Project description:Small RNAs are the non-coding RNAs known to regulate various biological functions such as stress adaptation, metabolism, virulence as well as pathogenicity across wide range of bacteria, mainly by controlling mRNA stabilization or regulating translation. Identification and functional characterization of sRNAs that has been carried out in various plant growth promoting bacteria have shown to help the bacterial cell cope up with environmental stress. Till now no study has been carried out to uncover these regulatory molecules in diazotrophic alpha-proteobacterium Azospirillum brasilense Sp245. RNA-Seq is a suitable approach for expression-based sRNA identification in bacteria.
Project description:Plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) might be an alternative to increase nitrogenous use efficiency (NUE) in important crops such wheat. Azospirillum brasilense is one of the most promising PGPB and wheat roots colonized by Azospirillum brasilense is a good model to investigate the molecular basis of plant-PGPB interaction including improvement in plant-NUE promoted by PGPB. An RNA-seq transcriptional analysis of Triticum aestivum roots was carried out in two independent samples (biological replicates) of each treatment (PGPB-colonized or non-inoculated), yielding a total of 4 sequencing libraries, which were designated CWR1 and CWR2 libraries (colonized roots) and N-IWR1 and N-IWR2 (non-inoculated roots).
Project description:Plant growth promoting rhizobacterium Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 utilizes fructose efficiently via a fructose phosphotransferase system (Fru-PTS). Its genome encodes two putative Fru-PTS, each consisting of FruB (EIIA), FruK (Pfk) and FruA (EIIBC) proteins. We compared the proteomes of A. brasilense Sp7 grown with malate or fructose as sole carbon source, and observed upregulation of component proteins of Fru-PTS1 and several proteins involved in the biogenesis of the type 6 secretion system (T6SS) only on fructose.
