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     IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF

  BIOLOGICAL ACTIVE MOLECULES- BioActive


Sequencing the genome of a useful bacteria: Paenarthrobacter nicotinovorans – next step in extending it’s biotechnological applications
(PaeNicGenom)
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-0656, No. PCE 152 / 2021

  • Research project funded by the Ministry of Education and Scientific Research - Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI), PNCDI III - P4 - Fundamental and frontier research
  • Funding amount  - 1.198.032 lei (approx. 246.000 euro);
  • Funding period - 36 months (4.01.2021 - 32.12.2023).

Project summary:


    Paenarthrobacter nicotinovorans pAO1 is a nicotine degrading microorganism that shows promising applications in converting nicotine-containing waste into useful green chemicals. Its biotechnological applications are nevertheless hampered by the lack of knowledge and tools to perform genetic and metabolic engineering. After solving the nicotine-induced proteome of this bacteria, the project leader of the current proposal concluded that none of the draft genomes available for this strain are complete. The current application aims to provide the first complete and annotated genome of P. nicotinovorans pAO1, and, as such, the first complete genome of a nicotine degrading microorganism. In order to achieve this, P. nicotinovorans pAO1 gDNA will be isolated and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) will be performed using two platforms: NGS Illumina for reading depth and ONT MinION for scaffolding and assembling the genome. The quality of the assembly and annotation will be addressed using dRNA-seq and the already available raw proteomics data. The project will not only strengthen the much need bioinformatics know-how in the already existing team of the project leader, but also will group allow the group to generate a genome-scale metabolic model of the nicotine metabolism, and, consecutively, to develop high yield bio-technologies for production on nicotine derivatives.


Main results and impact:


The most important result of the project is making available to the scientific community a set of reference data-sets:

  • the first complete and annotated genome of an nicotine-degrading bacteria Paenarthrobacter nicotinovorans ATCC 49199: GenBank CP089293 and CP089294, as well as the associated raw data: PRJNA693273
  • a transcriptomics data-set dealing with the nicotine metabolism in Paenarthrobacter nicotinovorans ATCC 49199: Gene Expression Omnibus GSE240220;
  •  a complete re-analysis of the proteomics data-set PXD008756  and its integration with the genomics and transcriptomics data-sets to offer a multi-omics analysis if nicotine metabolism.
These public data-sets will allow a better understanding of the nicotine degradation pathway and will allow researchers to manipulate the pathway  in order to develop a biotechnology for conversion of nicotine containing waste into green chemicals such as succinic acid, methyl-amine, or nicotine derivatives.


Project members: 


Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași



  • Marius Mihășan, PhD 
Project coordinator
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  • Marius Ştefan, PhD
Microbiology
U-1700-039M-8493
  • Răzvan Ștefan Boiangiu
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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PhDs and students


  • Amada El-Sabeh
Genomics and Transcriptomics

U-2000-065K-8850
  • Munteanu Iustin Tiberius
Molecular Biology


Honceriu Iasmina
master student








      News       Objectives and progress reports    Publications 

News:
September 16, 2023 - Attending the SRBBM meeting in Cluj-Napoca


August 7, 2023 - New dataset released


July 12, 2023 - At FEBS 2023


July 7, 2023 - Another poster ready for the FEBS meeting


July 5, 2023 - Preparing for the FEBS meeting


May 15, 2023 - Results presented at the 2023 RoBioinfo conference, Bucharest


March 29, 2023 - Project members involved in organizing the 2023 RoBioinfo Conference, Bucharest



March 29, 2023 - Project members part of the Scientific comitte for the  2023 RoBioinfo Conference, Bucharest


December 22, 2022 - Happy New BioActive Year!



October 25, 2022 - Members of the project team attended the SRBC 2022 Meeting, Cluj-Napoca, Romania


October 12, 2022 - Our Paenarthrobacter nicotinovorans ATCC 49919 genome was included in the Prokaryotic Representative Genomes  Collection


September14, 2022 - lab life for a bioinformatician assemblying bacterial genomes

August 30, 2022 - Boiangiu Razvan Stefan presenting his work at #PSEMeeting2022


August 25, 2022 -First successful experiment for directly sequencing bacterial RNA


August 23, 2022 - New article published by the youngest member of the team -Munteanu Iustin Tiberius


July 11th, 2022 - An overview of our activity at FEBS IUBMB-FEBS-PABMB 2022


July 11th, 2022 - Team member  Amada El-Sabeh presenting her work at IUBMB-FEBS-PABMB2022 - The Biochemistry Global Summit, Lisbon, Portugal. 



July 11th, 2022 - Team member  Tiberius Iustin Munteanu presenting his work at IUBMB-FEBS-PABMB2022 - The Biochemistry Global Summit, Lisbon, Portugal.



July 2nd, 2022 - Presenting the posters at FEMS 2022, Belgrade, Serbia



June 28th, 2022 - Poster on P.nicotinovorans nicotine metabolism presented at FEMS 2022, Belgrade, Serbia



June 28th, 2022 - Poster on P. nicotinovorans genome presented at FEMS 2022, Belgrade, Serbia



June 10th, 2022 - Poster on nicotine metabolism presented at ASMS 2022, Minneapollis, MN, USA with  Darie Proteomics & Biochemistry Group.



June 2nd, 2022 - Marius Mihasan, PI, talking about the results of the project at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA



May 30, 2022 -  Marius Mihasan, PI, talking about the results of the project at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey


May 10th, 2022 -  Paper announcement paper is finally available and genome released to the public


April 25th, 2022 - New manuscript accepted for publication

April 12, 2022 - Marius Mihasan talking about bacterial genome sequencing at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA

November 28th, 2021 - Tiberius Munteanu presenting his work at YSF 2022


August 9th, 2021 - New goodies in the lab!

July 22, 2021 - Poster presented at Young Researchers in BioSciences 2021:



June 29, 2021 - Poster presented at FEBS 2021:

June 25, 2021 - Poster presented at FEBS 2021:

June 16th, 2021 - A new dataset released on Pride database

October 7th, 2021 - Protein nanopores give green light for DNA sequencing for the first time in our lab


June 8th, 2021 - New goodies for the lab:
May 26, 2021 - New publication on nicotine metabolism:

Contact

Project manager:

Marius Mihășan, PhD

Adress: Room B228, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Alexandru I Cuza University of Iasi, Carol I B-vd., No. 20A, Iaşi, 700506, Romania
E-mail:    marius.mihasan@uaic.ro
Phone:   40(0)232201102 - 1524
Fax:         40(0)232201472
Further details: here
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