Project description:Chemostat incubations were established and inoculated with sediments collected from Canyon Creek, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The chemostats experienced oxic-anoxic change of different frequency, High-frequency, Medium-frequency and Low-frequency. 18 samples were collected at the end of the final oxic phase and the final anoxic phase in the triplicated chemostats for metagenomic and metaproteomic analysis. 26 genomes were assembled from metagenomes. Proteomes were used to investigate translational regulation of each population associated with a genome.
Project description:Interventions: Group 1: Surgical patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer: immunophenotyping by PBMCs and metagenomic analyses from stool, mucosa, and saliva samples perioperatively and during oncologic follow-up.
Group 2: oncologic patients with chemo- / immune therapy without recent surgery:
Immunophenotyping by PBMCs and metagenomic analyses from stool, mucosa and saliva samples during therapy and oncological follow-up.
Group 3: healthy controls:
Immunophenotyping by PBMCs and metagenomic analyses from stool, mucosa, and saliva samples at the time of screening colonoscopy.
Primary outcome(s): Difference in the differential abundance of the colonic mucosa of patients with CRC vs. healthy controls for evaluation as diagnostic biomarkers based on metagenomic analyzes (microbial pattern)
Study Design: Allocation: ; Masking: ; Control: ; Assignment: ; Study design purpose: diagnostic
Project description:This is for Rigor and Reproducibility study to demonstrate the reproducibility of AFS SOP for EV separation, RNA isolation, and RNA analysis by using saliva samples from healthy individuals. Blinded saliva samples have been processed by two independent AFS operators for EV separation and subjected to miRNA-seq analysis. EV-associated miRNA seqeunces were used as a monitoring tool for Rigor and Reproducibility of AFS process between operators.
Project description:Recent studies have reported both mRNA and microRNA (miRNA) in saliva, but little information has been documented on the quality and yield of RNA collected. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to develop an improved RNA isolation method from saliva and to identify major miRNA species in human whole saliva.
Project description:Methanol, being electron-rich and derivable from methane or CO2, is a potentially renewable one-carbon (C1) feedstock for microorganisms. Although the ribulose monophosphate (RuMP) cycle used by methylotrophs to assimilate methanol differs from the typical sugar metabolism by only three enzymes, turning a non-methylotrophic organism to a synthetic methylotroph that grows to a high cell density has been challenging. Here, we reprogrammed E. coli using metabolic robustness criteria followed by laboratory evolution to establish a strain that can utilize methanol as the sole carbon source efficiently. This synthetic methylotroph alleviated a heretofore uncharacterized hurdle, DNA-protein crosslinking (DPC), by insertion sequence (IS) mediated copy number variations (CNV) and balanced the metabolic flux by mutations. Being capable of growing at a rate comparable to natural methylotrophs in a wide-range of methanol concentrations, this synthetic methylotrophic strain illustrates genome editing and evolution for microbial tropism changes, and expands the scope of biological C1 conversion.
