Project description:we applied metaproteomic approach to capture proteins from three size-fractionated microbial communities at the DCM in the basin of the South China Sea. The deep recovery of proteomes from a marine DCM plankton assemblage provides the highest resolution of metabolic activities as well as microbial niche differentiation, revealing a spectrum of biological processes carrying out by microbes at DCM of the SCS.
Project description:Sulfur metabolism in the deep-sea cold seep has been mentioned to have an important contribution to the biogeochemical cycle of sulfur in previous studies. And sulfate reducing bacteria have also been considered to be a dominant microbial population in the deep-sea cold seep and play a crucial role in this process. However, most of sulfate reducing bacteria from cold seep still cannot be purely cultured under laboratory conditions, therefore the actual sulfur metabolism pathways in sulfate reducing bacteria from the deep-sea cold seep have remained unclear. Here, we isolate and pure culture a typical sulfate reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio marinus CS1 from the sediment sample of the deep-sea cold seep in the South China Sea, which provides a probability to understand the sulfur metabolism in the cold seep.
Project description:Xiangjiang River (Hunan, China) has been contaminated with heavy metal for several decades by surrounding factories. However, little is known about the influence of a gradient of heavy metal contamination on the diversity, structure of microbial functional gene in sediment. To deeply understand the impact of heavy metal contamination on microbial community, a comprehensive functional gene array (GeoChip 5.0) has been used to study the functional genes structure, composition, diversity and metabolic potential of microbial community from three heavy metal polluted sites of Xiangjiang River. Three groups of samples, A, B and C. Every group has 3 replicates.
Project description:Xiangjiang River (Hunan, China) has been contaminated with heavy metal for several decades by surrounding factories. However, little is known about the influence of a gradient of heavy metal contamination on the diversity, structure of microbial functional gene in sediment. To deeply understand the impact of heavy metal contamination on microbial community, a comprehensive functional gene array (GeoChip 5.0) has been used to study the functional genes structure, composition, diversity and metabolic potential of microbial community from three heavy metal polluted sites of Xiangjiang River.
Project description:In the present study, we studied microbial composition and metabolic activity in the bathypelagic zone of the South China Sea. 12 samples were collected and subjected to metaproteomic analysis. Our data provide a novel view of the roles of two lifestyle prokaryotes and their link in substrate utilization in dark ocean.
Project description:In the present study, we studied microbial composition and metabolic activity in the euphotic zone of the South China Sea. 8 samples were collected and subjected to metaproteomic analysis. Our results suggested that mixotrophic phototrophs-driven NDL carbon fixation along with phytoplankton-driven NRL carbon fixation determined primary production in the oligotrophic ocean’s euphotic zone.
Project description:Chemical analysis of the compounds present in sediment, although informative, often is not indicative of the downstream biological effects that these contaminants exert on resident aquatic organisms. More direct molecular methods are needed to determine if marine life is affected by exposure to sediments. In this study, we used an aquatic multispecies microarray and q-PCR to investigate the effects on gene expression in juvenile sea bream (Sparus aurata) of two contaminated sediments defined as sediment 1 and 2 respectively, from marine areas in Northern Italy.
Project description:Marine viral concentrates (VCs) contains a substantial amount of non-cellular biological particles, e.g. viruses, gene transfer agents (GTAs) and membrane vesicles that are ecological significant. Metagenomic sequencing of VCs has been extensively applied to study the diversity and function potential of natural virions whereas information of nonn-viral components are often excluded for investigation. Here we apply a shotgun proteomic approach to characterize the origin and function of proteins in the VCs collected from the deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM) of the South China Sea. Using a custom database, we identified 636 non-redundant proteins represented by a total of 7220 spectra from the two VC samples. Cyanophages, pelagiphages, Phycodnaviridae and a group of uncultured viruses (previouly collected from DCM of Mediterranean Sea) contributed the most in the viral proteome. Seldom proteins related to RNA viruses and known GTAs were found despites of the presence of their sequences in the protein-searching database, suggested that these particles might be low abundant in the samples. Over 60% of identified spectra could not be assigned to viruses. The non-viral spectra were dominated by microbial groups of SAR324, SAR11, Actinobacteria and picoeukaryotic algae such as prasinophytes.Interestingly, we found that periplasmic proteins such as diverse ABC and TRAP transporters, and 56 kDa selenium-binding proteins, were enriched in this fraction.Together with other detected non-viral proteins,we could identify significant microbial functions, such as the utilization of glycine betaine, 3-dimethylsulphoniopropionate,and taurine by SAR11,and urea by prochlorococcus, nitrous oxide production by ammonia-oxidizing archaea and peroxide detoxification by unkonwn gammaproteobacteria. Our study of marine VCs demonstrates the potential application of metaproteomics to link the nano-size materials to the diversity of virions and interesting microbial functions in the ocean.
Project description:Analysis of U251 glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) cells treated with a new culcita novaeguineae asterosaponion, CN-3. A new asterosaponin was isolated from culcita novaeguineae, an abundant marine resource in the south China sea. The asterosaponin induced significant growth inhibition with a 50% inhibitory concentration at 48 h of 2.013 μg/mL in U251MG cells. 1.8μg/mL of the asterosaponin reduced U251 MG cells viability from 100 % to 42.5% (24 h), 37.4% (48 h) and 52.1% (72 h). In this study, a microarray analysis was performed using RNA prepared from U251MG GBM cells treated with the asterosaponion. These data revealed that 661 genes had significant differential expressions.