Project description:Genomic microarrays were used to examine the complex temporal program of gene expression exhibited by bacteriophage T4 during the course of development.The microarray data confirm the existence of distinct early, middle, and late transcriptional classes during the bacteriophage replicative cycle.This approach allows assignment of previously uncharacterized genes to specific temporal classes.The genomic expression data verify many promoter assignments and predict the existence of previously unidentified promoters. Keywords: time course
Project description:Purpose: To investigated the role of MotB in T4 infections Method: NapIV NS were grown to a cell density of ~4 x 10^8 cells/mL (OD600 ~0.4) then infected with either wild-type T4D+ or T4motBam at a MOI of 10. RNA was isolated at 5 post-infection using method II of (Hinton 1989). rRNA subtraction was performed with the bacterial RiboMinus Kit (Ambion) according to manufacturer instructions. cDNA was prepared using the NEBNext strand specific kit (New England BioLabs) according to manufacturer instruction for libraries with 300-450 bp insert size with the following modifications. Illumina adaptors sequences based on TruSeq HT Sample Prep Kits were purchase from Integrated DNA Technologies and used in the ligation step. TruSeq-1 and TruSeq-2 primer were used for PCR enrichment of adaptor ligated DNA. Library size was verified with a Bioanalyzer using an Agilent High Sensitivity DNA kit. The concentration of each library was determined using the KAPA Library Quantification Kit for Illumina platforms. Sequencing was performed by the NIDDK Genomics Core facility using a MiSeq system with the MiSeq 2 x 250 bp Sequencing Kit (Illumina). Result: RNA-seq data revealed that the expression of only six late genes, which decreased from 2 to 4.8-fold, were significantly affected in the T4motBam infection relative to T4 wt at 5 min after infection. The expression of early and middle genes did not change. Conclusion: MotB is a bactericidal DNA-binding protein that improves the fitness of T4 infections.
Project description:Ribosomal stress was evaluated in melanoma cell line CHL-1 after CRISPR editing genomic locus containing SNORD50A/B We have used CRISPR genome editing tool to KD snoRNAs SNORD50A/B from CHL-1 genome and assessed ribosomal binding genome-wide using ribosome profiling
Project description:Purpose: We investigated the effect of the T4 MotB protein on E. coli gene expression Method: E. coli BL21 (DE3) containing either pNW129 or pNW129-MotB were grown to early log phase (OD600 ~ 0.3) then induced with 0.2% arabinose for 20 minutes. T4 phage added to the culture at MOI10. Cells were then harvested at 0, 5, and 10 min time points and total RNA was isolated. The cDNA library was prepared using a modified RNATagSeq workflow as previously described (Shishkin, A.A. et al. 2015 Nat Methods). Optimum fragmentation of the total RNA samples in this library was determined to be 3 min at 94C in FastAP buffer (Thermo Fischer Scientific). The cDNA Library was run on a Bioanalyzer using the Agilent High Sensitivity DNA Kit to evaluate the quality of the library. The concentration of the cDNA library was determined by qPCR using the KAPA Library Quantification Kit (Kapa Biosystems, Wilmington, MA, USA) and CFX96 Real-Time PCR Detection System (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA). Sequencing was performed by the NIDDK Genomics Core facility using a MiSeq system with the single-end 50 bp Sequencing Kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA). RNA-seq data was processed as previously described using E. coli str. K-12 substr. MG1655 (NC_000913.3) as the reference genome. Differential expression between conditions was represented as a fold change, and genes with both a fold change ≥2 or ≤ 0.5 and adjusted p value ≤ 0.05 were considered significant. Results: RNA-seq data revealed that the expression of 542 E. coli genes were significantly changed after motB expression. The expression of 704 and 706 E. coli genes were changed T4 5 min and 10 min post infection after MotB expression, respectively. After 5 min T4 infection, 34 T4 genes were significantly changed. Conclusion: T4 MotB modifies the pool of host tRNAs, creating a better infection for T4