Project description:11 Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutants resistant to D-cycloserine were isolated in the laboratory. Genomic DNA was isolated and whole genomes were sequenced to perform SNP calling and identify possible mutations associated with resistance.
Project description:Host-pathogen interactions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection still remain poorly understood. We investigated the host immune response to different reference Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in THP-1 cells. Major differences in the gene expression profiles were identified in response to infection with these strains. These findings shed new insights into the dynamic variation in tuberculosis immune response and pathogenesis. We used Affymetrix GeneChip Human Exon 1.0 ST microarrays to investigate host differential gene expression in response to different Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates in China comparing extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis with drug sensitive one.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates in China comparing extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis with drug sensitive one. The same condition experiment. The samples were from the different drug-resistant strains. Only one replicate.
Project description:This study uses microarray analyses to examine baseline gene expression profiles for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex clinical isolates relative to reference strain CDC1551 during log phase growth in vitro in 7H9 broth. For this in vitro analyses, log-phase mycobacteria in starter cultures grown to mid-log from frozen stocks were inoculated into 7H9-OADC medium in 25-cm2 vented flasks at an OD of ~0.05 and grown without shaking for ~1 week to an OD of ~0.5-0.6.