Project description:The purpose of this project was to determine the whole transcriptome response of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum SC596 to pooled and individual human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) relative to lactose
Project description:Whole genome microarray comparisons (comparative genomic hybridizations) were used to associate genotypic biomarkers among 15 Bifidobacterium longum strains exhibiting various Human Milk Oligosaccharide utilization phenotypes and host associations.
Project description:The purpose of this project was to determine the whole transcriptome response of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. Infantis to pooled and individual human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) relative to lactose
Project description:The purpose of this project was to determine the whole transcriptome response of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis to human milk urea compared to complex nitrogen and L-cysteine.
Project description:Modulation of gut microbiota through probiotic supplementation is an interesting strategy to prevent obesity We use microarrays to study the global genome expression of C. elegans fed with the probiotic strain Bifidobacterium animalis sbsp. lactis CECT 8145
Project description:Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis is a bacterial commensal that colonizes the breast-fed infant gut where it utilizes indigestible components delivered in human milk. Accordingly, human milk contains several non-protein nitrogenous molecules, including urea at high abundance. This project investigates the degree to which urea is utilized as a primary nitrogen source by Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis and incorporation of hydrolysis products into the expressed proteome.
Project description:Members of the serpin (serine protease inhibitor) superfamily have been identified in higher, multicellular eukaryotes, as well as in bacteria, although surveillance of available genome sequences indicates that bacterial serpin-encoding (ser) homologs are not widely distributed. In members of the genus Bifidobacterium this gene appears to be present in at least five, and perhaps up to nine, out of 30 species tested. Moreover, phylogenetic analysis using available bacterial and eukaryotic serpin sequences revealed that bifidobacteria specify serpins that form a separate clade. We characterized the ser210B locus of Bifidobacterium breve 210B, which consists of a number of genes, whose deduced protein products display significant similarity to proteins encoded by corresponding loci found in several other bifidobacteria. Northern hybridization, primer extension, micro array analysis, RT-PCR and Quantitative Real Time (qRT) - PCR analysis revealed that a 3.5 kb polycistronic mRNA, encompassing the ser210B operon with a single transcriptional start site, is strongly induced following treatment of B. breve 210B cultures with particular proteases. In contrast, transcription of the ser homolog of other bifidobacteria, such as Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis, Bifidobacterium dentium and B. longum subsp. longum, appears to be triggered by a different set of proteases Transcriptional response to protease treatments (kallikrein, papain and chymotrypsin) of Bifidobacterium breve 210B
Project description:Extracellular vesicles of the Gram-positive gut symbiont Bifidobacterium longum induce immune-modulatory, anti-inflammatory effects
Project description:To study the differentiation of Bifidobacterium longum-specific T cells, we stimulated neonatal or naive adult T cells with B. longum-pulsed monocytes and compared them to resting cells from the same donor.
