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• Dataset Description
  • Methods & Sampling
  • Data Processing Description
• Data Files
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• Project Information
• Funding

Transcriptome data for bacteria Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3, Stenotrophomonas sp. SKA14, Polaribacter dokdonensis MED152, and Dokdonia MED134 collected eight hours after individual inoculation into a diatom Thalassiosira psuedonana culture. The sequence data description for PRHNA448168 is at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/?term=PRJNA448168.

Thalassiosira pseudonana were removed from the co-cultures by pre-filtration through 2.0 µm pore-size filters, and bacteria were collected on 0.2 µm pore-size filters. Filters were incubated in SDS (0.6% final concentration) and proteinase K (120 ng μl –1 final concentration). RNA was extracted from duplicates of each treatment by adding an equal volume of acid phenol:chloroform:isoamyl-alcohol, followed by shaking, centrifugation, and collection of the supernatant. A second extraction was carried out by the addition of an equal volume of chloroform:isoamyl-alcohol. RNA was recovered from the supernatant, treated to remove rRNA, and sequenced.

Each sequence library is from four independent bacterial samples that were pooled for sequencing. The data are assigned to one of the four samples post-sequencing by mapping to the genomes of each of the four bacteria. The data table provides the accession numbers of the bacterial genomes to be used for mapping in the final column.

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:
- data submitted in Excel file "Diatom matrix data table.xlsx" sheet "Sheet1" extracted to csv
- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
- NCBI_Genome_Accession data were split into separate rows
- Replicate number and Taxon were put into their own columns

NSF Award Abstract:
The roles of microbes in cycling carbon and nutrients in the ocean - the largest biological system on Earth - were initially described about 40 years ago. Now, it is known that half of Earth's primary production is carried out by marine phytoplankton, and half of that is recycled within weeks by marine bacteria. This proposal is a collaboration between microbiologists and chemists to identify the specific compounds that pass between phytoplankton and bacteria in surface ocean waters. Identifying the key chemicals of the ocean's microbial food web will provide insights into how the marine carbon cycle is regulated, generate data to improve ocean carbon models, and train new scientists at the interface of microbiology and chemistry. Hands-on learning opportunities in microbial ecology will be provided for high school students, both in the classroom and in marine ecosystems of the Georgia coast.

Phytoplankton metabolites that sustain the flow of carbon between microbial autotrophs and heterotrophs in the surface ocean carbon cycle will be identified in this project. A matrix of model systems consisting of bacteria-phytoplankton co-cultures will be used as biological assays for key metabolites based on expression patterns of bacterial transporter genes. The chemical identity of candidate metabolites and evaluation of their potential ecological role will be carried out by exometabolomic analysis of co-cultures with bacterial transporter mutants. Both advanced mass spectrometry and NMR will be used for metabolomics analysis, taking advantage of the sensitivity and compound identification strengths of each. The distribution of candidate metabolites in the ocean microbiome and other microbial systems will be characterized by mining environmental sequence datasets for orthologous transporter genes. This project represents a novel approach to identifying metabolites important in microbiome function, compounds often difficult to address with standard chemical approaches because of their low concentrations and high biological demand.