Katja Bettenbrock

Cultures grown under standard SUMO conditions were analyzed with respect to heterogeneity in gene expression. To this end GFP reporter strains were constructed and GFP expression at single cell level was monitored by flow cytometry.

The electron transport chain of E. coli is branched. Different NAD Dehydrogenases and terminal oxidases are known to be expressed at different oxygen availabilities. By deleting multiple genes mutant strains were constructed that posses a linear electron transport chain. These mutants were investigated in continous bioreactor experiments with limiting glucose and varying oxygen supply.

A set of isogenic mutant strains was constructed which lack NADH Dehydrogenase I as well as two terminal oxidases, resulting in strains with linear respiratory chain. The different strains hence differ in the terminal oxidase and express either cytochrome bo, cytochrome bdI or cytochrome bdII.
The different strains were cultivated in glucose-limited chemostats with defined low levels of oxygen supply. Biomass and by-product formation, gene expression and the phosphorylation state of the important
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Mutants with a linear respiratory chain consisting of NADH Dehydrogenase II and one of the terminal oxidases cytochrom bo, cytochrome bd I or cytochrome bd II were growth in chemostats with defined oxygen supply. The amounts of biomass formed and of acetate and formate produced were determined.

Mutant strains with linear electron transport chain were grown in chemostat cultures at different defined aerobiosis levels. Expression of selected genes was determined by Real Time RT-PCR

Mutants with linear respiratory chains were grown under SUMO chemostat conditions at different defined aerobiosis levels. The ArcA phoshorylation state as determined.

This data file shows results from the different chemostat experiments.Gene expression rates are presented.

by-product formation rates and glucose uptake rates of mutants with linear electron transport chain at different aerobiosis levels

The ArcA phosphorylation state was determined for mutants with linear respiratory chain at defined aerobiosis levels.

Gene expression levels in mutants with linear ETC were determined by RealTime RT-PCR

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