Project description:Carboxylic acids are an attractive biorenewable chemical. Enormous progress has been made in engineering microbes for production of these compounds though titers remain lower than desired. Here we used transcriptome analysis of Escherichia coli during exogenous challenge with octanoic acid (C8) at pH 7.0. This analysis suggests that C8 challenge causes intracellular acidification and membrane damage.
2013-12-10 | GSE53140 | GEO
Project description:Anaerobic digestion of cow manure for the production of medium chain carboxylic acids
| PRJNA1038689 | ENA
Project description:Biochar-assisted amino acids biosynthesis during anaerobic digestion
Project description:Carboxylic acids are an attractive biorenewable chemical. Enormous progress has been made in engineering microbes for production of these compounds though titers remain lower than desired. Here we used transcriptome analysis of Escherichia coli during exogenous challenge with octanoic acid (C8) at pH 7.0. This analysis suggests that C8 challenge causes intracellular acidification and membrane damage. Escherichia coli MG1655 was grown to midlog (OD550 ~0.8) with or without 10 mM octanoic acid (pH=7.0) and the RNA was harvested and prepared for Affymetrix Microarray analysis.
Project description:Enhancing Anaerobic Digestion of Fat, Oil, and Grease (FOG) using Electrically Conductive and Calcium-Rich Waste Materials: A Comparative Performance Analysis
Project description:Naphthenic acids (Nas) are carboxylic acids present in crude oil and classfied as emergent pollutants. The mechanisms underlaying the toxicity of such mixtures are unknown. Changes in gene expression are expected to reflect te teratogenenic effects of the exposure to NAs. The objective of these experiments is to determine the changes in the gene expression profile of Silurana (Xenopus) tropicalis embryos due to the exposition to two NA mixtures.
Project description:The current study was designed to determine if dietary fatty acid concentration and composition affects the development and progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Male SD rats were overfed diets low (5%) or high (70%) fat diets via total enteral nutrition where the fat source was olive oil (monounsaturated), or corn oil (polyunsaturated). Overfeeding 5% corn oil produced little steatosis relative to feeding 5% olive oil. This was associated with lower fatty acid synthesis and reduced SREBP-c signaling in the 5% corn oil group. Overfeeding 70% fat diets increased steatosis and lead to increased liver necrosis in the 70% corn oil but not olive oil group. Increased injury after feeding polyunsaturated fat diets was linked to peroxidizability of hepatic free fatty acids and triglycerides and appearance of peroxidaized lipid products HETES and HODES previously linked to clinical nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.