Project description:Global warming has shifted climate zones poleward or upward. However, understanding the responses and mechanism of microbial community structure and functions relevant to natural climate zone succession is challenged by the high complexity of microbial communities. Here, we examined soil microbial community in three broadleaved forests located in the Wulu Mountain (WLM, temperate climate), Funiu Mountain (FNM, at the border of temperate and subtropical climate zones), or Shennongjia Mountain (SNJ, subtropical climate).Soils were characterized for geochemistry, Illumina sequencing was used to determine microbial taxonomic communities and GeoChips 5.0 were used to determine microbial functional genes.
2017-01-10 | GSE92233 | GEO
Project description:Microbial diversity of freezing-thawing soil
| PRJNA682512 | ENA
Project description:Effects of freezing and thawing on microorganisms
Project description:We established simple synthetic microbial communities in a microcosm model system to determine the mechanisms that underlay cross-feeding in microbial methane-consuming communities. Co-occurring strains from Lake Washington sediment were used that are involved in methane consumption, a methanotroph and two non-methanotrophic methylotrophs.
Project description:After thawing, the mechanism of apoptosis advancing in human ES cells was invesitigated mainly by Gene conpath analysis. As time passed after thawing, nuclear fragmented cells increased more and more in cR-/mR- and cR+/mR-, but in cR+/mR+ and cR-/mR+, thawed cells formed cluster markedly, which was seen among three cell lines. Flow cytometry using TUNEL assay supported final colony formation ratio, which defined that such cell death was due to apoptosis. Gene map analysis 12 hours later after thawing of cR-/mR- showed activation of IL-1? & its receptor IL-1R and TGF-? & its receptor ACVR1C required for activation of caspase-8, initiation of caspase-8 and 10 and marked activation of ARHGDIB promoting actin reorganization comparing to cR+/mR+. Recovered cell lines in any condition did not lose proliferation and pluripotency regardless of ROCK inhibitor treatment.?These results showed apoptotic events after thawing were more marked in cR- and advanced through autoenhanced cascaded mechanism followed by initiation of self-cytokain activity, and were suppressed by ROCK inhibitor Y-27632. To investigate the protective mechanism caused by a novel cryo-technique of human embryonic stem (hES) cells using ROCK inhibitor Y-27632 against the cell death due to cryopreservation and thawing with Gene map analysis in addition to estimations of survival rate, apoptosis, undifferentiated states and pluripotency, the dissociated hES cells were cryopreserved in a freezing container in the following four conditions: addition of 10µM of Y-27632 to 1: cryoprotection solution and post-thawing medium (cR+/mR+), 2: only addition to cryoprotection (cR+/mR-), 3: only addition to post-thawing medium (cR-/mR+), 4: no addition to any medium (cR-/mR-).
Project description:The increased urban pressures are often associated with specialization of microbial communities. Microbial communities being a critical player in the geochemical processes, makes it important to identify key environmental parameters that influence the community structure and its function.In this proect we study the influence of land use type and environmental parameters on the structure and function of microbial communities. The present study was conducted in an urban catchment, where the metal and pollutants levels are under allowable limits. The overall goal of this study is to understand the role of engineered physicochemical environment on the structure and function of microbial communities in urban storm-water canals. Microbial community structure was determined using PhyoChio (G3) Water and sediment samples were collected after a rain event from Sungei Ulu Pandan watershed of >25km2, which has two major land use types: Residential and industrial. Samples were analyzed for physicochemical variables and microbial community structure and composition. Microbial community structure was determined using PhyoChio (G3)