Project description:The study by Allaart et al. (2023) investigates whether different environmental conditions can alter chain-elongating microbial communities to exhibit different catabolic stoichiometries. In support of the study, we provide whole-cell lysate shotgun proteomics data that compare the tested conditions. Contact: M.T.Allaart@tudelft.nl
Project description:Microbial chain elongation has emerged as a valuable bioprocess for obtaining marketable products, such as medium chain fatty acids usable in several industrial applications, from organic waste. The understanding of the microbiology and microbial ecology in these systems is crucial to apply these microbiomes in reliable production processes controlling microbial pathways to promote favourable metabolic processes, which will in turn increase product specificity and yields. In this research, the dynamics, cooperation/competition and potentialities of bacterial communities involved in the long-term lactate-based chain elongation process from food waste extract were evaluated under different operating conditions by DNA/RNA amplicon sequencing and functional profile prediction. The feeding strategies and the applied organic loading rates strongly affected the microbial community composition. The use of food waste extract promoted the selection of primary fermenters (i.e., Olsenella, Lactobacillus) responsible for the in situ production of electron donors (i.e., lactate). The discontinuous feeding and the organic loading rate 15 gCOD L-1 d-1 selected the best performing microbiome in which microbes coexist and cooperate to complete the chain elongation process. Both at DNA and RNA level, this microbiome was composed by the lactate producer Olsenella, the short chain fatty acids producers Anaerostipes, Clostridium sensu stricto 7, C. sensu stricto 12, Corynebacterium, Erysipelotrichaceae UCG-004, F0332, Leuconostoc, and the chain elongator Caproiciproducens. This microbiome also showed the highest predicted abundance of short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, the functional enzyme responsible for the chain elongation process. The combined approach herein used allowed to study the microbial ecology of chain elongation process from food waste by identifying the main functional groups, establishing the presence of potential biotic interactions within the microbiomes, and predicting metabolic potentialities. This study provided pivotal indications for the selection of high-performance microbiome involved in caproate production from food waste that can serve as a basis for further improving system performance and engineering the process scale-up.
| S-EPMC10126515 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Microbiome of Chain-Elongating Bioreactors
Project description:This study evaluated transcriptomic responses to submergence in elongating and non-elongating leaves of rice near-isogenic lines with and without SUB1A using RNA-Seq. SUB1A is an ERF transcription factor gene and the key regulator of submergence tolerance in rice, restricting underwater elongation and avoiding starvation under the stress. Submergence induces mRNA accumulation of SUB1A similarly in elongating and non-elongating leaves. This study uncovered SUB1A-dependent and independent regulation of adaptive responses to submergence in the two functionally distinct leaves at the global level.