Project description:<p>Microbial life in soil is fueled by dissolved organic matter (DOM) that leaches from the litter layer. It is well known that decomposer communities adapt to the available litter source, but it remains unclear if they functionally compete or synergistically address different litter types. Therefore, we decomposed beech, oak, pine and grass litter from two geologically distinct sites in a lab-scale decomposition experiment. We performed a correlative network analysis on the results of direct infusion HR-MS DOM analysis and cross-validated functional predictions from 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and with DOM and metaproteomic analyses. Here we show that many functions are redundantly distributed within decomposer communities and that their relative expression is rapidly optimized to address litter-specific properties. However, community changes are likely forced by antagonistic mechanisms as we identified several natural antibiotics in DOM. As a consequence, the decomposer community is specializing towards the litter source and the state of decomposition (community divergence) but showing similar litter metabolomes (metabolome convergence). Our multi-omics-based results highlight that DOM not only fuels microbial life, but it additionally holds meta-metabolomic information on the functioning of ecosystems.</p>
Project description:Purpose: Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are a common tool utilized in bioproduction and directed genome engineering of CHO cells is of great interest to enhance recombinant cell lines. Until recently, this focus has been challenged by a lack of efficacious, high throughput, and low-cost gene editing modalities and screening methods. In this work, we demonstrate an improved method for gene editing in CHO cells using CRISPR RNPs and characterize the endpoints of Cas9 and ZFN mediated genetic engineering. Methods: Amplicons were first assayed for quality using an Invitrogen Quant-iT dsDNA (Thermo, Cat Q33120) assay and gel electrophoresis to determine DNA concentration and DNA quality. Samples were then used for Sanger sequence based decomposition or processed downstream using NGS. For NGS, libraries were generated using the Illumina TruSeq Nano DNA kit (Illumina, Cat: 20015964). The libraries were sequenced using the Illumina MiSeq platform, with read length of 2x150bp. 4.5Gb of sequencing data was generated per DNA sample. Results: There was a tendency for decomposition to underestimate editing as compared to NGS as the indel size became larger. Despite these results, sequence decomposition was able to reproduce next-generation data in the context of gene editing efficiency across a short amplicon. Conclusions: We took advantage of the differential Indel spectrums induced by both ZFN and CRISPR to validate metrics for assess gene editing and show how deconvolution-based methods, can be utilized in the context of cell line development.
2019-07-20 | GSE134559 | GEO
Project description:Pot experiment of erythromycin fermentation residue, metagenomic sequencing
| PRJNA871234 | ENA
Project description:Raw amplicon data from joint exposure experiment
| PRJNA1123861 | ENA
Project description:Jena Experiment Bacterial Amplicon Data 2016 Sampling
Project description:Genome editing was conducted on a t(3;8) K562 model to investigate the effects of deleting different modules or CTCF binding sites within the MYC super-enhancer. To check mutations after targeting with CRISPR-Cas9 we performed amplicon sequencing using the Illumina PCR-based custom amplicon sequencing method using the TruSeq Custom Amplicon index kit (Illumina). The first PCR was performed using Q5 polymerase (NEB), the second nested PCR with KAPA HiFi HotStart Ready mix (Roche). Samples were sequenced paired-end (2x 250bp) on a MiSeq (Illumina).