Project description:Analysis of the Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron(BT) transcriptome during co-culture with Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cells To identify potential bacterial protein(s) involved in the anti-inflammatory effect of BT in colitis, BT was incubated with Caco-2 human intestinal epithelial cells for 2 hours, and bacterial gene expression was assessed on a Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron VPI-5482 specific microarray. Forty-three BT genes were up-regulated by five-fold or more and of these, twenty genes encoded hypothetical proteins.
