Project description:Full title: Environmental transcriptome analysis of LfeRT32a in its natural microbial community comparing the biofilm and planktonic modes of life. Extreme acidic environments are characterized among other features by the high metal content and the lack of nutrients (oligotrophy). Macroscopic biofilms and filaments usually grow on the water-air interface or under the stream attached to solid substrates (streamers). In the Tinto River (Spain), brown filaments develop under the water stream where the Gram-negative iron-oxidizing bacteria Leptospirillum ferrooxidans and Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans are abundant. Both microorganisms play a critical role in bioleaching processes for industrial (biominery) and environmental applications (acid mine drainage, bioremediation). The aim of this study was to investigate the physiological differences between the free living (planktonic) and the sessile (biofilm associated) lifestyles of L. ferrooxidans as part of a natural extremely acidophilic community.
Project description:Investigation of global gene expression changes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain NRRL Y-12632 (ATCC® 18824) grown in media made with asbestos mine tailings-laden water compared to the control grown in media made with double distilled water
Project description:Brassica oleraceae plants were treated with jasmonic acid either at the roots or two leaves. An acidic (HCl) water sollution with the same pH as the jasmonic acid sollution was also applied to two leaves of the root jasmonic acid treated plants, and to the roots of leaf jasmonic acid treated plants. Control plants received a mock treatment on roots and leaves with acidic water of the same pH as the jasmonic acid sollution. The whole root system and two systemic leaves were harvested separately at 6, 18 and 30 h after treatment. For each time point, tissue and treatment, three biological replicates (except two replicates for 'Root-Cont-18h' sample) were made consisting of pooled tissue samples from 10 plants. Gene expression was analyzed in both tissues using the 29,000 element Arabidopsis Oligonucleotide Microarrays (Qiagen-Operon Arabidopsis Genome Array Ready Oligo Set version 3.0).
2012-12-18 | GSE38784 | GEO
Project description:Bacteria community of Treatment by bacterial consortium
Project description:We characterized the bacterial diversity of chlorinated drinking water from three surface water treatment plants supplying the city of Paris, France. For this purpose, we used serial analysis of V6 ribosomal sequence tag (SARST-V6) to produce concatemers of PCR-amplified ribosomal sequence tags (RSTs) from the V6 hypervariable region of the 16S rRNA gene for sequence analysis. Using SARST-V6, we obtained bacterial profiles for each drinking water sample, demonstrating a strikingly high degree of biodiversity dominated by a large collection of low-abundance phylotypes. In all water samples, between 57.2-77.4% of the sequences obtained indicated bacteria belonging to the Proteobacteria phylum. Full-length 16S rDNA sequences were also generated for each sample, and comparison of the RSTs with these sequences confirmed the accurate assignment for several abundant bacterial phyla identified by SARST-V6 analysis, including members of unclassified bacteria, which account for 6.3-36.5% of all V6 sequences. These results suggest that these bacteria may correspond to a common group adapted to drinking water systems. The V6 primers used were subsequently evaluated with a computer algorithm to assess their hybridization efficiency. Potential errors associated with primer-template mismatches and their impacts on taxonomic group detection were investigated. The biodiversity present in all three drinking water samples suggests that the bacterial load of the drinking water leaving treatment plants may play an important role in determining the downstream community dynamics of water distribution networks.
Project description:Brassica oleraceae plants were treated with jasmonic acid either at the roots or two leaves. An acidic (HCl) water sollution with the same pH as the jasmonic acid sollution was also applied to two leaves of the root jasmonic acid treated plants, and to the roots of leaf jasmonic acid treated plants. Control plants received a mock treatment on roots and leaves with acidic water of the same pH as the jasmonic acid sollution. The whole root system and two systemic leaves were harvested separately at 6, 18 and 30 h after treatment. For each time point, tissue and treatment, three biological replicates (except two replicates for 'Root-Cont-18h' sample) were made consisting of pooled tissue samples from 10 plants. Gene expression was analyzed in both tissues using the 29,000 element Arabidopsis Oligonucleotide Microarrays (Qiagen-Operon Arabidopsis Genome Array Ready Oligo Set version 3.0). Two treatments (root and leaf jasmonic acid) and control treatment. For each treatment, three biological replicates (except two replicates for 'Root-Cont-18h' sample) were taken of two tissues (roots and leaves). Samples were taken at three time points (6, 18 and 30 h). Single color hybridizations were performed, which lead to 53 slides in total.
Project description:This bacterial MALDI-TOF dataset was used for the study "Use of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and IDBac to selectively mine for understudied bacterial genera from the environment'. Each spectra contains up to three replicates of MALDI-MS profiles of each bacterial isolate.