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Bacterial isoprene metabolism: a missing link in a key global biogeochemical cycle

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA Organization address address: EARLHAM ROAD city: NORWICH postcode: NR4 7TJ website: http://www.uea.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	United Kingdom [UK]
Project website	http://www.jcmurrell.co.uk/projects/isoprene/
Total cost	2˙494˙693 €
EC max contribution	2˙494˙693 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2015-AdG
Funding Scheme	ERC-ADG
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-11-01 to 2021-10-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA Organization address address: EARLHAM ROAD city: NORWICH postcode: NR4 7TJ website: http://www.uea.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (NORWICH)	coordinator	2˙494˙693.00

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Project objective

Isoprene is a very important climate-active biogenic volatile organic compound with both global warming and cooling effects. Globally, terrestrial plants emit huge amounts (~500-750 million tonnes) of isoprene per year. This is approximately the same quantity as methane released to the amosphere. Isoprene emissions are predicted to rise due to global warming and increased use of isoprene-emitting trees (oil palm, poplar) for biofuel production but almost nothing is known about its biogeochemical cycle. Microbes are a sink for isoprene and through their activity in soils and on the leaves of isoprene-emitting plants, they will be important in removal of isoprene in the biosphere before it gets released to the atmosphere. The aim of the project is to obtain a critical, fundamental understanding of the metabolism and ecological importance of biological isoprene degradation and to test the hypothesis that isoprene degrading bacteria play a crucial role in the biogeochemical isoprene cycle, thus helping to mitigate the effects of this important but neglected climate-active gas. Key objectives are to elucidate the biological mechanisms by which isoprene is metabolised, establish novel methods for the study of isoprene biodegradation and to understand at the mechanistic level how isoprene cycling by microbes is regulated in the environment. Bacteria that metabolise isoprene will be isolated from a range of terrestrial and marine environments and characterised using a multidisciplinary approach and a wide range of cutting edge techniques. We will elucidate the pathways of isoprene metabolism and their regulation by characterising genes/enzymes catalysing key steps in isoprene degradation, use innovative molecular ecology methods to determine distribution, diversity and activity of isoprene degraders and assess the contribution that microbes make in the removal of isoprene from the biosphere, thereby mitigating the effects of this climate-active compound.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Nasmille L. Larke-MejÃa, Andrew T. Crombie, Jennifer Pratscher, Terry J. McGenity, J. Colin Murrell Novel Isoprene-Degrading Proteobacteria From Soil and Leaves Identified by Cultivation and Metagenomics Analysis of Stable Isotope Probing Experiments published pages: , ISSN: 1664-302X, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02700	Frontiers in Microbiology 10	2020-01-27
2017	Andrew T. Crombie, Helen Emery, Terry J. McGenity, J. Colin Murrell Draft Genome Sequences of Three Terrestrial Isoprene-Degrading Rhodococcus Strains published pages: e01256-17, ISSN: 2169-8287, DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.01256-17	Genome Announcements 5/45	2019-06-13
2018	Terry J. McGenity, Andrew T. Crombie, J. Colin Murrell Microbial cycling of isoprene, the most abundantly produced biological volatile organic compound on Earth published pages: , ISSN: 1751-7362, DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0072-6	The ISME Journal	2019-06-13
2017	Antonia Johnston, Andrew T. Crombie, Myriam El Khawand, Leanne Sims, Gregg M. Whited, Terry J. McGenity, J. Colin Murrell Identification and characterisation of isoprene-degrading bacteria in an estuarine environment published pages: 3526-3537, ISSN: 1462-2912, DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13842	Environmental Microbiology 19/9	2019-06-13
2018	Ornella CarriÃ³n, Nasmille L. Larke-MejÃa, Lisa Gibson, Muhammad Farhan Ul Haque, Javier Ramiro-GarcÃa, Terry J. McGenity, J. Colin Murrell Gene probing reveals the widespread distribution, diversity and abundance of isoprene-degrading bacteria in the environment published pages: , ISSN: 2049-2618, DOI: 10.1186/s40168-018-0607-0	Microbiome 6/1	2019-04-18
2018	Andrew T. Crombie, Nasmille L. Larke-Mejia, Helen Emery, Robin Dawson, Jennifer Pratscher, Gordon P. Murphy, Terry J. McGenity, J. Colin Murrell Poplar phyllosphere harbors disparate isoprene-degrading bacteria published pages: 13081-13086, ISSN: 0027-8424, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1812668115	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115/51	2019-04-18

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