Project description:Purpose: We investigate the evolutionary footprints of a bacteria-plasmid association consisting of Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 and plasmid RP4 undergoing a long-term sub-MIC antibiotic stress. Methods: Bacterial mRNA profiles of evolved RP4-carrying strains (E:H:p) and ancestral RP4-carrying strains (A:H:p) were generated by deep sequencing on an Illumina Hiseq platform. The sequence reads that passed quality filters were analyzed by Burrows–Wheeler Aligner (BWA), followed by ANOVA (ANOVA) and TopHat followed by Cufflinks. qRT–PCR validation was performed using TaqMan and SYBR Green assays Results: Using an optimized data analysis workflow, we mapped about 15 million sequence reads of E:H:p and 12 million sequence reads of A:H:p to the E. coli MG1655 genome (GCF_000801205.1) and differential expressed genes were identified with TopHat workflow. RNA-seq data showed that approximately 15% of the transcripts showed differential expression between the E:H:p and A:H:p strains, with a fold change ≥1 and p value <0.005. Altered expression of 26 genes was confirmed with qRT–PCR, demonstrating the high degree of sensitivity of the RNA-seq method. Data analysis with bowtie and TopHat workflows provided complementary insights in transcriptome profiling. Conclusions: Our study showed the coevolved bacteria-plasmid pairs has colonization traits superior to the wild-type parent strain. Antibiotic stress was necessary for bacterial evolution and evolved strains mostly employed transcriptional modifications to reduce plasmid-related cost in evolutionary adaptations. Several genes related to chromosome-encoded efflux pumps were transcriptionally upregulated, while most plasmid-harboring genes were downregulated based on RNA gene sequencing. These transcriptional modifications endowed evolved strains with resistant phenotype modifications, including the enhanced bacterial growth and biofilm formation.
Project description:Transposon insertion site sequencing (TIS) is a powerful method for associating genotype to phenotype. However, all TIS methods described to date use short nucleotide sequence reads which cannot uniquely determine the locations of transposon insertions within repeating genomic sequences where the repeat units are longer than the sequence read length. To overcome this limitation, we have developed a TIS method using Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology that generates and uses long nucleotide sequence reads; we have called this method LoRTIS (Long Read Transposon Insertion-site Sequencing). This experiment data contains sequence files generated using Nanopore and Illumina platforms. Biotin1308.fastq.gz and Biotin2508.fastq.gz are fastq files generated from nanopore technology. Rep1-Tn.fastq.gz and Rep1-Tn.fastq.gz are fastq files generated using Illumina platform. In this study, we have compared the efficiency of two methods in identification of transposon insertion sites.
Project description:We report the genome-wide analysis from chromatin immunoprecipitated DNA (ChIP-sequencing) at very high resolution of the DNA binding pattern of ParBF (SopB) either on the full length plasmid F or on E. coli chromosome carrying the parSF centromere sequence. We also varied the intracellular ParBF concentration to discriminate between the several proposed mechanism of partition complexes assembly.
Project description:S. meliloti strains with a bi- and monopartite genome configuration were constructed by consecutive Cre/lox-mediated site-specific fusions of the secondary replicons. Beside the correct genomic arrangements, these strains and precursors were tested for variations in the nucleotide sequence. Futher, a marker fequency analysis was performed to test if replication is initiated at all origins and to determine the replication termination regions of the triple replicon fusion molecule. To gain the sequence data for these analyses, respective strains were applied to whole genome sequencing using an Illumina MiSeq-System and Oxford Nanopore (MinION) sequencing technology.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of A. oleivorans DR1 cells harboring pAST2. Plasmid pAST2 is a tetracycline-resistance plasmid which was isolated from activated sludge (Hong et al., 2014). The complete plasmid sequence was deposited in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) GenBank under accession number KC734561 [PMID: 24337108].
Project description:Amplicon-based targeted re-sequencing analysis was performed in the patient-derived gliobastoma cell culture samples. For this purpose, genomic DNA (gDNA) was isolated and DNA libraries were prepared using the TruSeq Custom Amplicon Low Input (Illumina, Inc.) technology. By this, a pool of 375 amplicons was generated for each single sample in order to enrich for the target genes ATRX1, EGFR, IDH1, NF1, PDGFRA, PIK3CG, PIK3R1, PTEN, RB1 and TP53. Sequencing was performed on the Illumina MiSeq® next generation sequencing system (Illumina Inc.) and its 2 x 250 bp paired-end v2 read chemistry. The resulting reads were quality controlled and mapped against the human reference genome (hg19). For all samples, sequence variations of the amplified regions of interest in comparison to the human reference sequence were identified and filtered based on reliability.
Project description:As vector-borne pathogens transit between the arthropod and vertebrate, adaptation is key for survival as each host varies and initiates unique defense mechanisms. An environmental signal that relapsing fever (RF) and Lyme causing spirochetes detect is the change of temperature between vector and mammal, yet incomplete genomes have hindered progress in understanding the genetic constituents expressed during tick colonization. We conducted a combined transcriptional and genomic sequence analysis to further assemble the ~150 kb linear plasmid (lp150) of Borrelia turicatae, a causative agent of RF borreliosis. Contiguous sequences (contigs), which were originally generated by Sanger sequencing, contained open reading frames (ORFs) identified to be up-regulated by the spirochetes when grown under tick-like conditions compared to the mammal. To aid in assembling the contigs, a PacBio RS I Single Molecule Real-Time DNA sequencing approach was used, given extended nucleotide reads over several thousand base pairs. A 36 kb locus was identified toward the 3‘ end of lp150, and expression of the ORFs was verified in the tick and mammal. We report the most complete version of lp150, and this study indicates that the plasmid likely facilitates vector colonization and establishing early mammalian infection