Project description:Transcriptional profiling of the Donna II mixed community containing Dehalococcoides mccartyi strain 195 comparing a batch starved control to the mixed community being fed 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorobenzene as an electron acceptor. The goal was to determine which transcripts are regulated in response to a shift in a different electron acceptor rather than the consistent tetrachloroethene (PCE) that the parent reactor was maintained on.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Dehalococcoides mccartyi in the commercially available KB-1™ consortia comparing control standard TCE batch fed culture to treatments either introducing the culture to a standard batch feeding, stressful condition, or continous feed rate.
Project description:Meta-Analyses of Dehalococcoides mccartyi Strain 195 Transcriptomic Profiles Identify a Respiration Rate-Related Gene Expression Transition Point and Interoperon Recruitment of a Key Oxidoreductase Subunit
Project description:Bacteria of the group “Dehalococcoides” display the ability to respire recalcitrant chlorinated organic compounds in laboratory and field site applications. Though reductive dehalogenases (RDases) have been shown to directly catalyze dechlorination reactions, the respiratory pathways and function of most genome-encoded RDases in Dehalococcoides strains remain incompletely described. In order to broaden the understanding of the biological organization of “Dehalococcoides”, this study monitored the trancriptomic response of “Dehalococcoides ethenogenes” stain 195 through microarray technology. Batch versus continuously fed cultures were examined and compared. When similarly respiring (~120 μeeq PCE/(L-hr)) batch and pseudo steady-state cultures were contrasted, the reductive dehalogenases (RDases) DET1545 and DET0180 were up-regulated in the PSS system indicating their activity at lower overall electron acceptor concentration.
