Project description:Swine confinement buildings (SCBs) represent workplaces with high biological air pollution. It is suspected that individual components of inhalable air are causatives of chronic respiratory disease that are regularly detected among workers. In order to understand the relationship between exposure and stress, the aim of this study was to develop a method to investigate the components of bioaerosols in more detail. For this purpose, bioaerosols from pig barns were collected on quartz filters from two exclusively housed pig types (porkers and gestating sows) and subsequently analyzed via a combinatorial approach of 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and metaproteomics. The workflow helps to clarify diversity in bioaerosols from a taxonomic perspective, but also from a functional perspective.
2024-01-26 | PXD039685 | Pride
Project description:Size fractionated sampling of microbial bioaerosols emissions from green-waste composting
| PRJNA646699 | ENA
Project description:Size-resolved aerosols microbiomes in the East Mediterranean
Project description:Clonal bacterial populations rely on transcriptional variation across individual cells to commit to specialized states that increase the population’s fitness. Such heterogeneous gene expression is implicated in fundamental microbial processes including sporulation, cell communication, detoxification, substrate utilization, competence, biofilm formation, and motility1. To identify specialized cell states and determine the processes by which they develop, isogenic bacterial populations need to be studied at the single cell level2,3. Here, we developed ProBac-seq a method that uses libraries of DNA probes and leverages an existing commercial microfluidic platform to conduct bacterial single cell RNA sequencing. We sequenced the transcriptome of thousands of individual bacterial cells per experiment, detecting several hundred transcripts per cell on average. When applying this method to the model organisms Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli, we correctly identify known cell states and uncover previously unreported transcriptional heterogeneity. In the context of bacterial pathogenesis, single cell RNA-seq of the pathogen Clostridium perfringens reveals that toxin is differentially expressed by a subpopulation of cells with a distinct transcriptional profile. We further show that the size of the toxin producing subpopulation and the secreted toxin levels can be downregulated by providing acetate, a short chain fatty acid highly prevalent in the gut. Overall, we demonstrate that our high throughput, highly resolved single cell transcriptomic platform can be broadly used to uncover heterogeneity in isogenic microbial populations and identify perturbations that can impact pathogenicity.
Project description:Characterization of the zebrafish embryonic host response to systemic bacterial infection with Salmonella typhimurium wild type strain (SL1027) and its isogenic LPS O-antigen mutant Ra (SF1592) by means of a time-resolved global expression analysis.
Project description:Using long-read nanopore sequencing, we obtained chromosome-wide phased methylomes of the active and inactive X in mouse placenta and neural stem cells (NSCs), overcoming the limitations if short-read bisulfite sequencing in allelic resolution. We also conducted quantitative analysis of methylation properties like symmetry and entropy, providing a more comprehensive view of epigenetic silencing in X chromosome inactivation. We also resolved the allele-specific genetics and epigenetics of structural macrosatellite Dxz4 and other repeats.