Project description:In this experiment the transcriptional response of the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa to sublethal concentrations of NaClO was investigated. To this aim, four independent cultures of P. aeruginosa PAO1 grown in minimal medium BM2 were treated with NaClO (2 ug/ml) for 1 h at 37 C followed by RNA extraction and microarray analysis. Untreated cultures served as controls.
Project description:This study addresses the impact of zinc limitation on the opportunistic human pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Zinc limitation was assessed in the P. aeruginosa PAO1 strain using an isogenic deletion mutant lacking the periplasmic, zinc solute-binding protein, znuA (PA5498). ZnuA delivers bound zinc to its cognate ABC transporter, ZnuBC, for import into the cytoplasm. Our transcriptional analyses revealed P. aeruginosa to possess a multitude of zinc acquisition mechanisms, each of which were highly up-regulated in the zinc-deficient znuA mutant strain. P. aeruginosa also utilized zinc-independent paralogues of zinc-dependent genes to maintain cellular function under zinc limitation. Together, these data reveal the complex transcriptional response and versatility of P. aeruginosa to zinc depletion.
Project description:The anaerobic metabolism of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is important for growth and survival during persistent infections. The two Fnr-type transcription factors Anr and Dnr regulate different parts of the underlying network. Both are proposed to bind to a non-distinguishable DNA sequence named Anr box. The aim of this study was the identification of genes induced under anaerobic conditions in the P. aeruginosa wild type and identification of genes under control of the Anr or Dnr regulators.
Project description:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic human pathogen, infecting immuno-compromised patients and causing persistent respiratory infections in people affected from cystic fibrosis. Pseudomonas strain Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 shows higher virulence than Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 in a wide range of hosts including insects, nematodes and plants but the precise cause of this difference is not fully understood. Little is known about the host response upon infection with Pseudomonas and whether or not transcription is being affected as a host defense mechanism or altered in the benefit of the pathogen. In this context the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum has been described as a suitable host to study virulence of Pseudomonas and other opportunistic pathogens.
Project description:In this experiment the transcriptional response of the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa towards physiological concentrations of the major human host defense peptide LL-37 was investigated using microarrays. To this aim, three independent cultures of P. aeruginosa PAO1 were grown until mid-log phase in Mueller-Hinton broth and subsequently incubated with either sublethal LL-37 concencentrations (20 M-5g/ml) or without peptide for 2 h at 37 M-0C following RNA extraction and microarray analysis.
Project description:Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a human opportunistic pathogen, is a common cause of nosocomial infections. Its ability to survive under different conditions relies on a complex regulatory network engaging transcriptional regulators controlling metabolic pathways and capabilities to efficiently use the available resources. P. aeruginosa PA3973 encodes a putative TetR family transcriptional regulator, with a helix-turn-helix motif involved in DNA binding. We applied transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq), and genome-wide identification of binding sites using ChIP-seq to unravel the biological role of PA3973.
Project description:Oberhardt2008 - Genome-scale metabolic
network of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (iMO1056)
This model is described in the article:
Genome-scale metabolic
network analysis of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas
aeruginosa PAO1.
Oberhardt MA, Puchałka J, Fryer
KE, Martins dos Santos VA, Papin JA.
J. Bacteriol. 2008 Apr; 190(8):
2790-2803
Abstract:
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major life-threatening
opportunistic pathogen that commonly infects immunocompromised
patients. This bacterium owes its success as a pathogen largely
to its metabolic versatility and flexibility. A thorough
understanding of P. aeruginosa's metabolism is thus pivotal for
the design of effective intervention strategies. Here we aim to
provide, through systems analysis, a basis for the
characterization of the genome-scale properties of this
pathogen's versatile metabolic network. To this end, we
reconstructed a genome-scale metabolic network of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa PAO1. This reconstruction accounts for 1,056 genes
(19% of the genome), 1,030 proteins, and 883 reactions. Flux
balance analysis was used to identify key features of P.
aeruginosa metabolism, such as growth yield, under defined
conditions and with defined knowledge gaps within the network.
BIOLOG substrate oxidation data were used in model expansion,
and a genome-scale transposon knockout set was compared against
in silico knockout predictions to validate the model.
Ultimately, this genome-scale model provides a basic modeling
framework with which to explore the metabolism of P. aeruginosa
in the context of its environmental and genetic constraints,
thereby contributing to a more thorough understanding of the
genotype-phenotype relationships in this resourceful and
dangerous pathogen.
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Project description:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen which causes acute and chronic infections that are difficult to treat. Comparative genomic analysis has showed a great genome diversity among P. aeruginosa clinical strains and revealed important regulatory traits during chronic adaptation. While current investigation of epigenetics of P. aeruginosa is still lacking, understanding the epigenetic regulation may provide biomarkers for diagnosis and reveal important regulatory mechanisms. The present study focused on characterization of DNA methyltransferases (MTases) in a chronically adapted P. aeruginosa clinical strain TBCF10839. Single-molecule real-time sequencing (SMRT-seq) was used to characterize the methylome of TBCF. RCCANNNNNNNTGAR and TRGANNNNNNTGC were identified as target motifs of DNA MTases, M.PaeTBCFI and M.PaeTBCFII, respectively.