Project description:Treatment of bacteria with antibiotics at or close to the inhibitory concentration leads to specific transcriptional responses often affecting target genes and targets pathways. A dataset of transcriptional profiles (compendium) induced by antibiotics with known mode-of-action (MoA) can be used to gain information on the putative MoA of novel substances with unknown MoAs. We used a Pasteurella multocida microarray to generate a compendium of transcriptional profiles and to obtain information on the putative MoA of a novel antibiotic compound. We also show a strong impact of the bacteriostatic antibiotics on P. multocida virulence gene transcription. Keywords: antibiotica treatment, time course
Project description:Treatment of bacteria with antibiotics at or close to the inhibitory concentration leads to specific transcriptional responses often affecting target genes and targets pathways. A dataset of transcriptional profiles (compendium) induced by antibiotics with known mode-of-action (MoA) can be used to gain information on the putative MoA of novel substances with unknown MoAs. We used a Pasteurella multocida microarray to generate a compendium of transcriptional profiles and to obtain information on the putative MoA of a novel antibiotic compound. We also show a strong impact of the bacteriostatic antibiotics on P. multocida virulence gene transcription. Keywords: antibiotica treatment, time course Midlog-grown cultures of P. multocida were treated for 10 or 30 min with 8 different antibiotics and one novel compound (thiazin) at minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and were harvested. Control bacteria were not-treated and harvested at approximately the same optical density an OD578 of ~ 0.5. Total RNA was extracted from these samples and labelled with biotin. P. multocida whole genome transcriptional profiling was performed by hybridization on the custom-made Affymetrix microarray according to the manufacturerâs instructions. The experiments were done in triplicates.
Project description:In this study, P. multocida (serotype A or D) was co-cultured with A. pleuropneumonia (serotype 1), revealing that the growth rates of P. multocida serotype A and D during their decline phase in the co-culture group were significantly higher than those in the mono-culture group. In addition, when P. multocida (serotype A or D) was co-infected with A. pleuropneumonia (serotype 1) in mice, it was found that the bacterial load in the lung tissues of P. multocida in the co-infection group was significantly higher than that of mono-infection group. Then, we analyzed the differential gene expression profiles of P. multocida between co-culture and mono-culture, and used Gene Ontology (GO) term enrichment and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis to identify key genes and pathways. The results found that the differentially expressed genes of P. multocida in co-culture were widely involved in key pathways such as metabolism, genetic information processing, and environmental adaptation. Taken together, these data demonstrated that A. pleuropneumonia enhances the growth and virulence of P. multocida by reshaping the transcriptional profile of P. multocida.
Project description:We studied the effects of three classes of antibiotics (amoxicillin, chlortetracycline and enrofloxacin ) on P. multocida transcriptome using custom oligonucleotide microarrays from Nimblegen systems. All the 2015 genes of Pm70 were spotted on the array and hybridizations were carried out with RNA isolated from three independent cultures of Pm70 grown in the presence or absence of sub-minimum inhibitory (sub-MIC) doses of antibiotics. Differentially expressed genes were identified by ANOVA and Dunnett’s test. Biological modeling of the differentially expressed genes (DE) was carried out based on Clusters of Orthologous (COG) groups and network analysis in Pathway Studio. Keywords: Response to sub-MIC antibiotics The experimental design included three biological replicate cultures of P. multocida grown in the absence or presence of sub-MIC antibiotics. Effects of antibiotics on the transcriptome with each antibiotic were determined by comparing the growth in the presence of antibiotic (treatment) to growth in the absence of antibiotic (control).
Project description:Objectives: To determine the transcripts that are differentially expressed in a hfq mutant. Hfq is an RNA chaperone that mediates many interactions between regultory RNAs and their mRNA targets. Analysis of the transcriptomes of the Pasteurella multocida wild-type strain and the Pasteurella multocida hfq mutant will allow for identification of genes controlled by hfq and the sRNAs with which it interacts. Methods: RNA sequencing was employed to determine the transcriptomes of a wild-type Pasteurella multocida strain and a hfq mutant strain. Comparison of these two transcriptomes allows for determination of differentially expressed genes and therefore those genes controlled by Hfq and sRNAs with which it interacts.
