Transcriptomic Analysis of Laribacter hongkongensis Reveals Adaptive Response Coupled with Temperature.

ABSTRACT: Bacterial adaptation to different hosts requires transcriptomic alteration in response to the environmental conditions. Laribacter hongkongensis is a gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, urease-positive bacillus caused infections in liver cirrhosis patients and community-acquired gastroenteritis. It was also found in intestine from commonly consumed freshwater fishes and drinking water reservoirs. Since L. hongkongensis could survive as either fish or human pathogens, their survival mechanisms in two different habitats should be temperature-regulated and highly complex. Therefore, we performed transcriptomic analysis of L. hongkongensis at body temperatures of fish and human in order to elucidate the versatile adaptation mechanisms coupled with the temperatures. We identified numerous nov

SUBMITTER: Kong HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5234827 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature