Project description:Mycoplasma gallisepticum transcriptome comparison between in vitro grown cultures of strains Rlow and F utilizing oligo DNA microarrays.
Project description:Mycoplasma gallisepticum transcriptome comparison between in vitro grown cultures of strains Rlow and F utilizing oligo DNA microarrays. Two-condition experiment, Rlow vs. F strain cells. Biological replicates: 3. 1 technical replicate per biological replicate which includes a dye swap.
Project description:Mycoplasma gallisepticum is a convenient model object for studying the regulation of transcription because it has a reduced genome, lack of cell wall and many metabolic pathways, and also easy to culture and non-pathogenic to humans. For rapid investigation of gene expression we developed microarray design including 3 366 probes for 678 genes. They included 665 protein coding sequences and 13 antisense RNAs from 816 genes and 17 ncRNAs present in Mycoplasma gallisepticum. This work was carried out transcriptomic profiling for different types of effects on the expression of genes of Mycoplasma gallisepticum: 1) genetic knock-out mutants; 2) cell culture exposed to sublethal concentrations of antibiotics; and 3) well-characterized heat stress effect. The study was performed on Agilent one-color microarray with custom design and random-T7 polymerase primer for cDNA synthesis. Using set of different probes for each gene or ncRNA allows to increase accuracy of gene expression quality.
Project description:The goal of this study was to identify genes important to the interaction of Mycoplasma gallisepticum with host cells in an in vitro system. An interaction time of one hour was chosen since it is less than a generation time and thus all changes can be attributed to transcriptional changes. A total of 60 transcripts were determined to be significantly up- or down-regulated under these conditions, including several hypothetical genes. Also several metabolism-related genes and ATP synthase genes were significantly down-regulated. Keywords: transcriptional response to host cells
Project description:Proteomes of Mycoplasma gallisepticum strains with overexpression and knockdown of WhiA transcription factor. The overexpression was introduced on a transposon vector carrying M. gallisepticum whiA gene with strong constitutive promoter and strong SD sequence. The knockdown was made by CRISPRi. dCas9 protein and sgRNA against whiA gene were introduced on a transposon vector.
