Project description:In this study, we implemented RNA sequencing to identify melatonin sensitive transcripts during culture maturation. This work demonstrates that majority of melatonin sensitive genes are growth stage specific. Melatonin caused differential gene expression of 81 transcripts during the exponential growth and 30 during early stationary phase. This indole molecule affects genes related to the biofilm formation, fimbria biogenesis, transcriptional regulators, carbohydrate transport and metabolism, phosphotransferase system (PTS), stress response, metal ion binding and transport. It is likely that differential expression of biofilm and fimbria related genes is responsible for differences in macrocolony area. Additionally, melatonin potentially helps Klebsiella aerogenes in host colonization.
Project description:In this study we investigate and compare DEGs of K. aerogenes macrocolonies during temperature entrainment (12:12, 35°C:36°C) and subsequent free running conditions (35°C). The goal of this experiment was to identify rhythmically expressed genes in K. aerogenes, the first human gut commensal bacterium with described circadian clock (Paulose et al. 2016). K. aerogenes circadian clock is sensitive to temperature entrainment (Paulose et al. 2019). To further investigate this temperature entrainment of K. aerogenes we performed RNA sequencing experiment. We identified 48 differentially expressed genes when comparing timepoints ZT6 to ZT18, 427 differentially expressed genes when comparing timepoints ZT6 to CT6, 6 differentially expressed genes between timepoints CT6 and CT18, and 2 differentially expressed genes between timepoints ZT18 and CT18.
