Project description:To characterize the role of Rv0516c in the osmotic stress response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), we performed transcriptional profiling of CDC1551 Rv0516c::Tn following treatment with 140 mM NaCl for 1 hr relative to an untreated control.
Project description:To identify mediators of the osmotic stress response in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), we performed transcriptional profiling of WT CDC1551 following treatment with 140 mM NaCl for 1 hr relative to an untreated control. 140 mM NaCl was chosen to reflect the approximate osmolarity of human plasma (i.e., 280 mOsm/L), which may be relevant during the course of infection.
Project description:Mtb appears to have developed specialized biomolecular infrastructure to survive and persist within granulomas, where it is subjected to a diverse set of stress conditions. One of these stress conditions is hypoxia. We hypothesized that host cell response is radically altered with hypoxia stressed Mtb and designed in-vitro experiments to study this phenomenon. Hypoxia-stressed as well as aerobically grown Mtb were used to infect rhesus macaque bone marrow derived macrophages (Rh-BMDMs) and the host global transcriptional response compared. Using 4 x44 k Agilent arrays specific for rhesus macaque genome, we tested in biological duplicate the effect of aerogically grown Mtb on rhesus macaque BMDMs and compared this to the corresponding effect of the hypoxia-conditioned Mtb on rhesus macaque BMDMs
Project description:To characterize the role of Rv0516c in the osmotic stress response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), we performed transcriptional profiling of CDC1551 Rv0516c::Tn following treatment with 140 mM NaCl for 1 hr relative to an untreated control. CDC1551 Rv0516c::Tn was treated with 140 mM NaCl for 1 h and compared to the same strain treated with 0 mM NaCl for 0 h. 4 biological replicates, independently grown and harvested. One replicate per array.
Project description:Mtb appears to have developed specialized biomolecular infrastructure to survive and persist within granulomas, where it is subjected to a diverse set of stress conditions. One of these stress conditions is hypoxia. We hypothesized that host cell response is radically altered with hypoxia stressed Mtb and designed in-vitro experiments to study this phenomenon. Hypoxia-stressed as well as aerobically grown Mtb were used to infect rhesus macaque bone marrow derived macrophages (Rh-BMDMs) and the host global transcriptional response compared.
Project description:To identify mediators of the osmotic stress response in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), we performed transcriptional profiling of WT CDC1551 following treatment with 140 mM NaCl for 1 hr relative to an untreated control. 140 mM NaCl was chosen to reflect the approximate osmolarity of human plasma (i.e., 280 mOsm/L), which may be relevant during the course of infection. CDC1551 was treated with 140 mM NaCl for 1 h and compared to the same strain treated with 0 mM NaCl for 0 h. 4 biological replicates, independently grown and harvested. One replicate per array.
Project description:The Rv2745c (clgR) gene encodes a Clp protease gene regulator that is induced in response to a variety of stress conditions and potentially plays a role in Mtb pathogenesis. The isogenic Mtb:ΔRv2745c mutant is significantly more sensitive to in vitro redox stress generated by diamide, relative to wild-type Mtb, implicating a role for ClgR in the management of intraphagosomal redox stress. Redox stress led to dysregulation of the σH regulon in the isogenic mutant, Mtb:ΔRv2745c. Induction of clgR in Mtb and Mtb:ΔRv2745c (comp) did not lead to Clp protease induction, indicating that clgR has additional functions that need to be elucidated. Disruption of genes involved in sulfate assimilation also occurred in the knock out, implicating clgR as a possible regulator of downstream signaling cascades that facilitate Mtb survival.
Project description:The Rv2745c (clgR) gene encodes a Clp protease gene regulator that is induced in response to a variety of stress conditions and potentially plays a role in Mtb pathogenesis. The isogenic Mtb:ΔRv2745c mutant is significantly more sensitive to in vitro redox stress generated by diamide, relative to wild-type Mtb, implicating a role for ClgR in the management of intraphagosomal redox stress. Redox stress led to dysregulation of the σH regulon in the isogenic mutant, Mtb:ΔRv2745c. Induction of clgR in Mtb and Mtb:ΔRv2745c (comp) did not lead to Clp protease induction, indicating that clgR has additional functions that need to be elucidated. Disruption of genes involved in sulfate assimilation also occurred in the knock out, implicating clgR as a possible regulator of downstream signaling cascades that facilitate Mtb survival. At different time points, (30, 60 and 90 mins, t=30, t=60 and t=90) following the addition of diamide to M. tuberculosis CDC1551 cultures, RNA was extracted and labeled with Cy5. RNA was also extracted from pre-diamide addition (t=0) time points and labeled with Cy3. These samples were cohybridized on M. tuberculosis CDC1551 whole genome microarrays using biological triplicate samples (i.e. samples derived from three distinct cultures and treatments) and thus three unique datasets were generated for each of the three time points for Mtb. Similar experiments were performed for an isogenic Rv2745c (clgR) mutant in Mtb CDC1551 which was generated by allelic exchange and a complemented strain which was generated by trans-complementation of Rv2745c in the attB locus of the mutant strain, thus restoring the wild type regulation of Rv2745c.
Project description:To understand the response of M. tuberculosis (MTB) to the drug delamanid, we performed transcriptomics on MTB bacilli exposed to the drug.