Project description:Capable of using phenol as the sole carbon source to degrade phenol and complete its mineralization; Simultaneously capable of undergoing manganese oxidation process.
Project description:The available energy and carbon sources for prokaryotes in the deep ocean remain still largely enigmatic. Reduced sulfur compounds, such as thiosulfate, are a potential energy source for both auto- and heterotrophic marine prokaryotes. Shipboard experiments performed in the North Atlantic using Labrador Sea Water (~2000 m depth) amended with thiosulfate led to an enhanced prokaryotic dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) fixation.
Project description:Some carboxydotrophs like Rhodospirillum rubrum are able to grow with CO as their sole source of energy using a Carbone monoxide dehydrogenase (CODH) and an Energy conserving hydrogenase (ECH) to perform anaerobically the so called water-gas shift reaction (WGSR) (CO + H2O-> CO2 + H2). Several studies have focused at the biochemical and biophysical level on this enzymatic system and a few OMICS studies on CO metabolism. Knowing that CO is toxic in particular due to its binding to heme iron atoms, and is even considered as a potential antibacterial agent, we decided to use a proteomic approach in order to analyze R. rubrum adaptation in term of metabolism and management of the toxic effect. In particular, this study allowed highlighting a set of proteins likely implicated in ECH maturation, and important perturbations in term of cofactor biosynthesis, especially metallic cofactors. This shows that even this CO tolerant microorganism cannot avoid completely CO toxic effects associated with its interaction with metallic ions.
Project description:Rsf1p is a putative transcription factor required for efficient growth using glycerol as sole carbon source but not for growth on the alternative respiratory carbon source ethanol. We use microarrays to determine the differences in the transcriptional program between the Δrsf1 mutant and the wild type during respiratory growth on glycerol as well as the transition to growth on glycerol as sole carbon source. Keywords: Mutant analysis during timecourse following switching carbon source from dextrose to glycerol
Project description:Compare BF638R gene expression during growth in vivo in a rat tissue cage/artificial abscess model, to cells grown in vitro in minimal defined media with either glucose or mucin glycans as sole carbon/energy source
Project description:To study mixotrophy, it is desirable to have an organism capable of growth in the presence and absence of both organic and inorganic carbon sources, as well as organic and inorganic energy sources. Metallosphaera sedula is an extremely thermoacidophilic archaeon which has been shown to grow in the presence of inorganic carbon and energy source supplements (autotrophy), organic carbon and energy source supplements (heterotrophy), and in the presence of organic carbon and inorganic energy source supplements. The recent elucidation of M. sedula’s inorganic carbon fixation cycle and its genome sequence further facilitate its use in mixotrophic studies. In this study, we grow M. sedula heterotrophically in the presence of organic carbon and energy sources (0.1% tryptone), autotrophically in the presence of inorganic carbon and energy sources (H2 + CO2), and “mixotrophically” in the presence of both organic and inorganic carbon and energy sources (0.1% tryptone + H2 + CO2 ) to characterize the nature of mixotrophy exhibited.
2009-11-01 | GSE14978 | GEO
Project description:Dentrifying bacteria grown on polyhydroxybutarate as sole carbon and energy source
Project description:This project aims on the study of glycerol metabolism in the thermoacidophilic crenarchaeal model organism Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, previously regarded as a non-glycerol utilizer. On the one hand, changes in the proteome of the glycerol-adapted strain Sulfolobus acidocaldarius MW00G upon growth with different concentrations of glycerol (10 mM, 20 mM, and 40 mM) as sole carbon and energy source was investigated. On the other hand, potential interaction partners of the two carbon monoxide dehydrogenase subunit G (CoxG) homologs, Saci_1119 and Saci_2031, were identified by overexpression of C-terminally HA-tagged versions of the two CoxG proteins and subsequent co-immunoprecipitation, thereby aiming to elucidate their potential role as membrane anchors for the glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (G3PDH) from the respective gene cluster.
Project description:We report the application of a high-throughput technique, RNA-seq, to study the transcriptomic pattern of P. putida KT2440 cultures using myristic acid as the sole carbon source at the exponential phase of growth compared with cultures grown with glucose as the sole carbon source. Thus, we can explore the expression of genes involved in fatty acid degradation.
