Project description:The previously uncharacterized proteins HigB (unannotated) and HigA (PA4674) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 were found to form a type II TA system in which antitoxin HigA masks the RNase activity of toxin HigB through direct binding. To determine the physiological role of HigB/HigA in P. aeruginosa, a whole-transcriptome experiment was performed for the higA antitoxin deletion mutant of the PA14 strain compared to the wild-type PA14 strain. The rationale was that for the strain that lacks the antitoxin, the effect of the toxin could be discerned due to enhanced activity of the toxin. Furthermore, toxin HigB reduces production of the virulence factors pyochelin, pyocyanin, swarming, and biofilm formation.
Project description:Microarray analysis for the biofilm cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 wild-type vs the tpbA (PA14_13660) mutant in LB medium at 4 and 7 h at 37C Microarray analysis for the biofilm cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 wild-type vs the tpbA (PA14_13660) mutant in LB medium at 4 and 7 h at 37C.
Project description:Microarray analysis for the biofilm cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 wild-type vs the tpbA (PA14_13660) mutant in LB medium at 4 and 7 h at 37C
Project description:Comparative transcriptome analyses of P. aeruginosa PA14 pyrF mutant with PA14 wild type, and with PA14 pyrF mutant with 1 mM uracil supplement and PA14 wild type with 10 mM uracil in biofilm cells. All samples were cultured in LB with glass wool at 37C for 7h. Keywords: Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm pyrF uracil
Project description:P. aeruginosa PA14 mutant strain PA4496 expression in biofilm cells relative to PA14 wild-type strain expression in biofilm cells. All samples cultured in LB with glass wool
Project description:Early stages of host microbe adaptations involve 'system status changes' (rewiring of pre-existing cellular signaling networks and components) of the host and microbe. We posited that under certain environmental conditions these changes leads to maladaptations and favor emergence of new infectious diseases, and these adaptations will have characteristic signatures representative of the adaptation. Here using Arabidopsis seedlings in a submerged environment treated with P. aerugionsa, we show one such rewired regulation where the master two-component regulator GacA (previously shown to act upstream of quorum sensing, including the regulator LasR, that in turn controls a subset of virulence factors) is completely dispensable. The gacA mutant behaves similar to wild type P. aeruginosa (strain PA14) by a number of read-outs. Consistent with that, the gene expression data here indicates that the transcriptome pattern of the host is identical when treated with wild type PA14 or PA14-gacA mutant.
