Project description:Sulfolobus acidocaldarius is an obligate aerobe that grows in hot and acidic environments. S. acidocaldarius have been reported to grow on a variety of organic compounds as carbon and energy sources. However, little is known about systemic elucidation of carbon utilization for biomass formation and energy metabolism in S. acidocaldarius. In this analysis, the effect of glucose on genome-wide transcriptional profiling in S. acidocaldarius DSM 639 was investigated by RNA-Seq technology.
Project description:Analysis of transcriptional response to UV irradiation in two related crenarchaea, Sulfolobus solfataricus and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.
Project description:To elucidate the glycerol catabolism in glycerol-adapted S. acidocaldarius MW00G the carbon source dependent global transcriptional response to glycerol compared to D-xylose the transcriptome was analyzed via RNA-Seq. Growth experiments with the S. acidocaldarius MW00G werewas performed in triplicates at 76°C and 120 rpm under constant shaking using (Innova®44, (New Brunswick, Germany) in the presence 10 mM glycerol, 20 mM glycerol or 40 mM glycerol as sole carbon and energy source. For comparison the same strain was cultivated with 0.2 % (w/v) D-xylose. RNA isolation, library preparation, and next-generation cDNA sequencing RNA was isolated using Zymo Direct-zol RNA Miniprep kit following manufactures instructions. The RNA quality was checked by Trinean Xpose (Gentbrugge, Belgium) and the Agilent RNA Nano 6000 kit using an Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent Technologies, Böblingen, Germany). Pan-Archaea riboPOOL kit from siTOOLs Biotech was used to remove the rRNA. TruSeq Stranded mRNA Library Prep Kit from Illumina was applied to prepare the cDNA libraries. The cDNAs were sequenced paired end on an Illumina NextSeq 500 system (San Diego, CA, USA) using 74 bp read length mid output. The paired-end cDNA reads were mapped to the Sulfolobus acidocaldarius DSM 639/MW001 genome sequence (accession number CP000077.1) using bowtie2 v2.2.7. with default settings for paired-end read mapping. All mapped sequence data were converted from SAM to BAM format with SAMtools v1.3 and imported to the software ReadXplorer v.2.2.
Project description:Sulfolobus acidocaldarius has been previously reported to grow on a broad range of sugars, but there is limited information on the ability of the organism to metabolize multiple sugars simultaneously. We report here the ability of S. acidocaldarius to utilize glucose and xylose simultaneously without di-auxie effect. The organism utilized a mixture of 1 g/L glucose and 1 g/L xylose with a growth rate of 0.079 h-1 compared to 0.074 h-1 and 0.22 h-1 when the organism was grown on xylose 2 g/L and 2 g/L glucose respectively as sole carbon sources. An increase in xylose concentration to 2 and 4 g/L in a medium containing 1 g/L glucose resulted in a growth rate of 0.082 and 0.085 h-1. However, increasing glucose concentration by 2 and 4 g/L when xylose concentration was maintained at 1 g/L decreased the growth rate to 0.062 and 0.052 h-1 respectively. S. acidocaldarius appeared to be utilizing the sugars at a rate roughly proportional to their concentration in the medium, resulting in complete utilization of these sugars at same time. The organism did not show preference for either glucose or xylose when it was grown on both sugars. Similar results were obtained with a combination of glucose, arabinose and galactose. These observations strongly suggest that S. acidocaldarius does not regulate utilization of the sugars tested herein using carbon catabolite repression (CCR) commonly found in most bacteria. The mechanism by which the organism utilized a mixture of sugar is yet to be elucidated. However, we were able to identify genes encoding for the putative glucose ABC transporters; but the putative xylose transporter was not identified. A study of S. acidocaldarius grown in glucose, xylose, or the two carbon sources combined in mid-log. Analyzed on Nimblegen 4-plex S. acidocaldarius DSM 639 array weblink: http://microbesonline.org/cgi-bin/microarray/viewExp.cgi?expId=1723
