Project description:Exoproteomics of Hopland soil isolates. Metabolic trait to efficiently utilize plant polymers provides the energy-expensive microbial adaptation to survive in low carbon availability soil.
Project description:One microbial organism always contains multiple DNA modification systems as defense strategies or epigenetic controls. Here, we describe crosstalk between two distinct DNA modifications with different target sequence motif: DNA phosphorothioation (PT, GPSAAC/GPSTTC by DndACDE proteins) and N6-methyl-adenine methylation (m6A, G6mATC by Dam protein). By using a newly developed DNA modification sequencing method PT nick-seq, we found that half of PT modifications change from GAAC/GTTC to GATC sites after bacteria have lost Dam.
