1. Global Gene Expression Patterns in Clostridium thermocellum as Determined by Microarray Analysis of Chemostat Cultures on Cellulose or Cellobiose▿ †
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Brian G. Fox, Taichi E. Takasuka, Yury V. Bukhman, Allison Riederer, Shin-ichi Makino, Nathaniel L. Elsen, and David M. Stevenson
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Cellobiose ,Transcription, Genetic ,Sigma Factor ,Chemostat ,Biology ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,Clostridium thermocellum ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Bacterial Proteins ,Cellulase ,Sigma factor ,Multienzyme Complexes ,Gene expression ,Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional ,Cellulose ,Gene ,Ecology ,Ethanol ,Microarray analysis techniques ,Gene Expression Profiling ,Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial ,biology.organism_classification ,Microarray Analysis ,Culture Media ,Gene expression profiling ,Biochemistry ,chemistry ,Multigene Family ,Fermentation ,Carrier Proteins ,Glycolysis ,Food Science ,Biotechnology ,Signal Transduction - Abstract
A microarray study of chemostat growth on insoluble cellulose or soluble cellobiose has provided substantial new information on Clostridium thermocellum gene expression. This is the first comprehensive examination of gene expression in C. thermocellum under defined growth conditions. Expression was detected from 2,846 of 3,189 genes, and regression analysis revealed 348 genes whose changes in expression patterns were growth rate and/or substrate dependent. Successfully modeled genes included those for scaffoldin and cellulosomal enzymes, intracellular metabolic enzymes, transcriptional regulators, sigma factors, signal transducers, transporters, and hypothetical proteins. Unique genes encoding glycolytic pathway and ethanol fermentation enzymes expressed at high levels simultaneously with previously established maximal ethanol production were also identified. Ranking of normalized expression intensities revealed significant changes in transcriptional levels of these genes. The pattern of expression of transcriptional regulators, sigma factors, and signal transducers indicates that response to growth rate is the dominant global mechanism used for control of gene expression in C. thermocellum.
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- 2010