Project description:Understanding emergence of drug resistance in pathogens systematically is a major challenge. To address this issue, lab-evolved strain resistant to first-line tuberculosis drug, isoniazid (INH), was analysed. Transcriptome analysis of different conditions revealed genes that are differentially regulated in wild-type (WT) and isoniazid resistant (2XR and 4XR) strains. Microarray analysis was performed for WT, sub-MIC, 2XR and 4XR strains of Mycobacterium smegmatis. Overall, the numbers of DEGs observed are 1529 in sub-MIC (596 - up, 933 - down), 1381 (899 – up, 482 – down) in 2XR and 716 in 4XR (267 – up, 449 – down) conditions. 52 of them are seen to be up-regulated across all drug concentrations as compared to WT while 185 are seen to be down-regulated in all. Transcriptome analysis revealed that there are variations in gene expression pattern in the resistant strains as compared to WT strain. This indicates that differential regulation of genes is, in some way, responsible for conferring the phenotype to the organism.
Project description:RNA-seq of Mycobacteriophage Island3 infection of Mycolicibacterium smegmatis mc2155, Mycolicibacterium smegmatis mc2155(Butters), and Mycolicibacterium smegmatis mc2155(Buttersgp57r) to assess the impact of Butters lysogen and specifically Buttersgp57r on transcript levels of island3 during infection.
Project description:To identify the AmtR regulon of Mycobacterium smegmatis, we created a markerless deletion of the amtR gene in the background of strain M. smegmatis mc2155 (wild-type) and compared the transcription profile of both strains grown in batch culture under aerobic conditions on Hartmans de Bont medium supplemented with glycerol (carbon source) and lysine (sole nitrogen source) using microarray. Cells were harvested in early exponential growth stage.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Mycobacterium smegmatis comparing the effects of wild type levels of CarD expression with CarD depletion. Transcriptional profile of the mgm1701 control strain was compared with that of mgm1703, a strain where CarD transcription is regulated by a Tet-On system. Both strains were grown in the absence of anhydrotetracline for 13 hours in nutrient rich broth to allow for depletion of CarD transcription in mgm1703.
Project description:RNA deep sequencing data of the whole transcriptomes of the wild-type and furA triple mutant strains of Mycobacterium smegmatis MC2 155
Project description:Compare the gene expression difference between MSMEG_2225 knockout strains and wild-type strains by RNA sequencing in Mycobacterium smegmatis. The goal of this study is that detection MSMEG_2225 acts as a transcriptional factor and regulates the target genes expression.
