Project description:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a globally prevalent cause of diarrhea. We report the first gene expression analysis of the human host response to experimental challenge with ETEC.
Project description:The purpose of this study is to determine whether the presence of pathogenic Escherichia coli in colon is associated with psychiatric disorders.
Project description:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a major cause of diarrhoea in children in resource-limited countries and of travellers diarrhoea. The ileal proteomics change after ETEC challenge is less characterised. Here in this study changes of ileal proteins post ETEC challenge in weaned pigs are studied. In total, 5151 ileal proteins were successfully annotated and 9 proteins had significantly different abundance between the ETEC and CON pigs.
Project description:Despite the characterization of many aetiologic genetic changes. The specific causative factors in the development of sporadic colorectal cancer remain unclear. This study was performed to detect the possible role of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) in developing colorectal carcinoma.
Project description:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infections are a common cause of diarrheal illness in low- and middle-income countries. The live-attenuated ACE527 vaccine, adjuvanted with double mutant LT (dmLT), affords clear but partial protection against ETEC challenge inhuman volunteers. Comparatively, initial wild-type ETEC challenge completely protects against severe diarrhea on homologous re-challenge...To investigate molecular determinants of protection, vaccine antigen content was compared to wild-type ETEC, and proteome microarrays were used to assess immune responses following vaccination and ETEC challenge... Although molecular interrogation of the vaccine confirmed expression of targeted canonical antigens, relative to wild-type ETEC, vaccine strains were deficient in production of flagellar antigens, immotile, and lacked production of the EtpA adhesin. Similarly, vaccination ± dmLT elicited responses to targeted canonical antigens, but relative to wild-type challenge, vaccine responses to some potentially protective non-canonical antigens including EtpA were diminished or absent...These studies highlight important differences in vaccine and wild-type ETEC antigen content and call attention to distinct immunologic signatures that could inform investigation of correlates of protection, and guide vaccine antigen selection for these pathogens of global importance.
Project description:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an important cause of diarrhoea, a pervasive disease in low- and middle-income countries that affects mostly young children and visiting travellers. Substantial diversity exists among ETEC isolates, hindering development of effective preventive means. To investigate how ETEC genomic variation is reflected at expressed proteome level, we applied label-free quantitative proteomics to 7 human ETEC strains representing 5 epidemiologically important lineages. We further determined the protein profile of the non-pathogenic E. coli B strain BL21 to discriminate metabolic features specific for ETEC. The analysis yielded a dataset of 2,894 proteins, of which 1,777 were present in all strains. Each ETEC strain displayed on average 27 (±10) proteins with known or putative links to virulence, both plasmid- and chromosomally-encoded, and a number of strain-specific isoforms participating in the biosynthesis of surface antigens. Statistical comparison of relative protein levels between the ETEC strains and BL21 revealed several proteins with significantly increased amounts only in BL21, including enzymes of arginine biosynthesis and metabolism of melibiose, galactitol and gluconate. ETEC strains displayed consistently increased levels of proteins that were functional in iron acquisition, maltose metabolism, and acid resistance. These results suggest that specific metabolic functions are shared among ETEC isolates.
Project description:Escherichia coli (E. coli) amine oxidase (ECAO) encoded by tynA gene has been one of the model enzymes to study the mechanism of oxidative deamination of amines to the corresponding aldehydes by amine oxidases. The biological roles of ECAO have been less addressed. Therefore we have constructed a gene deletion Escherichia coli K-12 strain, E. coli tynA-, and used the microarray technique to address its function by comparing the total RNA gene expression to the one of the wt. Our results suggest that tynA is a reserve gene for stringent environmental conditions and its gene product ECAO a growth advantage compared to other bacteria due to H2O2 production.