Functional analysis of the uropathogenic Escherichia coli R049 gene
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ABSTRACT: The objective was to determine the function of the novel uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) gene R049 during host infection. We infected the urinary tracts of mice with E. coli UPEC132 or the R049 deletion mutant UPEC132ΔR049.The mouse kidneys were harvested at 4 and 8 h post-infection and screened for differentially expressed genes by microarray analysis. We identified 379 and 515 differentially expressed genes at 4 and 8 h post-infection, respectively. Thirty-four of these genes were associated with inflammatory and immune signaling pathways, including those related to mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling, leukocyte transendothelial migration, cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction, Toll-like receptor signaling, and apoptosis. Protein binding (GO 0005515) was the most prevalent molecular function in the Gene Ontology terms related to differentially expressed genes. In conclusion, R049 expression in UPEC132 is related to the early innate immune and inflammatory responses in UPEC-infected hosts. This work lays the foundation for further research on anti-infective immunity against UPEC. A ten chip study using total RNA recovered from 10 separate mouse kidneys of five experimental groups. The five experimental groups respectively were the UPEC132_4h group, UPEC132_8h group, UPEC132ΔR049_4h group, UPEC132ΔR049_8h group and Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS) groups. Two separate mouse kidneys in every group were tested with two chips. Each chip measures the expression level of 44,170 genes from BALB/c mouse with three 60-mer probe pairs per gene.
Project description:Investigation on expression levels of normal tissue from prostate cancer patients on locus 8q24. The region chr8:127640000-129120000 is tiled with isothermal probes (hg17) 7 chip study, using 7 independent samples.
Project description:Investigation on expression levels of normal tissue from prostate cancer patients on locus 8q24. 3 chips with 3 arrays each study, using 3 pairs of normal vs. tumor tissue and 3 replicates of the same sample. Each chip contained one pair of normal vs. tumor and one copy of the repeated sample.
Project description:Investigation on expression levels of normal tissue from prostate cancer patients on locus 8q24. The region chr8:127640000-129120000 is tiled with 60 nt probes at 10 nt interval (hg18) 7 chip study, using 7 independent samples.
Project description:Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) self-renew and differentiate into an array of cell types in vitro and in vivo. A complex network of genetic and epigenetic pathways regulates the self-renewal and differentiation of these pluripotent cells, and the structure and covalent modifications of chromatin play a prominent role in this process. We examine nucleosome occupancy in mouse and human embryonic stem cells (ESCs), induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and differentiated cell types using MNase-seq. To address variability inherent in this technique, we developed a bioinformatic approach that enabled the identification of regions of difference (RoD) in nucleosome occupancy between pluripotent and somatic cells. The majority of changes in nucleosomal signatures that occur in differentiation are reset during reprogramming. We conclude that changes in nucleosome occupancy are a hallmark of pluripotency and likely identify key regulatory regions that play a role in determining cell identity. A six chip study using total RNA recovered from three cell types with 2 replicates each
Project description:We used a DNA microarray chip covering 369 resistance types to investigate the relation of antibiotic resistance gene diversity with humansM-bM-^@M-^Y age. Metagenomic DNA from fecal samples of 123 healthy volunteers of four different age groups, i.e. pre-school Children (CH), School Children (SC), High School Students (HSS) and Adults (AD) were used for hybridization. The results showed that 80 different gene types were recovered from the 123 individuals gut microbiota, among which 25 were present in CH, 37 in SC, 58 in HSS and 72 in AD. Further analysis indicated that antibiotic resistance genes in groups of CH, SC and AD can be independently clustered, and those ones in group HSS are more divergent. The detailed analysis of antibiotic resistance genes in human gut is further described in the paper DNA microarray analysis reveals the antibiotic resistance gene diversity in human gut microbiota is age-related submitted to Sentific Reports The antibiotic resistance gene microarray is custom-designed (Roche NimbleGen), based on a single chip containing 3 internal replicated probe sets of 12 probes per resistance gene, covering the whole 315K 12-plex platform spots.
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in zebrafish liver under naphthalene treatedï¼?high-concentration group and low-concentration groupï¼?, compared to the solvent control group revealed that 76 genes and 88 genes were differentially expressed respectively in the fish caged at the low-concentration and high-concentration. KEGG pathway and GO analysis of the differentially expressed genes, showed significant enrichment in several meaningful categories. Healthy 5-month-old adult zebrafish (AB strain) maintenance and chemical exposure to 84μg/L and 840μg/L naphthalene and 0.005% Dimethyl sulfoxide as the solvent control were performed according to published research protocols. Prior to exposure, the fish were acclimatized in 50L aerated fresh water in glass tanks for 2 weeks, under controlled environmental conditions with the water temperature maintained at 26±0.5â?? for 16-h light and 8-h dark photoperiod. After 21 d of treatment, adult zebrafish livers were removed by dissection, and immediately transferred to RNA-later Stabilization Reagent(Qiagen,76106) , prior to storage at 4â?? for histopathological and microarray analysis. NimbleGen Gene Expression 12X135K zebrafish microarrays and One-Color DNA labeling Kit (NimbleGen, WI) were used for genome-wide expression analysis of naphthalene-treated zebrafish.
