Project description:Investigation of the expression profiling of the ethanologenic Zymomonas mobilis in response to ethanol stress. A six chip study using total RNA recovered from three separate wild-type cultures of Zymomonas mobilis ATCC31821 and three separate cultures of a triple treated with 5% ethanol. Each chip measures the expression level of 1800 genes from Zymomonas mobilis ATCC31821 and the associated plasmids, with three-fold technical redundancy.
Project description:Investigation of the expression profiling of the ethanologenic Zymomonas mobilis in response to furfural stress. A six chip study using total RNA recovered from three separate wild-type cultures of Zymomonas mobilis ATCC31821 and three separate cultures of a triple treated with 1.0 g/l furfural. Each chip measures the expression level of 1800 genes from Zymomonas mobilis ATCC31821 and the associated plasmids, with three-fold technical redundancy.
Project description:Deletion of the IscR homolog ZMO_0422 was performed in Zymomonas mobilis to investigate the role of Fe-S cluster biogenesis in Zymomonas. Here we perform genome-wide transcirptomics study to examine transcript chagnes in delta-ZMO_0422 compared to WT Zymomonas mobilis under both aerobic and anaerobic growth conditions.
Project description:Zymomonas mobilis is an important bioenergy organism that has potential to produce biofuels, including ethanol, in high volumes. Here we examined the response of Zymomonas mobilis to various oxidative stresses using genome-scale transcriptomics data. We first examined the transcrpit abundance in WT aerobic growth compared to aerobic grown in paraquat, which forms superoxide. Under anaerobic growth conditions we compared WT Zymomonas mobilis with strains grown in media lacking iron as well as strains lacking iron that were treated with the iron chelator DIP before collection. Finally we examined transcript abundance in cells lacking ZMO_0422 (Rrf2 family transcription factor homolog) and ZMO_1411 (Fur homolog) grown under anaerobic conditions.
Project description:Previously we found that modified Zymomonas mobilis is able to convert glucose to ethanol when fermenting highly concentrated hydrolysates such as 9% glucan-loading AFEX-pretreated corn stover hydrolysate (ACSH), but that xylose conversion after glucose depletion is greatly impaired. We hypothesized that impaired xylose conversion is caused by lignocellulose-derived inhibitors (LDIs) present in highly concentrated hydrolysates. To investigate the effects of LDIs on xylose utilization in Z. mobilis, we generated synthetic hydrolysates (SynHs) that contains nutrients and LDI at concentrations found in authentic 9% ACSH. Comparative fermentations of Z. mobilis 2032 using SynH with or without LDI were performed, and samples were collected for endproduct, transcriptomic, metabolomic, and proteomic analyses. Our data suggest that the overall flux of xylose metabolism is reduced in the presence of LDIs. However, the expression of most genes involved in glucose and xylose assimilation was not affected by LDIs nor did we observe blocks in glucose and xylose metabolic pathways. Several LDI-specific effects were observed including intracellular accumulation of mannose-1P and mannose-6P, down regulation of a Type I secretion system (ZMO0252-0255), and upregulation of sulfur metabolism genes and the RND family efflux pump system (ZMO0282_0283_0285). This efflux pump system is involved in detoxification. Together, our findings identify cellular responses to LDIs and possible causes of impaired xylose conversion that will enable future strain engineering of Z. mobilis.
Project description:we aimed to screen candidate kinase genes under the stress of phenolic aldehydes during ethanol fermentation for Zymomonas mobilis ZM4
Project description:High-resolution “tiling” expression data for Zymomonas mobilis ZM4 growing in rich and minimal media, heat-shocked, or at high ethanol