Project description:Objectives: To determine the transcripts that are differentially expressed in a hfq mutant. Hfq is an RNA chaperone that mediates many interactions between regultory RNAs and their mRNA targets. Analysis of the transcriptomes of the Pasteurella multocida wild-type strain and the Pasteurella multocida hfq mutant will allow for identification of genes controlled by hfq and the sRNAs with which it interacts.
Project description:Pasteurella multocida is a Gram-negative capsulated bacterium responsible for a range of diseases that cause severe morbidity and mortality in livestock animals. The hyaluronic acid (HA) capsule produced by P. multocida serogroup A strains is a critical virulence factor. In this study, we utilised transposon-directed insertion site sequencing (TraDIS) to identify genes essential for in vitro growth of P. multocida, and combined TraDIS with discontinuous density gradients (TraDISort) to identify genes required for HA capsule production and regulation in this pathogen. Analysis of mutants with a high cell density phenotype, indicative of the loss of extracellular capsule, led to the identification of 69 genes important for capsule production. These genes included all previously characterized genes in the capsule biosynthesis locus, and fis and hfq that encode known positive regulators of P. multocida capsule. Many of the other capsule-associated genes identified in this study were involved in regulation or activation of the stringent response, including spoT and relA that encode proteins that regulate the concentration of guanosine alarmones. Disruption of the autoregulatory domains in the C-terminal half of SpoT using insertional mutagenesis resulted in reduced expression of capsule biosynthesis genes and an acapsular phenotype. Overall, these findings have greatly increased the understanding of hyaluronic acid capsule production and regulation in P. multocida.
Project description:The Gram-negative pathogen Pasteurella multocida is responsible for many important animal diseases. While a number of P. multocida virulence factors have been identified, very little is known about how gene expression and protein production is regulated in this organism. One mechanism by which bacteria regulate transcript abundance and protein production is riboregulation, which involves the interaction of a small RNA (sRNA) with a target mRNA to alter transcript stability and/or translational efficiency. This interaction often requires stabilization by a ribosome binding protein such as ProQ or Hfq. In E. coli and other species, ProQ has been shown to play a critical role in stabilizing sRNA-mRNA interactions and preferentially binds to 3’ stem-loop regions of the mRNA transcripts, characteristic of intrinsic transcriptional terminators. The aim of this study was to determine the role of ProQ riboregulation in P. multocida and identify the RNA regions to which it binds. We assessed differentially expressed transcripts in a proQ mutant and identified sites of direct ProQ-RNA interaction using in vivo UV-crosslinking and analysis of cDNA (CRAC). These analyses demonstrated that ProQ binds to, and stabilises, ProQ-dependant sRNAs and transfer RNAs in P. multocida via adenosine enriched, highly structured sequences. The binding of ProQ to two RNA molecules was characterised and showed that ProQ bound within the coding sequence of the uncharacterized PmVP161_1121 and within the 3’ region of the sRNA Prrc13.
Project description:Pasteurella multocida is a pathogen that causes a range of distinct diseases in livestock animals. Different P. multocida strains produce different capsule and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structures. Different P. multocida diseases are associated with different capsule and LPS types, and little is known about what underpins this disease specificity. In this study, we utilised transposon-directed insertion site sequencing (TraDIS, also called Tn-Seq) to identify genes required for growth in rich media, and genes required for survival during systemic infections in BALB/c mice, for two diverse P. multocida strains, strain VP161 (capsule type A and LPS type L1) and strain M1404 (capsule type B and LPS type L2). Rich media analysis showed that both VP161 and M1404 shared 461 genes essential for growth in rich media, with comparison to the entire species showing that 95% of these rich media essential genes present in all publicly available closed P. multocida genomes. In vivo fitness analysis identified 63 and 94 genes important for VP161 and M1404 survival in BALB/c mice, respectively. Only 35 homologs were identified in both strains as important for survival, showing that conserved biological systems can be differentially important for different P. multocida strains. Investigation of proteins involved in the catabolite response showed that an active cyclic-adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) receptor protein (CRP) was required for maximal fitness in M1404. Furthermore, disrupting CRP or cAMP production also reduced capsule production in M1404, but increased capsule production in VP161, showing different strains of P. multocida have different regulatory systems for crucial virulence factors.