Project description:In this study, using DNA microarray analysis, we compared the comprehensive expression profiles of two yeast trains, i.e, the previously obtained ethanol-adapted yeast strain and the parental strain as control (FY834), under the ethanol stress condition (YPD medium contained 10% ethanol). As a result, we identified certain genes and functional categories of the genes that are possible involved in growth under the ethanol stress condition.
Project description:In our previous work, we showed the positive effect of the magnesium and the negative effect of the copper on yeast fermentation performance. The magnesium increases the ethanol yield and a faster glucose consumption by the yeast, on the other hand, the copper provides an opposite effect in yeast under fermentation condition. Therefore, from this contrasting effect we performed the gene-wide expression analysis in the industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae JP1 under fermentation condition in order to reveal the gene expression profile upon magnesium and copper supplementation.
Project description:Our evolved hyper-ethanol surviving strain showed more than a 10-fold survival under lethal ethanol stress. To determine the strategies the yeast cells employed to achieve this superior survival, we performed transcriptional profiling by RNA-seq to compare the gene expression states between these two strains. Our study found that the evolved strain reprogrammed its gene expression such that its pre-stress state was shifted towards that of the wild-type strain at 15 minutes post-stress.
Project description:This experiment was used to determine the effect of a botanical insecticide upon gene expression profiles in Drosophila melanogaster. Adult female Drosophila (oregon-R strain) were treated with an ethylacetate extract of Piper nigrum (Piperaceae) seeds formulated in 99% ethanol. Treatment was topical, using a Potter's tower to administer a total of 2 mL of a 0.9mg/mL concentration. Control treatment was identical except flies were treated with 99% ethanol as a solvent control. Gene expression was studied four hours post-treatment. Keywords: insecticide response, stress-response
Project description:Characterization of post-translational modification of nitrogenase in Rhodopseudomonas palustris strains that produce hydrogen gas constitutively. To characterize the effect of yeast extract as nitrogen source on gene expression under nitrogen fixing conditions, expression profiles of wild-type cells grown on either NF plus yeast extract and succinate and PM plus ammonium sulfate and succinate were compared using Affymetrix GeneChip. Using NF plus yeast extract and succinate media, transcriptome profiles of various mutants and wild-type cells were compared using glass spotted microarrays.
