Project description:Two parallel anaerobic digestion lines were designed to match a "bovid-like" digestive structure. Each of the lines consisted of two Continuous Stirred Tank Reactors placed in series and separated by an acidic treatment step. The first line was inoculated with industrial inocula whereas the second was seeded with cow digestive tract contents. After three month of continuous sewage sludge feeding, samples were recovered for shotgun metaproteomic and DNA-based analysis. Strikingly, protein inferred and 16S rDNA tags based taxonomic community profiles were not fully consistent. Principal Component analysis however revealed a similar clustering pattern of the samples, suggesting that reproducible methodological and/or biological factors underlie this observation. The performances of the two digestion lines did not differ significantly and the cow derived inocula did not establish in the reactors. A low throughput metagenomic dataset (3.4x106 reads, 1.1 Gb) was also generated for one of the samples. It allowed a substantial increase of the analysis depth (increase of the spectral identification rate). For the first time, a high level of proteins expressed by members of the "Candidatus Competibacter" group is reported in an anaerobic digester, a key microbial player in environmental bioprocess communities.
2015-08-12 | PXD002420 | Pride
Project description:Anammox consortia community in reactors
Project description:Identify and characterize two distinct communities, the aerobic community and the anaerobic community in the partial nitritation/anammox reactors using metaproteomics approach
Project description:Reductive bioleaching of limonitic laterites: Fe(III) bio-reduction kinetics in anaerobic batch and continuous stirred tank reactors
Project description:The principles governing acquisition and interspecies exchange of nutrients in microbial communities and how those exchanges impact community productivity are poorly understood. Here, we examine energy and macronutrient acquisition in unicyanobacterial consortia for which species-resolved genome information exists for all members, allowing us to use multi-omic approaches to predict species’ abilities to acquire resources and examine expression of resource-acquisition genes during succession. Metabolic reconstruction indicated that a majority of heterotrophic community members lacked the genes required to directly acquire the inorganic nutrients provided in culture medium, suggesting high metabolic interdependency. The sole primary producer in consortium UCC-O, cyanobacterium Phormidium sp. OSCR, displayed declining expression of energy harvest, carbon fixation, and nitrate and sulfate reduction proteins but sharply increasing phosphate transporter expression over 28 days. Most heterotrophic members likewise exhibited signs of phosphorus starvation during succession. Though similar in their responses to phosphorus limitation, heterotrophs displayed species-specific expression of nitrogen acquisition genes. These results suggest niche partitioning around nitrogen sources may structure the community when organisms directly compete for limited phosphate. Such niche complementarity around nitrogen sources may increase community diversity and productivity in phosphate-limited phototrophic communities.
Project description:Development of microtiter plate based microbioreactor cultivation for Aspergillus giganteus with quasi-continuous online measurements. Different parameters such as well geometry, shaking frequency and morphology controlling agents were investigated in order to optimize the microtiter plate cultivation and scattered light signal towards reproducibility and homogeneity. An optimized medium was developed and scalability into stirred tank bioreactor cultivation was analyzed. As a transferability indicator the supernatant of both cultivation systems was analyzed for secreted protein patterns with a focus on an antifungal protein (AFP) and alpha-sarcin. These proteins were identified via LC-MS/MS.
2019-08-12 | PXD013751 | Pride
Project description:dark fermentation for biohydrogen production in thermophilic continuous stirred-tank reactor