Project description:A marine bacterial isolate, Brevibacterium casei #NIOSBA88 was grown separately in Luria Bertini broth supplemented with 750 mg L-1 Arsenic (III) and 100 mg L-1 Chromium respectively. Similarly, the strain was grown in absence of Arsenic and Chromium, which served as an experimental control. The cells were harvested at different time intervals and proteins were extracted from the cell pellets using in-house protocol (Shah and Damare 2018). The extracted proteins were digested using trypsin following standard protocol. Tryptic digests were injected in LCMS QToF for obtaining spectral library which was used to identify the proteins against a species specific database in NCBI.
Project description:A urease positive marine actinobacterium Brevibacterium lines was demonstrated to form and dissolve calcite precipitation in conditions with different concentration of Ca2+. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) was used to analyze the transcriptome of B. lines under 0, 50 and 150 mM Ca2+ after 24 h incubation to discover the differentially expressed genes involved. Results provide insight into the molecular response of B. lines stressed with different concentration of Ca2+.