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes of LncRNAs in tumor tissues and paired non-tumor tissues in HBV-positive hapatocellular carcinoma. The different expression genes were further analysised. The human LncRNA microarray analysis of the 10 samples (5 non-tumor tissues and 5 paired tumor tissues) were completed. Total RNA from each sample was quantified using the NanoDrop ND-1000 and RNA integrity was assessed using standard denaturing agarose gel electrophoresis. Total RNA of each sample was used for labeling and array hybridization as the following steps: 1) Reverse transcription with by Invitrogen Superscript ds-cDNA synthesis kit; 2) ds-cDNA labeling with NimbleGen one-color DNA labeling kit; 3) Array hybridization using the NimbleGen Hybridization System and followed by washing with the NimbleGen wash buffer kit; 4) Array scanning using the Agilent Scanner G2505C. Scanned images (TIFF format) were then imported into NimbleScan software (version 2.5) for grid alignment and expression data analysis. Expression data were normalized through quantile normalization and the Robust Multichip Average (RMA) algorithm included in the NimbleScan software. The Probe level (*_norm_RMA.pair) files and mRNA level (*_RMA.calls) files were generated after normalization. All mRNAs level files were imported into Agilent GeneSpring GX software (version 11.5.1) for further analysis.mRNAs that at least 3 out of 6 samples have values greater than or equal to lower cut-off: 50.0 (“All Targets Value”) were chosen for further data analysis. Differentially expressed mRNAs were identified through Volcano Plot filtering. Pathway analysis and GO analysis were applied to determine the roles of these differentially expressed mRNAs played in these biological pathways or GO terms. Finally, Hierarchical Clustering was performed to show the distinguishable mRNAs expression pattern among samples.
Project description:A significant percentage of HIV-infected individuals experience a sharp decline in CD4+ T cell counts and progress to AIDS quickly after primary infection. Identification of biomarkers distinguishing rapid progressors (RPs) versus chronic progressors (CPs) is critical for early clinical intervention and could provide novel strategies to facilitate vaccine design and immune therapy. mRNA and miRNA expression profiles in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of RPs and CPs were investigated at 111±22 days (Mean±SD) of HIV infection. The association of mRNA and miRNA expression with disease progression was examined by receiver operating characteristic analysis and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. Pathway enrichment analysis showed that genes with deregulated expression in RPs are primarily involved in apoptosis pathways. Furthermore, we found that 5 miRNAs (miR-31, -200c, -526a, -99a and -503) in RPs were significantly decreased compared to those in CPs (P<0.05). The decreased expression of these miRNAs was associated with rapid disease progression of HIV infection with a 94% predictive value as measured by the area under the curve. The upregulated predicted targets from the 5 signature miRNAs and all upregulated genes identified from mRNA microarray converged to the apoptosis pathway. Moreover, overexpression of miR-31 in primary human T cells promoted their survival. Our results have identified a distinct transcriptomic signature in PBMCs of RPs and provided novel insights to the pathogenesis of HIV infection. A cohort of primary HIV infected individuals with different disease outcome were enrolled in this study. We included 6 individuals with rapid disease progression (RP), seven with chronic disease progression (CP). The HIV infected individuals were never on therapy before the time of sample taken.
Project description:The human gut microbe Bacteroides fragilis can alter the expression of its surface molecules such as capsular polysaccharides and SusC/SusD family outer membrane proteins through the reversible DNA inversions.ã??We have revealed that the outer membrane vesicle (OMV) formation in B. fragilis is regulated by BF2766 (tyrosine recombinase)-mediated DNA inversions at two distantly located promoter regions previously designated as class IV regions. In this study, we aimed to identify the genetic loci associating with the OMV formation by means of transcriptome analysis on the isogenic BF2766 mutants. By comparing the transciptomes of four BF2766 deletion mutants, in which the promoter orientations in class IV-1 and IV-2 regions were locked ON/ON, OFF/ON, OFF/OFF, or ON/OFF, we found that the transcription of the genes downstream of class IV-2 markedly elevated in a hyper-vesiculating ON/ON strain. A four chip study using total RNA isolated from four BF2766 deletion mutants culture. Each sample contains duplicated data.