Journal
MARINE DRUGS
Volume 18, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/md18050259
Keywords
diatom; algae; pCO(2); temperature; gene expression; lipids; fatty acid; biofixation; biotechnological applications; industrial applications
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Project of China [2019YFC1407805]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41876134, 41676112, 41276124]
- Key Project of Natural Science Foundation for Tianjin [17JCZDJC40000]
- University Innovation Team Training Program for Tianjin [TD12-5003]
- Tianjin 131 Innovation Team Program [20180314]
- Changjiang Scholar Program of Chinese Ministry of Education [T2014253]
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Marine diatoms are promising candidates for biotechnological applications, since they contain high-value compounds, naturally. To facilitate the production of these compounds, stress conditions are often preferable; however, challenges remain with respect to maximizing a metabolic potential for the large-scale cultivation. Here, we sequenced the transcriptome of diatom Skeletonema dohrnii under the actual (21 degrees C, 400 ppm) and elevated (25 degrees C, 1000 ppm) temperature and pCO(2) condition. Results indicated that cells grown at higher temperature and pCO(2) showed increasing growth rate, pigment composition, and biochemical productivity as did the expression of chlorophyll, carotenoid and bioactive compound related genes or transcripts. Furthermore, performing de novo transcriptome, we identified 32,884 transcript clusters and found 10,974 of them were differentially expressed between these two conditions. Analyzing the functions of differentially expressed transcripts, we found many of them involved in core metabolic and biosynthesis pathways, including chlorophyll metabolism, carotenoid, phenylpropanoid, phenylalanine and tyrosine, and flavonoid biosynthesis was upregulated. Moreover, we here demonstrated that utilizing a unique bio-fixation ability, S. dohrnii is capable of suppressing central carbon metabolism to promote lipid productivity, fatty acid contents and other bioactive compounds under high temperature and pCO(2) treatment. Our study suggests that this S. dohrnii species could be a potential candidate for wide-scale biotechnological applications under elevated temperature and CO2 conditions.
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