Project description:Compare the secreted proteins of a wild-type Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain with those of a mutant in hcp2, rendering the T6SS2 inactive
Project description:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a Gram-negative marine bacterium. Strain RIMD 2210633, the wild type strain of the organism, causes acute gastroenteritis in humans. Human intestinal factor bile often affects the global gene regulation in some species of enteropathogenic bacteria. To determine the genes in V. parahaemolyticus that respond to bile, we investigated the differences in the transcriptomes of the wild type strain and the vtrA-null strain grown in Luria-Bertani medium cultivated with or without 0.04% crude bile. The vtrA gene encodes the previously identified T3SS2 regulator. Our goal is to demonstrate bile regulon controlled by VtrA in V. parahaemolyticus.
Project description:The transcriptome of the wild type strain and ΔzntR of Vibrio parahaemolyticus was compared by RNA sequencing analysis. The data revealed that some genes, such as zntA, were significantly differentially expressed in the mutant.
Project description:The quorum regulatory cascade is poorly characterized in Vibrio parahaemolyticus, in part because swarming and pathogenicity - the hallmark traits of the organism - are repressed by this scheme of gene control. As a consequence, many isolates appear silenced for quorum sensing via phase variation. In these studies, we examine a swarm proficient, virulent strain and find an altered function allele of the central quorum regulator luxO. We use this allele, which produces a constitutively active LuxO, to probe the upstream elements of the pathway and demonstrate their functionality for the first time. We find that the state of luxO affects expression of three small regulatory RNAS (Qrrs) and the activity of a translational fusion in opaR, the central output regulator. We use microarray profiling to determine the OpaR regulon, which was found to encompass ~5.2% of the genome. The quorum sensing proficient strain seems adapted for a sessile, community lifestyle; it is competent to uptake DNA, produces much capsular polysaccharide, has a high level of c-di-GMP, and strongly expresses one type six secretion system. Expressing the entire surface sensing regulon and numerous methyl accepting chemotaxis proteins, the quorum-disrupted cell type seems prepared for a mobile lifestyle. It is also cytotoxic to host cells in co-culture and expresses distinct type six as well as type three secretion systems. Thus, the scope and nature of the genes in the OpaR regulon provide many clues to the distinguishing traits of this Vibrio species as well as to the quite divergent survival strategies of the quorum ON/OFF phase variants
Project description:Using bioinformatics analysis, we found that VP0057 may be a potential Ser/Thr protein kinase with phosphorylation activity. Thus, we constructed the vp0057-deletion mutant (∆vp0057) from the wild-type V. parahaemolyticus serotype O3:K6 and employed a mass spectrometry-based proteomic strategy to characterize proteome-wide changes in response to vp0057 deletion. One hundred ninety-seven differentially expressed proteins were identified in the ∆vp0057 strain compared with the wild-type strain, among which 135 proteins were upregulated and 62 proteins were downregulated.
Project description:Differential expression analysis of a Vibrio parahaemolyticus ∆rpoN mutant compared to wild-type in minimal media supplemented with glucose or mouse intestinal mucus
Project description:Comparative transcriptional mRNA profiles were generated of bacterial pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus under conditions that induce activity of virulence factor type III secretion system 1 (T3SS1). Induction conditions included growth of the bacteria in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM), overexpression of transcriptional activator exsA and contact with HeLa cells in Hank's Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS), while non-inducing conditions included growth in Luria-Bertani medium supplemented with 2.5% (w/v) NaCl (LB-S) and overexpression of transcriptional anti-activator exsD. Transcriptome profiles of induction conditions were cross-compared against background non-inducing conditions and time points during HeLa cell infection (2 hr, 3 hr, 4 hr, 6 hr, 8 hr) were compared against pre-infection (0 hr) to identify genes important in T3SS1 activity and pathogenesis.
Project description:Here we probe the global response to calcium in the marine bacterium and pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus by using transcriptome, reporter and phenotypic analyses. Swarming gene expression and motility were enhanced by calcium. Calcium also stimulated expression and function of one of the organism’s two type three secretion systems (T3SS1 but not the T3SS2). Although low calcium is an inducing signal for the T3SS of many organisms, calcium stimulation of T3SS has not been reported before. EGTA was also a stimulus for T3SS1 expression and activity; however this appeared to be the consequence of iron rather than calcium chelation. LafK, a key regulator of swarming genes, was found necessary for calcium induction of T3SS1 gene transcription and cytotoxicity. Regulation of swarming and T3SS1 were additionally linked by a negative feedback loop propagated by ExsA. Overexpression of exsA was used to probe the extent of the T3SS1 regulon and verify its coincident induction by calcium and EGTA. The calcium transcriptome analysis revealed a calcium-repressed LysR-type transcriptional regulator; CalR was shown to repress swarming and T3SS1 gene expression. Thus in V. parahaemolyticus, calcium influences gene expression and behavior and seems a signal pertinent for surface colonization and virulence.
Project description:To investigate low-temperature tolerance of the bacterium, three in-frame gene deletion mutants of VpacspA and VpacspD were constructed using homologous recombination method. When compared to the wild type strain, the growth of ΔVpacspA mutant was strongly repressed at 10 0C, whereas the deletion of VpacspD gene greatly activated the bacterium growth at the low temperature. Transcriptome data revealed that 12.4% of the expressed genes in V. parahaemolyticus CHN25 was significantly changed in ΔVpacspA mutant grown at 10 0C, including those involved in amino acid degradation, ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters, secretion systems, sulfur and glycerophospholipid metabolisms, whereas the low temperature elicited 10.0% of the genes from ΔVpacspD mutant, such as phosphotransferase system, nitrogen and amino acid metabolisms. Moreover, the major changed metabolic pathways in dual-gene deletion mutant (ΔVpacspAD) differed radically from those in single-gene mutants. Comparison of transcriptome profiles further revealed a number of differentially expressed genes shared among the three mutants, as well as regulators specifically, coordinately and or antagonistically regulating in the adaptation of V. parahaemolyticus CHN25 to the low-temperature growth.