Project description:Fusobacterium nucleatum is an anaerobic Gram-negative bacterium implicated in mucosal inflammatory conditions. Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) derived from Gram-negative bacteria are recognized as important mediators of host–microbe interactions. In this study, bulk RNA sequencing was performed to investigate global gene expression changes in HaCaT human keratinocytes following 24-hour treatment with F.n-OMVs (10 μg/mL). The dataset provides transcriptomic profiles of treated and untreated cells and serves as a resource for exploring host cellular responses to bacterial vesicles.
Project description:At present, the function of Fusobacterium nucleosocci outer membrane vesicles under normal intestinal environmental pH conditions has been mainly studied, but there are few studies related to the function of Fusobacterium nucleosius outer membrane vesicles under cancer microenvironment pH conditions. The purpose of this study was to pioneer the comparative analysis of the composition of Fusobacterium nucleosibacterium outer membrane vesicle proteins under normal intestinal environmental pH conditions and cancer microenvironment pH conditions, and to find out the virulence factor protein of Fusobacterium nucleosocci outer membrane vesicles under cancer microenvironment pH conditions. To do this, we adjusted the initial pH of TSPC medium to around 6.0 using acidic cysteine to mimic the cancer microenvironment pH conditions. We combined ultracentrifugation and density gradient centrifugation to separate and extract Fusobacterium nucleosi's outer membrane vesicles from two pH environments, and used TMT quantitative proteomics to identify proteins in outer membrane vesicles. A total of 991 proteins were identified, compared with normal outer membrane vesicles, 306 proteins in the outer membrane vesicles in the tumor environment were up-regulated and 360 proteins were down-regulated, and some of the up-regulated proteins of the out-membrane vesicles in the tumor environment were virulence factor proteins, such as multiple pentatype autotransporters and MORN2 domain proteins, and the functions of these proteins were mainly related to adhesion and invasion. In addition, the down-regulation of enzyme levels involved in butyrate metabolism in the outer membrane vesicles of Fusobacterium nucleosionae under the condition of cancer microenvironment pH inhibits the butyric acid production capacity of Fusobacterium nucleobacteria, resulting in a decrease in butyric acid production capacity, which may promote the development of colorectal cancer. In conclusion, quantitative proteomics comparative analysis has increased our understanding of Fusobacterium nucleosom outer membrane vesicle virulence protein in the tumor environment.
Project description:We performed comparative transcriptomic analysis of the outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) released from B. burgdorferi. We identified a total of ~1200 unique transcripts with at least one mapped read from the bacterial cell and its OMVs.
Project description:Elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI, Trikafta) is highly effective treatment for many cystic fibrosis patients, at least partly because it increases CFTR mediated Cl- and HCO3- secretion by airway epithelial cells leading to improved lung function and less frequent exacerbations and hospitalizations. However, little is known about how ETI affects airway epithelial cells in ways not related to CFTR mediated Cl- and HCO3- secretion, for example how ETI affects the expression of genes other than CFTR or how ETI might affect airway cells’ response to infection. It is established that CF airway cells bearing the delta F 508 mutation the CFTR gene respond characteristically differently from wild type CFTR cells, and we hypothesized that, as a highly effective CFTR modulator, ETI might make airway cells from CF donors respond to pathogen stimulation (Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 or outer membrane vesicles isolated from these bacteria) in more the same way that cells from wild type, healthy control cells do. We tested this hypothesis by measuring gene expression responses in polarized primary CF airway cells exposed to ETI alone or ETI in the presence of a pathogen challenge (PA14 or outer membrane vesicles). Responses of CFTR wild type primary CF airway cells to PA14 or outer membrane vesicles was also measured for comparison