Project description:Transcriptional profiling of low-iron stimulon and XibR influenced regulon using wild-type Xcc 8004 and xibR mutant grown under iron-replete and iron-deplete conditions. Trancriptional analysis under iron-deplete condition, mimicking in planta environment, provides greater insights into expression pattern of several virulence-associated functions under low-iron. A genetic screen sggested the involvement of XibR (Xanthomonas iron binding regulator) in iron-uptake and metabolism. Present transcriptional analysis suggested the co-regulation of virulence associated functions including siderophore biosynthesis, motility, chemotaxis and typeIII effectors by a novel transcriptional regulator of NtrC family protein XibR and iron avability.
Project description:This series consists of 4 biological replicates (independently grown and harvested). Each experiment consists of a comparison between DrpoE Xcc strain that has no Sigma E, and an over-activating Sigma E Xcc strain (Delta rseA). Both strains were grown to mid-exponential phase in MOKA media at 30°C.
Project description:We investigated the transcriptome dynamics of Brassica oleracea in response to Xcc race 1 infection at 3 and 12 days after inoculation by using Massive Analysis of 3′-cDNA Ends (MACE) technology
Project description:To gain an understanding of the regulatory role of PilG and PilH in Xcc a set of global gene expression profiles,we performed transcriptome analysis.Transcriptome analyses that showed PilG and PilH regulating many genes involved chemotaxis and flagellar biosynthesis.Taken this data together it is clear the impact of PilG and PilH on the expression of specific genes at the transcriptional level accounts for the phenotypes seen in the ΔpilG and ΔpilH strains.
Project description:Xanthomonas campestris pathovar campestris (Xcc), the causal agent of black rot disease of cruciferous plants worldwide, is composed of phenotypically heterogeneous groups of strains. The knowledge about the genome diversity and phylogenetic relationships between Xcc strains with different origins are of great interest as they provide insight into the mechanisms of pathogenicity, host preferences and evolution of this pathogen. In our present work, eighteen Xcc strains collected from different geographical area of China mainland were investigated concerning of the genome composition by comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) using microarray slides spotted with PCR-based intragenic DNA fragments of 4273 open reading frames (ORFs) representing the non-redundant genome content of Xcc strain 8004. The common genome backbone of Chinese strains was estimated to contain about 3404 ORFs, which was considered to maintain the basic characteristics of Xcc, i.e. the yellow mucoid colony on nutrient solid medium as well as the pathogenicity to induce black rot disease on host plants. A flexible gene pool of 729 ORFs in Xcc was characterized, of which 402 ORFs were clustered in twenty-seven highly variable genomic regions in Xcc 8004. Of these highly variable genomic regions, five are absolutely absent from Chinese strains, which constitutes the main genomic differences between the Xcc 8004 and Chinese strains. Transcriptome analysis of Xcc 8004 grown in the rich medium NYG and the defined medium XVM2 indicated that the expression of some certain genes in highly variable genomic regions are significantly activated in XVM2, which included the predicted pathogencity and avirulence genes. Candidate genes for cultivar-specificity of Xcc were identified in the variable genomic regions: the avrXccC and avrXccE1 were demonstrated to confer the avirulence on the host plants Mustard cultivar (cv.) Guangtou and Chinese cabbage cv. Zhongbai 83, respectively; and the avrBs1 showed to correlate with the hypersensitive reaction (HR) on the non-host plant pepper ECW10R. This study revealed the common genome backbone of Xcc maintained the basic function in essential metabolisms and basic pathogencity, and the variable genomic determinants contributed to the cultivar-specificity of the pathogen, suggesting that the Xcc genome, with a compact function core carrying essential genes for survival, reproduction, and invasion, is constantly diversifying by acquiring and losing DNA segments, or by DNA degeneration, to improve the genetic novelty for the adaptation during the evolution. Keywords: CGH analysis and transcriptome analysis
Project description:To investigate the effect of the transcriptional regulator Crt1 on the transcirptome of Xanthomonas campestris pv. camp (Xcc), comparative genome-wide transcriptome analysis was conducted. For this purpose, the wild-type strain Xcc B100 and the mutant strain Xcc Δcrt1 were each cultivated in triplicates in minimal medium supplemented with glucose as sole carbon source. RNA samples from the biological replicates were obtained at an early stationary growth stage. RNA was isolated and the three replicates were combined for each strain. Furthermore, the data from two arrays (dye swap) were combined to provide statistically reliable conclusions.
Project description:Black rot, caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) is one of the most devastating diseases of cruciferous crops worldwide. The pathogen infects and multiplies in plant vascular tissues and, as the disease progresses, the veins of infected tissues turn black and characteristic V-shaped lesions appear along the margins of leaves.The aim of this work is to identify differentially expressed genes from Brassica oleracea during early infection by Xcc, in an attempt to identify proteins related to resistance.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris 8004 comparing control wild type strain with ravA (or ravS or ravR) mutant The effects of mutating ravS, ravR and ravA on EPS synthesis, biofilm production and motility were very different , the factors responsible for these differences are not clear. With comparative analysis of the regualtion pathways by RavS, RavR and RavA, we can indentify different genes regulated by these three genes and maybe explain the different phenotypes caused by these genes mutations. Comparative analysis of the regualtion pathways by RavS, RavR and RavA Two-condition experiment, wild type vs. mutants. Biological replicates were independently grown and harvested. One replicate per array
Project description:Black rot, caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) is one of the most devastating diseases of cruciferous crops worldwide. The pathogen infects and multiplies in plant vascular tissues and, as the disease progresses, the veins of infected tissues turn black and characteristic V-shaped lesions appear along the margins of leaves.The aim of this work is to identify differentially expressed genes from Brassica oleracea during early infection by Xcc, in an attempt to identify proteins related to resistance. Cabbge seedlings were inoculated with Xanthomonas campestris pv campestris (Xcc) suspension and cabbage gene expression at 6h., 24h. And 48h. After inoculation was assessed with help of Brassica 95k EST microarray chip.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris 8004 comparing control wild type strain with ravA (or ravS or ravR) mutant The effects of mutating ravS, ravR and ravA on EPS synthesis, biofilm production and motility were very different , the factors responsible for these differences are not clear. With comparative analysis of the regualtion pathways by RavS, RavR and RavA, we can indentify different genes regulated by these three genes and maybe explain the different phenotypes caused by these genes mutations.