Project description:The purpose of the study is to identify Irr-responsive genes in the bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Parent strain LO was compared to irr mutant strain LODTM5 by whole genome microarray analysis. Both cell types were grown in iron-limited media. Keywords: Comparison of B. japonicum wild type and mutant cells
Project description:The purpose of the study is to identify iron-responsive genes in the bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Parent strain LO was grown under iron limitation or under iron sufficiency and compared to each other by whole genome microarray analysis. Keywords: Comparison of cells grown under low or high iron conditons
Project description:Bradyrhizobium denitrificans K2, isolated from an air circulation environment, has potential genes participating in inorganic nitrogen and carbon cycling. The draft genome comprises 8.31 Mb, with 7,982 coding sequences and 64.81% average G+C content. Genes related to carbon and inorganic nitrogen cycling were observed in the draft genome.
Project description:Many sulfur-oxidizing prokaryotes oxidize sulfur compounds through a combination of initial extracytoplasmic and downstream cytoplasmic reactions. Facultative sulfur oxidizers adjust transcription to sulfur availability. While sulfur-oxidizing enzymes and transcriptional repressors have been extensively studied, sulfur import into the cytoplasm and how regulators sense external sulfur are poorly understood. Addressing this gap, we show that SoxT1A and SoxT1B, which resemble YeeE/YedE-family thiosulfate transporters and are encoded alongside sulfur oxidation and transcriptional regulation genes, fulfill these roles in the Alphaproteobacterium Hyphomicrobium denitrificans. RT-qPCR provided initial evidence that SoxT1A and SoxT1B from H. denitrificans may be intricate components of the oxidation pathway and/or involved in its transcriptional regulation. Here, we extend these analyses with genome-wide mRNA-Seq data for the reference strain, comparing transcription in the absence and presence of 2 mM thiosulfate