Project description:We observed that interleukin-10 knockout (Il10-/-) mice injected with azoxymethane (AOM) and monoassociated with E. coli NC101, but not E. faecalis OG1RF, develop tumors. Histologic inflammation is not different in mice monoassociated with either bacterium. The goal of this experiment is to assess inflammatory cytokine levels in colonic tissue of these mice. 4 germ-free Il10-/- mice were assayed and used as controls. 4 E. coli and 4 E. faecalis monoassociated mice were experimental samples.
Project description:We observed that interleukin-10 knockout (Il10-/-) mice injected with azoxymethane (AOM) and monoassociated with E. coli NC101, but not E. faecalis OG1RF, develop tumors. Histologic inflammation is not different in mice monoassociated with either bacterium. The goal of this experiment is to assess inflammatory cytokine levels in colonic tissue of these mice. 4 germ-free Il10-/- mice were assayed and used as controls. 4 E. coli and 4 E. faecalis monoassociated mice were experimental samples.
Project description:We observed that interleukin-10 knockout (Il10-/-) mice injected with azoxymethane (AOM) and monoassociated with E. coli NC101, but not E. faecalis OG1RF, develop tumors. Histologic inflammation is not different in mice monoassociated with either bacterium. The goal of this experiment is to assess inflammatory cytokine levels in colonic tissue of these mice.
Project description:We observed that interleukin-10 knockout (Il10-/-) mice injected with azoxymethane (AOM) and monoassociated with E. coli NC101, but not E. faecalis OG1RF, develop tumors. Histologic inflammation is not different in mice monoassociated with either bacterium. The goal of this experiment is to assess inflammatory cytokine levels in colonic tissue of these mice.
Project description:We observed that deletion of polyketide synthase (pks) from E. coli NC101 reduces its ability to induce tumors in interleukin-10 knockout (Il10-/-) mice injected with azoxymethane (AOM), without altering histologic inflammation. The goal of this experiment is to assess inflammatory cytokine levels in colonic tissue of these mice. 2 germ-free Il10-/- mice were assayed and used as controls. 3 E. coli NC101 and 3 E. coli NC101-delta-pks monoassociated mice were experimental samples.
Project description:Comparative genome hybridization of transconjugants of E. faecalis OG1RF mated with V583. The total DNA of transconjugants was compared with wildtype strains to ascertain the amount of DNA that was transferred from E. faecalis V583 to E. faecalis OG1RF.
Project description:Enterococcus (E.) faecalis is a commensal in healthy humans, frequently found in a variety of fermented foods, and can serve as a probiotic. However, it has also been recognized as a pathogen causing diseases such as endocarditis, bacteremia and urinary tract infections. As known virulence factors are not limited to clinical isolates but widespread in many strains, additional fitness determinants should influence E. faecalis behavior in the host. We have performed a transcriptomic in vivo study with E. faecalis in the intestine of living mice to identify novel latent and adaptive fitness determinants within E. faecalis. The transcriptomic data derived from E. faecalis strain OG1RF monoassociated with wild type mice provide a first insight in the genes used to live as a commensal in the intestinal tract. Clear changes are observed as compared to growth under laboratory conditions (BHI broth) in the expression of genes involved in energy metabolism (e.g. dhaK and glpK pathway), transport and binding mechanisms (e.g. phosphoenolpyruvate carbohydrate PTS) as well as fatty acid metabolism (fab genes). This knowledge can be used to help explain its persistence in this environment, which is a prerequisite to cause infection in a compromised or inflamed host and possibly develop improved treatment strategies of the so far hard to cure infections.
Project description:E. faecalis OG1RF cultures were infected with lytic phage VPE25 and proteomic profile of infected cells were compared to uninfected E. faecalis cells using 1D-LC-MS/MS analyses.
