Project description:Once entering the cell, M. avium subsp.paratuberculosis is known to survive harsh microenvironments, especially those inside activated macrophages. To improve our understanding of M. avium subsp.paratuberculosis pathogenesis, we examined the phagosome maturation associated with transcriptional responses of M. avium subsp.paratuberculosis during macrophage infection. Monitoring cellular markers, only live M. avium subsp.paratuberculosis bacilli were able to prevent phagosome maturation and reduce its acidification. On the transcriptional level, over 300 of M. avium subsp.paratuberculosis genes were significantly, differentially regulated in both naïve and IFN-γ-activated macrophages. These genes include the sigma factor H (sigH) that was shown to be important during persistent infection in M. tuberculosis.
Project description:We focused on how Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis influences the subsequent host response to investigate the host immunopathology accompanying the host anti-mycobacterial immune response during Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection in spleen of mice.
Project description:We focused on how Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis influences the subsequent host response to investigate the host immunopathology accompanying the host anti-mycobacterial immune response during Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection in spleen of mice. We analyzed altered transcription in the spleen of mice at 3, 6, and 12 weeks following Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection.
Project description:Deep sequencing was implemented to study the transcriptional landscape of Mycobacterium avium TMC724. High-resolution transcriptome analysis identified the transcription start points for 652 genes. One third of these coincided with the start codons and therefore belong to leaderless transcripts, whereas the rest of the transcripts had 5' UTRs with the mean length of 83 nt. In addition, the 5' UTRs of 6 genes contained SAM-IV and Ykok types of riboswitches. 87 antisense RNAs and 9 intergenic small RNAs were mapped. Four of the revealed intergenic small RNAs, including igMAV_1034-1035 expressed at a very high level, have no homologs in M. tuberculosis, whilst M. avium lacks several intergenic sRNAs present in M. tuberculosis. Among those, MTS479 and MTS1338 are of special interest due to their possible implication in pathogenesis. Elucidation of differences in the repertoire of intergenic sRNAs between the two mycobacterial species may improve our understanding of mycobacterial diseases pathogenesis. Transcriptional profile of Mycobacterium avium TMC724, grown at 37M-BM-0C in Dubos broth until mid-logarithmic growth phase
Project description:Mycobacterium avium is one of the prominent disease causing bacteria in humans. It causes lymphadenitis, chronic pulmonary and extrapulmonary and disseminated infections in adults, children and immunocompromised humans. M. avium has ~4,500 predicted gene models, out of which not all are identified at proteomic level. Proteomic database search followed by proteogenomic analysis helps in the correction of gene models, identification of novel exons/genes, variant proteins. As part of this study, we performed proteomic analysis of M. avium cultures by data-dependent acquisition (DDA) and data-independent acquisition (DIA) method followed by proteogenomic analysis of M. avium proteomic data. M. avium culture was subjected to proteomic sample preparation. The resulting peptides were acquired in 120min DDA (12 bRPLC) and DIA method using EASY nLC 1200 liquid chromatogram system coupled to Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid mass spectrometer. The resulting DDA raw files were searched sequentially against the M. avium proteome database, Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and Ra proteome database (Mtb), M. avium genome six-frame translated proteome and variant proteins database, respectively. The database search result was converted into a spectral library and used for DIA data search for the validation of GSSPs and variant peptides. The database search of M. avium DDA has resulted in the identification of 2,954 M. avium proteins, 128 Mtb proteins, 174 GSSPs (M. avium genome six-frame translated proteome) and 795 SNPs corresponding to 612 proteins (variant proteins database), respectively. The M. avium proteome database search has covered 62.09% of the proteome with the identification of 2,954 proteins out of 4,757 proteins in the database. From the manual categorization of 174 GSSPs, we observed 23 N-terminal extensions, 142 pseudogene coding peptides and one each novel exon and short peptide, respectively.