Project description:This study examines the transcriptomic response of biofilms of the PAH-degrading Sphingomonas sp. LH128 on solute stress when actively degrading and growing on the PAH compound. To address the effect of solute stress on bacterial physiology and transcriptomic response, NaCl was used as osmolyte. Both acute and chronic solute stress was invoked to assess differences in short-term and long-term responses.
Project description:We report the differential expression of a PAH degrading bacterium in different states of substrate induction. Separate substrate cultivation of the same batch of bacterial isolates; total RNA extraction, processing and sequencing; gene expression analysis using bioinformatics softwares and experimental validation using qRT-PCR.