Project description:L. helveticus is used to modulate cheese flavor and as a starter organism in certain cheese varieties. Our group has compiled a draft (4x) sequence for the 2.4 Mb genome of an industrial strain L. helveticus CNRZ32. The primary aim was to investigate expression of 168 completely sequenced genes during growth in milk and MRS medium using microarrays. Oligonucleotide probes against each of the completely sequenced genes were compiled on maskless photolithography-based DNA microarrays. Additionally, the entire draft genome sequence was used to produce tiled microarrays where the non-interrupted sequence contigs were covered by consecutive 24-mer probes. Keywords: growth conditions response
Project description:Streptococcus pneumoniae of serotype 3 possess a mucoid capsule and cause disease associated with high mortality rates relative to other pneumococci. Phylogenetic analysis of a complete reference genome and 81 draft sequences from clonal complex 180, the predominant serotype 3 clone in much of the world, found most sampled isolates belonged to a clade affected by few diversifying recombinations. However, other isolates indicate significant genetic variation has accumulated over the clonal complex's entire history. Two closely related genomes, one from the blood and another from the cerebrospinal fluid, were obtained from a patient with meningitis. The pair differed in their behaviour in a mouse model of disease and in their susceptibility to antimicrobials, with at least some of these changes attributable to a mutation that up-regulated the patAB efflux pump. This indicates clinically important phenotypic variation can accumulate rapidly through small alterations to the genotype. [Data is also available from http://bugs.sgul.ac.uk/E-BUGS-144]
Project description:Lactobacillus casei is remarkably adaptive to diverse habitats. To understand the evolution and adaptation of Lb. casei strains isolated from different environments, the gene content of 22 Lb. casei strains isolated from various habitats (cheeses, n=8; plant materials, n=8; and human sources, n=6) were examined by comparative genome hybridization with an Lb. casei ATCC 334-based microarray. Comparative genome hybridization was performed against an Affymetrix custom microarray designed to include 2,661 (97%) chromosomal and 17 (85%) plasmid CDSs predicted to occur in Lb. casei ATCC 334, as well as all predicted CDSs in the draft Lb. helveticus CNRZ 32 genome. CDSs that were not included in the microarray design were all transposase-encoding genes.
Project description:With the aid of a biochip, carrying representative sequences from approximately 2200 sequences from the genome of isolate 9a5c from X. fastidiosa (Xf), microarray-based comparisons have been performed with 8 different Xf isolates obtained from coffee plants.
2013-12-31 | GSE41163 | GEO
Project description:Draft Genome Sequences of three novel bacterial isolates
Project description:RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are frequently deregulated in cancer and emerge as effectors of the DNA damage response (DDR). The non-POU domain-containing octamer-binding protein NONO/p54nrb is a multi-functional RBP that modulates the production and processing of mRNA in unperturbed cells, but also promotes the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Here, we investigate the impact of Nono deletion in the murine cell-based lung cancer model KP (KRasG12D, Trp53-/-). We show that the deletion of Nono impairs the response to DSBs induced by the topoisomerase-II inhibitor etoposide. Nono-deficient KP (KPN) cells display prolonged activation of DSB signaling and an increased amount of DSBs. The defects in the DDR are accompanied with reduced RNAPII promoter occupancy, elevated levels of DNA-RNA-hybrids (R-loops), and attenuated induction of the DDR factor growth arrest and DNA damage inducible beta (Gadd45b). Our data suggest a Nono-mediated, genome-protective crosstalk of the DDR with the RNA metabolism. Our data characterise Gadd45b as putative Nono-dependent effector of the DDR and suggest that Nono mediates a genome-protective crosstalk of the DDR with the RNA metabolism via induction of Gadd45b.