Project description:Expression level of whole genome genes in Escherichia coli CC72 at early-exponential phase, and 10 min, 20 min and 45 min after osmotic stress. Venus was fused to the 3' end of rpoC in E. coli MG1655 to localize RNA polymerase as reported previously (C. Cagliero and D. J. Jin, 2013).
Project description:RNA polymerase (RNAP) is the key transcription machinery and its interaction with genomic DNA orchestrates gene expression in response to environmental cues. Dynamic interaction and localization between RNAP and nucleoid were observed before and after osmotic stress. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) of RNAP β’ subunit together with chromatin profiling by ChIP-on-chip analysis demonstrated the dynamics of genome-wide RNAP-DNA interactions during osmotic stress.
Project description:RNA sequencing of Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 before and after HOCl treatment was perfomed to identify pathways that may be important in responding to oxidative stress caused by reachive chlorine species (RCS).
Project description:We evolved Escherichia coli cells over 500 generations under five environments that include four abiotic stressors: osmotic, acidic, oxidative, n-butanol, and control The goal of the experiment: Bacterial populations have a remarkable capacity to cope with extreme environmental fluctuations in their natural environments. In certain cases, adaptation to one stressful environment provides a fitness advantage when cells are exposed to a second stressor, a phenomenon that has been coined as cross-stress protection. A tantalizing question in bacterial physiology is how the cross-stress behavior emerges during adaptation and what the genetic basis of acquired stress resistance is.
Project description:A transcription factor (TF), OmpR, plays a critical role in transcriptional regulation of the defense system for osmotic stress in bacteria. However, its full genome-wide regulatory potential is unknown. Here, we perform a genome-scale reconstruction of the OmpR regulon in Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655. Integrative data analysis reveals that a total of 37 genes in 24 transcription units (TUs) belong to OmpR regulon. Among them, 26 genes show more than two-fold changes in expression level under OmpR knock-out condition. We find that OmpR tends to regulate mostly membrane-located gene products of diverse fundamental biological processes, such as narU, ompX, and nuoN. Investigating co-regulation of entire set of genes regulated by other stress-response TFs unveils that they are surprisingly independently regulated by TF(s) responding to each stress. Additionally, detailed investigation of physiological roles of newly discovered OmpR regulon reveals that activation of narU encoding nitrate/nitrite transporter is a relatively unique strategy of E. coli K-12 MG1655 to significantly improve cellular tolerance toward osmotic stress.
Project description:A transcription factor (TF), OmpR, plays a critical role in transcriptional regulation of the defense system for osmotic stress in bacteria. However, its full genome-wide regulatory potential is unknown. Here, we perform a genome-scale reconstruction of the OmpR regulon in Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655. Integrative data analysis reveals that a total of 37 genes in 24 transcription units (TUs) belong to OmpR regulon. Among them, 26 genes show more than two-fold changes in expression level under OmpR knock-out condition. We find that OmpR tends to regulate mostly membrane-located gene products of diverse fundamental biological processes, such as narU, ompX, and nuoN. Investigating co-regulation of entire set of genes regulated by other stress-response TFs unveils that they are surprisingly independently regulated by TF(s) responding to each stress. Additionally, detailed investigation of physiological roles of newly discovered OmpR regulon reveals that activation of narU encoding nitrate/nitrite transporter is a relatively unique strategy of E. coli K-12 MG1655 to significantly improve cellular tolerance toward osmotic stress.
Project description:We evolved Escherichia coli cells over 500 generations under five environments that include four abiotic stressors: osmotic, acidic, oxidative, n-butanol, and control The goal of the experiment: Bacterial populations have a remarkable capacity to cope with extreme environmental fluctuations in their natural environments. In certain cases, adaptation to one stressful environment provides a fitness advantage when cells are exposed to a second stressor, a phenomenon that has been coined as cross-stress protection. A tantalizing question in bacterial physiology is how the cross-stress behavior emerges during adaptation and what the genetic basis of acquired stress resistance is. RNA profiles were obtained for six E. coli strains evolved for 500 generations under abiotic stressors; two technical replicates for each strain where sequenced by Illumina GAII analyzer
Project description:Here, we treated Escherichia coli strain TO114 expressing a halotolerant cyanobacterium Halothece sp. PCC7418-derived NhaC Na+/H+ antiporter (H2569) with salt stress (0.4 M NaCl) and performed RNA sequencing analysis.
Project description:The purpose of this study is to determine whether the presence of pathogenic Escherichia coli in colon is associated with psychiatric disorders.