Project description:The strain Planococcus kocurii O516 isolated from the marine culture environment was found to be stably and highly effective for the degradation of sulfamethoxazole. We investigated the expression behavior of functional genes related to this degradation ability in P. kocurii O516 under the culture conditions with or without sulfamethoxazole.
Project description:Filamentous fungi are widely used in the production of biomass degrading enzymes, e.g. cellulases and pectinases. In order to study the secretome of biomass degrading fungi, proteomics studies were carried out on the extracellular proteins of fungal strains.
Project description:To understand the response of M. tuberculosis (MTB) to the drug sulfamethoxazole, we performed transcriptomics on MTB bacilli exposed to the drug.
Project description:RNA sequencing was performed on E. coli K12 MG1655 on three media (M9, CA-MHB, R10LB) treated with four antibiotics (Ciprofloxacin, Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, Ceftriaxone, Meropenem) at their media-specific MIC90s
Project description:Mixtures of diclofenac, sulfamethoxazole and ofloxacin and their photolysed mixtures were evaluated for their mutagenicity and estrogenicity. Implications in the gene expression profiling were evaluated as well Microarrays were used to understand the effects of exposure to mixtures of pharmaceuticals as contaminants of emerging concern
Project description:Paenarthrobacter strains effectively degrade the fungicide iprodione, exhibiting a specialization rarely seen amongst bacteria. The transformation of iprodione is controlled by an amidase, a deacetylase and a hydrolase encoded by ipaH, ddaH and duaH respectively. We aimed to elucidate the mechanisms of this catabolic specialization and its evolution in Paenarthrobacters. The genomes of two new iprodione-degrading Paenarthrobacter strains TA1.8 and C1 were sequenced and analyzed comparatively with the genomes of two other iprodione-degrading Paenarthrobacter strains YJN-5 and YJN-D. Comparative genomics revealed different gene organization motifs amongst strains which suggest that the strains are at different stages of pathway evolution, in accord with their prior exposure to iprodione. Strains TA1.8, YJN-5 and YJN-D, all isolated from soils heavily exposed to iprodione, carried multiple copies of ipaH, ddaH and duaH in their chromosomes and plasmids that were assigned to two distinct phylogenetic clusters based on genome topology. Conversely, strain C1, isolated from a pristine soil, carried ipaH, ddaH and duaH in the chromosome. Pangenome analysis of the genus Paenarthrobacter placed ipaH and duaH in the core genome reinforcing their specialization in the degradation of iprodione as they need to acquire only ddaH, the sole gene of the pathway associated with transposable elements in strains C1 and TA1.8, to complete the pathway. We propose an evolution route of the iprodione transformation pathway which involves acquisition of ddaH through horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication of the chromosomally encoded ipaH and ddaH, and further genetic rearrangements for pathway optimization, complementing duaH, a core gene in Paenarthrobacters. Transcriptomic analysis of strain TA1.8 verified the involvement of all copies of ipaH, ddaH and duaH in the transformation of iprodione, and identified hydantoinases, upregulated during iprodione degradation, as potential facilitators of the transformation of the hydantoin-containing intermediate N-(3,-5-dichlorophenyl)- 2,4-dioxoimida-zolidine, a step mediated by DdaH.
Project description:Chemical signaling in the plant microbiome can have drastic effects on microbial community structure, and on host growth and development. Previously, we demonstrated that the auxin metabolic signal interference performed by the bacterial genus Variovorax via a novel auxin degradation locus was essential for maintaining stereotypic root development in an ecologically-relevant bacterial synthetic community. Here, we dissect the Variovorax auxin degradation locus to define the genes necessary and sufficient for indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) degradation and signal interference. We determine the crystal structures and binding properties of the operon’s MarR-family repressor with IAA and other auxins. We identify auxin-degradation operons across the bacterial tree of life and define two distinct types based on gene content and metabolic products: iac-like and iad-like. We solve the structures of MarRs from representatives of each auxin degradation operon type, establishing that each have distinct IAA binding pockets. Comparison of representative IAA degrading strains from diverse bacterial genera show that while all degrade IAA, only strains containing iad-like auxin degrading operons interfere with auxin signaling in a complex synthetic community context. This suggests that iad-like operon containing strains, including Variovorax species, play a key ecological role in modulating auxins in the plant microbiome.