Project description:Minimal processing using chlorinated water washes is a common practice in the fresh produce industry to reduce the microbial load and bacterial pathogens attached on produce surfaces. To evaluate if E. coli O157:H7 strains with different phyllogenetic backgrounds are equally sensitive or display variable resistance to chlorine treatment, we studied the expression profile of Sakai and one 2006 spinach outbreak strain (TW 14359) in response to chlorine and hydrogen peroxide treatment.
Project description:Minimal processing using chlorinated water washes is a common practice in the fresh produce industry to reduce the microbial load and bacterial pathogens attached on produce surfaces. To evaluate if E. coli O157:H7 strains with different phyllogenetic backgrounds are equally sensitive or display variable resistance to chlorine treatment, we studied the expression profile of Sakai and one 2006 spinach outbreak strain (TW 14359) in response to chlorine and hydrogen peroxide treatment. Experiment Overall Design: 2 E. coli O157 strains are incubated with or without chlorine or H2O2 for 30 min for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. We sought to compare the expression profile between the 2 strains with or without oxidative stress.
Project description:We report 293 Neisseria gonorrhoeae genes that show differential transcript abundance in response to 15 mM hydrogen peroxide treatment by RNA-Seq. We analyze the major physiological functional groups of genes affected by hydrogen peroxide exposure. In addition, we analyze which genes in our hydrogen peroxide-responsive set of genes belong to major known transcriptional regulatory circuits like iron homeostasis, anaerobiosis and others. We annotate which of the 293 hydrogen peroxide-responsive genes belong to operons. We annotate global transcriptional start sites and identify transcriptional start sites that are only present in hydrogen peroxide-treated bacteria. We validate the RNA-Seq data for a subset of representative genes by RT-qPCR and whether transcript abundance in this same subset of genes differs upon treatement with other reactive oxygen species encountered during infection, like organic peroxide, super oxide anion, and bleach.
Project description:The transcriptomic response of Jurkat T lymphoma cells to hydrogen peroxide was investigated to determine the global effects of hydrogen peroxide on cellular gene expression.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of GO-treated (24h) differentiating equine satellite cells (3rd day of differentiation) exposed to hydrogen peroxide (1h; last hour of pre-incubation with GO) compared to control GO-untreated cells. Goal was to determine the effects of GO pre-incubation on miRNA expression in equine satellite cells exposed to hydrogen peroxide.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of HMB-treated (24h) differentiating equine satellite cells (3rd day of differentiation) exposed to hydrogen peroxide (1h; last hour of pre-incubation with HMB) compared to control HMB-untreated cells. Goal was to determine the effects of HMB pre-incubation on miRNA expression in equine satellite cells exposed to hydrogen peroxide.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of HMB-treated (24h) differentiating equine satellite cells (3rd day of differentiation) exposed to hydrogen peroxide (1h; last hour of pre-incubation with HMB) compared to control HMB-untreated cells. Goal was to determine the effects of HMB pre-incubation on gene expression in equine satellite cells exposed to hydrogen peroxide.