Transcriptome analysis of light-utilizing Strain IMCC1322, a member of SAR116 group bacteria

The purpose of this study is to elucidate the proteorhodopsin function based on the genome of strain IMCC1322 which was cultivated species of SAR116 from East Sea of Korea. Light-enhanced photoheterotrophy of strain IMCC1322 is interrogated by the transcriptomics of IMCC1322 once the appropriate phenotypic characteristics are revealed by cultivation and polyphasic studies. Transcriptome revealed that green light (max. wavelength =522nm) drives metabolism and cessation of bacterial aging of IMCC1322. Here we report the mRNA profiling of IMCC1322 which is the first effort to the biogeochemistry of light-utilizing SAR116 group in the ocean. Examination of 6 different mRNA sampled from dark/light/diel cultures of IMCC1322 from 3 and 6 days post inoculation