Global transcriptional profiling of oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides under nitrogen limitation.
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ORGANISM(S): Rhodotorula toruloides
PROVIDER: GSE39023 | GEO | 2012/06/30
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA169625
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Nitrogen limitation is a major regulator to initiate lipid overproduction in oleaginous fungi. To examine the influence of nitrogen starvation, chemiostat cultures of R. toruloides in defined media with abundant ammonium (MM) or minute ammonium (MM-N) were performed to obtain steady-state samples. Then Illumina's digital gene expression (DGE) technology was used for high-throughput transcriptome profiling of these samples. Two samples cultured in minimum media with abundant ammonium (MM) or minute ammonium (MM-N)
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Project description:Oleaginous yeasts are capable of accumulating high levels of intracellular storage lipids from excess carbon during times when other key nutrients are limited. The basidiomycete yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides is an emerging host for microbial cell factory applications thanks to its naturally high lipid and carotenoid production. However, the engineering toolbox in this non-model host is limited and is currently a bottleneck for implementation of metabolic engineering strategies. In this study, we performed differential gene expression analysis with the goal to identify promoters that are strongly induced or repressed by nitrogen-limitation, a condition that is commonly used to induce lipid accumulation in oleaginous yeasts. The genome-wide transcriptional response of R. toruloides BOT-A2 was analysed using RNAseq during exponential growth and nitrogen-starvation, with either glucose or xylose as the sole carbon source. To validate the differential gene expression findings, reporter genes were constructed by placing the candidate promoters in control of a fluorescent protein, integrated in BOT-A2 and evaluated in vivo.
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Project description:Global transcriptional profiling of oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides under nitrogen limitation.
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