Project description:Vibrio species represent one of the most diverse genera of marine bacteria known for their ubiquitous presence in natural aquatic systems. Several members of this genus including Vibrio harveyi are receiving increasing attention lately because they are becoming a source of health problems, especially for some marine organisms widely used in sea food industry. To learn about adaptation changes triggered by V. harveyi during its long-term persistence at elevated temperatures, we studied adaptation of this marine bacterium in sea water microcosms at 30 oC that closely mimicks the upper limits of sea surface temperatures recorded around the globe.
Project description:Naturally bacteria are commonly forced to remain in stationary phase. There is no increase in cell mass, however, cell division keep on. Vibrio (V.) parahaemolyticus is an aquatic bacterium capable of causing foodborne gastroenteritis outbreaks all over the world. So far, little is known about whole genomic expression of V. parahaemolyticus in the early stationary phase compared with the phase of exponential growth. Since under starvation cell sizes decrease and endogenous metabolism reduces, genes are considered to be highly repressed in the stationary phase. However, our data shows in total 172 induced genes, while 61 genes were repressed in the early stationary phase compared with exponential phase. In fatty acid and phospholipid metabolism functional category only induced genes were found, whereas in three other metabolic functional groups appeared no significant up-regulated genes (adjusted P-value<0.05). Genes in two metabolic functional categories remained stable in the early stationary phase. DAVID analyses were carried out exploring the gene regulation. In total, ten functional categories showed a total up-regulation in early stationary phase, while only three metabolic functional categories showed a down-regulation and four categories showed stably in early stationary phase.
