A multi-omic analysis of an Enterococcus faecium mutant reveals specific genetic mutations and dramatic changes in mRNA and protein expression

BMC Microbiology

Changting Liu²  Ruifu Yang³  Chengxiang Fang¹  Xiangqun Fang²  Tianzhi Li²  Junfeng Wang²  Li Wang²  Yajuan Wang²  Zhenhong Chen²  Yinghua Guo²  Longxiang Su²  Jinwen Liu¹  Li An²  Yuanfang Zhu¹  De Chang² 

[1]BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China

[2]Nanlou Respiratory Diseases Department, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China

[3]State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, China

关键词: Multi-omics;    Proteome;    Transcriptome;    Genome;    E. faecium;   

Others  :  1142192
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2180-13-304

 received in 2013-10-07, accepted in 2013-12-24,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

For a long time, Enterococcus faecium was considered a harmless commensal of the mammalian gastrointestinal (GI) tract and was used as a probiotic in fermented foods. In recent decades, E. faecium has been recognised as an opportunistic pathogen that causes diseases such as neonatal meningitis, urinary tract infections, bacteremia, bacterial endocarditis and diverticulitis. E. faecium could be taken into space with astronauts and exposed to the space environment. Thus, it is necessary to observe the phenotypic and molecular changes of E. faecium after spaceflight.

Results

An E. faecium mutant with biochemical features that are different from those of the wild-type strain was obtained from subculture after flight on the SHENZHOU-8 spacecraft. To understand the underlying mechanism causing these changes, the whole genomes of both the mutant and the WT strains were sequenced using Illumina technology. The genomic comparison revealed that dprA, a recombination-mediator gene, and arpU, a gene associated with cell wall growth, were mutated. Comparative transcriptomic and proteomic analyses showed that differentially expressed genes or proteins were involved with replication, recombination, repair, cell wall biogenesis, glycometabolism, lipid metabolism, amino acid metabolism, predicted general function and energy production/conversion.

Conclusion

This study analysed the comprehensive genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic changes of an E. faecium mutant from subcultures that were loaded on the SHENZHOU-8 spacecraft. The implications of these gene mutations and expression changes and their underlying mechanisms should be investigated in the future. We hope that the current exploration of multiple “-omics” analyses of this E. faecium mutant will provide clues for future studies on this opportunistic pathogen.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Chang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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