Project description:Collagen is the most abundant protein in higher animals and as such it is a valuable source of amino acids and carbon for saprophytic bacteria. Due to its unique amino acid composition and triple-helical tertiary structure it can however only be cleaved by specialized proteases like the collagenases secreted by some bacteria. Among the best described bacterial collagenases are ColG and ColH from Clostridium histolyticum. Many Bacillus species contain homologues of clostridial collagenases, which play a role in some infections caused by B. cereus. Detailed biochemical and enzymatic characterizations of bacillial collagenases are however lacking at this time. In an effort to close this gap in knowledge we expressed ColQ1 from B. cereus strain Q1 recombinantly, investigated its metal dependency and performed peptide, gelatin and collagen degradation assays. Our results show that ColQ1 is a true collagenase, cleaving natively folded collagen six times more efficiently than ColG while at the same time being a similarly effective peptidase as ColH. In both ColQ1 and ColG the rate-limiting step in collagenolysis is the unwinding of the triple-helix. The data suggest an orchestrated multi-domain mechanism for efficient helicase activity.
Project description:Comparative Genomic Hybridization. Analysis of genomic content of closely related Bacillus species. Refer to individual records for strain information. Refer to platform and individual sample records for experimental protocols. Keywords: other
Project description:Bacillus cereus strain Q1 was isolated from a deep-subsurface oil reservoir in the Daqing oil field in northeastern China. This strain is able to produce biosurfactants and to survive in extreme environments. Here we report the finished and annotated genome sequence of this organism.
Project description:Comparative Genomic Hybridization. Analysis of genomic content of closely related Bacillus species. Refer to individual records for strain information. Refer to platform and individual sample records for experimental protocols.
Project description:The Bacillus cereus group consists of eight very closely related species and comprises both harmless and human pathogenic species. Yet, methods to rapidly and accurately distinguish these species are currently lacking as we demonstrate that classical matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) biotyping did not achieve reliable identification of each type strain. We assigned type strain-specific diagnostic peptides to the B. cereus group based on comparisons of their proteome profiles. The number of diagnostic peptides varies remarkably in type strain-dependent manner. The state of the art of the reference database is crucial in the process of validating candidate diagnostic peptides and may lead to a noteworthy reduction of verified diagnostic peptides as putative diagnostic peptides might be found in other species as well.
Project description:This project provides tandem mass spectrometry data of extracellular non-covalently bound cell surface proteins from samples of Bacillus cereus AH187 strain. The wild-type strain was grown on liquid MOD medium supplemented with glucose and harvested at five growth stages: early exponential, late exponential, stationary phase, tardive stationary 1 and tardive stationary 2.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of C. elegans young adult worms cultured on non-pathogenic Bacillus subtilis strain 67 versus age-matched worms cultured on the control lab food E. coli OP50. The goal was to identify genes regulated in response to differences in diet, which potentially confer immunity to later exposures to pathogenic Bacillus thuringiensis DB27.
Project description:This project provides tandem mass spectrometry datasets of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 wild-type strain without its pBClin15 plasmid. The strain was grown under fermentative anaerobic condition and harvested at three growth stages.
Project description:This project provides tandem mass spectrometry data of Bacillus cereus AH187 strain. The strain was grown on liquid MOD medium supplemented with glucose and harvested at three growth stages.
