Project description:To investigate the effect of the Zn ionophore, PBT2, on the transcriptomic response of Fusobacterium nucleatum ATCC 25586, RNA was extracted from bacterial samples which had been treated as follows: Untreated (0.006% DMSO v/v), DMSO-Zn treated (0.006% DMSO v/v + 200 uM ZnSO4), or PBT2-Zn treated (0.125 ug/mL PBT2 + 200 uM ZnSO4) (DMSO was the vehicle control). RNA samples were collected at 0h, 0.5h, and 1h post challenge in biological triplicate and sequenced using Illumina HiSeq platform. We mapped sequences to the reference genome F. nucleatum subsp. nucleatum ATCC 25586 and performed DEseq2 analysis to determine differentially expressed genes across time and treatment.
Project description:Analysis of the region of interest for total protein samples or the outer membrane fraction of Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. nucleatum ATCC 23726. The bacteria carried either an empty vector control, or a plasmid for the overexpression of the FoxI sRNA or its mutant version FoxI-3C.
