Project description:Purpose: Deconstructing the soil microbiome into reduced-complexity functional modules represents a novel method of microbiome analysis. The goals of this study are to confirm differences in transcriptomic patterns among five functional module consortia. Methods: mRNA profiles of 3 replicates each of functional module enrichments of soil inoculum in M9 media with either 1) xylose, 2) n-acetylglucosamine, 3) glucose and gentamycin, 4) xylan, or 5) pectin were generated by sequencing using an Illumina platform (GENEWIZ performed sequencing). Sequence reads that passed quality filters were aligned to a soil metagenome using Burrows Wheeler Aligner. Resulting SAM files were converted to raw reads using HTSeq, and annotated using Uniref90 or EGGNOG databases. Results: To reduce the size of the RNA-Seq counts table and increase its computational tractability, transcripts containing a minimum of 75 total counts, but no more than 3 zero counts, across the 15 samples were removed. The subsequent dataset was normalized using DESeq2, resulting in a dataset consisting of 6947 unique transcripts across the 15 samples, and 185,920,068 reads. We identified gene categories that were enriched in a sample type relative to the overall dataset using Fisher’s exact test. Conclusions: our dataset confirms that the functional module consortia generated from targeted enrichments of a starting soil inoculum had distinct functional trends by enrichment type.

2020-01-14 | GSE143587 | GEO

Comparative transcriptomics of Burkholderia pseudomallei from soil media and infected host

Project description:Burkholderia pseudomallei can adapt to and thrive in a variety of environments, including soil and water, and also can infect different hosts, including humans, leading to the tropical disease melioidosis. Modulation of gene and protein expression is one of this pathogen's adaptive survival mechanisms, which could lead to changes in the bacteria's cell membrane, metabolism, and virulence. To better understand bacterial adaptation and host-pathogen interactions, this study compared the expression profiles of B. pseudomallei from infected mice to B. pseudomallei cultivated in soil extract media. B. pseudomallei in vivo was created by infecting mice through the intraperitoneal route and harvesting the spleens on day 5 post infection. Total RNA was isolated and sequenced from the harvested spleen. Sequence reads were mapped to the B. pseudomallei UKMD286 strain genome sequence.

2022-07-22 | E-MTAB-11200 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Soil pot experiment

Project description:Soil pot experiment Raw sequence reads

| PRJNA1094631 | ENA

A comprehensive study to understand the effects of soil type, soil transplant and landuse changes on soil microbial community and its feedback responses

Project description:The experiment at three long-term agricultural experimental stations (namely the N, M and S sites) across northeast to southeast China was setup and operated by the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This experiment belongs to an integrated project (The Soil Reciprocal Transplant Experiment, SRTE) which serves as a platform for a number of studies evaluating climate and cropping effects on soil microbial diversity and its agro-ecosystem functioning. Soil transplant serves as a proxy to simulate climate change in realistic climate regimes. Here, we assessed the effects of soil type, soil transplant and landuse changes on soil microbial communities, which are key drivers in Earth’s biogeochemical cycles.

2016-02-04 | GSE77546 | GEO

soil metagenome

Project description:Soil metagenome Raw sequence reads GLBRC Biofuel Cropping Systems Experiment

| PRJNA376798 | ENA