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Highly efficient lipid production in the green alga Parachlorella kessleri: draft genome and transcriptome endorsed by whole-cell 3D ultrastructure

Overview of attention for article published in Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, January 2016
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Title
Highly efficient lipid production in the green alga Parachlorella kessleri: draft genome and transcriptome endorsed by whole-cell 3D ultrastructure
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Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13068-016-0424-2
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Shuhei Ota, Kenshiro Oshima, Tomokazu Yamazaki, Sangwan Kim, Zhe Yu, Mai Yoshihara, Kohei Takeda, Tsuyoshi Takeshita, Aiko Hirata, Kateřina Bišová, Vilém Zachleder, Masahira Hattori, Shigeyuki Kawano

Abstract

Algae have attracted attention as sustainable producers of lipid-containing biomass for food, animal feed, and for biofuels. Parachlorella kessleri, a unicellular green alga belonging to the class Trebouxiophyceae, achieves very high biomass, lipid, and starch productivity levels. However, further biotechnological exploitation has been hampered by a lack of genomic information. Here, we sequenced the whole genome and transcriptome, and analyzed the behavior of P. kessleri NIES-2152 under lipid production-inducing conditions. The assembly includes 13,057 protein-coding genes in a 62.5-Mbp nuclear genome. Under conditions of sulfur deprivation, lipid accumulation was correlated with the transcriptomic induction of enzymes involved in sulfur metabolism, triacylglycerol (TAG) synthesis, autophagy, and remodeling of light-harvesting complexes. Three-dimensional transmission electron microscopy (3D-TEM) revealed extensive alterations in cellular anatomy accompanying lipid hyperaccumulation. The present 3D-TEM results, together with transcriptomic data support the finding that upregulation of TAG synthesis and autophagy are potential key mediators of the hyperaccumulation of lipids under conditions of nutrient stress.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Unknown 123 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 22%
Researcher 24 19%
Student > Bachelor 18 14%
Student > Master 12 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 5%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 23 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 45 35%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 24 19%
Chemical Engineering 6 5%
Environmental Science 6 5%
Engineering 5 4%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 32 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 December 2016.
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#8,474,477
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Outputs from Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
#578
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#129,771
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Outputs of similar age from Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
#22
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