Project description:Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are often co-isolated in persistent infections. The goal of this study was to determine how secreted products from S. aureus affect gene expression in P. aeruginosa. Therefore, media control or S. aureus supernatant was added to P. aeruginosa cultures at 25% total volume and gene expression was measured at 20 min, 1 h, and 2 h using RNA-seq. Overall, after addition of S. aureus supernatant, there was an upregulation in genes involved in metal deprivation and intermediate metabolite uptake.
Project description:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections result in more than 200,000 hospitalizations and 10,000 deaths in the United States each year and remain an important medical challenge. To better understand the transcriptome of Staphylococcus aureus USA300 NRS384, a community-acquired MRSA strain, we have conducted an RNA-Seq experiment on WT samples.
Project description:Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are often co-isolated in persistent infections. The goal of this study was to determine how secreted products that were identified in S. aureus supernatant affect gene expression in P. aeruginosa. Therefore, media control, the indicated products in media, or S. aureus supernatant was added to P. aeruginosa cultures at 25% total volume and gene expression was measured at 20 min and 2 h using RNA-seq. The individual products induced distinct pathways in P. aeruginosa. The products in combination recapitulated much of the differential gene expression seen in P. aeruginosa in response to S. aureus supernatant.
Project description:Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are often co-isolated in persistent infections. The goal of this study was to determine how secreted products from S. aureus affect gene expression in surface-associated P. aerguinosa undergoing emergent motility. Therefore, media salts control or S. aureus supernatant was added to agar plates at 25% total volume. P. aeruginosa was inoculated on the agar and gene expression was measured from the leading edge after 17 h incubation using RNA-seq. P. aeruginosa moving on the agar containing S. aureus supernatant had an upregulation in genes involved in intermediate metabolite uptake and a downregulation in heme biosynthesis, response to heat, Type III Secretion System, and aerobic respiration pathways.
Project description:Defects in innate immunity affect many different physiologic systems and several studies of patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders demonstrated the importance of innate immune system components in disease prevention or colonization of bacterial pathogens. To assess the role of the innate immune system on nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus, innate immune responses in pediatric S. aureus nasal persistent carriers (n=3) and non-carriers (n=3) were profiled by RNAseq. We stimulated previously frozen peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from these subjects with i) live S. aureus (a mixture of all carriage isolates), or ii) heat-killed S. aureus.PBMC gene expression profiles differed between persistent and non-S. aureus carriers following stimulation with either live or dead S. aureus. These observations suggest that individuals susceptible to persistent carriage with S. aureus may possess differences in their live/dead bacteria recognition pathway and that innate pathway signaling is different between persistent and non-carriers of S. aureus.
Project description:This work aimed to investigate the metabolic changes of epithelial cell metabolism during S. aureus infection. We revealed that persistent S. aureus survived in epithelial cells by modulating the cellular pathways of one carbon pool by folate. These results highlight the persistence mechanisms of S. aureus survived in epithelial cells by regulation of cellular metabolism, shedding light on the development of intervention strategies to combat S. aureus associated infections.
Project description:Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most important pathogens in humans and animals, multiply resistant strains are increasingly widespread, new agents are needed for the treatment of S. aureus. Rhein, a natural plant product, has potential antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus. We employed Affymetrix Staphylococcus aureus GeneChipsTM arrays to investigate the global transcriptional profiling of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC25923 treated with rhein. Results provided insight into mechanisms involved in rhein - Staphylococcus aureus interactions. Keywords: rhein response
Project description:Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen and resistant to numerous clinically used antibiotics. The first antibiotic developed for S. aureus infections was the nonribosomal petide secondary metabolite penicillin. We discovered cryptic nonribosomal peptide secondary metabolites, the aureusimines, made by S. aureus itself that are not antibiotics, but function as small molecule regulators of virulence factor expression. Using established rules and codes for nonribosomal peptide assembly we predicted these nonribosomal peptides, and used these predictions to identify them from S. aureus culture broths. Functional studies using global microarray and mouse bacteremia models established that the aureusimines control virulence factor expression and are necessary for productive infections. This is the first report of the aureusimines and has important implications for the treatment of drug resistant S. aureus. Targeting aureusimine synthesis may provide novel anti-infectives.
Project description:Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) has already to be one of the most commonly identified bacteria that cause food poisoning. S. aureus colonization in humans can cause serious infections, toxinoses and life threatening diseases. The bacteriocin nisin has been extensively used as potential natural preservative in the food industry, but the overall transcriptional response mechanisms of S. aureus to nisin are still poorly understood. To detect the possible molecular mechanism of nisin against S. aureus, Affymetrix GeneChips were used to determine the global comparative transcription of S. aureus cells triggered by treatment with sub-inhibitory concentrations of nisin. Staphylococcus aureus planktonic cells were exposed for 60 minutes to nisin at concentration of 4 M-NM-<g/ml (1/2M-CM-^W MIC). 2 samples including 2 control samples are analyzed.
Project description:Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is an important human and animal pathogen, multiply resistant strains are increasingly widespread, new agents are needed for the treatment of S. aureus. magnolol has potent antimicrobial activity against S. aureus. We employed Affymetrix Staphylococcus aureus GeneChipsTM arrays to investigate the global transcriptional profiling of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC25923 treated with magnolol. Keywords: gene expression array-based, count