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: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:Intercalated cells are known to be involved in acid-base homeostasis via vacuolar ATPase (H+-ATPase or V-ATPase) expression. Increasing evidence supports an innate immune role for ICs along with their traditional function of pH regulation. In this study, human kidney tissue was enriched for viable intercalated cells then exposed to uropathogenic E. coli versus saline control. Single cell transcriptomics was performed. Six intercalated cell subtypes were identified including hybrid principal-intercalated cells. Cell specific cluster marker gene list generated from this sequencing data was put through ingenuity pathway analysis pipeline which predicted “phagosome maturation” as a key biological pathway that increased in rank following exposure to uropathogenic E. coli in two of the intercalated cell subtypes. Uptake of E. coli and pHrodo coated E. coli BioParticlesTM during live animal intravital microscopy demonstrated that intercalated cell phagocytosis of bacteria was an active process that involved acidification. Taken together, our finding indicate that intercalated cells represent an epithelial cell with characteristics of professional phagocytes like macrophages or neutrophils, which includes the ability to phagocytose E. coli and acidify phagolysosomes.
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.
Project description:The goal of this study is to compare gene expression data for a well known model organism (Escherichia coli) using different technologies (NGS here, microarray from GSE48776).
Project description:We report the effect of oxygenation state in lactose grown escherichia coli producing recombinant proteins. To shed more light on the mechanistic correlation between the uptake of lactose and dissolved oxygen, a comprehensive study has been undertaken with the E. coli BL21 (DE3) strain. Differences in consumption pattern of lactose, metabolites, biomass and product formation due to aerobiosis have been investigated. Transcriptomic profiling of metabolic changes due to aerobic process and microaerobic process during protein formation phase has been studied and the results provide a deeper understanding of protein production in E. coli BL21 (DE3) strains with lactose based promoter expression systems.This study also provides a scientific understanding of escherichia coli metabolism upon oxygen fluctuations.
Project description:The aim of the study was to compare the transcriptome of E. coli K12 MG1655 cells lacking hydroperoxidase (Hpx-) and therefore unable to detoxify hydrogen peroxide, to wild-type cells; both when the Rtc RNA repair system is active and when it is inhibited; at 8 and 24 hpi. A very large number of genes (up to 1/3) were found to be differentially expressed in Hpx- as compared to wild-type. Inhibition of the Rtc system had dramatic effects on Hpx- but not on wild-type.
Project description:NsrR is a nitric oxide sensitive regulator of transcription. In Escherichia coli, NsrR is a repressor of the hmp gene encoding the flavohemoglobin that detoxifies nitric oxide. Several other transcription units (including ytfE, ygbA and hcp-hcr) are known to be subject to regulation by NsrR. In this study, chromatin immunoprecipitation and microarray analysis was used to identify NsrR binding sites in the chromosome of Escherichia coli strain MG1655. Keywords: ChIP-chip
Project description:Nucleic Acid Sequencing for the study of division induced double strand breaks in the terminus region of Escherichia coli cells lacking RecBCD DNA repair enzymes.