Project description:Secretion of recombinant proteins to the culture medium after transport to the periplasm of gram-negative bacteria often facilitates downstream-processing. It could lead to more biological active and correct folded proteins and low contamination with host proteins, thereby reducing the costs of the production process. However, Escherichia coli K12 secrets only little amount and few substrates naturally. This is one of the major drawbacks for the applicability of this strain in the biotechnology industry, when large amounts of biological active proteins are desirable. Therefore, different attempts were made to enhance the level of secreted proteins. Coexpression of bacteriocin release proteins makes the outer membrane permeable for proteins. A detailed insight into the complex underlying regulatory mechanism and metabolic changes when such release proteins are expressed could be very useful for successful optimisation strategies. The identification of potential optimisation targets can be achieved by DNA-microarray-technology, as proven in many cases before. In this work DNA-microarrays were used for the identification of differentially expressed genes of an inducible E.coli secretion strain expressing reporter proteins bacterial alkaline phosphatase, PhoA and beta-lactamase, Bla and their release to the culture medium by coexpression of the BRP of CloDF13. Based on the data of whole genome experiments and on the different databases genes which are regulated after induction of BRP expression are identified and discussed. BRP activity was found to cause a substantial cellular response and considerable changes in global gene expression. Additionally, performed cluster-analysis using k-means algorithm identified clusters containing promising candidates for new optimisation strategies aiming for an enhanced protein secretion. time series of BRP Induction, every sample was labeled with Cy3 and Cy5 (Dye Swap) to compensate dye-specific effects.
Project description:Secretion of recombinant proteins to the culture medium after transport to the periplasm of gram-negative bacteria often facilitates downstream-processing. It could lead to more biological active and correct folded proteins and low contamination with host proteins, thereby reducing the costs of the production process. However, Escherichia coli K12 secrets only little amount and few substrates naturally. This is one of the major drawbacks for the applicability of this strain in the biotechnology industry, when large amounts of biological active proteins are desirable. Therefore, different attempts were made to enhance the level of secreted proteins. Coexpression of bacteriocin release proteins makes the outer membrane permeable for proteins. A detailed insight into the complex underlying regulatory mechanism and metabolic changes when such release proteins are expressed could be very useful for successful optimisation strategies. The identification of potential optimisation targets can be achieved by DNA-microarray-technology, as proven in many cases before. In this work DNA-microarrays were used for the identification of differentially expressed genes of an inducible E.coli secretion strain expressing reporter proteins bacterial alkaline phosphatase, PhoA and beta-lactamase, Bla and their release to the culture medium by coexpression of the BRP of CloDF13. Based on the data of whole genome experiments and on the different databases genes which are regulated after induction of BRP expression are identified and discussed. BRP activity was found to cause a substantial cellular response and considerable changes in global gene expression. Additionally, performed cluster-analysis using k-means algorithm identified clusters containing promising candidates for new optimisation strategies aiming for an enhanced protein secretion.
Project description:Escherichia coli release Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) which carry diverse molecular cargo. Pathogenic E.coli EVs contain virulence factors which assist during infection in the host in different mechanisms.The RNA cargo of E.coli EVs has not been assessed in their effect in the host. We used microarray data to asses and compare the global response of bladder cells to EV-RNA from pathogenic E.coli (Uropathogenic UPEC 536) and non-pathogenic E. coli (probiotic Nissle 1917)
Project description:The transcriptional changes in Escherichia coli upon induction of the SOS response are investigated by utilizing custom designed oligonucleotide microarrays. Keywords: Gene expression during the SOS response in Escherichia coli
Project description:The purpose of this study is to determine whether the presence of pathogenic Escherichia coli in colon is associated with psychiatric disorders.
Project description:The transcriptional changes in Escherichia coli upon induction of the SOS response are investigated by utilizing custom designed oligonucleotide microarrays. Keywords: Gene expression during the SOS response in Escherichia coli Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 single colony in five parallells was grown to mid-log phase and exposed to UV to induce the SOS response. Total RNA was extracted from induced and uninduced cells and cDNA was prepared, fragmented and labelled prior to hybridizing to arrays. The arrays was designed to maximize the genomic coverage whilst simultaneous including only probes estimated to give an approximately uniform binding affinity. Regions coding for non-hypothetical proteins or RNAs where covered less densely than the intergenic parts.
Project description:We report the effect of oxygenation state in lactose grown escherichia coli producing recombinant proteins. To shed more light on the mechanistic correlation between the uptake of lactose and dissolved oxygen, a comprehensive study has been undertaken with the E. coli BL21 (DE3) strain. Differences in consumption pattern of lactose, metabolites, biomass and product formation due to aerobiosis have been investigated. Transcriptomic profiling of metabolic changes due to aerobic process and microaerobic process during protein formation phase has been studied and the results provide a deeper understanding of protein production in E. coli BL21 (DE3) strains with lactose based promoter expression systems.This study also provides a scientific understanding of escherichia coli metabolism upon oxygen fluctuations.
Project description:Comparative genomic hybridization between Escherichia coli strains to determine core and pan genome content of clinical and environmental isolates
Project description:Comparative genomic hybridization between Escherichia coli strains to determine core and pan genome content of clinical and environmental isolates Two color experiment, Escherichia coli Sakai (reference), clinical and environmental Escherichia coli strains (testers): At least two replicates including a single dye swap for each reference-tester comparison
Project description:Despite the characterization of many aetiologic genetic changes. The specific causative factors in the development of sporadic colorectal cancer remain unclear. This study was performed to detect the possible role of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) in developing colorectal carcinoma.