Project description:We focused on how Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis influences the subsequent host response to investigate the host immunopathology accompanying the host anti-mycobacterial immune response during Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection in spleen of mice.
Project description:To provide novel insights into understanding the host-immune response during the different stages of progression of the disease, we performed gene expression profiling in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection in cattle.
Project description:We focused on how Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis influences the subsequent host response to investigate the host immunopathology accompanying the host anti-mycobacterial immune response during Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection in spleen of mice. We analyzed altered transcription in the spleen of mice at 3, 6, and 12 weeks following Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection.
Project description:Transcriptional responses of two strain types of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP, cattle and sheep Strain) under in vitro iron limiting or iron sufficient growth conditions. Background: In MAP, the transcriptional role and essentiality of MAP2827 (IdeR) as an iron dependent regulator has been well established (Janagama et al. 2009). Therefore, in the absence of an ideR deletion mutant of MAP, to understand the genome-wide iron dependent transcriptional variations between the cattle and sheep MAP IdeR we used a heterologous expression of MAP IdeR in Mycobacterium smegmatis ideR deletion mutant.
Project description:A comparative genomic approach was used to identify large sequence polymorphisms among Mycobacterium avium isolates obtained from a variety of host species. DNA microarrays were used as a platform for comparing mycobacteria field isolates with the sequenced bovine isolate Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map) K10. ORFs were classified as present or divergent based on the relative fluorescent intensities of the experimental samples compared to Map K10 DNA. Map isolates cultured from cattle, bison, sheep, goat, avian, and human sources were hybridized to the Map microarray. Three large deletions were observed in the genomes of four Map isolates obtained from sheep and four clusters of ORFs homologous to sequences in the Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium (Maa) 104 genome were identified as being present in these isolates. One of these clusters encodes glycopeptidolipid biosynthesis enzymes. One of the Map sheep isolates had a genome profile similar to a group of Mycobacterium avium subsp. silvaticum (Mas) isolates which included four independent laboratory stocks of the organism traditionally identified as Maa strain 18. Genome diversity in Map appears to be mostly restricted to large sequence polymorphisms that are often associated with mobile genetic elements. Keywords: Comparative genomic hybridization Each isolate was competitively hybridized against Map K10 with a minimum of 2 dye flip hybridizations per isolate.
Project description:A comparative genomic approach was used to identify large sequence polymorphisms among Mycobacterium avium isolates obtained from a variety of host species. DNA microarrays were used as a platform for comparing mycobacteria field isolates with the sequenced bovine isolate Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map) K10. ORFs were classified as present or divergent based on the relative fluorescent intensities of the experimental samples compared to Map K10 DNA. Map isolates cultured from cattle, bison, sheep, goat, avian, and human sources were hybridized to the Map microarray. Three large deletions were observed in the genomes of four Map isolates obtained from sheep and four clusters of ORFs homologous to sequences in the Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium (Maa) 104 genome were identified as being present in these isolates. One of these clusters encodes glycopeptidolipid biosynthesis enzymes. One of the Map sheep isolates had a genome profile similar to a group of Mycobacterium avium subsp. silvaticum (Mas) isolates which included four independent laboratory stocks of the organism traditionally identified as Maa strain 18. Genome diversity in Map appears to be mostly restricted to large sequence polymorphisms that are often associated with mobile genetic elements. Keywords: Comparative genomic hybridization
Project description:Host-pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection at transcriptomic level were investigated in an in vitro macrophage infection model by dual RNA-seq analysis.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis inside bovine monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs; in vitro infection) during phagosome acidification at 30 min post-infection. M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis profiles from bafilomcyin A1 (acidification inhibitor) treated and untreated monocyte-derived macrophages were compared.
Project description:Detection of species-specific proteotypic peptides for accurate and easy characterization of infectious non-tuberculous mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, Mycobacterium marinum and Mycobacterium vaccae is essential. Therefore, we carried out reanalysis of publicly available M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis, M. marinum and M. vaccae proteomic dataset PXD027444, PXD003766 and PASS00954 by proteome database search and followed by spectral library generation. The raw DDA data were searched against their respective reference proteome databases using Proteome Discoverer and FragPipe. The resulting peptide spectrum matches were converted into a spectral library using BiblioSpec.
