainly determined by the amount of glycogen in the muscle at death. The molecular mechanisms involved in variations of those traits for chicken remain to be fully described. For that purpose, two chicken lines were divergently selected on breast meat pHu, i.e. the pHu- and the pHu+ lines. In this study, Chicken Genome Arrays (60 K) were used to compare muscle gene expression profiles of chickens from both lines. The final goal of this experiment is to identify biomarkers of low and high-pHu chicken meat. This study was supported by INRA and the French Ministry of Agriculture through the RFI CASDAR #1309 OPTIVIANDE.
Project description:This project aimed to compare the proteomic profiles between conventional chicken meat and cultured chicken meat produced through cell culture techniques. Proteins were extracted, separated using SDS-PAGE and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE), and identified through mass spectrometry. KEGG pathway enrichment and STRING-based protein-protein interaction network analyses were performed to evaluate metabolic characteristics and structural differences between the groups. Conventional meat exhibited a high abundance of glycolytic and muscle contraction-associated proteins, while cultured meat showed elevated expression of proteins involved in stress response and redox regulation. These datasets provide fundamental insights for improving the quality and ensuring the safety of cultured meat products.