Project description:Here as an attempt to explore bacterial single-colony proteomics, we describe a quantitative mass spectrometry-based protocol to isolate and analyse the proteome of a single mycobacterial colony from 7H10 media. Tryptic peptides are evaluated with high performance liquid chromatography coupled with a hybrid quadrupole mass filter Orbitrap analyser (Q Exactive) and raw data analysed using the MaxQuant Suite and downstream analysis using Perseus software . A total of 7805 unique peptides and 1387 proteins were identified
Project description:Welan gum is mainly produced by Sphingomonas sp. ATCC 31555 and has broad applications in industry such as that in cement production. Both carbon and nitrogen sources are essential for welan production. However, how nitrogen sources affect the metabolism and gene transcription of welan remains elusive. Here, we used next-generation sequencing RNA-seq to analyze the transcriptome of Sphingomonas sp. ATCC 31555 in the presence of inorganic or organic nitrogen sources. Enriched gene expression and pathway analysis suggest that organic nitrogen sources significantly enhanced the expression of genes in central metabolic pathways of Sphingomonas sp. ATCC 31555 and those critical for welan synthesis compared to that observed using inorganic nitrogen sources. The present study improves our understanding of the molecular mechanism underlying the use of nitrogen in welan synthesis in Sphingomonas sp., as well as provides an important transcriptome resource for Sphingomonas sp. in relation to nitrogen sources.
Project description:Metaproteomes of individual Trichodesmium colonies collected from a single location in the Carribbean sea (65.22W, 17.02N) at 17:00 local time. Some colonies were associated with auto-fluorescent mineral particles. Their proteomes were analyzed individually to investigate the effect of the minerals on colony physiology.
Project description:In order to investigate the impact of using in vitro techniques to generate single cell suspensions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) on macrophage gene expression, we compared uninfected bone marrow derived macrophages to macrophages infected with Mtb that was prepared using gentle sonication followed by low-speed centrifugation (so/sp) or passage through a 5 µm syringe filter (5µmF).
Project description:Purpose:first,we want to find the genes revelant to curdlan synthesis and oxygen regulation, second, we want to research the function of fnrN gene in Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749. Method: samples of cell growth phase, curdlan-producing phase (normoxia) and curdlan-producing phase (micro-oxygen treated) in both Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749 wild strain and ΔfnrN strain were collectecd to extract mRNA. Each sample was treated in duplicate. The softwares we used include fastqc, trimmomatic, TopHat2 and Cufflinks. Illumina Hiseq4000 was used to complete the research.