M. hominis adherence, colonisation and invasion of HeLa cells were characterised in a time-course study using microarray-based analysis of the HeLa cell transcriptome: 0 h to monitor the baseline of transcription, 4 h to examine host reactions to mycoplasma attachment, 48 h to capture in addition th...
This project investigates how acidic pH and the bacterial endosymbiont Mycoplasma hominis influence the proteome and virulence of the human urogenital parasite Trichomonas vaginalis. Quantitative proteomic analysis was performed on T. vaginalis G3 parasites harboring M. hominis after growth for 12 d...
Respiratory viral co-infections in children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP) are common and cause severe clinical manifestations. However, the exact pathogenic mechanisms of MPP co-infections are still unclear. In this study, we conducted a large-scale clinical analysis of 3,106 MPP pat...
Mycoplasma hominis (M. hominis) belongs to the class Mollicutes, characterized by a very small genome size, metabolic pathway reduction, including transcription factors, and the absence of a cell wall. Despite this, they adapt well not only to specific niches within the host organism but can also sp...
M. hominis cells were grown in liquid medium supplied with arginine or thymidine as a carbon source. LC-MS analysis was performed on Ultimate 3000 Nano LC System (Thermo Fisher Scientific) coupled with Q Exactive HF benchtop Orbitrap mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific) via a nanoelectrospra...
The features of Mycoplasma in human organ such lung and urinary tract are enigmatic. Here, the role of M. hominis in regard to biofilm formation of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) strain CFT073 was investigated. Although M. hominis were inferred to not impact on UPEC bacterial fitness includi...
The sexually transmitted parasite Trichomonas vaginalis is often found in symbiosis with the obligate intracellular pathogen Mycoplasma hominis. M. hominis is itself an opportunistic pathogen of the female reproductive tract associated with bacterial vaginosis. The goal of this experiment was to ide...
