Project description:Transcriptional profiling comparing a V. cholerae cpxA* mutant relative to WT at an OD600 of 1. Three independent experiments with a technical replicate for each.
Project description:In this study, we determined the expression profile of V. cholerae strain A1552 and its varA-deficient mutant at two different growth stages (OD600 of 0.2 or 2.5)
Project description:To understand how cholera toxin (CT) produced by Vibrio cholerae modulates gene expression of this organism within the intestine, RNA-seq analysis was performed on two samples each of WT and the ∆ctx mutant bacteria harvested from either the infant rabbit ileum or the cecum one-day post-intragastric infection. We found that 243 genes that were significantly up-regulated in the WT compared to the ∆ctx mutant and these included 101 genes in ileum samples, 118 in the cecum samples, and 24 in both samples. We found that genes known to be induced under low-iron growth conditions were up-regulated in WT relative to the ∆ctx mutant in both the ileum and in the cecum, with a marked up-regulation in the ileum relative to the cecum. We also found that genes involved in TCA cycle metabolism, L-Lactate utilization, and LCFA utilization were significantly up-regulated in the WT in the ileum relative to the ∆ctx mutant during infection. We conclude that CT-induced disease creates an iron-depleted metabolic niche in the gut that modulates the transcriptional profile of this pathogen during infection.
Project description:Lon protease is known to regulate various transcriptional regulators in other bacterial organisms. To understand whether lon protease is involved in transcriptional changes in Vibrio cholerae, wholel-genome level transcriptional profiling was performed using custom microarrays. Transcriptomes of lonA mutant and wild-type strains were compared in this study.
Project description:Temperature is a crucial environmental signal that govers the occurrence of Vibrio cholerae and cholera outbreaks. To understand how temperature impacts the transcriptome of V. cholerae we performed whole-genome level transcriptional profiling using custom microarrays on cells grown at human body temperature (37 C) then shifted to temperatures V. cholerae experience in the environment (15 C and 25 C).
Project description:In this study, we determined the TfoX regulon of V. cholerae WT strain A1552 compared to a ΔhapR and ΔqstR strain using RNA-seq to better understand the protein's function.
Project description:In this study, we compared the QstR regulon to the TfoX regulon (and TfoY regulon) of V. cholerae in WT strain A1552 and its ΔhapRΔvpsA derivative using RNA-seq to better understand QstR's function.