Project description:Elongation factor P (EF-P) is required to enhance peptidyl transferase on pausing ribosomes, which can be induced by certain codons on mRNA. It regulates expression of genes in specific conditions. Therefore, to search EF-P mediated ribosome stalling motif, ribosome profiling has been used on organisms such as yeast and E. coli. However, it has not been addressed on the intracellular pathogen Salmonella Typhimurium. Through the ribosome profiling, 135 sites in 128 genes were identified as EF-P dependent sequences and many of these sites had consecutive proline codons specifically at P site of the ribosome. As a motif level, PPG was the most abundant amino acid sequence at EPA site of the ribosome and followed by APP and DPP sequence. Also, our findings revealed that salmonella-specific gene, ugtL, is regulated by frameshifting caused during translation as ribosome stalled in the DPP motif. In addition, we showed that both proline motif and EF-P are engaged in this regulation, and it affects the resistance to antimicrobial peptides. In conclusion, this study emphasized the importance of poly proline motif on EF-P and suggested a possible mechanism how EF-P affects the physiology of Salmonella.
Project description:Genes were differentially expressed in wild-type Salmonella Typhimurium biofilms and an ΔaraE mutant when grown in the presence of 5mM or 40mM L-arabinose. Multiple biological pathways were impacted, including genes involved in arabinose metabolism, curli fimbriae, pentose phosphae pathway, TCA cycle. amino acid synthesis, pyrimidine and purine biosynthesis, and ATP synthesis.
Project description:Obacunone is a limonoids present in Citrus species. We previously reported that obacunone was inhibitory to the cell-cell signaling in Vibrio harveyi and Escherichia coli O157:H7. In the present work we evaluated the effect of obacunone on the food borne pathogen Salmonella Typhimurium LT2 using cDNA microarray. The results demonstrate that obacunone exerts an antivirulence effect on S. Typhimurium LT2 by repressing SPI1 and SPI2. Furthermore, the effect of obacunone seems to be dependent upon EnvZ.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE18424: The effect of stpA deletion on S. Typhimurium gene expression during growth in rich medium GSE18428: StpA prevents RpoS-dependent transcription during mid-exponential growth in S. Typhimurium GSE18450: Identification of StpA-binding sites on the Salmonella genome Refer to individual Series
Project description:Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium produces a variety of fimbrial appendages, among which the type 1 fimbriae is the most common type. In vitro static broth culture favors S. Typhimurium to produce type 1 fimbriae, while solid agar inhibits its expression. A transposon inserted in the stbC gene, which would encode an usher protein for Stb fimbriae of a non-flagellar S. Typhimurium LB5010 strain, conferred it to agglutinate yeast cells on both cultures, and was mannose-sensitive. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) revealed that the expression of the fimbrial major subunit gene fimA, and fimZ, a positive regulator gene of fimA, were both increased in the stbC mutant strain when grown on LB agar; fimW, a repressor gene of fimA, exhibited lower expression. Flagella were observed in the stbC mutant and this phenotype was correlated with the motile phenotype detected by MSRV agar medium and reaction with flagella antiserum. Microarray data and RT-PCR also indicated that the expression of three genes, motA, motB, and cheM, was enhanced in the stbC mutant. The S. Typhimurium stbC mutant was resistant to a variety of antibiotics, consistent with the finding that expression of yhcQ and ramA, two genes involved in multidrug resistance, was enhanced. A complementation test revealed that transforming a recombinant plasmid possessing the coding sequence of the stbC gene restored the mannose-sensitive agglutination phenotype to the stbC mutant much as that in the parental S. Typhimurium LB5010 strain, indicating the possibility of an interplay of different fimbrial systems in coordinating their expression. Key Words: Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium, fimbriae, type 1 fimbriae, stbC, transposon, multidrug resistant, flagella
Project description:We describe how searching chimeric spectra with post-processing including MS²PIP-derived features aids the identification of hypothetical and unannotated proteins. We apply our workflow to the well-characterized human bacterial pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) and validate novel protein-coding regions with by ribo-seq translation evidence. We further elaborate how riboproteogenomics is instrumental for reannotating ORFs and the discovery of novel ORFs across bacteria.
Project description:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is known to synthesize and respond to the cell signaling molecule, autoinducer-2 (AI-2). The luxS gene is involved in the synthesis of AI-2. We have previously shown that luxS controls a variety of bacterial processes in S. Typhimurium. In this study we identified the genes regulated by AI-2 in the Cell-Free supernatant of S. Typhimurium using mRNA samples from isogenic luxS gene mutant of S. Typhimurium strain 87-26254 grown in LB media in the presence of S. Typhimurium wild type CFS / absence AI-2 (mutant CFS of S. Typhimurium). In the presence of AI-2 in CFS, 758 genes were significantly regulated. Interstingly, AI-2 in CFS caused the down-regulation of 39 genes in Salmonella Pathogenicity Island-1 (SPI-1).