Transcriptional Response of the thermoacidophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius to solvent stress exemplified by 1-butanol exposure

To study the cellular global response of the thermoacidophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius upon solvent exposure we performed transcriptome comparing the response of planktonic and biofilm cells in absence and presence 1-butanol. S. acidocaldarius was grown in Petri dishes (static incubation) in the absence and presence of 0.5% and 1% (v/v) 1-butanol at 76°C for four days. Planktonic and biofilm cells were harvested and the transcriptional response towards 1-butanol was analysed via RNA-seq. In detail:Biofilm and planktonic cell samples (supernatant after static incubation) were generated in Petri dishes (92 x 16 mm, Polystyrene, without cams, Sarstedt) as described before. Cells grown under six different conditions, including Biofilm-Control (BF0), Biofilm-0.5% (v/v) 1-Butanol (BF05), Biofilm-1% (v/v) 1-Butanol (BF1), Planktonic-Control (PL0), Planktonic-0.5% (v/v) 1-Butanol (PL05), Planktonic-1% (v/v) 1-Butanol (PL1), were seperated, harvested by centrifugation (10 min, 5,000 x g, 4 °C) and immediately frozen at -70 °C. Isolation of cells was performed in triplicates with ten technical replicas each. Samples were pooled to obtain sufficient cell mass for further processing. RNA was isolated using Trizol (Thermo Fisher Scientific). In accordance, sequencing libraries were prepared via Illumina TruSeq stranded mRNA using Ribozero for RNA depletion. Sequencing was performed on a MiSeq instrument (Illumina, San Diego, California, USA) using v3 chemistry with a read length of 2x76 nt.