Project description:The anti-mycobacterial activity of C17 diynes has been described previously, however, their mode of action remains unknown. Microarray techniques were used to explore the genetic regulation reponses of Mycobacterium smegmatis to treatment with the C17 diynes, falcarinol and panaxydol. Our analyses showed a distinct mode of action of the C17 diynes when compared with commonly used anti-mycobacterial drugs. In addition, geneset enrichment analysis, pathway enrichment analysis and PASS analysis revealed significant gene ontology terms, pathways and potential modes of action, respectively. Combing the results of the three analyses, we hypothesize that the C17 diynes inhibit fatty acid biosynthesis, specifically phospholipid synthesis in mycobacteira.
Project description:Rgg-dependent transcriptional regulation in SF370 Streptococcus pyogenes strain was analyzed during post-exponential phase of growth Keywords: rgg mutant
Project description:The anti-mycobacterial activity of C17 diynes has been described previously, however, their mode of action remains unknown. Microarray techniques were used to explore the genetic regulation reponses of Mycobacterium smegmatis to treatment with the C17 diynes, falcarinol and panaxydol. Our analyses showed a distinct mode of action of the C17 diynes when compared with commonly used anti-mycobacterial drugs. In addition, geneset enrichment analysis, pathway enrichment analysis and PASS analysis revealed significant gene ontology terms, pathways and potential modes of action, respectively. Combing the results of the three analyses, we hypothesize that the C17 diynes inhibit fatty acid biosynthesis, specifically phospholipid synthesis in mycobacteira. Mycobacterium smegmatis MC2 155 was treated with 10 times of MIC90 of falcarinol, panaxydol, isoniazid, ethambutol and kanamycin for 6 hours with at least 6 independent biological replicates.
Project description:Streptococcus agalactiae, also known as Group B streptococcus, emerged in the 1960s as a leading cause of septicemia and meningitis in neonates. It is also an increasing cause of infections in adults with underlying diseases. To characterize transcription start sites (TSS) in the hypervirulent ST17 lineage (strain BM110) we used a differential RNA-seq strategy, based on selective Tobacco Acid Pyrophosphatase (TAP) treatment and adapter ligation, which differentiates primary transcripts and processed RNAs
Project description:Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is a major human respiratory pathogen and the leading cause of bacterial pneumonia worldwide. Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs), which often act by post-transcriptionally regulating gene expression, have been shown to be crucial for the virulence of S. pneumoniae and other bacterial pathogens. Over 170 putative sRNAs have been identified in S. pneumoniae TIGR4 strain (serotype 4) through transcriptomic studies, and a subset of these sRNAs have been further implicated in regulating pneumococcal pathogenesis. However, there was little overlap in the sRNAs identified among these studies, which indicated that the approaches used for sRNA identification were not sufficiently sensitive and robust and that there were likely many more undiscovered sRNAs encoded in the S. pneumoniae genome. Here, we sought to comprehensively identify sRNAs in Avery's virulent S. pneumoniae strain D39 using two independent RNA-seq based approaches. We developed an unbiased method for identifying novel sRNAs from bacterial RNA-seq data and have further tested the specificity of our analysis program towards identifying sRNAs encoded by both strains D39 and TIGR4. Interestingly, the genes for 15% of the putative sRNAs identified in strain TIGR4 including ones previously implicated in virulence were not present in strain D39 genome suggesting that the differences in sRNA repertoires between these two serotypes may contribute to their strain-specific virulence properties. Finally, this study has identified 67 new sRNA candidates in strain D39, 28 out of which have been further validated, raising the total number of sRNAs that have been identified in strain D39 to 112.