Project description:In this report, we have developed a rapid oligonucleotide microarray detection technique to identify the most common ten Legionella spp.. The sensitivity of the detection was at 1.0 ng with genomic DNA or 13 CFU/100 mL with Legionella cultures. The microarray detected seven air conditioner-condensed water samples with 100% accuracy, validating the technique as a promising method for applications in basic microbiology, clinical diagnosis, food safety, and epidemiological surveillance. The phylogenetic study based on the ITS has also revealed interestingly that the non-pathogenic L. fairfieldensis is the closest to L. pneumophila than the nine other pathogenic Legionella spp..
Project description:Legionella pneumophila Philadelphia-1 strain was grown to stationary phase in AYE broth and starved in freshwater for 2 hours and RNA was harvested with or without sublethal heat shock via immersion in a 55 degree C hot water bath for 5 minutes
Project description:Comparaison of the transcriptional profile of mutant of the lpp1663 gene and the parent strain Legionella pneumophila strain Paris. lpp1663 codes for a protein with a ProQ domain (PFAM PF04352). A mutant of this gene was obtained by deleting the lpp1663 ORF and replacing it with a gene confering resistance to kanamycin. Transcriptional profiling was done on cultures grown to exponential phase (OD=0.8). Three independent biological replicates were analysed.
