Project description:MALDI-TOF typing of Serratia marcescens, Klebsiella oxytoca, and Citrobacter freundii for fast discrimination of isolates during outbreaks
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Project description:Klebsiella species typing scheme development
Project description:Chemoreception is based on the senses of smell and taste that are crucial for animals to find new food sources, shelter, and mates. The initial step in olfaction involves the translocation of odorants from the periphery through the aqueous lymph of the olfactory sensilla to the odorant receptors by chemosensory proteins (CSPs) or odorant binding proteins (OBPs).To better understand the roles of CSPs and OBPs in a coleopteran pest species, the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), we performed transcriptome analyses of male and female antennae, heads, mouthparts, legs, and bodies, which revealed that all 20 CSPs and 49 of the 50 previously annotated OBPs are transcribed. Only six of the 20 CSP are significantly transcriptionally enriched in the main chemosensory tissues (antenna and/or mouthparts), whereas of the OBPs all eight members of the antenna binding proteins II (ABPII) subgroup, 18 of the 20 classic OBP subgroup, the C+OBP, and only five of the 21 C-OBPs show increased chemosensory tissue expression. By MALDI-TOF-TOF MS protein fingerprinting, we confirmed three CSPs, four ABPIIs, three classic OBPs, and four C-OBPs in the antennae.Most of the classic OBPs and all ABPIIs are involved in chemoreception. A few are also present in other tissues like odoriferous glands and testes and may be involved in release or transfer of chemical signals. The majority of the CSPs as well as the C-OBPs are not enriched in antennae or mouthparts, suggesting a more general role in the transport of hydrophobic molecules. RNAseq data obtained from different body parts of adult males and females, as well as larvae
Project description:Vacuoles and lysosomes are single-membrane-bound organelles involved in diverse functions such as intracellular digestion and storage or secretion of metabolites. To understand their origin, evolution and fundamental features, the identification of proteins comprising these compartments in missing links would be invaluable. So, we isolated the vacuoles from Cyanidioschyzon merolae, which is considered to be one of the most primitive photosynthetic eukaryotes, and identified 46 proteins by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight-mass spectrometry. Keywords: peptide mass fingerprinting, MALDI-TOF
Project description:This study uses five species of the genus Ecrobia as a model taxon to demonstrate the applicability of proteomic fingerprinting measured by MALDI-TOF MS (matrix-assisted laser/desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry) to cryptic gastropod species and evaluate the discriminative power the proteomic profiles.
Project description:It is of high importance to distinguish Tilletia caries and Tilletia laevis as causal agents of common bunt accurately from Tilletia controversa, the causal agent of dwarf bunt. All three of these wheat bunt diseases can lead to significant yield losses in crop production worldwide. But T. controversa is categorized as a quarantine pest in most areas of the world and must be discriminated from the T. caries / T. laevis complex. Usually, morphological characteristics of the teliospores are used to differentiate the three species. But due to natural hybridization and overlapping properties the discrimination is challenging. Germination behavior can also be considered for discrimination, but equivalent to their similar physiological and genetic traits the two agents of common bunt, T. caries and T. laevis could not be distinguished by this. It was suggested that the two species and maybe all three of those described Tilletia species might be conspecific. Up to now no molecular based method is available to differentiate the three species. Several studies have attempted the detection of the wheat bunt Tilletia species using PCR or other DNA-based methods. Other studies analyzed protein patterns with electrophoresis methods. But none of these approaches was able to distinguish between all of the three closely related Tilletia species. Several studies have shown that Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is a useful tool to differentiate closely related fungal species. The aim of this study was to assess whether MALDI-TOF MS analysis is able to distinguish specimens of the three closely related pathogens T. caries, T. laevis, and T. controversa and may constitute an alternative method to the usually used morphology-based identification. Therefore MALDI-TOF MS was used to create subproteome fingerprints of the teliospores of 69 Tilletia specimens. These fingerprints were analyzed by comparing the mass spectra to each other by high-throughput multidimensional scaling (HiT-MDS ) together with hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA). The second approach was performed by discriminant analysis of principal components (DAPC). MALDI-TOF MS has proven to be a useful method for distinguishing between T. controversa and the two causal agents of common bunt, using our developed method of direct analysis of teliospores, but was unable to separate T. caries and T. laevis species. We conclude a potentially conspecific status of T. caries and T. laevis or even two morphotypes of one common species, causing identical disease symptoms and sharing the same germination requirements along with a related protein composition, shown in this study. Our developed MALDI-TOF MS method can be helpful in testing Tilletia bunt balls collected during field inspections, especially with regard to quarantine regulations or for breeding applications and may also be transferred to analyze further challenging sample material.