Project description:Lignocellulosic biomass is composed of three major biopolymers: cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Although lignin has long been considered a waste product in biomass conversion efforts, its utilization has since been identified as critical to the economic viability of second-generation biofuel production. There is thus increasing interest in finding enzymes and enzyme cocktails which can efficiently deconstruct both the cellulose/hemicellulose and lignin components of lignocellulosic biomass. Analytical tools capable of quickly detecting both glycan and lignin deconstruction could are needed to support the development and characterization of efficient enzymes/enzyme cocktails.
Project description:Fungal degradation of lignocellulosic biomass requires various (hemi-)cellulases and plays key roles in biological carbon cycle. Although cellulases induction recently described in some saprobic filamentous fungi, regulation of cellulase transcription has not been studied thoroughly. Here, we identified and characterized the novel cellulase regulation factors clr-4 in Neurospora crassa and its ortholog Mtclr-4 in Myceliophthora thermophila. Deletion of clr-4 and Mtclr-4 displayed similarly defective phenotypes in cellulolytic enzymes production and activities. Transcriptomics analysis of Δclr-4/ΔMtclr-4 revealed down-regulation of not only encoding genes of (hemi-)cellulases and pivotal regulators (clr-1, clr-2 and xyr-1), but also the key genes of cAMP signaling pathway such as adenylate cyclase cr-1. Consistently, the significant decreased levels of intracellular cAMP were observed in Δclr-4/ΔMtclr-4 compared to wild-type during cellulose utilization. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) verified that CLR-4 could directly bind to the promoter regions of adenylyl cyclase (Nccr-1) and cellulose regulator clr-1, while MtCLR-4 bind to upstream regions of adenylyl cyclase Mtcr-1 and biomass deconstruction regulators Mtclr-2 and Mtxyr-1. Concluded, the novel cellulase expression regulators (CLR-4/MtCLR-4) findings here significantly enrich our understanding of the regulatory network of cellulose degradation and provide new targets for industrial fungi strain engineering for plant biomass deconstruction in biorefinery.
Project description:DNA methylation 5mC specific detection has been limited by the mixed signals from traditional bisulfite sequencing or by the severe degradation of input during oxBS-seq pretreatment. Here, we presented a 5mC specific whole genome amplification method (5mC-WGA), with which we achieved whole genome bisulfite sequencing with 5mC retention from limited input down to 10 pg scale without 5hmC signals, presenting DNA 5mC methylome with high producibility and great accuracy.
Project description:A ChIP-seq assay was performed to identify the regulons of an ompR-like transcription factor (gene name: 13375, GenBank: AYL80818.1) in Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae. An 13375-overexpressing mutant G1-OE13375, which constitutively express C-terminally Myc-tagged ompR-like gene in the 13375-deletion mutant G1Δ13375, was used in this study. The bacterial cells were cultured either in nutrition-rich KB medium or hrp-derepressing medium (HDM) at 25 C for 24 hours. A PierceTM Magnetic ChIP Kit (Cat. #: 26157, Thermo Fisher Scientific) and a ChIP-grade Myc-Tag Monoclonal Antibody (Myc.A7, Cat. #: MA121316, Thermo Fisher Scientific) were used for sample pretreatment and immunoprecipitation.
Project description:Cre1 is an important transcription factor that regulates carbon catabolite repression (CCR) and is widely conserved across fungi. This gene has been extensively studied in several Ascomycota species, whereas its role in gene expression regulation in the Basidiomycota remains poorly understood. Here, we identified and investigated the role of cre1 in Coprinopsis cinerea, a basidiomycete model mushroom that can efficiently degrade lignocellulosic plant wastes. We used a rapid and efficient gene deletion approach based on PCR-amplified split-marker DNA cassettes together with in-vitro assembled Cas9-guide RNA ribonucleoproteins (Cas9-RNPs) to generate C. cinerea cre1 gene deletion strains. Gene expression profiling of two independent C. cinerea cre1 mutants showed significant deregulation of carbohydrate metabolism, plant cell wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs), plasma membrane transporter-related and several transcription factor encoding genes, among others. Our results support the notion that, similarly to reports in the ascomycetes, Cre1 of C. cinerea orchestrates CCR through a combined regulation of diverse genes, including PCWDEs, transcription factors that positively regulate PCWDEs and membrane transporters which could import simple sugars that can induce the expression of PWCDEs. Somewhat paradoxically, though in accordance with other Agaricomycetes, genes related to lignin degradation were mostly downregulated in cre1 mutants, indicating they fall under different regulation than other PCWDEs. The gene deletion approach and the data presented in this paper expand our knowledge of CCR in the Basidiomycota and provide functional hypotheses on genes related to plant biomass degradation.
2022-11-01 | GSE205749 | GEO
Project description:Molecular Epidemiology of Melioidosis in Southern Thailand
| PRJNA1113702 | ENA
Project description:In lab enrichment on lignocellulosic biomasses from hot springs
| PRJNA861126 | ENA
Project description:Campylobacter spp. obtained from chickens in southern Thailand
Project description:The white rot fungi Pleurotus ostreatus was studied for its potential as a biological pretreatment agent, i.e- its potential for decomposing lignocellulosic biomass. P. ostreatus PC9 was manipulate to either overexpress or eliminate (by gene replacement) the transcriptional regulator CRE1, known to act as a repressor in the process of carbon catabolite repression. The parental PC9 and the two transformants were grown on microcrystalline cellulose and wheat straw (3 replicates each) and the content of the resulted secretomes was analyzed by LC-MS/MS. An extensive range of carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes) were affected by the modification of cre1 expression levels. The three fungi revealed also differentiation towards the carbon source used in the growth media.