Project description:Transcriptional profiling of the Donna II mixed community containing Dehalococcoides mccartyi strain 195 comparing a batch starved control to the mixed community being fed 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorobenzene as an electron acceptor. The goal was to determine which transcripts are regulated in response to a shift in a different electron acceptor rather than the consistent tetrachloroethene (PCE) that the parent reactor was maintained on.
Project description:The proteome of the anaerobic bacterium Dehalococcoides mccartyi strain CBDB1 from the phylum Chloroflexi was investigated. D. mccartyi strain CBDB1 is a model organism for organohalide respiration where halogenated organic compounds serve as terminal electron acceptors. A wide range of halogenated organic compounds have been shown to be dehalogenated by the strain CBDB1. Therefore, D. mccartyi strain CBDB1 is a promising candidate for bioremediation application. Proteomic analysis of cultures grown with hexachlorobenzene as only electron acceptor resulted in identification of 8,491 distinct peptides which represents 1,023 proteins. A coverage of 70% of the 1,458 annotated proteins for strain CBDB1 was achieved. In addition, a spectral library was created from the annotated spectra. By using proteogenomics, 18 previously not annotated peptides were identified which contribute to four proteins previously not annotated and corrections in length of eight protein coding sequences.