Project description:This project aims to investigate the effects of 3% oxygen environments on THP-1 cells as compared to 20% oxygen environments. THP-1 cells (pre-seed) were divided into 2 different conditions and cultured in 20% and 3% oxygen environments for 24h. Samples were performed in triplicates.
Project description:Bacteria isolated from potato scab lesions in Finland or northern Sweden were analyzed using microarrays, PCR, and sequencing. Data indicate wide genetic variability in pathogenicity islands among S.turgidiscabies and S.scabies strains.
Project description:Subjects were exposed to three hypoxic environments, a hypobaric altitude chamber (AC), a restricted oxygen breathing device (ROBD), and a restricted oxygen breathing environment (ROBE), and blood was collected during each exposure for total RNA analysis. Microarrays were used to examine the transcriptional response from subjects for each of the three conditions and results were compared. Few differences were noted in gene expresssion when comparing AC, ROBD, and ROBE.
Project description:Chemostats have been used for decades in studying cell growth under controlled environments. Whole transcriptome sequencing by RNA-seq is a relatively new method for gene expression analysis. We utilized both tools for expression analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa growing slowly in synthetic cystic fibrosis medium under growth-limiting nitrate and oxygen levels. We established steady-state cultures under two divergent growth rates and found that during slower growth at a doubling time of 9.8 h, 76 known quorum genes were up-expressed while just 11 were down-expressed. Quorum-controlled genes were also more expressed in response to oxygen limitation. 21% of up-expressed genes under slow, oxygen-limited growth are quorum controlled while just 6% are up-expressed under slow, nitrate-limited growth. We found that the autoinducer for regulator RhlR, C4-HSL, is ~3.4 times higher when cells are growing slowly under oxygen limitation while the concentration of the autoinducer for LasR remained unchanged. Experiments with deletion mutants show the importance of rhlR for expression of quorum-controlled genes under slow, oxygen-limited conditions. This is an intriguing observation since P. aeruginosa is likely growing in similar environments in the cystic fibrosis lung, and lasR mutations are known to arise during chronic infection.
