Project description:Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) have a capacity to cause serious infections of blood, the central nervous system and particularly the urinary tract. Relatively little is known about how ExPEC adapt their cell-wide protein expression to environments with different carbon sources and other required nutrients. We used label-free quantitative (LFQ) proteomic analysis to determine proteomes of five ExPEC strains purified from clinical blood cultures, and compared them with proteomes of reference uropathogenic E. coli strain 536 derived from blood culture and two chemically different solid media. We identified 2,883 proteins in total, and for 90% of the detected proteins described their relative quantitative levels based on LFQ intensity scores. Comparison of anaerobic and aerobic blood cultures revealed significant differences in the levels of 32 proteins out of 1854 shared proteins. A majority of these proteins was associated with acquisition and utilization of metal ions, which are critical either for anaerobic (nickel) or aerobic (iron) respiration. ANOVA analysis of the relative quantitative levels of 1758 proteins shared between the strains identified 47 differentially expressed proteins, including proteins involved in vitamin B6 metabolism, cell motility and virulence. Comparison of strain 536 proteomes derived from blood cultures and solid media showed substantial variation in the relative quantitative levels of 200 proteins, which represented 11% of the common proteins between the conditions. Blood culture condition was characteristic by upregulation of anaerobic fermentative metabolism, cell motility and iron utilization. In a response to the growth on solid media increased levels of proteins functional in aerobic respiration, catabolism of various biochemicals obtained from the media and protection against environmental stresses. The study presents the largest coverage of ExPEC/UPEC proteome to date,with a detail account of ExPEC metabolism under three chemically different environments.
Project description:Transcriptome comparison of Bacillus subtilis 168 grown on solid agar (sample 1-3) or aerated liquid (sample 4-7) 2xSG medium with and without of 0.1 mM manganese.
Project description:A study describing the consistency of transcriptional behaviours of B. subtilis in liquid and on solid media at different stages of culture growth
Project description:The transcriptome profiles of sporulating vs non-sporulating cells, within an isogenic culture were compared. Keywords: isogenic subpopulation comparison Bacillus subtilis sporulation
Project description:Most of the proteomic studies done so far uses bacterial cells harvested from liquid culture media. However it is widely accepted that many important determinants associated with virulence and host cell adhesion are exclusively expressed during growth on solid media. As an attempt to complement previous studies, in this study we compare the proteome coverage of Escherichia coli K12 from a single colony on solid media with those at different growth phases in liquid culture; i.e. early log, mid log, early - and late stationary growth phases. A total of 2044 protein groups covering approximately 47% of the total proteome were identified across all studied conditions; 1650 number of proteins identified from single colonies and 1679 proteins from liquid cultured cells. Label-free quantitative analysis revealed that single colony proteome in a solid agar differs largely from that in liquid culture. The presence of the Suf-operon, involved in iron mobilisation and swarming motility were associated exclusively with single colony profiles. Whereas proteins involved in motility such as MotA, MotB, fliH, flip, fliD and fliJ were associated exclusively to cells grown in liquid culture. The data presented here provide a valuable resource for understanding the role of key proteins within microenvironments surrounding E.coli single colonies.
Project description:Transcriptome comparison of Bacillus subtilis NCIB3610 attached to the hyphae of Aspergillus niger CB 119.1 compared to Bacillus subtilis NCIB3610 cells in the supernatant of the same culture. Detailed description (other than provided below) of growth conditions, RNA preparation, cDNA synthesis and hybridization conditions can also be found in the submitted paper.
Project description:We used next generation sequencing (RNA-seq) to determine the transcriptional profile of C. parapsilosis growing in several conditions including different media, temperatures and oxygen concentrations.