Project description:Purpose:The oxygen-regulated genes FNR and ARCA were combined with Komagataeibacter xylinus CGMCC 2955 to provide a new perspective for the study of the mechanism of oxygen environment on BC synthesis. Methods:The FNR and Arca overexpressing strains and the control strains were fermented under different partial oxygen pressures. The bacterial cellulose membrane in the logarithmic period of fermentation was enzymolyzed, and the bacteria were collected for transcriptome analysis.Sequencing was performed with Illumina and transcriptome analysis was performed on the bacteria under different conditions. Results:Transcriptome sequencing was performed using Illumina high-throughput sequencing technology on K. xylinus cultured under different oxygen tensions. The differentially expressed genes in the arcA overexpressing strains were mainly in the sulfur metabolism, two-component system, purine metabolism, and amino acid metabolism pathways compared to the control strains. Analysis showed that the arcA overexpression strain activated the sulfur metabolic pathway in K. xylinus. Due to the insufficient oxygen electron acceptors in the hypoxia, sulfate acted as the final electron acceptor and enhanced the growth ability of the strain. Through global regulation of the pathways of bacterial growth and metabolism as well as BC synthesis under low oxygen conditions, the arcA gene has enabled the strain to reach new levels of BC production. This study lays the foundation for further investigation of the mechanism of the effect of oxygen on BC synthesis in K. xylinus.
2021-05-22 | GSE174847 | GEO
Project description:Transcriptome of Schizophyllum commune20R-7-F01 under different hydrostatic pressures
Project description:RNAseq was performed on zebrafish larvae infected with bacteria under different osmotic pressures. The trascriptome profile generated here reveals the differential immune gene expression pattern.
Project description:Physiological and gene expression studies of deep-sea bacteria under pressure conditions similar to those experienced in their natural habitat are critical to understand growth kinetics and metabolic adaptations to in situ conditions. The Epslilonproteobacterium, Nautilia sp. strain PV1, was isolated from hydrothermal fluids released from an active deep-sea hydrothermal vent at 9°N on the East Pacific Rise. Using a high pressure/high temperature continuous culture system we established that strain PV-1 has the shortest generation time of all known piezophilic microorganisms and we investigated its protein expression pattern in response to different hydrostatic pressures. Proteomic analyses of strain PV-1 grown at 200 Bars and 5 Bars showed that pressure adaptation is not restricted only to stress response or homeoviscous adaptation, but that it is more diversified and protein specific, with a fine and variegated regulation of enzymes involved even in the same metabolic pathway. As previously reported, proteins synthesis, motility, transport and energy metabolism are all affected by pressure, although to different extents. In strain PV-1, low pressure condition seems to activate the synthesis of phage-related proteins and an overexpression of enzymes involved in central carbon metabolism.
Project description:Transcriptome data of A. flavus was assembled under four different conditions (two strains and two media) for omics data analyses of genes related to ustiloxin production. The used two strains were the over-expressed strain (ustR-oe) of the transcription factor in ustiloxin gene cluster, ustR, and the pyrG marker complemented strain (control). The two media were V8 juice liquid and potato dextrose broth (PDB) media. The ustR-oe strain produced more ustiloxin B than the control strain, and the production is much higher in V8 than in PDB. Therefore, four different state of transcriptome could be obtained under these four conditions. The obtained transcriptome data was combined with the GEO data acc. no. GSE15435 and uesd for omics data analyses.
Project description:The use of laparoscopic surgery is continuing to increase in colorectal resection and expected reach 80% in the next 10 years. Although laparoscopic (keyhole) or minimally invasive surgery can lead to faster recovery it can also put significant stresses on the patient’s heart and cause fluctuations in blood pressure due to the extreme headdown positioning and abdominal insufflation of carbon dioxide gas.
We have performed several surgical cases under deep neuromuscular block and this has allowed surgery to operate at lower abdominal pressures (from 14 down to 8 mmHg). This put less strain on the heart and allowed higher cardiac outputs.
This study will look at whether deep neuromuscular block is beneficial for patients by
1. Increasing oxygen delivery, measured using oesophageal doppler monitoring of cardiovascular variables intraoperatively
2. Allowing surgery at lower abdominal insufflation pressures if they have a deep block
3. Reducing patient’s analgesic requirements postoperatively in recovery and at 4 hours