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Transcriptomic analysis of Helicobacter pylori 26695 exposed to lethal concentration of a bactericidal inhibitor of the essential response regulator HsrA

ABSTRACT: Helicobacter pylori, a pathogenic member of phylum Campylobacterota (formerly Epsilonproteobacteria), is recognized as the leading cause of several human gastric pathologies, including acute and chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, gastric adenocarcinoma, and gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. In the last two decades, the alarming increase of the antibiotic resistance levels to first-line and even “rescue” antibiotics, especially clarithromycin, metronidazole and levofloxacin, has led to a marked decrease of the eradication rates of traditional therapies. In previous works, we have validated the essential protein HsrA as an effective therapeutic target for H. pylori infection. HsrA is an OmpR/PhoB-type orphan response regulator, unique and highly conserved in members of phylum Campylobacterota, which appears involved in a variety of crucial physiological processes. In the present work, we carried out a transcriptomic analysis in order to discern the global effects of lethal concentrations of a bactericidal HsrA inhibitor on the H. pylori physiology. Treatment with the bactericidal HsrA inhibitor significantly changed the transcript levels of 367 open reading frames (ORF), of which 212 genes appeared upregulated and 155 genes resulted in downregulation, as compared with control samples. Thus, in vivo HsrA inhibition influenced, directly or indirectly, the expression of 23% of ORFs encoded by the H. pylori 26696 genome. Among the 268 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) with defined functions, two functional categories were highly enriched with downregulated genes involved in essential physiological processes: (1) ribosome biogenesis, and (2) electron transfer and oxidative phosphorylation.

INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina NovaSeq 6000

ORGANISM(S): Helicobacter pylori 26695

SUBMITTER: Irene Oliván Muro

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-14255 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Transcriptomic analysis of Helicobacter pylori 26695 exposed to lethal concentration of a bactericidal inhibitor of the essential response regulator HsrA

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