Project description:Volatile fatty acids found in effluents of the dark fermentation of biowastes can be used for mixotrophic growth of microalgae, improving productivity and reducing the cost of the feedstock. Microalgae can use the acetate in the effluents very well, but butyrate is poorly assimilated and can inhibit growth above 1 gC.L-1. The non-photosynthetic chlorophyte alga Polytomella sp. SAG 198.80 was found to be able to assimilate butyrate fast. To decipher the metabolic pathways implicated in butyrate assimilation, a large-scale differential proteomics study was developed comparing Polytomella sp. cells grown on acetate and butyrate at 1 gC.L-1.
Project description:Diatoms are prominent marine microalgae, interesting not only from an ecological point of view, but also for their possible use for biotechnology applications. They can be cultivated in phototrophic conditions, using sunlight as the only energy source. Some diatoms, however, can also grow in mixotrophic mode, where both light and external reduced carbon contribute to biomass accumulation. In this study, we investigated the consequences of mixotrophy on the growth and metabolism of the pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum, using glycerol as a source of reduced carbon. Transcriptomic, metabolomic and physiological data indicate that glycerol affects the central-carbon, carbon-storage and lipid metabolism of the diatom. In particular, glycerol addition mimics some typical responses of nitrogen limitation on lipid metabolism at the level of TAG accumulation and fatty acid composition. However, this compound does not diminish photosynthetic activity and cell growth, at variance with nutrient limitation, revealing essential aspects of the metabolic flexibility of these microalgae and suggesting possible biotechnological applications of mixotrophy.
Project description:Here, we transferred GmDof4 from soybean (Glycine max), a transcription factor affecting content of lipid in Arabidopsis, into C. ellipsoidea and found that the expression of GmDof4 significantly enhanced the lipid content by maximum 57.21%, shifted the content of different fatty acids, but did not affect the growth of the host cells. Using the Solexa/Illumina-based RNA-Seq analysis, we found expression of GmDof4 significantly regulates 1,076 genes, of which 754 genes were up-regulated and 322 genes were down-regulated, under mixotrophic culture. This study provides a new way to improve the lipid of microalgae.
2014-04-16 | GSE37473 | GEO
Project description:Microalgae with anaerobic digestion effluent
Project description:Like many other organisms, cyanobacteria exhibit rhythmic gene expression with a period length of 24 hours to adapt to daily environmental changes. In the model organism Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 the central oscillator consists of three proteins: KaiA, KaiB and KaiC and utilizes the histidine kinase SasA and its response regulator RpaA as output-signaling pathway. Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 contains two additional homologs of the kaiB and kaiC genes. Here we demonstrate that RpaA interacts with the core oscillator KaiAB1C1 of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 via SasA, similar to Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. However, interaction with the additional Kai homologs was not detected, suggesting different signal transduction components for the clock homologs. Inactivation of rpaA in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, lead to reduced viability of the mutant in light-dark cycles that aggravated under mixotrophic growth conditions. Chemoheterotrophic growth in the dark was abolished completely. In accordance, transcriptomic data revealed that RpaA is involved in the regulation of genes related to CO2‑acclimation and carbon metabolism under diurnal light conditions. Further, our results indicate that RpaA functions in the posttranslational regulation of glycogen metabolism as well, and a potential link between the circadian clock and motility was identified.
Project description:Here, we transferred GmDof4 from soybean (Glycine max), a transcription factor affecting content of lipid in Arabidopsis, into C. ellipsoidea and found that the expression of GmDof4 significantly enhanced the lipid content by maximum 57.21%, shifted the content of different fatty acids, but did not affect the growth of the host cells. Using the Solexa/Illumina-based RNA-Seq analysis, we found expression of GmDof4 significantly regulates 1,076 genes, of which 754 genes were up-regulated and 322 genes were down-regulated, under mixotrophic culture. This study provides a new way to improve the lipid of microalgae. The GmDof4 transgenic strain Dof4-1 and control (pCK transgenic line CK-1) were cultured in liquid antibiotic-free Endo medium at 25M-bM-^DM-^C under illumination (100 M-NM-<mol photons m-2 s-1) for 120 h. Cells at a concentration of approximately 1M-CM-^W 10^7 cells/mL were collected for library construction and sequencing using Illumina GAIIx.
Project description:Here, we performed a mass spectrometry-based analysis to study lysine acetylation and proteome dynamics in Chlamydomonas under varying growth conditions. Liquid cultures of Chlamydomonas were transferred from mixotrophic (light and acetate as carbon source) to heterotrophic (dark and acetate), or photoautotrophic (light only) growth conditions for 30 h before harvest. The proteome and acetylome changes between the different growth conditions were quantified using a stable isotope based dimethyl-labelling technique. The presence of lysine acetylation on nearly all enzymes involved in the glyoxylate cycle and its dynamic regulation in dependence on acetate was one of the major results of this study. Our results clearly show that lysine acetylation is dynamically regulated in Chlamydomonas in dependence on light and acetate. Furthermore, the newly identified lysine acetylation sites have a great potential for genetic engineering of metabolic pathways in Chlamydomonas.